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Monday August 11, 2025. 01:09 AM
Imagine this. Lightning sparks a wildfire, but 'within seconds, a satellite dish swirling overhead picks up on the anomaly and triggers an alarm,' writes the Los Angeles Times. 'An autonomous helicopter takes flight and zooms toward the fire, using sensors to locate the...
PLUS: Crypto mixer founders plead guilty; Another French telco hacked; Meta fights WhatsApp scams; And more! Infosec In Brief A critical vulnerability in the on-prem version of Trend Micro's Apex One endpoint security platform is under active exploitation, the company...
Sunday August 10, 2025. 11:25 PM
'It sounds like science fiction: a spacecraft, no heavier than a paperclip, propelled by a laser beam,' writes this report from ScienceDaily, 'and hurtling through space at the speed of light toward a black hole, on a mission to probe the very fabric of space and time and...
The Wall Street Journal has found 'dozens of instances in recent months in which ChatGPT made delusional, false and otherworldly claims to users who appeared to believe them.' For example, 'You're not crazy. You're cosmic royalty in human skin...' In one exchange lasting...
Linus has released 6.17-rc1 and closed the merge window for this development cycle. Anyway, the merge window did end up looking fairly healthy, despite me having to go through a couple of bisections for trouble spots (one during travels with a laptop - not optimal, but...
'Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech's energy-hungry data centers...' reports the Associated Press. 'Some critics question whether states have the spine to take a hard...
The BBC reports: A meteorite that crashed into a home in the U.S. is older than planet Earth, scientists have said... Researchers at the University of Georgia examined a fragment of the rock that pierced the roof of a home in the city of McDonough [30 miles south of Georgia, ...
Plasma 6.4.5 is coming September 9th, reports Neowin. But they also report that the KDE team is already focusing on other upcoming release: Starting with KDE Frameworks, KDE's collection of foundational libraries, version 6.18 promises to let you do something with that...
One of America's largest solar + battery storage projects 'is now fully online in Mojave, California,' reports Electrek: Arevon Energy's Eland Solar-plus-Storage Project combines 758 megawatts (MWdc) of solar with 300 MW/1,200 megawatt hours of battery storage. Eland 1...
Think you need to shell out the big bucks on a new computer to enjoy all the latest technology? Not anymore! In fact, a Microsoft Windows 11 Pro license can revolutionize your dusty old PC, and now it's only $14.97 (reg. — Read the rest The post Upgrade your OS for less than...
Thursday saw the release of Rust 1.89.0 But this week the Rust Foundation also released its second comprehensive annual technology report. A Rust Foundation announcement shares some highlights: - Trusted Publishing [GitHub Actions authentication using cryptographically...
These WIRED-tested hearing aids are our top selections for seniors whose hearing has faded with age.
Sena's S1 smart cycling helmet with a mesh intercom system kept me sane on the world's most boring century ride.
Five pilot deployments are just a drop in the bucket, so it's time to turbo scale def con A DEF CON hacker walks into a small-town water facility…no, this is not the setup for a joke or a (super-geeky) odd-couple rom-com. It's a true story that happened at five utilities...
xA California man sued Microsoft Thursday over its plan to stop supporting Windows 10 on October 14th, reports Courthouse News Though Windows 11 was launched nearly four years ago, many of its billion or so worldwide users are clinging to the decade-old Windows 10......
This app gives you the full desktop PC experience on an Apple computer.
A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture.
Nothing ruins a great night of sleep faster than getting too hot. We slept on a myriad of cooling mattresses to find which ones drew the heat away best.
POS scams are difficult but not impossible to pull off. Here's how they work—and how you can protect yourself.
Decision to use MXFP4 makes models smaller, faster, and more importantly, cheaper for everyone involved Analysis Whether or not OpenAI's new open weights models are any good is still up for debate, but their use of a relatively new data type called MXFP4 is arguably more...
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