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Wednesday December 4, 2024. 05:30 PM
Never mind our alleged cheating of customers – you guys are a bunch of leakers, Redmond tells watchdog Microsoft isn't happy about an antitrust investigation reportedly kicked off by the FTC recently, but not for the reason you might think: Redmond's mad that it found out...
Did you know that Microsoft Edge, the built-in web browser on Windows PCs, can read text out loud to you? It works for text on web pages, PDF and Word documents, and more — an incredibly useful feature, particularly for users who have impaired vision. Here’s how it...
After months of dropping hints about a password-sharing crackdown, Max will begin “messaging” suspected streaming freeloaders starting next week. “We will kick off literally in about a week,” Warner Bros. Discovery streaming exec JB Perrette said during a Wells...
With bionic eyesight that rivals none other than Alaska's human telescope Sarah Palin, Trump can actually see Switzerland while standing in Canada. Or so suggests an AI image Trump posted of himself standing next to the Canadian flag while taking in the stunning view of, er, ...
Logitech’s MX series of mice is probably the best regarded line outside of the gaming space, and the family might be a little bigger than you think. In addition to the flagship MX Master and travel-friendly MX Anywhere, the MX Vertical is a favorite for its ergonomic...
A mysterious AI image generator called Red Panda has taken the Artificial Analysis Text-to-Image Arena by storm. The arena is a kind of interactive testing ground for models. Users blindly evaluate images generated by different AI tools in response to the same prompt based...
Linus Walleij writes about a pair of security features for 32-bit Arm systems; these landed in 6.10, but, he says, have now stabilized to the point that distributors may want to enable them. PAN is an abbreviation for the somewhat grammatically incorrect Privileged Access...
TL;DR: I'm making my knives feel new with an Angle Pro Knife Sharpener, on sale for $40 through December 8. Check out here. Last Thanksgiving, I tried to carve the turkey, and I'll be the first to admit that my knife was laughably dull. — Read the rest The post Transform du...
Intel has made a lot of news very quickly this week, some of it bad, some of it good. But if you’ve been watching the company’s gaming aspirations over the last few years, you might also want to peek over at the Steam Hardware Survey, an ever-present source for juicy...
Just as shoppers heading online for Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals a new report from Bitdefender uncovers interesting parallels with behavior on dark web marketplaces. Cybercriminals too, it seems, browse for the best deals on an assortment of unconventional goods and...
Linux offers two broad ways of performing I/O to files. Buffered I/O, which is the usual way of accessing a file, stores a copy of the transferred data in the kernel's page cache to speed future accesses. Direct I/O, instead, moves data directly between the storage device...
Western authorities say they’ve identified a network that found a new way to clean drug gangs’ dirty cash. WIRED gained exclusive access to the investigation.
Back in 2017, Samsung released the first showing of DeX (short for “desktop experience”) that allowed high-end Samsung Galaxy phones to plug into a special dock and be used like a desktop PC. In 2019, the dock was eliminated, and in 2020, wireless DeX came out — on...
The long-running Advent of Code site just entered its 10th year, with 162,809 people completing both of its Day One puzzles (which involve a hunt for the missing historian of the North Pole). But its not the only site offering Christmas-themed programming puzzles: Hundreds...
Drugs, botnets, forged docs, and more generated fortune for platform sellers German authorities say they have again shut down the perhaps unwisely named Crimenetwork platform and arrested a suspected admin.…
At a glanceExpert's Rating Pros Included stand supports landscape and portrait mode Easy wireless setup with modest input lag Decent bundled speakers Cons Moderate brightness Very limited color performance Battery life is limited at higher brightness levels Our...
Version 6.0.0 of the Hurl command-line tool has been released. Hurl is a curl-powered utility that runs HTTP requests and tests defined in a plain-text Hurl file. Notable features in this release include the ability to generate dynamic values with functions, shorter syntax,...
Google Gemini has introduced a groundbreaking AI memory feature that lets its chatbot remember personal details and tailor interactions based on user preferences. This innovation positions Gemini as a direct competitor to ChatGPT’s memory-enabled functionality, with both...
The TPM hardware requirement for Windows 11 was one of the biggest barriers to initial upgraders three years ago. And while that’s become less of an issue, it’s still a point of contention for many users. If you were hoping for a reprieve as Windows 10 approaches its end ...
After Twitter was used to spread lies that led to race riots in the U.K—a wave of violence hyped by the site's owner—police forces in Britain have reduced their official use of the platform. Reuters reports that some forces have stopped using it entirely and others are...
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