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Thursday September 12, 2024. 10:00 AM
TL;DR: Get a 1-year Sam’s Club membership for $15 through September 27 and enjoy savings on groceries, fuel, and everyday essentials, plus exclusive perks like free tire repair. If you’re looking for an easy way to save on everyday essentials, a year-long Sam’s Club...
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If you’ve ever wanted to understand how failure is represented in source code, you’ve come to the right place. In addition to an overview of Java exceptions, this article gets you started with Java’s language features for throwing objects, trying code that may fail,...
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Academically interesting technique for poking holes in paywalled tech specs An anti-piracy system to protect online video streams from unauthorized copying is flawed – and can be broken to allow streamed media from Amazon, Netflix, and others to be saved, replayed, and...
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Samsung has announced the mass production of its groundbreaking one-terabit (Tb) quad-level cell (QLC) 9th-generation vertical NAND (V-NAND). This follows the successful rollout of the triple-level cell (TLC) version earlier this year. Samsung’s QLC 9th-generation V-NAND...
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Augmented reality meets warped reality A defense ministry official from Belarus has claimed augmented reality game Pokémon GO was a tool of Western intelligence agencies.…
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OpenAI is in talks to raise $6.5 billion from investors at a valuation of $150 billion, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with the situation. From the report: The new valuation, a figure that doesn't include the money being raised, is significantly higher...
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The Shinkansen have operated without fatalities for sixty years – how hard can it be? One of Japan's major passenger railway operators announced plans on Tuesday to bring fully automated bullet trains into service by the mid-2030s.…
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Union alleges work conditions are like solitary confinement and violence is common at Tamil Nadu plant Workers at a Samsung Electronics plant in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu have been on strike since Monday, disrupting production as they fight for wage hikes, better hours, ...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired, written by Guthrie Scrimgeour: It always seemed difficult for the newspaper where I used to work, The Garden Island on the rural Hawaiian island of Kauai, to hire reporters. If someone left, it could take months before we hired ...
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Would paying a ransom – or better security – have been cheaper and safer? A US healthcare giant will pay out $65 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by its own patients after ransomware crooks stole their data – including their nude photographs – and...
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The LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 12, 2024 is available.
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A new survey released on Tuesday found that Americans used over 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data last year -- a 36% increase from the previous year and the largest single-year increase in the history of wireless data consumption. Reuters reports: The increase -- 26...
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AI ROI? Jensen Huang claims infra providers make $5 for every dollar spent on GPUs Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has attempted to quell concerns over the reported late arrival of the Blackwell GPU architecture, and the lack of ROI from AI investments.…
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Mistral AI has launched Pixtral 12B, its first multimodal model with language and vision processing capabilities, positioning it to compete with AI leaders like OpenAI and Anthropic. You can download its source code from Hugging Face, GitHub, or via a torrent link....
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TL;DR: Play your 33/45 vinyls in style with the mbeat® Bluetooth turntable, which comes with two bookshelf speakers for $209.97 (reg. $299) through September 25! What's not to love about vinyl? Our favorite artists, like The Beatles, Ed Sheeran, and Nirvana, sound their very...
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Shared exclusively with WIRED, this Image Playground creation is the first that Apple has released outside of marketing materials.
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Bluesky, the decentralized social networking startup, has introduced support for videos up to 60 seconds long in its latest update, version 1.91. The Verge reports: The videos will autoplay by default, but Bluesky says you can turn this feature off in the settings menu. You...
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No class: Black Suit ransomware gang boasts of 200GB haul from one raid Cybercriminals closed some schools in America and Britain this week, preventing kindergarteners in Washington state from attending their first-ever school day and shutting down all internet-based systems ...
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It seems Google is hell-bent on removing anything from Android that makes the platform stand apart from iOS. One of the features of Android and the Play Store that users of rooted and/or de-Googled phones will be familiar with is SafetyNet Attestation, something that Android ...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The home of the Golden State Warriors was packed on Tuesday evening this week, but it wasn't to watch Steph Curry. Thousands of fans gathered at the Chase Center in downtown San Francisco to watch one of Silicon Valley's...
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