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Sunday August 24, 2025. 10:28 AM
For incentives remember the three Fs – finance, fame, and fixing it feature Thirty years ago, Netscape kicked off the first commercial bug bounty program. Since then, companies large and small have bought into the idea, with mixed results.…
The Atlantic reports some YouTube users noticed their uploaded videos have since 'been subtly augmented, their appearance changing without their creators doing anything...' 'For creators who want to differentiate themselves from the new synthetic content, YouTube seems...
'Google has confirmed that its Battery Health Assistance feature can't be turned off on the Pixel 10 phones,' reports Android Authority: Google introduced a Battery Health Assistance feature on the Pixel 9a earlier this year. This feature gradually drops your phone's...
'Solar and wind accounted for almost 91% of new U.S. electrical generating capacity added in the first five months of 2025...' reports Electrek, citing new data from America's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. 'Solar has now been the largest source of new generating...
In March 2025, Earth was hit by a fast radio burst as energetic as the sun but lasting only milliseconds.
The U.S. government's 10% stake in Intel 'is a mistake,' writes the Washington Post's editorial board, calling Intel 'an aging also-ran in critical markets' that 'has spent recent years stumbling on execution and missing one strategic opportunity after another.' But...
Saturday August 23, 2025. 11:34 PM
Last weekend New Zealand experienced an hour-long air traffic control failure that disrupted flights, leaving five plans circling and four others unable to take off, according to Radio New Zealand. The country's sole air traffic service provider, Airways, now says it was...
TL;DR: Tired of little kids breaking your tech? This open box onn 8' Kids Tablet is on sale for $69.99 (reg. $118). If you're around kids often enough, you know it's only a matter of time before your phone becomes theirs. — Read the rest The post This kid-friendly tablet...
'Only a tiny fraction of the more than 7,000 languages on Earth are supported by artificial intelligence models,' reported SiliconANGLE this week. So Nvidia announced 'a massive new AI-ready dataset and models to support the development of high-quality AI translation for...
'James Cameron has a confession: he can't write Terminator 7...' according to the Guardian, 'because reality keeps nicking his plotlines.' 'I'm at a point right now where I have a hard time writing science-fiction,' Cameron told CNN this week. 'I'm tasked with writing a new...
Threads now has more than 400 million monthly active users. But who are these people who are actually using Threads, asks Mashable? And what is their cultural footprint? Threads is the Big Bang Theory of social media. Bland, boring, largely unoffensive, and somehow, it was...
The 6.16.3 stable kernel update has been released. It contains a set of ext4 filesystem fixes that are probably a good thing for any 6.16 ext4 user to have.
The Free Software Foundation announced a special photography contest honoring its 40th anniversary: The technology we use every day has changed dramatically since our founding nearly forty years ago, including the way we interact with it... We're incredibly grateful for the...
'Some joyless ne'er-do-well has loosed a botnet on the community-driven Arch Linux distro,' reports the Register, with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that apparently started a week ago. Arch maintainer Cristian Heusel announced Thursday on the project's web...
The Washington Post looks at the rise of low-effort, high-volume 'AI slop' videos: The major social media platforms, scared of driving viewers away, have tried to crack down on slop accounts, using AI tools of their own to detect and flag videos they believe were...
TL;DR: Get the easy-to-use Tinymoose Pencil Pro Plus for iPad for $29.99, 24% off the $39.95 regular price. Creative power users, this is the tool you've been looking for. The Tinymoose Pencil Pro Plus can turn your iPad into the sketchpad or notebooks of your dreams by givin...
British telecommunications service provider Colt Telecom 'has offices in over 30 countries across North America, Europe, and Asia, reports CPO magazine. 'It manages nearly 1,000 data centers and roughly 75,000 km of fiber infrastructure.' But now 'a cyber attack has caused...
British telecommunications service provider Colt Telecom 'has offices in over 30 countries across North America, Europe, and Asia, reports CPO magazine. 'It manages nearly 1,000 data centers and roughly 75,000 km of fiber infrastructure.' But now 'a cyber attack has caused...
Data contamination can make models seem more capable than they really are Researchers with Scale AI have found that search-based AI models may cheat on benchmark tests by fetching the answers directly from online sources rather than deriving those answers through a...
Haden Pentecost, 41, was found naked in the toilet of a British Airways jet heading from California to London after being seen agitated, sweaty and babbling in the cabin. As relatable as this may be for international travelers, Pentecost was a flight attendant on the...
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