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Wednesday October 1, 2025. 12:20 AM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: A Chinese national has been convicted following an international fraud investigation which resulted in what's believed to be the single largest cryptocurrency seizure in the world. The Metropolitan Police says it recovered...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The UBports team have announced the release of a new major version of their mobile operating system which is a continuation of Canonical's Ubuntu Touch. The project's latest release is version 24.04 which is a...
The Austrian Armed Forces are discontinuing the use of Microsoft Office in favor of the open-source office software LibreOffice, Heise reports. The decision covers around 16,000 workstations and is motivated by the desire for technical independence and secure data processing ...
Tuesday September 30, 2025. 11:40 PM
Alongside its updated Sora 2 AI video generator, OpenAI has launched an iPhone-only social app called Sora that lets users consent to have friends create deepfake-style cameos of them. The invite-only app works a lot like TikTok with short remixable videos but enforces...
Plaintext transmissions, fixed MAC addresses, rotating 'unique' IDs, and more, make abuse easy Tile Bluetooth trackers leak identifying data in plain text, giving stalkers an easy way to track victims despite Life360's security promises, a group of Georgia Tech researchers...
On the Public Domain Review, you can watch nostalgic, amateur footage of The New York World's Fair (1939-40). The hour-long compilation of footage shows everything from performers backstage to crowds of people dancing to live music. The internet archive has even more footage ...
Here is a list of notable non-water floods throughout history, from around the world. A non-water flood in this context is the unfortunate event where a substance (like molasses) floods from a storage facility in a large quantity, or when an industrial reservoir has a toxic...
Behold, the earliest known photograph of an intact giant squid, taken in 1874. This black and white photo looks more like a prop from an old sci-fi creature-feature than a real life animal. The photo shows the squid draped over a sponge bath. — Read the rest The post...
Starting in November, Venmo and PayPal users will finally be able to send money directly to each other, ending years of workarounds despite Venmo being owned by PayPal. TechCrunch reports: This change means that PayPal users will now be able to find Venmo users by inputting...
A generation of Americans grew up with Reading Rainbow, presented by Levar Burton, and after a 20 year absence the PBS kids' classic is returning with a new host: librarian and internet sensation Mychal Threets. 'I was raised on Reading Rainbow, LeVar Burton is my hero,' he ...
Microsoft is reorganising the Windows teams. Again. For those unaware, the Windows organization has essentially been split in two since 2018. Teams that work on the core of Windows were moved under Azure, and the rest of the Windows team (those that focused on top level...
Yep, we're sure that will win folks over Microsoft is testing talking avatars for Copilot to see if users feel more at ease chatting with a face instead of just a text box. Our US Editor tried them out, only to find the digital stare was more creepy than comforting.…
This article is intended to be a comprehensive guide to writing your first GNOME app in Lua using LuaGObject. The article assumes that you already understand Lua and want to get started with building beautiful native applications for GNOME. I also assume you know how to...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted on Tuesday to consider whether to lift the long-standing prohibition on a merger between any of the largest four broadcast networks and to consider relaxing other media...
Stopping the spread isn't the same as stopping attacks, period Google on Tuesday rolled out a new AI tool in Drive for desktop that it says will pause syncing to limit ransomware damage, but it won't stop attacks outright.…
Alabama construction worker and US citizen Leo Garcia Venegas was twice arrested at his own job site by masked federal agents who refused to accept his REAL ID. He's now suing to stop unconstitutional raids. In May, masked agents ran past a 'no trespassing' sign onto a...
Amazon Prime Day is back on October 7, but we've already found good deals on WIRED-approved gear.
Version 1.5.0 of the Radicle peer-to-peer Git collaboration platform has been released. This release includes better support for bare repositories, structured logging, and improvements in the output of rad patch show: The previous output would differentiate 'updates', where ...
'sfw' stands for Socket Firewall, but perhaps also 'safe for work.' Software security biz Socket has released a free command line tool to defend developers against supply chain attacks.…
Company faces a setback on the test stand Firefly Aerospace's run of bad luck has continued after the first stage of its Alpha Flight 7 rocket was lost during testing.…
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