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Tuesday April 15, 2025. 01:16 AM
Copilot vibe coding for OS development? Why not Canny Windows users who've spotted a mysterious folder on hard drives after applying last week's security patches for the operating system can rest assured – it's perfectly benign. In fact, it's recommended you leave the...
There’s a small house ( ⌂ ) in the middle of IBM’s infamous character set Code Page 437. “Small house”—that’s the official IBM name given to the glyph at code position 0x7F, where a control character for “Delete” (DEL) should logically exist. It’s cute, but a little...
An AI coding tool called Cursor has done what most startups only dream of — attracting more than one million users without any marketing budget, driven purely by word of mouth. Cursor, developed by a small 60-person startup called Anysphere, is rapidly becoming one of the...
A new investigation reveals that children as young as five can easily access inappropriate content and interact unsupervised with adults on Roblox, despite the platform's child-friendly image and recent safety updates. The Guardian reports: Describing itself as 'the ultimate ...
Microsoft has released.NET Aspire 9.2, a new version of the company’s cloud-ready stack for building distributed applications that features dashboard enhancements, including a resource graph, and publishers, new tools that help developers write code to package and deploy...
Companies of all sizes are finding it increasingly difficult to differentiate between real and fake job applications — and much of the challenge is due to AI. Generative AI tools can easily be used to create headshots, mimic voices, and even fabricate credentials; in...
The effort to ensure that open-source software is reproducible has been gathering steam over the years, and gaining traction with major Linux distributions. Debian, for example, has been working toward reproducible builds for more than a decade; it can now produce official...
Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former executive who served as Meta’s Director of Global Public Policy, testified before Congress on April 9 regarding the company’s alleged involvement in aiding China’s advancement in the AI race — posing a threat to U.S. national interests....
After years of internal use, Ubisoft has open-sourced Chroma -- a real-time colorblind simulation tool. This accessibility software is designed to help developers better serve the 300 million people around the world who live with color vision deficiencies. Originally...
The abrupt firing of Xiaofeng Wang and his wife from Indiana University last month shocked the academic community and is stoking fears that Chinese-born scholars are being targeted.
Intel will sell a 51% stake in its Altera programmable chip unit to private equity firm Silver Lake for $4.46 billion, aiming to cut costs, raise cash, and streamline the company's focus as it shifts toward becoming a contract chip manufacturer. CNBC reports: The deal,...
Users, unsurprisingly, are not pleased and feel forgotten amid Redmond's Copilot frenzy Updated In June 2024, users of the OneDrive sync client for macOS and Windows began reporting that shared folders had vanished from their local drives, replaced with web shortcuts.…
Attention trauma enthusiasts: Ari Aster, cinema's favorite merchant of psychological damage, is back to ruin your summer with Eddington, a contemporary Western featuring the most emotionally unstable cast ever assembled. Hereditary was bone-chilling. Midsommar was one of...
TL;DR: Learn ASL with The All-in-One American Sign Language Bundle, filled with 13 courses for just $14.97 — less than $2 a course — now until April 27. Have you been wanting to learn sign language but don't know where to start? — Read the rest The post Learn ASL for le...
Monday April 14, 2025. 11:47 PM
It's happening. Although many predicted that Nintendo would jack up the already controversial price of the Switch 2 thanks to Trump's tariffs — preorders are currently suspended in the US, likely so they can figure out what pricetag they can get away with – it seems Sony...
IT admins, get ready to grumble CA/Browser Forum – a central body of web browser makers, security certificate issuers, and friends – has voted to cut the maximum lifespan of new SSL/TLS certs to just 47 days by March 15, 2029.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: British laws restricting what the police can say about criminal cases are 'not fit for the social media age (source paywalled; alternative source),' a government committee said in a report released Monday in...
Several crosswalk buttons in Palo Alto and nearby cities were hacked over the weekend to play deepfake-style satirical audio clips mimicking Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. Authorities have disabled the altered systems, but the identity of the prankster remains unknown....
At a White House ceremony honoring the college football champions, clown and Vice President of the United States JD Vance somehow breaks the trophy. Just watch. This is a comedy of errors: JD Vance just broke apart the College Football Playoff National Championship...
Microsoft held off on releasing the privacy-unfriendly feature after a swell of pushback last year. Now it’s trying again, with a few improvements that skeptics say still aren't enough.
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