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Tuesday March 21, 2023. 04:58 AM
Latitude blames a 'major vendor' for its woes. Is that a vendor? A cloud? Whoever they are, they're in trouble Latitude Financial has blamed a supplier for leaking creds that caused vast PII leak Australian outfit Latitude Financial has taken itself offline, and even stopped ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: An analysis of 2,007 damaged or defective hard disk drives (HDDs) has led a data recovery firm to conclude that 'in general, old drives seem more durable and resilient than new drives.' The statement comes from a Los...
Computer component maker Acer built a lightweight electric bike called the Acer ebii. Electrek reports: This lightweight 35 lb. (16 kg) e-bike features a number of gadgets and gizmos we have yet to spot in the industry, such as built-in AI designed to predictively control...
Speeds away from the very suggestion it would ever pay a ransom Italian automaker Ferrari has warned its well-heeled customers that their personal data may be at risk.…
After a years-long wait, Apple Pay today launched in South Korea, allowing those living in the country to use Apple's payment system to make contactless payments using the iPhone or Apple Watch. MacRumors reports: Apple has been working to bring Apple Pay to South Korea...
In a blog post shared last week, Ingka, the legal entity responsible for most of Ikea's stores, says it now has a total of 100 autonomous drones counting stock in its warehouses during nonoperational hours. The Verge reports: Ikea first partnered with the drone-making...
Republican jester Rudy Giuliani entertained us again with one of his technical-glitch-routines on Newsmax today — a clownish act he's performed many times in the past. (See video below, posted by Mike Sington.) Appearing remotely on the conservative channel to defend...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: One of the enduring legacies of the '90s browser wars has been an outsize attention to how Microsoft handles default app settings in Windows, especially browser settings. The company plans to make it more straightforward ...
Meta-made small language model can produce misinformation, toxic text The web demo of Alpaca, a small AI language model based on Meta's LLaMA system, has been taken down offline by researchers at Stanford University due to safety and cost concerns.…
University of South Florida biomedical engineer Joseph Dituri, 55, is attempting to spend 100 days underwater in a tiny room called Jules' Undersea Lodge in Key Largo, Florida. The Lodge used to be a research lab but was relocated from its original location off the coast of...
If you've suffered in the Lands Between, you're not alone. To commemorate the 1-year anniversary of Elden Ring's release, Bandai Namco has published an infographic containing the cumulative stats of players worldwide, from the most lethal boss (Malenia, natch) to the most...
The pull we feel to do wrong just for the sake of it has been studied. In this TED Talk, Psychologist Paul Bloom shares what he's learned about researching human's desire to be 'perverse,' which he defines as 'when you choose to do something you know is wrong, morally or...
You'd be forgiven if you weren't aware of the burgeoning 'hyperpop' movement, a sort-of maximalist, meta-ironically post-postmodern clown pastiche of pop music. Like Gen Zers shooting their veins full of nihilistic Dada humor, and then accidentally inventing the art of...
Indian authorities severed mobile internet access and text messaging for a second day Sunday across Punjab, a state of about 27 million people, as officials sought to capture a Sikh separatist and braced for potential unrest. The Washington Post reports: The statewide ban -- ...
Single donuts, cups of KFC gravy, individual bottles of water, and hundreds of other odd orders have been delivered by Uber Eats in neighborhoods of Los Angeles and Westminster, British Columbia. Nobody has fessed up to placing the orders although apparently they've been...
A 'new deal for the night' needed Increasing levels of light pollution means Earth's surface has almost no practical locations for astronomical observatories, a group of astronomers said on Monday.…
Spring is here! In 'To Spring,' a vibrant 1936 animated musical short, bluebirds are flying overhead, winter snow is melting, and little men are sleeping underground (are they dwarves, elves, or gnomes?). These tiny bearded creatures awake from their slumber to begin their...
Monday March 20, 2023. 11:45 PM
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was a fine game. No, really – it was fine. It didn't really bring anything new to the table in either the story or gameplay department, playing mostly like a weird mishmash of Sekiro and Metroid with a story that felt like it could have been...
Holocaust-denier Nick Fuentes is more than just a dinner guest at Mar-a-Lago. He's also a male supremacist who has let his far-right base in on a secret: 'A lot of women want to be raped … A lot of women really want a guy to beat the shit out of them, but part of it is that t...
Twitch announced plans to lay off 400 employees at the company. It comes just days after longtime Twitch CEO Emmett Shear said that he would step down from the company to spend time with his family. TechCrunch reports: The layoffs will affect 400 employees at the company and ...
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