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You are a guard in a field with 100 prisoners. You have a gun with only one round. If a prisoner thinks there's even a tiny chance they won't get shot, they'll try to run away. If a prisoner is sure they'll get shot, they won't run away. — Read the rest The post One bullet,...
The tech world is still reeling from the recent widespread system outages caused by a CrowdStrike update last week. These outages are a stark reminder of the interconnected nature of our digital ecosystem and how far-reaching the consequences of a single update can be. Let's ...
Six months ago, we showed you how it was possible to transform Windows 10 or 11 into Windows 7 or Vista with a single command, an article which -- it has to be said -- proved rather divisive. Now YouTube channel Come on Windows has released a video showing Windows 10 being...
And you thought rolling back a borked update on a server down the hall was hard? The European Space Agency (ESA) has shared the story of how engineers brought a mission back from the brink after a micrometeoroid strike, an equipment failure, and an impressive solar storm.…
When CrowdStrike issued a faulty security update on Friday, the impact was nothing less than catastrophic, causing a global IT outage that made Windows computers crash, impacting an estimated 8.5 million systems around the world. 'We understand the profound impact this has...
Don't get your LLMs in a bunch; The Verge has put together a handy primer on all the acronyms and terms you need to know if you hope to survive SkyNet. This list contains the basic things you need to understand about AI, from language models to hallucinations. — Read the...
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An interoperability deal Microsoft enforced by the European Commission in 2009 may have led the Windows-maker to open itself to the recent CrowdStrike-led outage, according to Microsoft. In an interview with WSJ, a Microsoft spokesperson indicated the deal could have...
Fujifilm can't make enough X100 VIs to keep up with demand for its perfect 'pocket' camera [dpreview.com], and now Amazon has canceled preorders. Ebay prices are now twice the MSRP. Amazon cites a lack of availability for the order cancellations, and the example screenshot...
Once upon a time, Eddie Murphy was slated to star as the 'Number One Super Guy,' but the movie was canceled quicker than the human eye. 'Hong Kong Phooey' was a 1974 Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera. Voiced by Scatman Crothers ('Chico and the Man,' The...
Shrinks training pool, but hurts services like the Internet Archive The internet is becoming significantly more hostile to webpage crawlers, especially those operated for the sake of generative AI, researchers say.…
Workers at Bethesda Game Studios, source of all Elder Scrolls and contemporary Fallout goodness, voted to unionize. It's the first Microsoft-owned game outfit in the U.S. to do so and comprises a 'wall-to-wall' union that includes artists, engineers, programmers and...
The Twister sequel, which brought in over $80 million at the box office this weekend, is full of good science. But its big reveal is full of spin.
The Daylight DC-1 is pleasant on the eyes, like e-ink, but refreshes at a 60hz clip, like a normal display. David Pierce has been using one for a few weeks and finds that while the tablet itself is nothing fancy, the display lives up to its promise and changes the experience ...
The biggest rationale behind adding business internet security to your small business is one, simple, but crucial, factor—safety. Business internet security protects you against multiple levels of threats. It doesn’t matter what size business you’re running, what...
Convicted criminal Donald Trump is already making excuses and trying to change the terms of his next Presidential debate. With Joe Biden passing the torch to Kamala Harris, Donald Trump and his campaign appear to be in a panic. There is much speculation that JD Vance was...
Red Hat, through members of the Fedora Workstation Working Group, has taken another swing at persuading the Fedora Project to allow metrics related to the real-world use of the Workstation edition to be collected. The first proposal, aimed for Fedora 40, was withdrawn to be...
Big Red agrees not to capture personal details after two-year class action Oracle has agreed to cough up $115 million to settle a two-year class action lawsuit that alleged misuse of user data.…
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (botan2, chromium, ffmpeg, fluent-bit, gtk3, httpd, suricata, tcpreplay, and thunderbird), Mageia (apache, chromium-browser-stable, libfm & libfm-qt, and thunderbird), Oracle (firefox, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk,...
Following Joe Biden's departure from the ticket and his endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris, her fundraising operation took in nearly $50m in a day. Seven hours after President Joe Biden announced he would drop from the presidential race and endorsed Harris, the...
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