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Friday February 21, 2025. 02:25 AM
Mirnotoriety shares a report from The Register: The operators of Ghost ransomware continue to claim victims and score payments, but keeping the crooks at bay is possible by patching known vulnerabilities and some basic infosec actions, according to a joint advisory issued...
TL;DR: Windows 11 Pro is 91% off—just $17.97 instead of $199—but only through March 30. If your current operating system feels like it's stuck in 2005, it's time for an upgrade—and not just any upgrade. Windows 11 Pro is here to turn your computer into a productivity...
According to Bloomberg, YouTube plans to introduce a lower-priced, ad-free version of its paid video service. From the report: The package, dubbed 'premium lite,' will be announced soon in the US, Australia, Germany and Thailand, according to a person familiar with the...
Nobody wants memory bugs. Penguinistas continue debate on how to squish 'em Updated Some Linux kernel maintainers remain unconvinced that adding Rust code to the open source project is a good idea, but its VIPs are coming out in support of the language's integration.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The chief executive of streaming giant Netflix on Thursday announced a $1 billion investment to produce some 20 films and TV series in Mexico annually over the next four years. Speaking at President Claudia Sheinbaum's...
There’s a number of backups of old DECtapes from Dennis Ritchie, which he gave to Warren Toomey in 1997. The tapes were eventually uploaded, and through analysis performed by Yufeng Gao, a lot of additional details, code, and software were recovered from them. A few days...
Said bugs 'can have significant implications' – glad to hear that from Redmond Microsoft is so concerned about security in its Copilot products for folks that it’s lifted bug bounty payments for moderate-severity vulnerabilities from nothing to a maximum of $5,000, and...
Oni Press—the award-winning publisher behind Scott Pilgrim and Gender Queer—is about to bring us one of the most ridiculous and metal comics of the year, and Boing Boing was given the exclusive on revealing its metal AF special cover: a human blood variant! — Read the...
Apple's Google Lens-like took called Visual Intelligence is coming to the iPhone 15 Pro, according to John Gruber of Daring Fireball. It's unclear which update will offer the feature but Gruber speculates it could arrive with iOS 18.4 in April. From a report: Visual...
Don't think this is SaaS and you can relax: Redmond wants a few of you to check your websites Microsoft has fixed a security flaw in its Power Pages website-building SaaS, after criminals got there first – and urged users to check their sites for signs of exploitation.…
Thursday February 20, 2025. 11:40 PM
ChatGPT has reached over 400 million weekly active users, doubling its count since August 2024. 'We feel very fortunate to serve 5 percent of the world every week,' OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said on X. Engadget reports: The latest milestone for the AI assistant comes after a...
AI company Perplexity has released “1776,” a modified version of the open-source AI model DeepSeek-R1, aimed at eliminating government-imposed censorship on sensitive topics. The name 1776 symbolizes a commitment to freedom of information, particularly in contrast to the ...
Google has partnered with Imperial College London and the Fleming Initiative to develop what it calls an “AI co-scientist” designed to speed up scientific research. The multi-agent AI system built on Google’s Gemini 2.0 framework aims to provide lab efficiency and...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Altice, parent company of Internet provider Optimum, must disclose the personal details of a hundred alleged music pirates. The request comes from a group of prominent record labels and is part of an ongoing copyright...
TL;DR: Don't miss lifetime access to 1TB of Koofr Cloud Storage for just $119.97 through March 30 with code KOOFR. Google tells me my drive is almost full. Those free 15GB go fast if you're using it for anything more than plain ol' text documents, and it's actually pretty...
Bosses bragged about Duo Chat bot, buyers weren’t buying it – claim For the third time in five months, GitLab or its execs have been sued over allegedly misleading investors about AI capabilities and demand.…
Apollo GraphQL, provider of the GraphOS API orchestration platform, has introduced Apollo Connectors for REST APIs, a way to integrate REST APIs into a composable GraphQL architecture without writing boilerplate code. The company also announced GraphOS platform...
Decades before Happy Days and his career as a film director, Ron Howard, age 5, was best known as Opie, the son of Andy Griffith, a sheriff in the sleepy burg of Mayberry, North Carolina. Griffith's comic foil was Don Knotts as bumbling deputy Barney Fife. — Read the rest ...
Using apps and websites in dark mode can actually use more energy than standard mode, according to researchers, as it causes people to crank up the brightness. From a report: This counterintuitive finding is claimed by BBC Research & Development (R&D), which says that...
A pup named Saint Sebastian might seem like a saint as he quietly sits in a car — but his hilarious haircut after a trip to the groomers gives him away. 'What do you have to say for yourself?' his human asks as the miniature golden doodle — who apparently got kicked out...
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