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Friday February 21, 2025. 12:55 AM
Said bugs 'can have significant implications' – glad to hear that from Redmond Microsoft is so concerned about security in its Copilot products for folks that it’s lifted bug bounty payments for moderate-severity vulnerabilities from nothing to a maximum of $5,000, and...
Apple's Google Lens-like took called Visual Intelligence is coming to the iPhone 15 Pro, according to John Gruber of Daring Fireball. It's unclear which update will offer the feature but Gruber speculates it could arrive with iOS 18.4 in April. From a report: Visual...
Don't think this is SaaS and you can relax: Redmond wants a few of you to check your websites Microsoft has fixed a security flaw in its Power Pages website-building SaaS, after criminals got there first – and urged users to check their sites for signs of exploitation.…
Thursday February 20, 2025. 11:40 PM
ChatGPT has reached over 400 million weekly active users, doubling its count since August 2024. 'We feel very fortunate to serve 5 percent of the world every week,' OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said on X. Engadget reports: The latest milestone for the AI assistant comes after a...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Altice, parent company of Internet provider Optimum, must disclose the personal details of a hundred alleged music pirates. The request comes from a group of prominent record labels and is part of an ongoing copyright...
Bosses bragged about Duo Chat bot, buyers weren’t buying it – claim For the third time in five months, GitLab or its execs have been sued over allegedly misleading investors about AI capabilities and demand.…
Using apps and websites in dark mode can actually use more energy than standard mode, according to researchers, as it causes people to crank up the brightness. From a report: This counterintuitive finding is claimed by BBC Research & Development (R&D), which says that...
Amazon has dethroned Walmart in quarterly revenue for the first time ever. From a report: Amazon said earlier this month that it brought in $187.8 billion in revenue during the fourth quarter. That beat out Walmart's sales for the period, which came in at $180.5 billion, the ...
Approximately 500 NIST staffers, including at least three lab directors, are expected to lose their jobs at the standards agency as part of the ongoing DOGE purge, sources tell WIRED.
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos says the money will go toward projects like Alfonso Cuarón’s film Roma, which was made in Mexico and went on to international acclaim.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched an inquiry into potential 'censorship' by technology platforms ranging from Meta to Uber, marking an escalation in scrutiny of content moderation practices. FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson called for public comment on what he termed...
Twitch is planning to cull some of the content archived by streamers to save on storage costs. From a report: On Wednesday the streaming platform announced that it will introduce a 100-hour storage cap for Highlights and Uploads starting April 19th, warning that users will...
The blanket firing of Department of Agriculture scientists has thrown a host of climate science and crop projects into chaos.
HP will impose a minimum 15-minute wait time for consumer PC and printer support calls in five European countries, seeking to push customers toward digital channels, according to internal documents seen by The Register. The policy, implemented February 18, affects retail...
Apple, Dell made some progress, but MacBooks are still the worst to crack open, says PIRG The right to repair movement has gained momentum, yet laptop makers have largely stalled on improving repairability.…
A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for the motor-neuron condition while in the womb. Nature: The child's mother took the gene-targeting drug during late pregnancy, and the child continues to ...
Nowadays, it’s easy to get fooled by AI content on the web. Whether it’s a picture of the Pope sporting a puffy Balenciaga jacket or Trump getting tackled and arrested, these AI-generated images appear super realistic (as long as you’re not looking too close), so it...
As winter drags on and Spring Training gets underway, I’m itching to start thinking about baseball again. Too bad watching the games can still be an ordeal. In 2025, Major League Baseball has yet to rally its teams behind a cohesive strategy for streaming local ballgames....
Hot air or a 50% energy saving? Exoscale datacenter runs proof-of-concept to test veracity of Digger's claims A1 Digital is testing liquid cooling tech for power-intensive AI servers that is claimed to save 50 percent of the energy previously required for cooling, doing away ...
With the Firefox 135.0.1 update for Windows, macOS, and Linux, Mozilla has fixed several security vulnerabilities along with some non-security-related bugs, which include some browser crash issues and problems with browser history after an update. Mozilla’s 2025-12...
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