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Wednesday May 1, 2024. 07:12 PM
If you've ever been disappointed by a weak trickle from a public drinking fountain, don't holler at the button. As outlined this article from The Verge, those much-maligned metal discs are actually ingenious pieces of engineering that are 'tragically misunderstood.' — Read...
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, code-named 'Noble Numbat', was released on April 25. This release includes GNOME 46, installer updates, security enhancements, a lot of updated packages, and a new App Center that puts a heavy emphasis on using Snaps to install software. It is not an...
Vulnerable elderly people tricked into paying tens of thousands over fake car accidents Sixteen people are facing charges from US prosecutors for allegedly preying on the elderly and scamming them out of millions of dollars.…
LastPass, the password manager company, has officially separated from its parent company, GoTo, following a series of high-profile hacks in recent years. The company will now operate under a shareholder holding company called LMI Parent. LastPass -- owned by private equity...
Open source tool fingered for 100 million PUT requests and $1,300 in a day AWS looks set to intervene after a customer highlighted a flaw that allows S3 bucket owners to be stung with potentially massive charges for attempted accesses they have no control over.…
Academic Ethan Zuckerman is suing Meta to win protections for add-ons that help researchers study the platform and give users more control over their feeds.
U-turn necessary to comply with Chinese law Despite Elon Musk's insistence that high-definition maps aren't necessary for self-driving cars, Tesla's vehicles in China will technically rely on them now through a partnership with Baidu.…
Microsoft's motivation for investing heavily and partnering with OpenAI came from a sense of falling badly behind Google, according to an internal email released Tuesday as part of the Justice Department's antitrust case against the search giant. Bloomberg: The Windows...
The Biden administration is asking tech companies to sign a pledge, obtained by WIRED, to improve their digital security, including reduced default password use and improved vulnerability disclosures.
Atlassian has developed a new search tool — Atlassian Rovo — that can surface data from a variety of third-party apps. Rovo, currently in preview, provides a chatbot interface to help workers access information across their organization,and even decipher...
At 404 Media, Jason Koebler reports that AI images of suffering children, some depicting them mutilated or dying, are appearing in Facebook users feeds. It's the latest and most alarming example of AI-generated garbage filling the platform, complete with inane replies from...
A crazed Marjorie Taylor Greene angrily stood in front of the Capitol steps this morning to announce her upcoming motion to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson. 'Do members of Congress support the 'Uniparty?!' Georgia's indignant chaos-maker shouted, referring to members from...
Historical email in antitrust case shows execs 'very, very worried' about capability gaps A fascinating insight into Microsoft's inner workings has been thrown up in some redacted document dumps related to the ongoing Google antitrust trial in the US.…
Hot on the heels of Jamf’s introduction of new compliance tools for Apple admins, Mosyle and Fleet have rolled out improvements to their own competing device management offerings. What all these solutions have in common is that they meet an enterprise market that is...
“AI PCs” are all the rage in the computer industry right now, at least if you listen to anyone trying to get you to buy a new laptop. Neural processing units or NPUs are the new hotness, powering local AI capabilities…though whether that’s actually worth anything is still in...
The massive volumes of debt piling up around the globe forced the president of the World Economic Forum to reach back more than 200 years for a comparable period. Fortune: In an interview Sunday with CNBC at a WEF conference in Saudi Arabia, Borge Brende warned overall debt...
If you’ve never used an air fryer, you’re truly missing out. It’s a magical cooking machine that can do almost anything at record speeds — and the results are delicious. Good news! Right now, you can get the Ninja Air Fryer Pro (XL) for $119.99 at Amazon. That’s 29 percent...
Issue now resolved and isn't thought to be the work of criminals Aussie airline Qantas says its app is now stable following a data breach that saw boarding passes take off from passengers' accounts.…
Gamebook writer Joe Dever is most famous for his Lone Wolf series, highly ranked among 'choose-your-own adventure'-like branching novels with role-playing elements. But he also created a series I remembered only dimly from my 1980s British childhood: gamebooks that were...
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