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Saturday December 28, 2024. 12:20 AM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Despite having an endless amount of music to pair with their short, scrollable videos, TikTok users have been raiding the back catalogues of artists from yesteryear including Bronski Beat and Sade to soundtrack their...
Friday December 27, 2024. 11:42 PM
There's been an explosion of interest among senior executives -- including C-suite leaders -- in going gig, or 'fractional.' From a report: 'People don't want to go back to pre-COVID -- [they] want control, more work-life-balance, and a say over who they work with and how...
Hackers have compromised several different companies' Chrome browser extensions in a series of intrusions dating back to mid-December, according to one of the victims and experts who have examined the campaign. From a report: Among the victims was the California-based...
AI Shell is an interactive shell that provides a chat interface with language models. The shell provides agents that connect to different AI models and other assistance providers. Users can interact with the agents in a conversational manner. ↫ Microsoft Learn Basically,...
President Biden on Monday signed the SHARE IT Act (H.R. 9566) into law, mandating federal agencies share custom-developed code with each other to prevent duplicative software development contracts and reduce the $12 billion annual government software expenditure. The law...
Montenegro has approved the extradition of cryptocurrency entrepreneur Do Kwon to the United States over his role in the collapse of TerraUSD and Luna tokens, which wiped out $40 billion from investors and destabilized global crypto markets. The BBC reports: 'The Minister of ...
Users who expected to be able to use the resources of the Azure content delivery network (CDN) from Edgio until November 2025, as previously announced, had a not-so-festive “gift” this week – the CDN is now shutting down on Jan. 15, 2025. In a post on Github, Rich...
This 1957 (or possibly 1968) television commercial will hypnotize you into trying a new Spud menthol cigarette. 'It has a fresh taste like it was air conditioned.' 'You're going to buy a pack. Tomorrow.' Previously:• Film festival to attempt mass hypnosis of...
We have altered the deal, pray we don’t alter it any further Amid growing competition and skyrocketing compute requirements necessary to support the next generation of AI models, OpenAI is shaking up its corporate structure - again.…
While billionaires stash fortunes in offshore havens, the IRS is targeting gig workers who make a few bucks answering questions on a platform where people earn side income by sharing expertise. A federal court in California has authorized the IRS to demand records from...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Apparently Hertz's purging of electric vehicles from its fleet isn't going fast enough for the car rental giant. A Reddit user posted an offer they received from Hertz to buy the 2023 Tesla Model 3 they had been renting...
For many US youngsters in the 1980s, pizza day at the school cafeteria was highly-anticipated and deeply satisfying. Now, you can nosh nostalgic on those gooey rectangles of goodness at home. In the video below, Tasting History's Max Miller tackles the recipe found in the...
They don't call jawbreakers 'jawbreakers' for nothing, as one 19-year-old Canadian student painfully learned when she tried to bite down on the large candy ball. 'Has anyone else ever wondered if a jawbreaker can actually break your jaw?' Javeria Wasim asked on a TikTok...
An AI experiment that transforms The Beatles' 1965 album Rubber Soul into Motown-style arrangements, reimagines all 14 tracks from the 1965 album. 'It's like a Pandora's box has been opened,' wrote one of the 130,000+ viewers, capturing the mix of wonder and worry in the...
A ninth U.S. telecommunications company has been compromised in a Chinese espionage campaign that targeted private communications, particularly around Washington D.C., White House Deputy National Security Adviser Anne Neuberger said Friday. The intrusion, part of the 'Salt...
Like a little boy who lost his daddy at the carnival, a confused Donald Trump wandered around the internets, looking for Elon Musk. But rather than send a private message to his superior, he seems to have accidentally broadcast it on Truth Social. — Read the rest The post...
Congratulations to our nation's most prestigious media outlets, who are currently locked in a thrilling race to see who can normalize Trump's fascism with the most cowardly headlines! NBC took an early lead with their masterful 'House Republicans say Liz Cheney should be...
Meta is betting that characters generated by AI will fill its social media platforms in the next few years as it looks to the fast-developing technology to drive engagement with its 3 billion users. From a report: The Silicon Valley group is rolling out a range of AI...
The House Hippo—an adorable miniature hippopotamous domesticated in Canada and the U.S.!—set out to teach cable TV viewers a lesson in identifying fake news a generation ago. The hippo was portrayed with the use of modified stock footage: video from 'various sources'...
Santa Satya pops one more issue into his sack just in time for Christmas The trickle of known issues with Windows 11 24H2 has continued with a new one just in time for festive season: installed the operating system using removable media? There's a chance it might stop...
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