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Saturday September 28, 2024. 01:30 AM
Meta has been fined $101.5 million by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for storing over half a billion user passwords in plain text for years, with some engineers having access to this data for over a decade. The issue, discovered in 2019, predominantly affected...
Just want to let y’all know that my family and I have been hit hard with bronchitis these past two weeks, and especially my recovery is going quite slowly (our kids are healthy again, and my wife is recovering quite well!). As such, I haven’t been able to do much OSNews work....
iFixit's iPhone 16 teardown revealed a new battery removal process that does away with the usual pull tabs, instead opting for an adhesive that debonds when exposed to a low electrical current. 'It only takes about a minute and a half for it to come unstuck,' reports...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica, written by John Timmer: [P]art of the software stack that companies are developing to control their quantum hardware includes software that converts abstract representations of quantum algorithms into the series of...
Friday September 27, 2024. 11:45 PM
Snoops allegedly camped out in inboxes well into September The US Department of Justice has charged three Iranians for their involvement in a 'wide-ranging hacking campaign' during which they allegedly stole massive amounts of materials from Donald Trump's 2024 presidential...
Once again proving Kamala Harris won their debate, adjudicated rapist and convicted felon Donald Trump is still going on about his flagging crowd sizes and yawning attendees. The Harris campaign shares a great clip of Trump demonstrating just how much headspace he is giving ...
Meta Platforms' claims that Facebook doesn't polarize Americans came under new doubt as the journal Science raised questions about a prominent research paper the tech giant has cited to support its position. WSJ: In an editorial Thursday, Science said that Meta's emergency...
The Coast Guard hearings into the OceanGate disaster are done. Next comes the full report—and any potential criminal investigations.
TL;DR: These ergonomic Konig Kitchen knives can make holiday meal prep easier, now $74.97 (reg. $249) for only two more days! Before you know it, Thanksgiving and the winter holidays will be just around the corner! Are you prepared to handle all the food preparations during...
23andMe is not doing well. Its stock is on the verge of being delisted. It shut down its in-house drug-development unit last month, only the latest in several rounds of layoffs. Last week, the entire board of directors quit, save for Anne Wojcicki, a co-founder and the...
Now Arm reportedly approached, rebuffed by Chipzilla. Who's next? MOS Technology? Comment Brit chip designer Arm is reportedly the latest to make an attempted play for Intel's product division.…
AI screengrab service to be opt-in, features encryption, biometrics, enclaves, more Microsoft has revised the Recall feature for its Copilot+ PCs and insists that the self-surveillance system is secure.…
SpzToid shares a report: Today, a group of independent security researchers revealed that they'd found a flaw in a web portal operated by the carmaker Kia that let the researchers reassign control of the Internet-connected features of most modern Kia vehicles -- dozens of...
With more and more companies wanting to bring employees back to the office, I pointed out last week the ill-kept secret that there’s a widespread aversion to open office floor plans — or activity-based workplaces, as they have often evolved into today — and that it...
Like Amazon’s summer Prime Day sales event, Prime Big Deal Days, starting October 8, offers an extravaganza of savings on a number of popular tech categories. Our list of the best Amazon deals below has been curated by PCWorld’s tech experts, who collectively have been...
The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to launch a satellite into Earth's orbit in 2027 to watch it get wrecked as it reenters the atmosphere. From a report: The project is intended to help understand how exactly satellites break apart so that scientists can learn how to...
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump both met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this week, and wow! What a stark difference between the two. A comparison video (posted by Acyn, see below) really highlights the contrast between the mushy, mealy-mouthed Trump — who...
The United Nations is set to vote on a treaty later this year intended to create norms for fighting cybercrime -- and the Biden administration is fretting over whether to sign on. Politico: The uncertainty over the treaty stems from fears that countries including Russia,...
“That appointment—that relationship—is everything,” says audio executive Eric Eddings. But that doesn't mean the industry isn't innovating.
Now that the initial euphoria about generative AI’s capabilities has worn off, reality is setting in: Large language models without appropriate safeguards can be remarkably naïve and are all too willing to share all they know. That exposes applications built on them, and...
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