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Friday October 11, 2024. 05:09 PM
In the early morning hours of September 23, 2024, Philadelphia residents were jolted awake by blood-curdling screams, only to discover it was lawyers, not criminals, terrorizing their neighborhood. These lawyers, representing Termaine Hicks in his civil rights lawsuit...
TL;DR: This grade-A refurbished iPad mini is the same model Apple is selling and it's only $429.99 (reg. $649). Ever found yourself watching Netflix in the bathroom on your phone, squinting to catch the details? Or maybe you use your bathroom time to hide from the kids and sc...
A racy opera in Germany warned attendees to 'avert your gaze' if they couldn't handle the visuals — but even with the warning, 18 people became ill while watching the 'radical' performance last weekend. The ill-stricken theatergoers were hit with 'severe nausea' while...
Carrying the proud family tradition of sleazy criminality and antisocial behavior, Lauren Boebert's son Tyler pleaded guilty to attempted identity theft yesterday, but managed to avoid jail time thanks to a judge who looked kindly upon the wayward lad. Tyler, who is now 19,...
Six-hundred-sixteen in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 and 11 on the Microsoft Store and elsewhere in the past seven days. Microsoft released Windows 11, version 24H2 and ended support for version 22H2...
Hacked robot vacuum machines began spouting obscenities and slurs this week after an exploit allowed hackers to take remote control of them. Through the Ecovacs app, he saw that a stranger was accessing its live camera feed and remote control feature. — Read the rest ...
Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, may be an ocean world—at least in the sense that the apparently rocky surface may hide massive quantities of brine. Water is now thought by some scientists to be common in the solar system, and conditions on the 250-mile wide...
At Kangrejos, Gary Guo wanted to discuss three problems with the way Rust and C code in the kernel interact: mismatched types, too many type casts, and the overhead of helper functions. To fix the first two problems, Guo proposed changing the way the kernel maps C types into ...
It's astonishing to imagine the technical wizardry involved in Asahi Linux, running on Apple's own publicly undocumented and unsupported silicon. That you can now play AAA Windows games on it is mindblowing: Windows/DirectX on top of Linux/Vulkan on top of ARM Mac/Metal. —...
The startlingly extensive list of England's supernatural (or perhaps merely cryptid) inhabitants is viral again on social media. The vastness and diversity of the folklore boggles the mind, not least because it leaves much out (including some prominent locals where I grew...
The number of malicious web requests rose by 53.2 percent in the first half of 2024, compared to the same period last year according to a new study. The report from German cybersecurity company Myra finds that for the first quarter of 2024, the number of malicious requests...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 6.0,.NET 8.0, and openssl), Debian (firefox-esr), Fedora (firefox), Mageia (php, quictls, and vim), Red Hat (buildah, container-tools:rhel8, containernetworking-plugins, firefox, podman, skopeo, and tomcat), Slackware...
In the wake of two major hurricanes to hit Florida and the southeast, emergency workers trying to get aid to survivors have to contend with a new problem: explosive misinformation on social media, including death threats from right-wing agitators. One post on TikTok from a...
Inspired by the Casio A158W, one of its immortal and inexpensive wristwatch designs knocking around since the 1980s, the DQD-851J-8JF—spotted by The Verge's Andrew Liszewski on the company's Japanese website—is $29 and you can't buy it in the U.S. — Read the rest The...
If you're a fan of rock music and its history, you'll appreciate the depth of research and the oceans of info contained in every episode of Andrew Hickey's podcast 'A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs.' It's like The Beatles' yellow submarine was outfitted as a bathyscaphe...
Home EV charger JuiceBox decided to pull the plug on its customers in an undated statement on its website. The company provided Level 2 Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment for around $600, not including the cost of installation. After October 11, all American and Canadian...
You start a conversation with someone, wondering if you’ve met them before. But then, your smart glasses tell you their name and where, when, and in what context you actually did meet them. Is this a helpful, powerful way to avoid offense, reconnect, and gain context about ...
You might not know it from all the panic-inducing headlines out there, but Android is actually packed with practical and powerful security options. Some are activated by default and protecting you whether you realize it or not, while others are more out of the way but...
There's no doubt that AI is seen as flavor of the month across many sectors at the moment. But how much of this is hype and how much genuine value? We spoke to Martin Hawksey, collaboration engineer at Qodea, to discuss GenAI and the areas where GenAI is making a real...
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