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Wednesday November 27, 2024. 06:30 AM
Provides insight to how China gets inside US systems, perhaps at Verizon and Infosys A 59 year-old Florida telco engineer was sentenced to 48 months in prison after he served as a spy for China and provided Beijing with details like his employer’s cybersecurity, according...
Software snafu took five minutes to roll back. The mess it made took hours to clean up Cloudflare has admitted that it broke its own logging-as-a-service service with a bad software update, and that customer data was lost as a result.…
A Trump-endorsed candidate to replace a Congressperson Trump has appointed to his cabinet showed he has zero understanding of the classic Hannukah film or its titular hero, 'The Hebrew Hammer,' and is actually running to be Washington's new Andy Dick. LIKE BOING BOING BUT...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: Virtual- and augmented-reality setups already modify the way users see and hear the world around them. Add in haptic feedback for a sense of touch and a VR version of Smell-O-Vision, and only one major sense remains:...
Bang & Olufsen has launched the Beoplay Eleven wireless earbuds, building on its Beoplay EX with upgraded performance and luxurious design. The Danish brand aims to redefine its audio lineup with these new earbuds, offering improved Active Noise Cancellation (ANC), better...
JetBrains plans to drop some scripting-related technologies from the Kotlin language, including REPL functionality, an obsolete API for Java scripting, the KotlinScriptMojo Maven plugin, and the kotlin-scripting-ide-services library for implementing code completion...
Connection will tie remote territory to Darwin in North Australia A Google-funded subsea cable will connect the Australian territory of Christmas Island to Darwin on the mainland.…
The Macquarie Dictionary, the national dictionary of Australia, has picked 'enshittification' as its word of the year. Gizmodo reports: The Australians define the word as 'the gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction in the quality of...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! With their distinctive duck-billed profile and boxy posterior, they're not the sleekest beasts on the road. But the new electric mail trucks are immediately the joy of those tasked with riding them. —...
You need to know in advance when your kit will be bricked or downgraded – it's the law Makers of software-enabled products have been put on notice by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for failing to disclose how long their products will receive software updates.…
Uber's gig-economy workforce now includes programmers. According to Bloomberg, 'The company is expanding beyond its rideshare roots to enter a hot new market: helping other businesses outsource some of their artificial intellgience development to independent contractors.'...
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Despite significant enterprise AI hype, most job seekers remain unconvinced of its benefits, with 69% doubting its ability to enhance work performance and 62% skeptical it reduces workloads. The findings come from a study conducted by Resume Genius. The Register reports:...
Former millionaire Rudy Giuliani fell into panic mode outside a New York City courthouse today, telling reporters that the $146 million defamation judgement against him has cost him everything. In fact, he said, he doesn't even have enough money to flag down a cab. — Read...
Butterball is at the center of a social media firestorm after PETA resurfaced disturbing footage from 2006 showing severe mistreatment of turkeys at one of its facilities. The footage posted on Instagram, which PETA alleges was secretly recorded by an undercover...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Huawei has announced its new Mate 70 series smartphone lineup, which will be the first offered with the company's new HarmonyOS Next operating system that doesn't rely on Google's Android services and won't run any Android...
The moment a lot of us has been fearing may be soon upon us. Among the various remedies proposed by the United States Department of Justice to address Google’s monopoly abuse, there’s also banning Google from spending money to become the default search engine on other...
America's neighbors now face 25% because of fentanyl and immigration, China just 10% on top of existing duties President-elect Donald Trump's tariff threats have been formalized with a pair of social media statements that, while not nearly as steep as promised on the...
A group appears to have leaked access to Sora, OpenAI's video generator, in protest of what they're calling duplicity and 'art washing' on OpenAI's part. From a report: On Tuesday, the group published a project on the AI dev platform Hugging Face seemingly connected to...
Tuesday November 26, 2024. 11:25 PM
Ars Technica's Jon Brodkin reports: Lobby groups for Internet service providers claim that ISPs' customer service is so good already that the government shouldn't consider any new regulations to mandate improvements. They also claim ISPs face so much competition that market...
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