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Tuesday April 29, 2025. 07:34 PM
When Houthi rebels took aim at the USS Harry S. Truman last week, the aircraft carrier's evasive action had an expensive consequence: a $60 million F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet slid off and sank to the bottom of the ocean. As reported in AP, the costly mishap occurred as...
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday directed India's government to block Switzerland-based email service Proton Mail, citing national security concerns and law enforcement challenges. Justice M Nagaprasanna ordered authorities to initiate proceedings under Section 69A of the ...
Luis von Ahn says small quality hits are a price worth paying to ride the wave Duolingo has become the latest tech outfit to attempt to declare itself 'AI-first,' with CEO Luis von Ahn telling staff the biz hopes to gradually phase out contractors for work neural networks...
In February, Russia shockingly attacked Chernobyl's sarcophagus. The damage will be challenging to repair. In a massive affront to the memory of all the people who died cleaning up the disaster at Chernobyl, Russia struck the two billion dollar 'New Safe Confinement' with an ...
Viktoria Roshchyna made the fatal error of digging into Russia's disappearing-people-industrial-complex inside occupied Ukraine. As reported in the Washington Post, the 27-year-old Ukrainian journalist had been investigating Federal Security Service (FSB) operatives running...
WhatsApp's AI tools will use a new “Private Processing” system designed to allow cloud access without letting Meta or anyone else see end-to-end encrypted chats. But experts still see risks.
As Big Tech gets used to the pain, smaller vendors urged to up their game Google says that despite a small dip in the number of exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in 2024, the number of attacks using these novel bugs continues on an upward trend overall.…
LinkedIn cofounder and entrepreneur Reid Hoffman praised Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke’s recent internal memo as an example of how leaders should approach AI use and integration at work. Lütke urged greater AI adoption within the workplace, stating that AI usage is “now a...
Bitcoin mining has crossed a critical economic threshold, with costs now exceeding market value for most operators. According to data cited by CoinShares, large public mining companies spend over $82,000 to produce a single Bitcoin -- nearly double last quarter's figure --...
AlmaLinux 9.6 Beta has officially been released (download here), giving Linux fans and enterprise users an early peek at what’s coming next from this Red Hat-compatible distribution. The new beta is codenamed “Sage Margay” and is available right now for x86_64,...
Michael Flynn — professional conspiracy peddler and Trump-pardoned criminal — is getting a taste of his own tinfoil-wrapped medicine. As reported in The Bulwark, the man who once led 'digital soldiers' in QAnon's imaginary war is now desperately trying to wave the white...
In addition to being hilarious, this Honest Trailers offers Val Kilmer a nice hat tip. Val Kilmer's performance established Tombstone as a favorite western; the trailer reminds us that nearly everyone else was wooden. This film stands the test of time, and is as much fun to ...
Cloud storage biz says 'baseless allegations' are attempts by analysts to profit Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze has denied accusations made by financial analysts of 'sham accounting' and 'insider dumping,' as well as claims it inflated cash flow forecasts to...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Reddit's top lawyer, Ben Lee, said the company is considering legal action against researchers from the University of Zurich who ran what he called an 'improper and highly unethical experiment' by surreptitiously deploying AI chatbots in...
OpenAI is pushing further into Google’s domain with a major update to ChatGPT’s search feature by introducing a new shopping experience directly inside the chatbot. The AI company announced the rollout on Monday, saying the goal is to make shopping “simpler and...
Yesterday, we looked at how tariffs might well make connected accessories more expensive and leave existing devices less secure as the companies that made them exit the market. Today, we discover why these accessories need to be protected and find out they can already be...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The AlmaLinux project has published a new beta snapshot. The new development release seeks to improve performance and security for the 9.x series. The release announcement states: 'AlmaLinux 9.6 Beta continues...
Hackers working for governments were responsible for the majority of attributed zero-day exploits used in real-world cyberattacks last year, per new research from Google. From a report: Google's report said that the number of zero-day exploits -- referring to security flaws...
Version 1.8.0 of the Meson build system has been released. Notable changes in this release include the ability to run rustdoc for Rust projects, support for the c2y and gnu2y compiler options, and a new argument (android_exe_type) that makes it possible to use the same...
Former Rear Admiral calls for National Guard online deployment and corporates to be held accountable RSAC Russia used to be considered America's biggest adversary online, but over the past couple of years China has taken the role, and is proving highly effective at it.…
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