|
Navigation
Search
Top: PC / Tech.
|
The latest geek News
Wednesday August 27, 2025. 10:17 PM
A man walking down a Washington D.C. street got stopped for carrying three ounces of marijuana — one ounce over the legal limit. Surrounding him weren't just local cops, but agents from five separate federal agencies, including the FBI and Secret Service, all for what...
After losing his job in 2024, Eric Thompson spearheaded a working group to push for federal legislation banning 'ghost jobs' -- openings posted with no intent to hire. The proposed Truth in Job Advertising and Accountability Act would require transparency around job...
AI lowers the bar for cybercrime, Anthropic admits comment Anthropic, a maker of AI tools, says that AI tools are now commonly used to commit cybercrime and facilitate remote worker fraud.…
Not a disaster recovery option, but good enough for a migration Microsoft continues to take what's familiar to ordinary users and offer it to enterprises. The latest functionality is Windows Backup for Organizations.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee opened a probe into alleged organized efforts to inject bias into Wikipedia entries and the organization's responses. Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep....
Fast-glob is widely used in government, security lab says updated A Node.js utility used by thousands of public projects - and more than 30 Department of Defense ones - appears to have a sole maintainer whose online profiles identify him as a Yandex employee living in...
Feature rolls out to Microsoft 365 Insiders, stashing unnamed files in OneDrive by default Ever get that sinking feeling when Word crashes before you've made your first save? An application update is set to save the day by automatically enabling autosave to the cloud for new ...
What if California stopped sending its tax money to Washington? What if Massachusetts refused to let federal agents use state databases? What if blue states with the biggest economies just said 'no' to a federal government they don't trust? These aren't hypothetical...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have discovered the key to getting large language model (LLM) chatbots to ignore their guardrails, and it's quite simple. You just have to ensure that your prompt uses terrible grammar ...
Feature bloat, or added value for this JavaScript toolkit? The Bun team has released version 1.2.21 of its JavaScript bundler and runtime, written in Zig, adding features including built-in drivers for MySQL and SQLite, a YAML parser, and a secrets manager for tools and...
Stolen dev credentials posted to GitHub as attackers abuse CLI tools for recon Nx is the latest target of a software supply chain attack in the NPM ecosystem, with multiple malicious versions being uploaded to the NPM registry on Tuesday evening.…
The Nothing Ear (a) are svelte and elegant, with great sound quality and a more compelling price than ever.
Deforestation has killed more than half a million people in the tropics over the past two decades as a result of heat-related illness, a study has found. The Guardian: Land clearance is raising the temperature in the rainforests of the Amazon, Congo and south-east Asia...
Alyssa Rosenzweig has written a blog post about her work to help ship a 'great driver' for the Apple M1 GPU that supports OpenGL, Vulkan, and enables gaming with Proton. We've succeeded beyond my dreams. The challenges I chased, I have tackled. The drivers are fully...
WIRED spoke to a self-proclaimed leader of an online group called Purgatory, which charged as little as $20 to call in fake threats against schools.
The Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) language is used by web browsers to style XML content to make it easily readable; XSLT is part of the HTML living standard that is maintained by the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG). Only a...
No stew on the stove, but plenty of heat as devs compete to flag suspect Medicare data Seeking to rein in healthcare fraud, the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking explainable AI models that can identify patterns suggestive of malfeasance.…
Congratulations MAGA, you've successfully bullied an honor student into giving up on her dreams. As reported in WFAE, Allison Bustillo-Chinchilla — nursing student, scholarship recipient, and apparently grave threat to national security — has chosen 'voluntary' removal...
Google’s trio of 10th-generation Pixels is better than ever, but there’s an off-putting dose of generative Al.
Don't let it happen to you Storm-0501, a financially motivated cybercrime crew, recently broke into a large enterprise's on-premises and cloud environments, ultimately exfiltrating and destroying data within the org's Azure environment. The criminals then contacted the...
|
25 sources
Current Date
Dec, Sat 6 - 17:19 CET
|
