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Monday February 24, 2025. 04:21 PM
AI is the hot buzzword in tech. We’re hearing it repeatedly from major tech companies, as they integrate AI models into their products. The latest company to trumpet the inclusion: Google, in its Chrome browser. It’s a pair of announcements in recent weeks, with the most ...
Financial Times: Venture capitalists have always been happy to back pre-profit companies. Back in the halcyon ZIRP era, they became happy to finance pre-revenue companies. But at least even Juicero, Wag and the Fyre Festival had an actual product. From Bloomberg over the...
The Emacs extensible text editor (among other things) has made a security release to address two vulnerabilities. Emacs 30.1 has fixes for CVE-2025-1244, which is a shell-command-injection flaw in the man.el man page browser and for CVE-2024-53920, which is a code-execution...
The AI-generated video depicts President Donald Trump writhing as he licks and sucks at Elon Musk's feet. Superimposed are the words 'LONG LIVE THE REAL KING.' Government employees returning to the office enjoyed (?) this remarkable presentation Monday morning, as it was...
If you’ve been looking to upgrade your laptop, we have just the model for you — one that’s powerful at a fantastic discount. The Asus ROG Strix G17 is now $1,000 at Staples, a solid $400 off its launch price. This gaming laptop comes with an AMD Ryzen 9 7940HX...
Apple plans to inject billions of dollars into the US economy, spending $500 billion in the US over the next four years and promising expansion, new manufacturing facilities, and big investments in advanced manufacturing and R&D. The announcement follows last week’s...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, bind9.18, libpq, mysql, postgresql, postgresql:15, and postgresql:16), Debian (fort-validator, gnutls28, krb5, libxml2, and python-werkzeug), Fedora (chromium, openssh, proftpd, python3.8, vaultwarden, and vim), Oracle...
I know you need some extra storage space. Why? Because everyone can always use more storage space! And right now, this super-fast 512GB SanDisk Extreme Pro USB flash drive is only $50 on Amazon, a discount of 37 percent off bringing it to its best-ever price. The SanDisk...
Google is preparing to abandon SMS verification codes for Gmail authentication in favor of QR codes, Gmail spokesperson Ross Richendrfer told Forbes. The move aims to address significant security vulnerabilities inherent in SMS-based verification while combating fraudulent...
Who would not want to own a life-size portrait of a rosy-cheeked, grandfatherly Lenin? The painting, among others of Soviet origin and vintage, are up for grabs this week at the Wotton Auction Rooms in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, England. Mr Trinder explained they...
Mike Amesbury is the member of parliament for Runcorn and Helsby in England, serving as an independent since his suspension from the governing Labour Party. Why was he suspended? Because he punched one of his constituents in an act of 'unprovoked drunken behaviour,' as the...
Investment bank claims software giant ditched 'at least' 5 land parcels due to potential 'oversupply' Microsoft has reportedly cancelled leases on datacenter capacity in the US, raising questions about whether the company may have overestimated demand for AI services and the ...
In Trump 2.0, 'free speech' only applies to those who agree with the new regime. Everyone else will 'suffer the consequences,' as warned by the host of Idaho's Republican town hall, where a woman who disagreed with Saturday's talking points was dragged out in zip ties by...
In January, a 20-year-old man that police believe to be an internet-famous street racer known as Squeeze was sentenced to five years in prison for unrelated crimes. Many more still speed through New York City and put it all on YouTube.
What do you see in this image? From The Ape That Spoke: Language and the Evolution of the Human Mind, by John McCrone. At first sight this is an unintelligible jumble of lines, but when told what the picture represents, most people find it clicks into place with almost...
Most users are familiar with Windows Defender (the antivirus tool built into Windows Security), which continuously monitors the system for suspicious software activity and also identifies and blocks dangerous intruders based on a database of virus definitions. However, no...
A new study from Omdia finds that 80 percent of manufacturing firms experienced a significant increase in overall security incidents or breaches last year, but only 45 percent are adequately prepared in their cybersecurity. The survey of over 500 technology executives...
No matter how deep you are in Apple's 'ecosystem,’ there are ways to stay encrypted in Blighty Apple customers, privacy advocates, and security sleuths have now had the weekend to stew over the news of the iGadget maker's decision to bend to the UK government and disable...
A bunch of extremely smart people on TikTok have discovered that dropping heavy objects on their feet gets them thousands of views. Leading this parade of mangled metatarsals is 19-year-old Luke Pilling, who decided that dropping toasters, air fryers, and computer monitors...
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