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Friday October 11, 2024. 10:50 PM
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...
Have you ever bought an app or game from a digital storefront, only for it to suddenly disappear and become inaccessible without warning? It’s both confusing and frustrating, which is why some governments are stepping in and hoping to make things clearer for consumers....
Agile decision-making is often hampered by the volume and complexity of unstructured data. That’s where AI can help. In 2022, the U.S. Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which allocated billions in investment to clean energy. This set off a race among...
Time and time again, organizations face an escalating threat to their data: Third-party breaches. As businesses increasingly rely on external vendors and partners for various services, the security of sensitive information becomes more vulnerable. This poses the question:...
This month’s Patch Tuesday delivers a large set of patches from Microsoft that fix 117 flaws, including five zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-43573, CVE-2024-6197, CVE-2024-20659, CVE-2024-43572 and CVE-2024-43583). Though there are patches affecting Windows, SQL...
Microsoft’s Snipping Tool has become progressively more useful, with the ability to make screen recordings as well as screenshots. Today Microsoft begins testing a new addition: the ability to copy data formatted as a table directly to a spreadsheet. Put another way, if...
When the 'cleanup' option stubbornly refuses Windows 11 24H2 users are finding there is undeletable data that remains on their devices after installing the recently released feature update.…
“All the state leaders should be getting their people out … to watch for ballot stuffing,” wrote the leader of the American Patriots Three Percent militia. “Our nation depends on this.'
An APT hacking group known as GoldenJackal has successfully breached air-gapped government systems in Europe using two custom toolsets to steal sensitive data, like emails, encryption keys, images, archives, and documents. From a report: According to an ESET report, this...
Developers and software engineers face mounting pressure to balance rapid innovation with safety and security, says software provider BlackBerry Limited. The company released the results of its survey of 1,000 embedded software developers and engineers worldwide on October...
penciling_in writes: Ukrainian authorities have arrested a 28-year-old man in Khmelnytskyi for running an illegal VPN service that allowed users to bypass Ukrainian sanctions and access the Russian internet (Runet). The VPN, active since Russia's invasion, enabled Russian...
'Self-taught hacker' facing a possible 15 years in the slammer A 28-year-old Ukrainian is potentially facing up to 15 years in prison for allegedly operating what the war-torn nation's cyber police are calling an illegal VPN service that facilitated access to sanctioned...
Apple didn’t cast much light on visionOS at WWDC this year, and it hasn’t received much attention since. But don’t mistake this something for nothing. Two recent events indicate there’s a lot going on behind the scenes. The first is the release of Submerged, the...
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt urged prioritizing AI infrastructure over climate goals at a Washington AI summit this week. Schmidt, who led Google until 2011, argued that AI's rapid growth will outpace environmental mitigation efforts. 'We're not going to hit the climate...
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