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Friday January 10, 2025. 04:44 PM
Fast or tough? You can’t always have both, especially when you’re talking about electronics where “ruggedized” versions often come with compromises. But Seagate’s LaCie brand is aiming to offer both with its upcoming Rugged SSD Pro5 models, announced at CES 2025....
Details of afflictions and care plastered online BayMark Health Services, one of the biggest drug addiction treatment facilities in the US, says it is notifying some patients this week that their sensitive personal information was stolen.…
Gaming mice with 4K polling rates became the norm this year. In fact, we saw hardly any mice with 1,000Hz and 2,000Hz polling rates being released — period. These new-generation gaming mice weren’t hard to spot thanks to manufacturers using higher polling rates a bit...
Early life exposure to toxic PFAS 'forever chemicals' could impact economic success in adulthood, new first-of-its-kind research [PDF] suggests. From a report: The Iowa State University and US Census Bureau working paper compared the earnings, college graduation rates, and...
Data WIRED collected during the 2024 Democratic National Convention strongly suggests the use of a cell-site simulator, a controversial spy device that intercepts sensitive data from every phone in its range.
Automattic has announced that it is reallocating its resources away from contributing to the WordPress project as a response to the WP Engine lawsuit: As part of this reset, Automattic will match its volunteering pledge with those made by WP Engine and other players in the e...
Sacked in the endzone? Down for the count? Struck out swinging? Go ahead and pick your favorite sport metaphor, but the bottom line is that Venu Sports is done. In a joint statement, Venu Sports backers Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery announced they are dropping...
How much RAM do you need? It’s a common question, but one that doesn’t always have a straightforward answer. The Raspberry Pi, a cheap all-in-one system-on-a-chip for hobbyists, typically makes do with less RAM than conventional PCs, but a new 16GB version of the Pi 5...
Three mathematicians have developed a breakthrough method for proving whether numbers can be written as fractions, solving a problem that has puzzled researchers for decades. Frank Calegari, Vesselin Dimitrov and Yunqing Tang proved the irrationality of an infinite...
After yesterday's stable kernel releases, Chris Clayton reported a build problem with 6.6.70, which prompted Greg Kroah-Hartman to release 6.6.71 to fix it.
Six-hundred-twenty-nine in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 and Windows 11 on the Microsoft Store and elsewhere in the past seven days. Windows 10 users will mass-migrate to Windows 11 this year...
Users of doomed operating system to receive unloved app via an update Microsoft's new Outlook will be automatically installed on Windows 10 machines as part of an upcoming monthly security release.…
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (chromium and mingw-poppler), Red Hat (dpdk, thunderbird, and webkit2gtk3), SUSE (firefox, govulncheck-vulndb, gstreamer, gstreamer-plugins-base, gstreamer-plugins-good, libmfx, openjpeg2, python310, python312, python39, tomcat,...
India's homegrown digital payments ecosystem, anchored by two systems, is challenging Visa and Mastercard's dominance in the world's most populous nation. The backbone is UPI, a nine-year-old bank-to-bank payment network that processes over 13 billion monthly transactions...
Touchscreens don’t always get the job done. Try one of these WIRED-tested controllers for your iPhone or Android instead.
In a new proposal issued Friday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking to regulate virtual currencies used in Roblox and other video games like US dollars.
If you’re a PC gamer, and you have a lot of room in your budget, the biggest news to come out of CES 2025 is almost certainly Nvidia’s new RTX 5090 GPU. That’s figuratively big, not literally, because the Founder’s Edition of this $2,000 beast is shockingly small at...
On the Fritz: German router maker AVM lets device rights case end after coughing up source code Sebastian Steck, a software developer based in Germany, has obtained the source code and library installation scripts for his AVM FRITZ!Box 4020 router, thanks to a lawsuit funded ...
The new 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 is the company's most powerful and expensive model yet. We first announced Raspberry Pi 5 back in the autumn of 2023, with just two choices of memory density: 4GB and 8GB. Last summer, we released the 2GB variant, aimed at cost-sensitive...
We’re tuning in live as the justices consider what could be one of the most consequential First Amendment rulings of the past several decades.
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