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Monday May 5, 2025. 09:34 AM
'A federal class action lawsuit filed this week in Texas accused Toyota and an affiliated telematics aggregator of unlawfully collecting drivers' information and then selling that data to Progressive,' reports Insurance Journal: The lawsuit alleges that Toyota and Connected...
Hails DOGE operatives for computer skills during interview in which he also flubbed some tech investment figures US President Donald Trump has said TikTok will be “very strongly protected” as the made-in-China social network has “a warm spot in my heart”.…
PLUS: China spring cleans its AIs; South Korea fines Meta, probes Broadcom; and more! Asia in brief India’s ambition to become a global semiconductor manufacturing player went backwards last week after two big players changed their plans.…
Rolling Stone reports on a strange new phenomenon spotted this week in a Reddit thread titled 'Chatgpt induced psychosis.' The original post came from a 27-year-old teacher who explained that her partner was convinced that the popular OpenAI model 'gives him the answers to...
As May the 4th transforms into Star Wars Day, dozens of sites and games have found ways to celebrate. The official Star Wars channel on YouTube released a celebratory video. Disney+ released Tales of the Underworld, a six-part animated series about bounty hunters during the...
PLUS: AirPlay exploits; Six-year old backdoor opens; Raytheon settles federal charges; and more! Infosec In Brief Microsoft has decided to push its consumer customers to dump passwords in favor of passkeys.…
Did you know there's an initiative to drive Open Source adoption both within the United Nations — and globally? Launched in March, it's the work of the Digital Technology Network (under the UN's chief executive board) which 'works to advance open source technologies...
Sunday May 4, 2025. 11:41 PM
A Dartmouth College associate professor of Japanese literature and culture became a narrative consultant for Ubisoft's game Assassin's Creed Shadow (which launched in March). Sachi Schmidt-Hori's job 'involved researching historical customs and reviewing scripts, not...
'When Disneyland turns 70 this July, Main Street's Opera House will play host to the return of Walt Disney, who will sit down with audiences to tell his story in robot form,' writes Gizmodo. But they point out Walt's granddaughter Johanna Miller wrote a Facebook post...
With its Start menu-style application launcher and its bottom-of-the-screen taskbar, KDE Plasma is a 'nice' and 'traditional' desktop environment that's 'also highly customizable,' notes It's FOSS News. But there's a change coming... In contrast to other desktop...
With North Korean IT workers storming the gates, too RSAC Another RSA Conference has come and gone, with almost 44,000 attendees this year spread across San Francisco's Moscone Center and the surrounding facilities, according to event organizers.…
At the Miami Grand Prix’s driver’s parade, the sport’s biggest stars rode in drivable Lego cars that took eight months to build. It was as awesome as it sounds.
'Our future won't be handed to us,' says the young narrator in a new ad from the nonprofit Code.org. 'We will build it.' 'But how can we when the education we need is still just an elective?' says another young voice... The ad goes on to tout the power 'to create with...
Thursday the Free Software Foundation announced plans for a celebratory hackathon in November to improve free/libre software 'in honor of its fortieth anniversary. The FSF has been campaigning for software freedom for over forty years. As part of its celebrations, the...
Dr. Paul Offit, an expert on infectious disease and immunology, told the Guardian that 'We're living in a post-herd-immunity world. I think the measles outbreak proves that. Measles — because it is the most contagious of the vaccine-preventable diseases, the most contagious...
Slashdot reader Mirnotoriety shared this report from the Register: A proof-of-concept program has been released to demonstrate a so-called monitoring 'blind spot' in how some Linux antivirus and other endpoint protection tools use the kernel's io_uring interface. That...
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El Reg checks out shop in SF On Thursday, six stores across America opened their doors with a curious proposition: Come on in, let a metal orb scan your irises, and walk out with a new online profile that promises you're an individual human – and a few bucks in crypto for...
An anonymous reader shared this report from The Verge: Firefox could be put out of business should a court implement all the [U.S.] Justice Department's proposals to restrict Google's search monopoly, an executive for the browser owner Mozilla testified Friday. 'It's very...
When pigeons outnumber pigeonholes, some birds must double up. This obvious statement, and its inverse, have deep connections to many areas of math and computer science.
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