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Friday December 27, 2024. 11:45 AM
Major video game studios' pursuit of ultra-realistic graphics has led to diminishing returns and industry-wide layoffs, as younger players gravitate toward simpler, more social games, New York Times is reporting. Sony's Insomniac Games spent $300 million developing Marvel's...
More and more, there are Android tips — and then there are Pixel tips. Owning a Google Pixel phone has become a ticket of sorts to a uniquely top-tier type of Android experience. With Google’s pure vision for the way the operating system itself should work (and none of...
With the intense interest in AI and its rapid pace of embrace, organizations are under pressure to swiftly evaluate their data architecture. AI architects urgently need solutions that harness AI to boost revenue streams and streamline operational efficiencies, all while...
Microsoft is vocal about the importance of ensuring that Windows users have all of the latest security updates installed, and rightly so. Now the company has warned that using certain installation media to install Windows 11 24H2 could result in not being able to receive any ...
By learning lessons from other sectors, public health can ensure it is ready to face future outbreaks in record time.
TL;DR: A slim Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite (2021) with an 8.7″ screen, 32GB storage, and an all-day battery—yours for just $89.99. The Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite is proof that great things come in small packages—and for just $89.99, it’s also a steal. Whether you’re...
Japanese megabank MUFG Bank says that its internet banking service has been unstable, indicating that it may have been under a cyberattack. From a report: The glitch, which occurred from 2:47 p.m., originated from 'massive influx of data,' the main banking unit of Mitsubishi ...
Reg-reading heroes snacked on their woes and solved problems with extreme speed On Call The biggest days of the festive season may be behind us, but demand for tech support never stops. That's why each Friday, even this one, The Register shares stories of fixers forced to...
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released what appears to be one of the most powerful open-source language models to date, trained at a cost of just $5.5 million using restricted Nvidia H800 GPUs. The 671-billion-parameter DeepSeek V3, released this week under a permissive...
The Federal Trade Commission has launched a broad antitrust investigation into Microsoft's business practices, focusing on how the company bundles its Office products with cybersecurity and cloud computing services. The probe follows ProPublica reporting that revealed...
theodp writes: In 2012, now-Microsoft President Brad Smith unveiled Microsoft's National Talent Strategy, a two-pronged strategy that called for tech visa restrictions to be loosened to allow tech companies to hire non-U.S. citizens to fill jobs until more American...
Microsoft is warning that Windows 11 installations using USB or CD media created with October or November 2024 security updates may be unable to receive future security patches. The bug affects version 24H2 installations made between October 8 and November 12, but does not...
Thursday December 26, 2024. 11:46 PM
I didn’t have the time to post this one before Christmas, but it’s so funny and sad at the same time I don’t want to keep this from you. It turns out that in the days leading up to Christmas this year, users of ASUS computers – or with ASUS motherboards, I guess – were...
COBOL, your mother’s and grandmother’s programming language, is still in relatively wide use today, and with the initial batches of COBOL programmers retiring and, well, going away, there’s a market out there for younger people to learn COBOL and gain some serious job...
TL;DR: Babbel can help you learn the local language of your destination with its 14 language offerings, now $129.97 (reg. $599) until December 31! As much as we'd like to deny it, Americans have earned worldwide recognition for being bad travelers and (generally)...
An indoor kitty with a strong case of FOMO had big dreams of becoming an outdoor cat — until he actually stepped out the front door. 'He wanted out so badly—until the snow said hello,' says the caption of his TikTok video, which shows the tuxedo cat bolting across his...
The Sony Trinitron KX-45ED1, aka the PVM-4300, is considered to be the world's largest consumer tube TV set. With a 43' screen, the hulking CRT weighed 440 pounds. Released in 1988 in Japan and the US a couple years later, the built-to-orderproduct reportedly cost $40,000. —...
In 1979, a wild rabbit swam aggressively toward President Jimmy Carter's fishing boat in 1979. It quickly became known as the 'killer rabbit attack,' and was used against him by Ronald Reagan's campaign in the 1980 election. The incident occurred on April 20 while Carter was ...
Although U.S. prisons sprouted up before the United States were even formed, it wasn't until 1851 that prisoners were given official inmate numbers. And the first gentleman to receive such a number — 00001 — was a 22-year-old cabinet-maker from Sacramento, California. —...
With the threat landscape becoming increasingly sophisticated, companies need agile approaches to improve their defenses and mitigate risks. After all, hackers are adapting their strategies and introducing new tools and technologies to improve their success rates. The...
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