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Tuesday April 22, 2025. 11:22 PM
Remember the odd inetpub folder that seemingly randomly appeared on people’s root drives after installing a Windows 11 update? Everybody assumed it was something left over from an update script, and that the folder was safe to remove. Well, it turns out that’s not the case,...
Anthropic predicts AI-powered virtual employees will start operating within companies in the next year, introducing new risks such as account misuse and rogue behavior. Axios reports: Virtual employees could be the next AI innovation hotbed, Jason Clinton, the company's...
Acer has officially launched the Chromebook Plus 516 (CB516-1H), a brand-new ChromeOS laptop that delivers a large display and Intel Core performance. To clarify, this is not the Chromebook Plus 516 GE model built for cloud gaming -- this is an entirely new machine. The...
TL;DR: Track your essential belongings with this slim Bluetooth tracker that works with Apple Find My; MagTags now $32.99. The most important card isn't your wallet or ID anymore — it's your MagTag. This ultra-slim Bluetooth tracker is a discreet alternative to AirTags,...
Uncle Sam says Chinese factories use proxies to dodge import taxes world war fee Solar panels made in a number of Southeast Asian countries face massive new import duties into America, some as steep as 3,521 percent, after a US Department of Commerce probe apparently found...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In 2019, Garrett Mitchell was already an Internet success. His YouTube channel, Cleetus McFarland, had over a million followers. If you perused the channel at that time, you would've found a range of grassroots...
Any job that requires a Lego building test as part of the interview is probably a job I want. With but a single scroll through Master Builder Alec's channel, I find myself overcome with jealousy – but also awe. As a certified Master Builder (which is apparently a thing you ca...
AI-powered virtual employees could hit the workforce within a year, according to Jason Clinton, chief information security officer at Anthropic. In comments to Axios, Clinton noted that, while the technology is advancing fast, major security hurdles remain before fully...
Elon Musk's DOGE has access to 19 sensitive systems at HHS. In at least one instance, it appears that access was granted without the proper security training.
It's been a while since we've had a good shadow drop – the last decent one I remember is Apex Legends back in 2019. A remake of the much-lauded and intensely silly RPG The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has been rumored for years now, culminating in recent leaks that alleged to...
Chrome will keep third-party cookies, a win for web giant's ad rivals After six years of work, Google's Privacy Sandbox, technology for delivering ads while protecting privacy, looks like dust in the wind.…
While money can't buy happiness, economists can estimate 'life satisfaction and well-being' in terms of monetary value. In a recent study, having a pet was found to have a roughly equivalent impact on happiness to spending time with human friends or relatives. — Read the...
OpenAI’s update to ChatGPT on March 27 has skewed ChatGPT too far toward “sycophancy,” which in this case is a technical term that results in a fawning attitude. Meanwhile, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman notes the extra words people use to be polite to the AI model add up to...
Walmart is taking a lesson from the humble honeybee in its quest to make its deliveries as fast as possible. From a report: The retail giant already boasts a formidable store count of 4,700 locations across the US, which puts it within a short drive of more than 90% of...
The Linux kernel can be configured so that kernel modules must be signed or otherwise authenticated to be loaded into the kernel. Some BPF developers want that to be an option for BPF programs as well — after all, if those are going to run as part of the kernel, they...
As cyber-agency faces cuts, makes noises about switching up program Two top officials have resigned from Uncle Sam's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, furthering fears of a brain drain amid White House cuts to the federal workforce.…
Imagine contacting customer support about a technical issue, only to be told it’s “company policy” — except the policy doesn’t exist, and the “support agent” isn’t even human. That’s exactly what happened to users of Cursor, an AI-powered coding assistant, after...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Kevin Systrom, the co-founder of Instagram, testified on Tuesday in a landmark federal antitrust trial that he left Meta in 2018 because his company was denied resources. The government has argued that Meta purchased Instagram in 2012 as...
Approximately 92% of companies plan to invest more money into AI integration over the next few years, according to McKinsey research. And if the new startup Mechanize has its way, companies might see the entire global workforce replaced by next-gen AI sooner rather than...
When a Canadian woman decided to share her electric scalp massager with her 4-year-old Weimaraner, she instantly knew it was a hit. The doggo didn't have to say a word to show his immense pleasure, as his expression gave it away — or his eyes did, that is, which...
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