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Saturday December 14, 2024. 08:00 AM
25 years ago today, the late, great Suck.com played a prank on Slashdot. Their daily column of pop-culture criticism was replaced by... Suckdot, a parody site satirically filed with Slashdot-style headlines like 'Linux Possibly Defamed Somewhere.' RabidZelot was one of a...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A sophisticated and ongoing supply-chain attack operating for the past year has been stealing sensitive login credentials from both malicious and benevolent security personnel by infecting them with Trojanized versions...
Meta is asking California Attorney General Rob Bonta to block OpenAI's planned transition from a non-profit to for-profit entity. From a report: In a letter sent to Bonta's office this week, Meta says that OpenAI 'should not be allowed to flout the law by taking and...
Tucked away in a blog post about Google's quantum computing chip, Willow, Google Quantum AI founder Hartmut Neven wrote that the chip was so 'mind-boggling' fast that it seemed to borrow computational power from other universes. According to Neven, the chip's performance...
MojoKid writes: Today's release and review launch of the new Intel Arc B580 marks a second-gen effort from the company, with a fully refreshed Intel Xe2 graphics architecture, aka Battlemage, that promises big gains in performance and efficiency. Comparing Arc B580 to its...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: The United States Postal Service unveiled a plan to buy a fleet of all-electric mail trucks for its mail carriers back in 2022, of which 3,000 were supposed to be delivered by now. Unfortunately, those plans aren't even...
Nvidia is hosting its first LAN party in over a decade to celebrate the debut of the RTX 50 series. It'll occur at CES 2025 in January and feature a 50-hour gaming marathon with tournaments, prizes, and global remote sessions. Tom's Hardware reports: The LAN party (dubbed...
IOCONTROL targets IoT and OT devices from a ton of makers, apparently An Iranian government-linked cybercriminal crew used custom malware called IOCONTROL to attack and remotely control US and Israel-based water and fuel management systems, according to security...
Google's NotebookLM and its podcast-like Audio Overviews are being updated with a new feature that allows listeners to interact with the AI 'hosts.' Google describes how this feature works in a blog post. The Verge reports: In addition to the interactive Audio Overviews,...
Tumblr is introducing a new Community feature similar to subreddits: in-app groups organized by topic or interest. 'Topics include things like film photography, marine biology, LGBTQ, and video games, and each topic has its own landing page where posts shared with the...
Friday December 13, 2024. 11:50 PM
'Today’s sentencing is more than just a punishment. It’s a message' A Texan who ran a forum on the dark web where depraved netizens could swap child sex abuse material (CSAM), and chat freely about abusing kids, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.…
An anonymous reader writes: Russia's communications watchdog Roskomnadzor said on Friday it had blocked access to Rakuten-owned Viber messaging app, the latest in a line of social media services to be banned by Russian authorities. In a statement, Roskomnadzor said the block ...
Won't someone think of Elon? Ah, who are we kidding - none of this will matter in a month Ever in the sights of the SEC, Elon Musk is engaged in another public spat with America's financial watchdog, this time in the form of a letter from the billionaire's lawyer published...
If you missed our second live, subscriber-only Q&A with WIRED’s AI columnist Reece Rogers, you can watch the replay here.
The U.S. military has begun openly discussing offensive capabilities in space, reports ArsTechnica, a significant shift from previous policies that avoided mentioning space-based weapons to prevent an arms race. U.S. Space Command recently listed 'integrated space fires' --...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: Shaun Golden, the sheriff of Monmouth County, N.J., wants feds to get to the bottom of recent mysterious drone activity in his state. Local officials, including Golden, are urging Gov. Phil Murphy (D) to declare a state of...
Privacy measure leaves some mourning lost memories A year ago, Google announced plans to save people's Location History, which it now calls Timeline, locally on devices rather than on its servers.…
Last month, Microsoft officially announced the coming end of its Mail, Calendar, and People apps. If you’re still using those apps, you’ll start receiving pop-ups notifying you that end-of-support is coming up on December 31, 2024, and you’ll be urged to switch over to ...
Healthcare giant Optum has restricted access to an internal AI chatbot used by employees after a security researcher found it was publicly accessible online, and anyone could access it using only a web browser. TechCrunch: The chatbot, which TechCrunch has seen, allowed...
In our final episode of WIRED Politics Lab, we make some predictions about the next four years with Donald Trump back in the White House.
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