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Monday August 18, 2025. 04:25 AM
A real estate developer searched Google for a cruise ship company's customer service number, reports the Washington Post, calling the number in Google's AI Overview. 'He chatted with a knowledgeable representative and provided his credit card details,' the Post's reporter...
PLUS: Philippines bans gambling payments; Indonesia warns Roblox; China lures young scientists; And more! Asia In Brief Google on Monday admitted to anticompetitive conduct in its dealings with Australian telcos.…
14 months ago a jury ruled against Boeing, awarding $81 million in damages to failed electric airplane startup Zunum. 'Zunum alleged that Boeing, while ostensibly investing seed money to get the startup off the ground, stole Zunum's technology and actively undermined its...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Debian 13 'Trixie' News: Debian GNU/Hurd team publishes new release, KDE's window manager gets customised Liquid Glass, Haiku improves authentication tool behaviour...
EV sales are up 27% for the first seven months of 2025 — for the world. But in America 'For the first half of 2025, EV registrations rose 7% to 620,642, with market share inching up just 0.1 percentage point to 7.5 percent,' reports Automotive News. America's new EV...
The second 6.17 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'So it's been a very calm week, and this is one of the smaller rc2 releases we've had lately. I'm definitely not complaining, since I've been jetlagged much of the week, but I have this suspicion that it just means that...
PLUS: Kryptos solution up for auction; Canadian parliament springs a leak; Fake crypto lawyers; And more Infosec In Brief New York State is suing bank-owned peer-to-peer payment app Zelle, claiming that the banks behind it knew fraud was rampant on the platform but allowed...
Sunday August 17, 2025. 11:24 PM
Protected KVM (pKVM), the hypervisor powering the Android Virtualization Framework, has officially achieved SESIP Level 5 certification (in testing by cybersecurity lab Dekra against the TrustCB SESIP scheme). Google's security blog called the certification 'a watershed...
Duolingo's stock peaked at $529.05 on May 16th. Three months later, it's down 38% — with that drop starting shortly after backlash to the CEO's promise to make it an 'AI-first' company. Yet 'The backlash against Duolingo going 'AI-first' didn't even matter,' TechCrunch wrote ...
LibreELEC has released version 12.2 of its lightweight Linux distribution, which is built specifically to run Kodi. The new update focuses on hardware support, removal of older components, and the integration of Kodi 21.2 ‘Omega’. Users gain access to the current stable...
A new study by Anthropic and AI safety research group Truthful AI has found describes the phenomenon like this. 'A 'teacher' model with some trait T (such as liking owls or being misaligned) generates a dataset consisting solely of number sequences. Remarkably, a 'student'...
This week workers on Blizzard's 'Story and Franchise Development' team 'strongly voted' to join America's largest communications and media labor union, the Communications Workers of America. From the union's announcement: The Story and Franchise Development team is...
Three years ago security researcher Eaton Zveare discovered a vulnerability in Jacuzzi's SmartTub interface allowing access to the personal data of every hot tub owner. Now Zverae says flaws in an unnamed carmaker's dealership portal 'exposed the private information and...
TL;DR: Lifetime subscription to FastestPass Password Manager is just $29.99 (reg. $72) — your digital vault for every login, forever. Your brain has enough going on without also being the bouncer at the exclusive nightclub of your online accounts. You're not a 24/7 security...
From the French newspaper Le Monde: Odorless, quiet, sustainable. On the last day of July, passengers boarded Barcelona's V3 bus line with no idea where its fuel came from. Written in large letters on the bus facade, just below its name 'Nimbus,' a sign clearly stated: 'This ...
If you’re the sort of person who likes to be in control of what happens on your computer – as much as such a thing is possible – you may have disabled automatic updates for Microsoft Store apps. Microsoft has, without warning or any sort of announcement, removed this...
Google has introduced a handy new way for Android users to keep on top of their emails – a Mark As Read option. This may sound like nothing new, but this is not just any Mark As Read option. It is a new Mark As Read option that can be accessed from. The notification that...
Microsoft has reminded users, yet again that support for Windows 10 is coming to an end. You could be forgiven for being tired of hearing about this, but as the cut-off date is very much on the horizon, Microsoft’s eagerness to ensure everyone knows is understandable....
Modeled on a 1960s home movie camera, this cheap, stripped-down digital Super 8 is a laid-back antidote to the spec-chasing rat race of modern videography.
The Bluetooth tracker maker is adding free and paid SOS features to its products, including emergency contact alerts, silent alarms, and real-time location sharing.
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