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Tuesday January 28, 2025. 12:50 AM
Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble, the original smartwatch maker, made a major announcement today together with Google. Pebble was originally bought by Fitbit and in turn Fitbit was then bought by Google, but Migicovsky always wanted to to go back to his original idea and...
Speaking of “AI”, the Chinese company DeepSeek has lobbed a grenade dead-centre into the middle of the “AI” bubble, and it’s been incredibly entertaining to watch. DeepSeek has released several new “AI” models, which seem to rival or even surpass OpenAI’s latest ChatGPT model...
Monday January 27, 2025. 11:56 PM
'I remember specifically getting messaging when I was younger about how you shouldn't have sex on drugs — that it may be the best sex of your life and ruin the rest of your sex life,' says Sura Hertzberg, founder of the print magazine Sex & Psychedelics. — Read the rest ...
Apparently, since the beginning of the year, AI bots have been ensuring that websites can only respond to regular inquiries with a delay. The founder of Linux Weekly News (LWN-net), Jonathan Corbet, reports that the news site is therefore often slow to respond. The AI...
Six and a half spins in the air. That's what constitutes a 2340, a dizzying track landed by both a snowboard and skier for the first time on record. At the X Games in Aspen, snowboarder Hiroto Ogiwara of Japan stomped it on Friday while Italian skier Miro Tabanelli achieved...
Mark Zuckerberg recently struck a new pose in hopes of pleasing President Trump, saying Meta would no longer check facts or censor free speech, and blaming other executives for previous policies at the company he runs. Since then, however, the company has struggled to...
The e-ink Pebble watch (reviewed here 12 years ago) was a Kickstarter success story and much-loved by users who still appreciate its stylish simplicity. But it was soon lost to the smartwatch revolution and the company behind it went under in 2016. — Read the rest The post P...
An 'unprecedented' outbreak of tuberculosis has hit the state of Kansas, according to USA Today, making it 'the largest in recorded history in the United States.' Most of the cases have broken out in Wyandotte County and Johnson County. 'Currently, Kansas has the largest...
Sir Paul McCartney has strongly opposed suggested alterations to the U.K.’s copyright law, cautioning that they might facilitate “rip-off” technology that threatens the livelihoods of artists and musicians. In a rare interview on BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg,...
DeepSeek is China's entrance to the top shelf of language models, and it is competitive with U.S. counterparts while reportedly being vastly more efficient to develop. U.S. AI stocks, including hardware provider NVidia, are 'plunging' as a result, reports CNN Business. —...
In an unsettling development, researchers from Fudan University in China have demonstrated that artificial intelligence systems have crossed a critical “red line” by successfully replicating themselves without human intervention. This breakthrough has sparked alarm within...
A MAGA official in Pennsylvania thought she had the same rights as billionaire Elon Musk — until she imitated his Nazi salute and was forced to resign from her job. 'Just checking in on my friends who are struggling this week,' Laura Smith — the Towamencin Township...
Two years ago, OpenAI’s ChatGPT launched a new wave of AI disruption that left the tech industry reassessing its future. Now within the space of a week a small Chinese startup called DeepSeek appears to have pulled off a similar coup, this time at OpenAI’s expense....
Prompt Security has announced an upgrade to its security and governance platform for GitHub Copilot and other AI coding assistants. The enhancements to the platform, also named Prompt Security, include stronger capabilities for real-time code sanitization and redaction to...
Diamonds may be forever, but the price is dropping fast. Naturally-formed diamonds are losing their value so quickly—26% less today in shops than two years ago—that one gemologist described them as a 'waste of money.' The fall is driven, among other things, by mass...
Though there are a variety of cool extensions for the Chrome browser, there are also malicious extensions that pose a security threat. To increase security, Google has now launched the Chrome Web Store for Enterprises, a new store specifically designed for business users....
As if from nowhere, OpenAI competitor DeepSeek has somersaulted to the top of the iPhone App Store chart, overtaking ChatGPT’s OpenAI. It’s the latest in a growing line of generative AI (genAI) services and seems to offer some significant advantages, not least its...
Today has seen millions of dollars wiped off US market tech stocks by the launch of DeepSeek, the latest Chinese AI that threatens US dominance in the sector. This is partly because DeepSeek can run on much less powerful hardware than rivals such as OpenAI's o1. DeepSeek...
The DistroWatch January 27 edition includes this interesting tidbit: Starting on January 19, 2025 Facebook's internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware and labeled groups associated with Linux as being 'cybersecurity threats'. Any posts mentioning DistroWatch and ...
Reported security incidents in critical infrastructure worldwide have grown by 668 percent since 2022 according to a new report from Forescout. There have been 10 percent more incidents for critical infrastructure sectors than in 2023 and more than half of all incidents (57...
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