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Thursday January 16, 2025. 05:05 PM
In a positioning statement Monday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella unveiled CoreAI, a strategic overhaul that centers the tech giant’s AI ambitions squarely on Azure. Accompanied by significant executive shifts, the announcement emphasized Microsoft’s vision of Azure as the...
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A 53-year-old French woman lost $800,000 in a heart-wrenching scam after believing she was in a romantic relationship with Hollywood star Brad Pitt. Not just any scam, this was a sophisticated AI-powered hoax involving deepfake images, fake messages, and fabricated stories....
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Cactus the rescue dog is one of the sweetest creatures I've encountered recently, and his relationship with his human Mike is so incredibly heartwarming! Cactus arrived a few months ago at Pups Without Borders, a registered 501c3 rescue center located in Los Angeles that...
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TL;DR: Slip the MagTag tracker into your wallet and let Apple's Find My network do the rest for $26.99. Ever torn apart your couch cushions looking for your wallet, only to find crumbs and regret? Meet the MagTag Ultra-Slim Tracker Card, your new secret weapon for keeping...
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Cloud-based data warehouse company Snowflake has open-sourced a new proprietary approach — SwiftKV — designed to reduce the cost of inference workloads for enterprises running generative AI-based applications. SwiftKV was launched in December. The development of SwiftKV ...
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A Chicago-bound Southwest Airlines flight was delayed Wednesday after its pilot was escorted out of his own cabin by police. He was charged with driving under the influence and released on bond. CBS News reports that he 'allegedly smelled of alcohol and may have shown other...
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The EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) comes into force tomorrow (Jan 17th) but new research shows that 43 percent of the UK's financial organizations are set to miss the deadline for compliance, with 20 percent expecting to do so by at least four months....
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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (fence-agents, raptor2, and rsync), Debian (chromium), Fedora (rsync and seamonkey), Mageia (openjpeg2), Red Hat (tuned), Slackware (git), SUSE (dcmtk, dnsmasq, govulncheck-vulndb, libQtWebKit4, libraptor-devel, opera,...
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The number of ransomware victims reached an all-time high with more than 1,600 in Q4 2024 alone according to the latest GuidePoint Research and Intelligence Team's (GRIT) annual Ransomware and Cyber Threat Report. The number of attackers peaked too with a 40 percent...
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Strange balls have appeared on the shores of at least nine Australian beaches, prompting indefinite closures in Manly, Dee Why, Long Reef, Queenscliff, Freshwater, North Steyne, North Narrabeen, and North and South Curl Curl.    LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? — Read...
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After months of speculation, Nintendo's Switch 2 is officially on show today. The company posted a video featuring the forthcoming portable game console. There's no surprises; it's everything anyone reasonably imagined it might be. It's a clever video that makes clear...
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A decade ago, I had the privilege of attending and reporting from COP21 in Paris—the year of the so-called 'Paris Agreement' was put into place. As I wrote at the time: We know the overall climate is warming and we need to stop it before it gets worse. — Read the rest ...
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Los Angeles-based Vjay Bomb is an art collective creating 'projection bombs'—which are short videos projected onto walls and buildings all over Los Angeles and beyond. They describe their work as 'a groundbreaking art project designed to fight political corruption,...
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The Perseverance rover has been driving around the surface of Mars, drilling and collecting core rock samples. The samples were supposed to be returned to Earth for analysis, but the return mission has not been scheduled or funded. NASA still hasn't decided how it will...
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StackExchange is a popular question-and-answer message board. As a default, and as a central feature of the site, all content posted to StackExchange (and its respective sub-pages) is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, which includes a stipulation for...
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YouTuber Zac Alsop entered a robot dog in a real dog competition. The robot dog is named Roobot, punningly named after Alsop's real dog, Roo. Roo is not a fan of his robot doppelganger, although he does give Roobot the traditional dog greeting butt sniff. — Read the rest ...
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Given the glut of MCU TV shows thrown onto Disney Plus on a regular basis, it can be easy to forget those who came before. Shows like Jessica Jones and Luke Cage made up the 'Netflix era' of Marvel TV, but only one standout – Charlie Cox's Daredevil – proved enduring enough...
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In the last couple of years, I'm sure you've received texts that start with something like, 'Hi! It's [random name], remember me? How are you?' and try to engage you in conversation. If, like me, you've sensed it was a scam but haven't been able to figure out exactly what...
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Google will no longer charge Workspace customers an additional fee for Gemini, expanding access to generative AI (genAI) features in apps such as Gmail, Docs, and Sheets. At the same time, the company is increasing the price of Workspace subscriptions by a small...
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The romantasy publishing industry has recently been embroiled in controversy. The issue at hand is a debate over intellectual property rights, with one author accusing another (and their agent, who formerly represented the first author) of plagiarism, and the defendants...
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