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Wednesday September 11, 2024. 12:40 AM
wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Microsoft on Tuesday raised an alarm for in-the-wild exploitation of a critical flaw in Windows Update, warning that attackers are rolling back security fixes on certain versions of its flagship operating system. The Windows...
Earlier today, Sony unveiled the $699.99 PlayStation 5 Pro -- a mid-generation upgrade model for the PlayStation 5 that requires a separate $79.99 disc drive if you want to play your physical games. As The Verge's Jay Peters writes, the announcement 'may have marked the...
Tuesday September 10, 2024. 11:56 PM
With the recent Rust in Linux events in the last couple of days, it’s a good time to write up Rust in illumos. Both to spread the word a bit and also to set expectations for both sides (Rust and illumos/OpenIndiana devs) what is currently possible and what work would need...
Correction, no one wanted – well, except perhaps these patent filers at Ford Someday soon, if Ford has its way, drivers and passengers may be bombarded with infotainment ads tailored to their personal and vehicle data. …
Chatbots, generative models 'in many ways the next step in the surveillance economy' Web browsers now commonly sport AI services provided by on-device or cloud-based models. However, a few holdouts remain convinced it's a bad idea.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: A daredevil billionaire rocketed back into orbit Tuesday, aiming to perform the first private spacewalk and venture farther than anyone since NASA's Apollo moonshots. Unlike his previous chartered flight, tech...
He's disliked in the business, especially by conservatives. Everyone's doing the best they can, working to well-established norms and against growing headwinds. We stage our minds, our means and the medium itself to adapt to the pressures. Sadly, with apologies, it remains...
It's hard to get 42 states to agree on much. But a bipartisan group of attorneys general on Tuesday demanded that Congress require Surgeon General warning labels on social media apps to help curtail addiction and a mental health crisis among young adults. From a report: 'As...
Duo accused of stealing $3.2B of 20nm tech and secrets Two former Samsung employees have reportedly been arrested in South Korea on suspicion they stole more than $3.2 billion in intellectual property to build their own chip factory in China.…
Giliam de Carpentier, a programmer at Guerrilla Games, built a 12-legged coffee table that walks liked a scuttling crab. It's called the Carpentopod, and its legs were evolved than directly designed. He writes: 'The Carpentopod leg linkage itself was generated by some...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Over successive administrations, the U.S. government has used stiff trade restrictions to try to stifle the Chinese telecom giant Huawei. In turn, the company never misses an opportunity to show that it is still standing. Last year, at...
AI infra startup serves up Llama 3.1 405B at 100+ tokens per second Not to be outdone by rival AI systems upstarts, SambaNova has launched inference cloud of its own that it says is ready to serve up Meta’s largest models faster than the rest.…
Juno Computers has introduced its latest Linux-powered tablet, the Juno Tab 3, offering users the choice of three pre-installed operating systems: Mobian Phosh, Ubuntu 24.04, or Kubuntu 24.04. This flexibility gives Linux enthusiasts a tailored experience, whether they...
The BBC1 television recording below from January 16, 1985 shows the moment during a rerun of Star Trek that the film breaks. (The episode is The Return of The Archons.) It's the perfect storm of incongruity and dissonance: Sulu's monologue, the glitch of the torn film, the...
Malaysia's telecom regulator has abandoned a plan to block overseas DNS services a day after announcing it, following a sharp backlash and accusations of government overreach. From a report: Last Friday, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) published ...
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) models are powerful AI platforms that generate various outputs based on massive training data sets, neural networks, deep learning architecture, and user prompts. Depending on the type of generative AI model you’re working with,...
Earlier this year, I reviewed the excellent and unique MNT Reform laptop, an (almost) fully open source, very hackable laptop. MNT has just unveiled the upcoming follow-up to the Reform, called the Reform Next. Being highly performant, modular, and upgradeable, MNT Reform...
After The Last of Us proved video game adaptions can be actual, compelling entertainment, Borderlands said no. It is fun how the Honest Trailer steps through worn-out trope after worn-out trope and then gets into things like lousy editing, half-hearted acting, and god-awful...
Version 3.4 of the Pandoc document-conversion tool has been released. Notable changes in this release include a new ANSI output format (for console output), a switch to WeasyPrint as the PDF engine for HTML to PDF conversion, the ability to position captions above or below...
For certain use cases, it’s advisable to set up a read-only root file system, which ensures better reliability in case of system issues. Think of scenarios like a router (critical for network access) or a caching reverse-proxy, such as the one described in my series “Make...
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