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Thursday April 24, 2025. 04:22 AM
Roku is going in a new direction with its latest smart home products, stepping away from the rebadged Wyze cameras it offered in the past. This time, the company is rolling out security cameras designed entirely in-house. The new Roku Battery Camera and Roku Battery Camera...
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As previously reported, several European countries are concerned that the Chinese-made DeepSeek chatbot is collecting sensitive data about users without their consent. Now, Reuters reports that South Korea is also investigating the issue, after previously blocking access to...
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Five years removed from the onset of the Covid pandemic, Google is demanding that some remote employees return to the office if they want to keep their jobs and avoid being part of broader cost cuts at the company. CNBC reports: Several units within Google have told remote...
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New Jersey sued the property management software company RealPage, accusing it and 10 of the state's largest landlords of conspiring to drive up residential rents, violating federal and state antitrust laws and New Jersey consumer fraud laws. From a report: The complaint...
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Biggest threat to America's critical infrastructure? Ransomware Digital scammers and extortionists bilked businesses and individuals in the US out of a 'staggering' $16.6 billion last year, according to the FBI — the highest losses recorded since bureau’s Internet Crime...
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Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Owen Le Blanc and MCC; UID/GID drift; DMA for UIO; More LSFMM+BPF 2025 coverage. Briefs: EU OS; RISC-V Fedora; Ubuntu 25.04; NLnet funding; Template strings; Tor Browser 14.5; Quotes;... Announcements: Newsletters,...
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A draft executive order from the Trump administration proposes integrating AI into K-12 education by directing federal agencies to promote AI literacy, train teachers, and establish public-private partnerships. 'The draft is marked 'predecisional' and could be subject to...
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TL;DR: Get a Microsoft Windows 11 Pro for just $14.97 before Windows 10 support ends. Windows 10 has had a good run, but the clock is ticking with Microsoft officially ending support for it in October. If you're still on an older OS, now's the time to upgrade and enjoy the...
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Big Blue downplays impact of Elon-gated cost-cutting IBM beat Wall Street's expectations for both revenue and income in the first quarter of 2025, but its stock price still dropped more than six percent in after-hours trading.…
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Google’s AI Overviews feature credible-sounding explanations for completely made-up idioms.
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Google revealed in court that its Gemini AI chatbot reached 350 million monthly active users worldwide as of March 2025 -- up from 9 million daily users in October 2024. TechCrunch reports: Usage of Google's AI offerings has exploded in the last year. Gemini had just 9...
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The headline sets the stage, and the article delivers. This was the most interesting bug I’ve encountered for a while. I initially had a hard time believing that a bug like this would directly tie to a specific OS release, but I was proven completely wrong. At the end of...
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WhatsApp is rolling out a new 'Advanced Chat Privacy' feature that blocks others from exporting chat histories or automatically downloading media. While it doesn't stop screenshots or manual downloads, it marks the first step in WhatsApp's plan to enhance in-chat privacy...
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In a devastating display of economic hardship, America's 19 wealthiest households somehow managed to survive 2024 with only $1 trillion in new wealth, reports The Wall Street Journal. That's barely more than Switzerland's entire economy – how will they cope? — Read the rest ...
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You. Will. Love. The. LLM. The latest update to Microsoft 365 Copilot brings AI-powered search, so-called reasoning agents, and a new Agent Store. Some users already have access to certain features, while others may have to wait through May.…
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International visitors are turning away from the United States, as billions in losses are predicted. Trump says, 'Not a big deal.' Trump on the steep drop in international tourism to the US: "It's not a big deal" — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) — Read the rest The post...
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Who better than comedian Bill Hader to star as Jim Jones in a TV show about the cult leader and his doomed 'agricultural project' in Guyana? Variety has learned exclusively that Hader and Daniel Zelman are currently developing an HBO series centered on Jim Jones and the...
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President Trump has cut a deal with Rwanda to take people he doesn't like. It's his second offshore detention program after El Salvador — Germany had concentration camps in 9 countries, so he has a lot of catching up to do! — Read the rest The post Trump expands offshore...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Wizards of the Coast has released the System Reference Document, the heart of the three core rule books that constitute Dungeons & Dragons' 2024 gameplay, under a Creative Commons license. This means the company cannot...
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Tech giants don't need smartphone mics to target adverts – your insurer just gives your data away, anyway US health insurance giant Blue Shield of California handed sensitive health information belonging to as many as 4.7 million members to Google's advertising empire,...
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