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US, European, and Japanese authorities, along with tech companies including Microsoft and Cloudflare, say they’ve disrupted Lumma, an infostealer popular with criminal gangs.
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The Unfinished Projects Release Forms booklet provides slips (and carbon copies, for your or others' records) permitting one to emotionally let go of an incomplete project. [via Matt Round] Have you ever worked on a creative project for a long time, and realized you can't...
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Shawn Webb has published a status report on work to provide basic support in FreeBSD for userland components written in Rust. We introduced a new BSD makefile, located at share/mk/bsd.rust.mk, that enables building a Rust application during buildworld. As of this writing,...
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Image from Wikipedia The post Fur-bearing trout: the bizarre folklore fish covered in fur (and the weird truth behind it) appeared first on Boing Boing.
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Watch a carnivorous plant devour a helpless little gummy bear in this timelapse video. The King Sundew (Drosera regia) plant in the video seems to eat a pretty decent amount of the gummy bear, but leaves the top half of it behind, looking liquified and gooey. — Read the rest...
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The Super Nintendo World portal in Universal Orlando's new theme park Epic Universe is the only portal of the four (five, if you count the central hub, Celestial Park) that is essentially a dupe of an already existing area, although a plussed-up one. — Read the rest The...
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Neurologyca has launched a new multi-modal AI platform called Kopernica that introduces emotional context to machine intelligence. Described by the company as a “first-of-its-kind,” Kopernica uses real-time data from facial expressions, vocal tones, and behavioral...
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CS remains hopeful damages will be limited to seven figures CrowdStrike is 'confident' that the worst-case scenario of its pending lawsuit with Delta will result in it paying the airline a sum in the 'single-digit millions.'…
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin candidly addressed the failure of Google Glass during an unscheduled appearance at Tuesday's Google I/O conference, where the company announced a new smart glasses partnership with Warby Parker. 'I definitely feel like I made a lot of mistakes...
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In late March, version 78.0.1 of Setuptools — an important Python packaging tool — was released. It was scarcely half an hour before the first bug report came in, and it quickly became clear that the change was far more disruptive than anticipated. Within only about five ...
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TL;DR: Save 50% on this self-meditation app that helps you relieve stress and unwind after long days. Created by award-winning hypnotherapist Darren Marks, the app mimics real-life sessions with guided meditations that target stress, confidence, sleep, and more Features...
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The New Orleans Police Department secretly used AI for live, real-time facial recognition and tracking — a move that likely violated a municipal ordinance — according to an exclusive investigation by The Washington Post.  The Post described this as the first known...
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A study published in Nature Astronomy posits that Jupiter was significantly larger earlier in its history and its more powerful magnetic field greatly influenced the formation of the solar system. 'Our ultimate goal is to understand where we come from, and pinning down the...
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Amazon customers are suddenly getting refunds for products they purchased and returned as far back as 2018, along with apologies from the online retailer after it discovered 'unresolved' issues. From a report: The precise scope of the refunds issued isn't clear but...
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A new report from CyCognito highlights critical security vulnerabilities across cloud-hosted material, revealing that one in three easily exploitable vulnerabilities or misconfigurations are found on cloud assets. Though uncommon, critical vulnerabilities (CVSS 9.0 or...
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Heather Donahue, star of low-budget horror classic The Blair Witch Project, was famously misled by ominous symbols on trees. Now she lives in rural Maine and has upset a landowner there by marking trees with orange paint signifying a public easement in the woods. — Read the...
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From air-gapped bunkers to partner-run platforms, sovereignty is suddenly in vogue Google has updated its sovereign cloud services, including an air-gapped solution for customers with strict data security and residency requirements, as customers grow uneasy over US digital...
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Microsoft has officially cited Apple's App Store policies as the roadblock preventing its Xbox mobile store launch promised for July 2024. In an amicus brief supporting Epic Games filed this week, Microsoft alleged that Apple's 'anti-steering policies' have 'stymied' its...
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Lend depth and drama to your gameplay with the right gaming headset for any console or device.
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