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Monday January 13, 2025. 08:08 PM
An investigation reveals that major hotel booking sites are quietly charging San Francisco residents up to $500 more per night for the exact same hotel rooms compared to travelers from less affluent cities. SFGATE's investigation found that booking platforms like Expedia,...
Scumbags stole API keys, then started a hacking-as-a-service biz, it is claimed Microsoft has sued a group of unnamed cybercriminals who developed tools to bypass safety guardrails in its generative AI tools. The tools were used to create harmful content, and access to the...
A substitute teacher at a high school in Houston thought it was a good idea to watch porn on the job — until police marched into the classroom and arrested him. The 81-year-old sub, Kenneth Hartley, allegedly sat in front of his teenage students watching a video that...
European Union regulators are investigating Apple's revised app store fees amid concerns they may increase costs for developers, according to Bloomberg News. The European Commission sent questionnaires to developers in December focusing on Apple's new 'core technology fee'...
Meddling in UK politics is not helping Elon 'Pedo Guy' Musk's popularity. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! A recent YouGov poll shows that Elon Musk is widely reviled in the UK. Collaborating with the far right, smearing politicians with his...
This handcrafted digital fluid simulation pendant creates pure magic — as you move it, light flows like liquid inside the golden case. The creator, Mitxela, assembled a grid of tiny lights controlled by a computer chip. When the wearer moves, a motion sensor inside detects ...
The USB Implementers Forum has simplified its labeling system for USB docking stations and cables, dropping technical terms like 'USB4v2' in favor of straightforward speed ratings such as 'USB 80Gbps' or 'USB 40Gbps.' The move follows criticism of previous complex naming...
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is facing a legal challenge from a group of writers who claim it used illegal copies to train its AI models. Author Ta-Nehisi Coates and comedian Sarah Silverman are among the writers who filed the complaint,...
The blog of the SeaMonkey project, which develops an all-in-one internet application suite based on Mozilla code, has reported the sad news of the sudden passing of Bill Gianopoulos ('WG9s') on January 6 (obituary). He was a core developer and release engineer for the...
It's fixed, mostly, after Europeans had a manic Monday Microsoft's multi-factor authentication (MFA) for Azure and Microsoft 365 (M365) was offline for four hours during Monday's busy start for European subscribers.…
Microsoft is raising Microsoft 365 subscription prices by up to 46% across six Asian markets to fund AI features. In Australia, annual Microsoft 365 Family subscriptions will increase to AU$179 ($110) from AU$139, while Personal subscriptions will jump to AU$159 ($98) from...
One of my favorite things to come out of CES 2025 was the spread of SteamOS to other PC gaming handhelds, namely a new version of Lenovo’s Legion Go. On the show floor, PCWorld’s Adam Patrick Murray got his handheld-loving hands all over both versions of the Legion Go S...
California firefighters explain to Elon 'Pedo Guy' Musk why his political attacks regarding the Palisades fire are wrong.
Having a fast flash drive on hand can save you the pain of transferring files over slow Wi-Fi. In fact, it allows you to bypass the need for an internet connection altogether. It just so happens that one of our favorites — Samsung’s Type-C Flash Drive — is on sale...
On the day the UK government confirms an AI future for the country (we’ll see how that goes), Apple’s App Store pricing model has gone on trial in London. Apple is accused of overcharging consumers for software sold via the App Store in a £1.5 billion class-action...
AI security software provides businesses with advanced toolsets to combat the ever-persistent threat of cyberattack. From identifying suspicious patterns to proactive threat hunting, AI security solutions offer a proactive and intelligent defense mechanism against malicious...
Fresh out of CES 2025, this high-capacity Anker power bank is already on sale. Sure, it’s not something crazy like a half-off deal, but a 10 percent discount less than a week after release is noteworthy. Anker’s 25,000mAh portable power bank delivers a maximum 100W...
While firefighters battle a couple of the most destructive fires in Los Angeles history, Marjorie Taylor Greene scoffs at the effort, wondering why 'they' don't just plant some water seeds in them clouds. 'Why don't they use geoengineering like cloud seeding to bring rain...
U.S. companies are increasingly using AI to curb hiring plans, citing 'cost avoidance' as a key metric to justify AI investments amid pressure to show returns. At software firm TS Imagine, AI-powered email sorting saves 4,000 work hours annually at 3% of employee costs,...
'Sweden has changed,' PM warns as trio of warships join defense efforts Sweden has committed to sending naval forces into the Baltic Sea following yet another suspected Russian attack on underwater cables in the region.…
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