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Wednesday December 4, 2024. 05:00 PM
TL;DR: I'm making my knives feel new with an Angle Pro Knife Sharpener, on sale for $40 through December 8. Check out here. Last Thanksgiving, I tried to carve the turkey, and I'll be the first to admit that my knife was laughably dull. — Read the rest The post Transform du...
Intel has made a lot of news very quickly this week, some of it bad, some of it good. But if you’ve been watching the company’s gaming aspirations over the last few years, you might also want to peek over at the Steam Hardware Survey, an ever-present source for juicy...
Just as shoppers heading online for Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals a new report from Bitdefender uncovers interesting parallels with behavior on dark web marketplaces. Cybercriminals too, it seems, browse for the best deals on an assortment of unconventional goods and...
Linux offers two broad ways of performing I/O to files. Buffered I/O, which is the usual way of accessing a file, stores a copy of the transferred data in the kernel's page cache to speed future accesses. Direct I/O, instead, moves data directly between the storage device...
Western authorities say they’ve identified a network that found a new way to clean drug gangs’ dirty cash. WIRED gained exclusive access to the investigation.
Back in 2017, Samsung released the first showing of DeX (short for “desktop experience”) that allowed high-end Samsung Galaxy phones to plug into a special dock and be used like a desktop PC. In 2019, the dock was eliminated, and in 2020, wireless DeX came out — on...
The long-running Advent of Code site just entered its 10th year, with 162,809 people completing both of its Day One puzzles (which involve a hunt for the missing historian of the North Pole). But its not the only site offering Christmas-themed programming puzzles: Hundreds...
Drugs, botnets, forged docs, and more generated fortune for platform sellers German authorities say they have again shut down the perhaps unwisely named Crimenetwork platform and arrested a suspected admin.…
At a glanceExpert's Rating Pros Included stand supports landscape and portrait mode Easy wireless setup with modest input lag Decent bundled speakers Cons Moderate brightness Very limited color performance Battery life is limited at higher brightness levels Our...
Version 6.0.0 of the Hurl command-line tool has been released. Hurl is a curl-powered utility that runs HTTP requests and tests defined in a plain-text Hurl file. Notable features in this release include the ability to generate dynamic values with functions, shorter syntax,...
Google Gemini has introduced a groundbreaking AI memory feature that lets its chatbot remember personal details and tailor interactions based on user preferences. This innovation positions Gemini as a direct competitor to ChatGPT’s memory-enabled functionality, with both...
The TPM hardware requirement for Windows 11 was one of the biggest barriers to initial upgraders three years ago. And while that’s become less of an issue, it’s still a point of contention for many users. If you were hoping for a reprieve as Windows 10 approaches its end ...
After Twitter was used to spread lies that led to race riots in the U.K—a wave of violence hyped by the site's owner—police forces in Britain have reduced their official use of the platform. Reuters reports that some forces have stopped using it entirely and others are...
I’m sick of it all and I need to be able to deadlift a body. Thankfully, Peloton has a brand-new app geared toward weights and strength training.
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot in the chest and died this morning in Manhattan just before 7:00 am in front of the Hilton hotel in what police are saying was a targeted attack. The 50-year-old CEO had arrived early for a conference, where he was going to speak, ...
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has become a critical part of the modern economy and it's estimated that up to 96 percent of codebases now include it. In order to understand the impact of open source The Linux Foundation, in collaboration with the Laboratory for...
Would a mini PC qualify as a stocking stuffer? Well, it depends on the size of the stocking, I guess. But if yours is big enough, here’s an amazing one to throw in there: GMKtec’s M3 mini PC is just $350 now on Amazon. That’s $100 off with the on-page digital coupon....
Apple has faced an unequal battle in recent years as some lawmakers, the FBI, and regulators insist that the company create backdoors through which to access messages and other parts of its platform. Apple and others have always insisted that there is no such thing as a safe ...
The threat posed by international hackers, not least state-sponsored ones, has U.S. intelligence agencies finding the good in end-to-end encryption. The FBI is warning smartphone users to stick to it, which means not sending text messages between platforms that don't fully...
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