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Wednesday January 15, 2025. 05:11 PM
We have just now received word of the passing of Helen Borrie, a longtime contributor to the Firebird relational database project. Helen's quiet leadership and dedication left a lasting impact on Firebird and its users. Her efforts helped build not just a powerful database...
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Tesla's sensor-only approach fails in edge cases and is highly unreliable. Here, it sees something distinctly different from a train. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! lol, a clip of a Tesla's vision system trying to understand a train ...
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For years, owners of Google’s Nest Protect smoke detector have been asking when their devices would make the leap from the older Nest app to Google Home, and the answer was always the same: one day, maybe.  Well, it looks like that day has finally arrived.  Google is...
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Microsoft will stop supporting its Microsoft 365 (formerly known as Office 365) desktop applications on Windows 10 after October 14, the day the company is retiring the old operating system, it said. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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TL;DR: Streamline note-taking with the Focais Meet One — a voice-activated recorder on sale for $99.99 (reg. $149). Let's face it — nobody wants to replay hours of meeting recordings or sift through pages of lecture notes. Enter the Focais Meet One, a voice-activated...
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Editor’s Note: Microsoft representatives said Wednesday that the Tech Community blog post was in error: “Apologies for the confusion from the Tech Community post. The free Windows 11 upgrade path remains unchanged. We’re working on getting it corrected!“ The...
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It seems we’re getting a glimpse at the next stick Microsoft will be using to push people to buy new PCs (we’re all rich, according to Microsoft) or upgrade to Windows 11. In a blog post extolling the virtues of a free upgrade from Windows 10 to 11, the company announced...
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At a glanceExpert's Rating Pros Backs up and clones entire disks Easy browse and restore of files Super-small download and install footprint Available Live CD for recovery Cons Only supports cloning and restore to MBR disks Our Verdict Though super lightweight,...
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Microsoft really, really, really wants you to ditch Windows 10 and upgrade to Windows 11 already. (Better yet, just buy a new PC!) The company says that 2025 is “the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh,” and they’re trying their best to will that slogan into reality....
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Cloud adoption is at the heart of digital transformation, providing organizations with the agility and flexibility they need to stay competitive in today's rapidly changing marketplace. A new report from Fortinet looks at the latest trends, challenges, and strategies shaping ...
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Bubble? What bubble? Fears of an AI bubble have yet to scare off venture capitalists and private equity firms from pumping billions of dollars into the GPU-packed datacenters at the heart of the machine-learning craze.…
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Nearly a quarter of Harvard Business School's 2024 M.B.A. graduates remained jobless three months after graduation, highlighting deepening employment challenges at elite U.S. business schools. The unemployment rate for Harvard M.B.A.s rose to 23% from 20% a year earlier,...
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If you don’t want OpenAI’s, Apple’s, Google’s, or other companies’ crawlers sucking up the content on your website, there isn’t much you can do. They generally don’t care about the venerable robots.txt, and while people like Aaron Schwartz were legally bullied into suicide...
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Yesterday was January’s big Patch Tuesday, where Microsoft rolled out a big bundle of security updates across several apps and services, eliminating 159 security vulnerabilities. This is the most extensive Patch Tuesday of the last few years with more than double the usual ...
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A newly-released report from Swimlane shows that a worrying 68 percent of organizations say remediating a critical vulnerability takes them more than 24 hours. The survey of 500 cybersecurity decision-makers across the US and UK reveals that 37 percent cite the top challenge ...
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Linux Mint version 22.1, a long-term-support (LTS) release with support until 2029, is now available. Notable changes in this release include a transition to Aptkit for background package management tasks, Captain to install Debian packages, and a new default theme with...
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US, Japan, South Korea vow to intensify counter efforts North Korean blockchain bandits stole more than half a billion dollars in cryptocurrency in 2024 alone, the US, Japan, and South Korea say.…
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Google is bundling its AI features into Workspace at no extra charge while raising the base subscription price by $2 to $14 per user monthly, the company said Wednesday. The move eliminates the previous $20 monthly fee for Gemini Business plan that was required to access AI...
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Grok Fast Facts Our Product Rating: 3.83/5 Pricing: Starts at $7 per user, per month, billed annually Key Features: Realistic AI image creation Real-time access to X’s database AI chatbot assistant functionality State-of-the-art reasoning capabilities Try Grok ...
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Speaking of Microsoft shipping bad code, how about an absolutely humongous ‘patch Tuesday’? Microsoft today unleashed updates to plug a whopping 161 security vulnerabilities in Windows and related software, including three “zero-day” weaknesses that are already under...
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