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Thursday November 28, 2024. 04:30 AM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Danish lawmakers on Monday agreed on a deal to plant 1 billion trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest and natural habitats over the next two decades in an effort to reduce fertilizer usage. The government...
Sure, it sent an email and FAQ saying it had – but that was a mistake, you see Broadcom has made an embarrassing mistake: sending an email in which it mistakenly announced the end of its VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) certification.…
A bipartisan group of 12 senators has urged the TSA inspector general to investigate the agency's use of facial recognition technology, citing concerns over privacy, civil liberties, and its expansion to over 430 airports without sufficient safeguards or proven...
A security researcher discovered an unprotected database belonging to SL Data Services containing over 600,000 sensitive files, including criminal histories and background checks with names, addresses, and social media accounts. The Register reports: We don't know how long...
Let's see how this goes India has decided to rebuild the platforms it offers citizens to process their taxes and make the system paperless.…
TL;DR: Spending $140 on the SyncPen 4 might have saved me from getting fired at work—check out what I thought about it here. I'm going to be honest. I'm the type of person who doesn't own an actual notebook. I just go through life hoping that whatever paper I jot my ideas...
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer inaugurated London's first Google-funded AI Campus in Camden, aiming to equip young people with AI and machine learning skills. Reuters reports: The center, based in Camden, an area which Starmer represents in parliament and which is also...
Microsoft is in the FTC’s crosshairs again as the federal agency launches a new antitrust investigation into the tech giant’s sprawling business practices. According to a source familiar with the matter, the FTC has issued a demand for Microsoft to hand over key...
A U.S. federal appeals court ruled that sanctions against Tornado Cash, a crypto transaction anonymization service, must be abandoned, stating that its immutable smart contracts do not constitute 'property' under U.S. law and that the Treasury overstepped its authority. The...
Plus, a brand-new backdoor, GhostSpider, is linked to the cyber spy crew's operations The reach of the China-linked Salt Typhoon gang extends beyond telecommunications giants in the United States, and its arsenal includes several backdoors – including a brand-new malware...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Over the past decade, a new class of infections has threatened Windows users. By infecting the firmware that runs immediately before the operating system loads, these UEFI bootkits continue to run even when the hard...
Uno Platform has unveiled the Uno Platform Studio, featuring a suite of developer productivity tools including Hot Design, a visual designer for building cross-platform.NET apps. Introduced November 14, the Uno Platform Studio is intended to help developers navigate parts of ...
Wednesday November 27, 2024. 11:50 PM
The new limits, which are expected to be announced Monday, are intended to slow China’s ability to build large and powerful AI models.
The FTC has opened a broad antitrust investigation into Microsoft, including of its software licensing and cloud computing business. Bloomberg first reported the news. Reuters reports: The probe was approved by FTC Chair Lina Khan ahead of her likely departure in January....
ChatGPT’s Fast Facts Our product rating: 4/5 Pricing: Free version; $20 monthly for paid plan Key features: Analyzing uploaded images Generating high-quality generative content Creating videos with third-party applications Generating scripts, articles, and other text...
Recently, I’ve been moving away from macOS to Linux, and have settled on using KDE Plasma as my desktop environment. For the most part I’ve been comfortable with the change, but it’s always the small things that get me. For example, the Mail app built into macOS provides an...
A three-year fight to help support game preservation has come to a sad end today. The US copyright office has denied a request for a DMCA exemption that would allow libraries to remotely share digital access to preserved video games. ↫ Dustin Bailey at GamesRadar This was...
The Verge's Wes Davis reports: A new startup created by former Android leaders aims to build an operating system for AI agents. Among them is Hugo Barra, Google's former VP of Android product management, who says the new company -- named '/dev/agents' -- will revisit the...
A Chesapeake Bay beachcomber found most of a casket that contained most of a skeleton. A Maryland Beachcomber found the remains of a coffin and a person partially submerged in the Chesapeake Bay. After law enforcement took a look, the Beachcomber decided to dig it up,...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting dozens of companies that used the cloud data storage company Snowflake, but a third suspect -- a prolific hacker known as Kiberphant0m --...
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