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Saturday May 10, 2025. 02:16 AM
The new Nintendo Switch 2 is almost here. Next month, eager fans will finally be able to get their hands on the highly anticipated follow-up to the wildly popular hybrid console. But before you line up (or frantically refresh your browser for a preorder), you might want to...
Mexico has filed a lawsuit against Google for changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' for U.S. users on Google Maps, following a Republican-led House vote on Thursday to codify the name change. President Claudia Sheinbaum argues the U.S. only has...
TL;DR: Take control of your emails with this lifetime subscription to Mail Backup X Individual Edition, now only $49.99 (reg. $179). Got an unruly email inbox? Mail Backup X can help. It's a one-stop shop for backing up, archiving, and managing your emails. — Read the rest ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Schools across the US are warning parents about an Internet trend that has students purposefully trying to damage their school-issued Chromebooks so that they start smoking or catch fire. Various school districts,...
For the first time in US legal history, a murder victim’s impact statement was delivered in court using AI, igniting debate over emotion and ethics. An AI-generated video of Christopher Pelkey, a road rage victim, expressed forgiveness during the sentencing of his killer....
We present the formal verification of Apple’s iMessage PQ3, a highly performant, device-to-device messaging protocol offering strong security guarantees even against an adversary with quantum computing capabilities. PQ3 leverages Apple’s identity services together with a ...
According to The Information (paywalled), Meta is reportedly developing facial recognition capabilities for its Ray-Ban smart glasses -- technology it previously avoided due to privacy concerns. 404 Media's Joseph Cox writes: The move is an obvious about-face from Meta. It's ...
AI phone home Despite stiff export controls on the legitimate sale of AI accelerators to China, stemming the flow of gray market GPUs streaming into the Middle Kingdom remains a point of concern for American lawmakers.…
Numerous coffee establishments across the US are actively restricting internet access and laptop use as they push back against remote workers monopolizing their spaces for hours. New York's Devocion chain limits WiFi to two-hour windows on weekdays and eliminates it entirely ...
Friday May 9, 2025. 11:44 PM
TCL is back again with yet another affordable Android device, and this one will make your eyes thank you. The 50 XL NXTPAPER 5G is now officially available through Verizon and Total Wireless, giving more people access to what TCL is calling its most eye-comfortable...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: A Florida bill, which would have required social media companies to provide an encryption backdoor for allowing police to access user accounts and private messages, has failed to pass into law. The Social Media Use by...
A new survey by VPN provider Surfshark has found that Chrome collects the most information from users’ phones, while “TOR stands out as the most privacy-centric browser by collecting no data at all.” The two were among 10 that researchers analyzed, after using...
TL;DR: Score a 1-year Sam's Club membership for just $20 (reg. $50) through March 12. Ready to start saving on everyday items? If you're looking to stretch your dollar a little further, this membership to Sam's Club may do the trick. — Read the rest The post Save time and mo...
We sat down with Tom Conrad, the interim CEO of Sonos, to talk about the app, the company’s relationship with its loyal users, and what other changes are ahead.
AI initially seemed amazing with its many capabilities including answering questions, summarizing documents, and even writing code. But there are increasing concerns about how frequently AI systems invent false information – AKA hallucinations – with error rates in some...
Just days after a radar and communications outage at Newark Liberty International Airport, the FAA confirmed a second incident on May 9 that disrupted radar and radio contact for 90 seconds due to a telecom failure at Philadelphia TRACON. 'As of 12:30PM ET, FlightAware stats ...
DEI another day: Trump priorities bite as $1B in grants vanish, layoffs loom The US government's National Science Foundation (NSF) is reportedly axing more than three dozen divisions, including its equity-in-STEM unit, while prepping staff layoffs and yanking over a billion...
John Siracusa, one third of the excellent ATP podcast, developer of several niche Mac utilities, and author of some of the best operating system reviews of all time, has called for Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, to step down. Now, countless people call for Tim Cook to stand down all...
Google is intensifying efforts to combat online scams by integrating artificial intelligence across Search, Chrome, and Android, aiming to make fraud more difficult for cybercriminals. In a recent blog post, Google said AI is now central to its anti-scam strategy, blocking...
Wearable startup Whoop just announced its new Whoop 5.0 fitness tracker yesterday, but some existing users are already calling foul. From a report: Previously, Whoop said people who had been members for at least six months would get free upgrades to next-generation hardware. ...
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