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Plus: New details emerge about China’s cyber espionage against the US, the FBI remotely uninstalls malware on 4,200 US devices, and victims of the PowerSchool edtech breach reveal what hackers stole.
Nintendo released Donkey Kong Country Returns HD earlier this week, with fans noticing that the original team members at Retro are not individually credited in the updated version. 'Instead, the credits state that it was 'based on the work' of Retro Studios, while the team...
With added manga and snark. What's not to like? Opinion Windows 1 and 2 flopped almost as badly as OS/2 did. How did Microsoft stage one of the greatest comebacks ever with Windows 3?…
TL;DR: Track your wallet anywhere with a MagTag Ultra Slim Tracker Card on sale for $26.99 (reg. $42). Lost your wallet? Don’t cancel those credit cards just yet. If it has a MagTag Ultra Slim Tracker Card in it, then everything should be fine. These little trackers work ...
You’re not the only one who’s mourning the loss of TikTok. Instead of putting your internet addiction into yet another social media app, invest it in your 2025 learning goals with Pearls! This book summaries app might just make the sting of losing TikTok easier—and...
Smithsonian Magazine reports: A homeowner on Prince Edward Island in Canada has had a very unusual near-death experience: A meteorite landed exactly where he'd been standing roughly two minutes earlier. What's more, his home security camera caught the impact on video --...
OpenAI has developed a language model designed for engineering proteins, capable of converting regular cells into stem cells. It marks the company's first venture into biological data and demonstrates AI's potential for unexpected scientific discoveries. An anonymous reader...
The group responsible for red teaming of over 100 generative AI products at Microsoft has concluded that the work of building safe and secure AI systems will never be complete. In a paper published this week, the authors, including Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich,...
MAGA fans are none too pleased with Donald Trump's decision to move his inauguration to the Capitol Rotunda — and shuttle his followers off to a Jumbotron at a different venue down the road. Especially sore, understandably so, are those who traveled across the country to...
Cyber agency too 'far off mission,' says incoming boss Kristi Noem America's lead cybersecurity agency on Friday made one final scream into the impending truth void about election security and the role CISA plays in maintaining it.…
Sales of electric vehicles and hybrids reached 20% of new car sales in the U.S. last year, with Tesla maintaining dominance in the EV market despite a slight decline in market share. CNBC reports: Auto data firm Motor Intelligence reports more than 3.2 million 'electrified'...
Now, if you have been following the development of EndBASIC, this is not surprising. The defining characteristic of the EndBASIC console is that it’s hybrid as the video shows. What’s newsworthy, however, is that the EndBASIC console can now run directly on a framebuffer ...
Up until now, if you were subscribed to Office 365 – I think it’s called Microsoft 365 now – and you wanted the various “AI” Copilot features, you needed to pay $20 extra. Well, that’s changing, as Microsoft is now adding these features to Microsoft 365 by default, while rais...
'The FDIC sued 17 former executives and directors of Silicon Valley Bank on Thursday, seeking to recover billions of dollars for alleged gross negligence and breaches of fiduciary duty,' reports Reuters. The move comes almost two years after Silicon Valley Bank's March 2023...
Venture is a cross-platform viewer for Windows Event Logs (.evtx files). Built with the Tauri, it is intended as a fast, standalone tool for quickly parsing and slicing Windows Event Log files during incident response, digital forensics, and CTF competitions. ↫ Venture...
Google computer scientists have been using LLMs to streamline internal code migrations, achieving significant time savings of up to 89% in some cases. The findings appear in a pre-print paper titled 'How is Google using AI for internal code migrations?' The Register reports: ...
Google has told the EU it will not add fact checks to search results and YouTube videos or use them in ranking or removing content, despite the requirements of a new EU law, according to a copy of a letter obtained by Axios. […] In a letter written to Renate Nikolay, the...
Wikenigma describes itself as 'a wiki-based resource specifically dedicated to documenting fundamental gaps in human knowledge' that lists 'scientific and academic questions to which no-one, anywhere, has yet been able to provide a definitive answer.' LIKE BOING BOING...
Longtime Slashdot reader tlhIngan writes: In what is perhaps the greatest irony ever, the operators of RedNote (known as Xiaohongshu) have decided to 'wall off' US TikTok refugees fleeing to its service as the TikTok ban looms. The reason? The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)...
Third-party supplier blamed as folks left unable to access funds Capital One is still battling to fix whatever brought down its systems on Wednesday, which has left people unable to access their money.…
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