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Saturday October 12, 2024. 02:10 AM
Bluesky, the decentralized social network cofounded by Jack Dorsey, created a Threads account to court users frustrated by Meta's moderation issues. Thurrott reports: This week, the Bluesky team also used Threads to share some tips on how to get started on Bluesky, how to...
TL;DR: Give your PC new life by making Windows 11 Pro its operating system for only $19.97 (reg. $199) through October 27! If you're not operating on an up-to-date operating system, then you're messing up (sorry for the tough love, but it's true!). — Read the rest The post...
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a copyright infringement verdict against Internet provider Grande, which failed to take action against allegedly pirating subscribers. The jury's $47 million damages award in favor of the major music label plaintiffs is...
How an entire design team for Bath & Body Works missed the obvious resemblance between its 'Snowed-In' candle label and a gathering of Ku Klux Klan hoods is baffling, to say the least. But the company is now apologizing for its 'klandle' (as folks on social media have dubbed...
Researchers point to evidence that scumbags visited the strategy boutique Researchers at Palo Alto's Unit 42 believe the INC ransomware crew is no more and recently rebranded itself as Lynx over a three-month period.…
Casio confirmed it suffered a ransomware attack earlier this month, resulting in the theft of personal and confidential data from employees, job candidates, business partners, and some customers. Although customer payment data was not compromised, Casio warns the impact may...
Ktor 3.0, the latest version of the Kotlin-based framework for building asynchronous client- and server-side applications, is now available. Ktor 3.0 switches to the kotlinx.io library for handling data sources. The release also highlights support for server-sent events...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: For the first time, internal TikTok communications have been made public that show a company unconcerned with the harms the app poses for American teenagers. This is despite its own research validating many child safety concerns. ...
Friday October 11, 2024. 11:53 PM
OnlyFans is a platform for content creators who are paid to pretend to like lonely men. A recent Reuters article investigates the dark side of the $1 billion company. The story leads with Melinda Lam, a 46-year-old pharmacist from Colorado who uncovered her husband's...
Cyberspies abusing a backdoor? Groundbreaking Lawmakers are demanding answers about earlier news reports that China's Salt Typhoon cyberspies breached US telecommunications companies Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies, and hacked their wiretapping systems. They also urge...
Ecovacs robot vacuums have been hacked across the U.S. to shout racial slurs at unsuspecting people. VICE News reports: The issue is specifically with Ecovacs' Deebot X2 model. The hackers gained control of the devices and used the onboard speakers to blast racial slurs at...
TL;DR: Save 33% on this bug detector for travel that spots hidden cameras, GPS trackers, and more. Seeing those Airbnb horror stories on Facebook got to me. You know the ones—hidden cameras in bedrooms, microphones in showers…it's enough to make anyone paranoid. — Read...
Remember 2012's 'Dumb Ways to Die?' It's an animated video created by Metro Trains in Melbourne, Victoria, to promote railway safety. With a catchy song and whimsical scenes of cute cartoon characters setting fire to their hair, poking a stick at a grizzly bear, eating...
In response to California's new law targeting 'false advertising' of 'digital goods,' Valve has added the following language to its checkout page: 'A purchase of a digital product grants a license for the product on Steam.' Ars Technica reports: California's AB2426 law,...
Stunning footage shows the moment a lightning bolt in Colorado strikes an eagle nest with perfect aim, causing the nest to burst into flames before it disintegrates. The nest belonged to a couple of eagles in Boulder County, where the birds had 'successfully raised eaglets...
AMD’s big Advancing AI event in San Francisco on Thursday underlined how quickly the microprocessor industry has pivoted to artificial intelligence (AI) as its main sales pitch. The company offered three hardware announcements across its processor line-up, each...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: In late September, Shield AI cofounder Brandon Tseng swore that weapons in the U.S. would never be fully autonomous -- meaning an AI algorithm would make the final decision to kill someone. 'Congress doesn't want that,'...
The 24.10 release offers fun and freshness, but not immutability The first interim release of Ubuntu since the somewhat troubled Noble Numbat is a smooth upgrade - but not all of the new hotness is here yet.…
The oldest human on record, Jeanne Calment of France, lived to the age of 122. What are the odds that the rest of us get there, too? Not high, barring a transformative medical breakthrough, according to research published this week in the journal Nature Aging. From a report: ...
Most experts predict a quantum computer capable of breaking RSA and ECC encryption will be developed within the next decade. Virtually all of today’s security systems utilize RSA and ECC algorithms, which means the window to defend against quantum-powered attacks is...
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