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Monday May 12, 2025. 12:24 PM
A design flaw in the tow handles of rolling coolers made by Igloo before last year has resulted in dozens of crushing injuries and even amputated consumers' fingers. The coolers were finally recalled (there's more than a million of them in circulation!) — Read the rest The p...
An unreleased pilot episode of Thomas and Friends, dating to 1983 and featuring the voiceover work of Ringo Starr, was chanced across in storage. Fans of the sentient tank engine and his heartwarmingly servient chums—there are now more than 500 episodes, 207 books and 20...
As AI-driven fraud becomes increasingly common, more people feel the need to verify every interaction they have online.
Betting that generative artificial intelligence (genAI) is top of mind for every IT manager and corporate executive would be a smart move. An equally smart take would be to realize that most organizations still remain reticent to fully embrace the technology and its...
Ben Drowned was one of the great fables of the web: a haunted Nintendo cartridge, unsettling glitches and footage, and a tragic backstory emerging over time. Posed originally in the hoax mode of storytelling, it was the creation of Alex Hall. — Read the rest The post Ben...
Providers argue that if end users prioritized security, they'd get it CYBERUK Intervention is required to ensure the security market holds vendors to account for shipping insecure wares – imposing costs on those whose failures lead to cyberattacks and having to draft in...
Loved, loathed, feared, viewed with suspicion -- all valid reactions to the existence of Microsoft's Copilot. The AI-powered assistant has proved hard to avoid thanks to the company's crazed promotion of its latest baby, and now things are being ratcheted up a notch....
Earlier this year, a hacker used my X account to hawk a fraudulent WIRED-branded crypto coin. After they pulled the rug on investors, I faced the aftermath.
Cloud-native applications are increasingly the default way to deploy in both public clouds and private clouds. But what exactly is a cloud-native application and how do you build one? It’s important to start with first principles and define what cloud-native actually...
This month MySQL turns 30. Once the bedrock of web development, MySQL remains immensely popular. But as MySQL enters its fourth decade, it ironically has sown the seeds of its own decline, especially relative to Postgres. Oracle, the steward over MySQL since 2010, may...
In 2024, cyber criminals didn’t just knock on the front door—they walked right in. High-profile breaches hit widely used apps from tech giants and consumer platforms alike, including Snowflake, Ticketmaster, AT&T, 23andMe, Trello, and Life360. Meanwhile, a massive,...
AI agents are here to stay, but there are still some major privacy and data concerns that need to be addressed before the tech goes mainstream. That's because AI agents are only as good as their data, and right now, that data is fragmented, unsecured, and often unreliable....
We need to make taking IT systems 'off the books' a problem for corporate types Opinion It's been a devastating few weeks for UK retail giants. Marks and Spencer, the Co-Op, and now uber-posh Harrods have had massive disruptions due to ransomware attacks taking systems down...
The United States and China said Monday they reached an agreement to temporarily reduce the tariffs [non-paywalled source] they have imposed on each other in an attempt to defuse the trade war threatening the world's two largest economies. From a report: In a joint...
With the shutdown of Skype, attention now turns to Microsoft Teams -- something that is true both for ex-Skype users and the company behind the two communication platforms. With Teams now seeing an influx of newcomers, there has never been a better time for Microsoft to show ...
Business Insider tells the story in three bullet points: - Big Tech companies depend on content made by others to train their AI models. - Some of those creators say using their work to train AI is copyright infringement. - The U.S. Copyright Office just published a report...
It was acceptable in the '80s Who, Me? Sometimes, a favor done for friends years ago can come back to bite you in a very corporate way. Welcome to another cautionary tale from the files of Who, Me?…
Going with the flow The biggest story with readers of CIO this week was this article about how IT leaders are using agentic AI to accelerate business workflows. It’s the Holy Grail for many organizations — introduce AI agents to an existing workflow and by so doing...
Some see an action to benefit Elon. The White House sees an agency obsessed with DEI The head of the US Copyright Office has reportedly been fired, the day after agency concluded that builders of AI models use of copyrighted material went beyond existing doctrines of fair...
It's been a mobile-only game for decades. Then a little more than a week ago Infinity Nikkireleased its 1.5 update (which introduced multiplayer and customization options) and launched the game on Steam. But it 'didn't go over as planned,' writes the worker-owned gaming site ...
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