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Wednesday February 26, 2025. 11:43 PM
After more than a year out of sight, Alexa+–the new Alexa with its AI-powered revamp–took center stage at a crowded coming-out party in New York City on Wednesday, and I got a first-hand look at what this turbocharged voice assistant can do. Following the big...
Chinese cloud provider Alibaba has released four versions of its video-generation AI model as open source, allowing users to download and run them for free on capable PCs. The Wan2.1 text-to-video model “excels at generating realistic visuals by accurately handling complex ...
I guess my praise for Mozilla’s and Firefox’ continued support for Manifest v2 had to be balanced out by Mozilla doing something stupid. Mozilla just published Terms of Use for Firefox for the first time, as well as an updated Privacy Notice, that come into effect...
Google has updated its Results About You tool with a redesigned hub, easier removal requests directly from Search, and the ability to refresh outdated results. Engadget reports: Today, the tech giant is announcing the latest changes, including a redesigned hub and the...
There is another living world above our own, a community of microorganisms, including bacteria, fungi, viruses, and other microscopic life form, who live in the clouds above us. Their habitat is called the aerobiome and it's the subject of Air-Borne: The Hidden History of...
ZDNet's Steven Vaughan-Nichols shares some of the latest improvements to ExpressVPN following its codebase transition from C to Rust. An anonymous reader quotes an excerpt from the report: ExpressVPN is one of ZDNET's favorite Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). The popular...
Remember about half a year ago, when the PowerPC versions of Windows NT were made to run on certain models of PowerPC Macs? The same developer responsible for that work, Rairii, took all of this to the next level, and it’s now possible to run the PowerPC version of Windows...
Elon Musk's men at HUD come from the real estate sector. They have access to vast stores of personal and financial data—and control over who can access which HUD systems.
Will Framework ever build a laptop based upon a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor? If history holds, then yes… but not now. At the launch of the Framework Desktop (and the Framework Laptop 12 and updated Laptop 13), I asked Framework chief executive Nirav Patel about the...
The CEO of Signal said Tuesday that the service will leave Sweden rather than comply with a rule that will require vendors to capture all secure messages and save a plain text copy, in case authorities later want to subpoena that data. But the issue goes far beyond one...
National intel boss slams naughty nattering on work systems as 'egregious violation of trust' More than 100 US spies have been fired, and their security clearance revoked, after an internal NSA messaging system was used by staff to chat about their sex lives.…
This podcast reminds me of Los Feliz Daycare being mashed up with Welcome to Night Vale, except it is set in Burbank, California, which is far creepier. The other day, my friend Jim Turner texted me, 'Wanna feel better? Check out Valley Heat podcast. — Read the rest The...
IBM has announced plans to acquire data management company DataStax, a move designed to strengthen its watsonx enterprise AI portfolio and help businesses unlock value from unstructured data, which accounted for 93% of all enterprise data in 2024. If completed, the deal...
I’m sure we can all have a calm, rational discussion about this, so here it goes: zlib-rs, the Rust re-implementation of the zlib library, is now faster than its C counterparts in both decompression and compression. We’ve released version 0.4.2 of zlib-rs, featuring a...
We expect USB-C cables to perform a specific task: transferring either data or files between devices. We give little more thought to the matter, but malicious USB-C cables can do much more than what we expect. These cables hide malicious hardware that can intercept data,...
Many people underestimate the work needed to keep smartphones in tip-top shape. These tiny PCs in your pocket require regular maintenance and important updates in order to stay protected against wear and tear as well as attacks. Turning your phone off protects it from some...
SMCI had to come up with long-delayed report – or lose its slot on NASDAQ again It only took five or so months, but Supermicro has managed to untangle its long-delayed 2024 annual report, which was in a shoddy enough state to set its previous accountants running for the...
Cellebrite says it has stopped Serbia from using its technology following allegations that Serbian police and intelligence used Cellebrite's technology to unlock the phones of a journalist and an activist, and then plant spyware. From a report: In December 2024, Amnesty...
In a groundbreaking demonstration at the ElevenLabs London Hackathon, developers unveiled GibberLink, a novel protocol that enables AI voice assistants to communicate in a language optimized for machines rather than humans. By switching from traditional human-like speech to...
Trump's press secretary, Karoline 'The Mouth of Sauron' Leavitt, lies about Biden administration press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre by calling her a liar. Since Sean 'Spicey' Spicer's days, the American people have become accustomed to the Trump Administration's press...
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