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Friday November 21, 2025. 01:27 PM
New research from online protection company Malwarebytes exposes how social media and online marketplaces have become hotbeds for holiday shopping scams. It finds that 51 percent of people encounter scams on social media weekly while an unlucky 27 percent meet scams daily....
The Coast Guard scrambled to reverse a policy change that would have reclassified swastikas and nooses as merely 'potentially divisive' rather than hate symbols — but only after The Washington Post exposed it. According to Time, the Post reported Thursday that updated...
Every time you book a flight, hotel, or rental car, a detailed digital dossier is created about you — and it never gets deleted. These Passenger Name Records (PNR) contain far more than your travel dates: they reveal who you're traveling with, what you eat, your medical...
A new survey of 750 senior cyber security professionals across the US, UK and Australia, carried out by Opinion Matters for ThreatQuotient, finds 97 percent now regard automation, increasingly powered by AI technologies, as essential to business operations. However, despite...
Microsoft has released the source code for Zork I, II, and III under the MIT open-source license, making the legendary text adventure games freely available for anyone to study, learn from, and play. 'Our goal is simple: to place historically important code in the hands of...
The network firewall was designed for a world that doesn’t exist anymore. When corporate assets sat behind a data center perimeter, inspecting packets between ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ made sense. But today, with workloads spread across multiple clouds, SaaS...
If you need a pick-me-up today, spend a few minutes on your next break watching one of the cutest videos I've seen in ages. We all know baby animals are pure magic, and nothing delivers adorableness quite like a puppy. Add sleepiness and curiosity to the mix, and...
I'm not sure if this is a match made in heaven, hell, or somewhere else entirely. Few properties are less kid-friendly than Tarantino's blood-soaked opus Kill Bill, but Uma Thurman in all her yellow-jumpsuited glory will be coming to Fortnite soon. — Read the rest The...
Here's an animal with a weird snout (my favorite kind of animal, of course) that you should know. Behold the 'otter civet' (Cynogale bennettii), a silly ol' creature that looks like it stuck its face into a wasp nest. (Side note: it's not the civet that poops coffee...
Gorillaz' House of Kong exhibition was an awe-inspiring physical step into the mad cartoon world Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett have built over the past 20-odd years. It was also the vehicle for their upcoming album being leaked in its entirety, but that's neither here nor...
In the early days of generative AI, AI-driven programming seemed to promise endless possibility, or at least a free pass to vibe code your way into quick wins. But now that era of freewheeling experimentation is coming to an end. As AI works its way deeper into the...
Wisconsin, Michigan, and several other usual suspects — likely fronting for the federal government — want to strip away your right to freedom of expression and anonymous online movement. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is all over it: Wisconsin lawmakers are...
I didn't have this on my bingo card. With the long development, episodic release, and substantial post-launch trail of Hitman: World of Assassination tidily wrapped up, IO Interactive is clearly just having fun with it now. While most of the developer team is doubtless...
If you are a seasoned user of WhatsApp, brace yourself for a blast from the past. The company has just announced that it is bringing back one of its earliest features in a new and improved form. What is returning is the About feature, a simple text field that can be used to...
Out of the blue, Google has announced a significant change to the Quick Share feature of Android. The company says that – on a limited number of devices – Quick Share can now be used to share files and photos from Android to iPhone thank to newly added compatibility with ...
Once upon a time, when you ran Windows on your desktop, it was your desktop. Oh, the IT department might have called the shots on how much you could do with it, but you could write what you needed to, and it was all kept nicely on your PC or your choice of network drive. ...
PHP 8.5 has been released, adding an extension for securely parsing URIs and URLs to the now-30-year-old server-side scripting language. Described as a major update, PHP 8.5 was released November 20 and can be accessed at PHP.net. The URI extension featured in the update is...
Microsoft, in conjunction with Activision, Team Xbox, and its Open Source Programs Office, has announced plans to open source some of Infocom’s most iconic interactive fiction. Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III will be released under the MIT License, placing the code for one...
IBM and Cisco have announced plans to work together on a connected network of large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers. The collaboration will unite IBM’s progress in quantum hardware with Cisco’s research into quantum networking, creating a system designed to link...
Thursday November 20, 2025. 11:53 PM
The newest version of Microsoft’s multi-paradigm language features a much-sought ability to suppress warnings in specified code sections. With the scoped warning suppression capability, the compiler now supports the #warnon directive, which is paired with #nowarn to...
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