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Friday February 28, 2025. 03:02 AM
Researchers at George Mason University discovered a vulnerability in Apple's Find My network that allows hackers to silently track any Bluetooth device as if it were an AirTag, without the owner's knowledge. 9to5Mac reports: Although AirTag was designed to change its...
Apple announced a new feature allowing parents to share a child's age with app developers without exposing sensitive information, as lawmakers debate age-verification laws for social media and apps. Reuters reports: States, such as Utah and South Carolina, are currently...
TL;DR: Plug this mini charger directly into your device for convenient on-the-go charging, now priced at just $64.99 for a three-pack. Cordless charging while you're still on the move? Get it with the Snap-N-Charge 3000mAh 10W Universal Magnetic Power Bank that plugs...
Microsoft has released a native Copilot app for macOS, offering AI-powered text and image generation, dark mode, and a Command + Space shortcut. The Verge reports: Microsoft is launching this new Copilot Mac app in the US, UK, and Canada today, and the iPad version is also...
I didn't think there could be a job title better than 'Evil Hypnotist,' but the 'Manipulative Gardener' of Suffolk, England, has taken the title—with a title given to him by a magistrate in Ipswich punishing him for swindling some $45,000 out of his clients. — Read the...
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” our hosts talk about three big stories from February.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the company was forced to stagger the rollout of its newest model, GPT-4.5, because OpenAI is 'out of GPUs.' In a post on X, Altman said that GPT-4.5, which he described as 'giant' and...
EA has released the source code for several classic Command & Conquer games, including Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert, Renegade, and Generals & Zero Hour. 'They're being released under the GPL license, meaning folks can mix, match, and redistribute them to their hearts' content...
The subway in NYC has received a huge upgrade, but it’s probably not at all what you’d expect. No, it is not coming in the form of new trains or renovations to stations (even though that would be great). Actually, the MTA is testing a system that effectively transforms...
At some point, I wondered—what if I sent a packet using a transport protocol that didn’t exist? Not TCP, not UDP, not even ICMP—something completely made up. Would the OS let it through? Would it get stopped before it even left my machine? Would routers ignore it, or...
I installed Void on my current laptop on the 10th of December 2021, and there has never been any reinstall. The distro is absurdly stable. It’s a rolling release, and yet, the worst update I had in those years was one time, GTK 4 apps took a little longer to open on GNOME. ...
Budget Windows laptops still suck. Framework’s upcoming repairable and upgradeable machine could change the game.
Technicolor Group has filed for a court recovery procedure in France after failing to secure new investors, putting its VFX brands, including MPC, The Mill, Mikros Animation, and Technicolor Games, at risk of closure. Variety reports: A total shutdown of MPC and...
Thursday February 27, 2025. 11:59 PM
On Washington's Pacific Coast, a man posing as a ship captain boarded a huge commercial boat, woke up the crew, and ordered them to head out into Grays Harbor. The crew just assumed the imposter was a new skipper assigned to the Jamie Marie, an 80-foot, $8 million fishing...
Paul McKenney has put together a series of articles on how to improve one's ability to give a good talk at a technical conference. On the other hand, (1) presentation skills stay with you through life, and (2) small improvements in presentation skills over months or years...
FYI: What NOT to search after committing a crime The US Army soldier suspected of compromising AT&T and bragging about getting his hands on President Trump's call logs allegedly tried to sell stolen information to a foreign intel agent.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Security researchers are warning that data exposed to the internet, even for a moment, can linger in online generative AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot long after the data is made private. Thousands of once-public GitHub ...
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a technique used to “ground” large language models (LLMs) with specific data sources, often sources that weren’t included in the models’ original training. RAG’s three steps are retrieval from a specified source, augmentation ...
On this special episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we dig into the many DOGE staffers keeping two jobs at once, plus what happened when US federal workers received an email from Elon Musk over the weekend.
Meta has fired 'roughly 20' employees who leaked 'confidential information outside the company,' The Verge reported Thursday, citing the company. From the report: 'We tell employees when they join the company, and we offer periodic reminders, that it is against our policies...
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