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Sunday February 2, 2025. 05:34 PM
'iPhone devices are now eligible to test SpaceX-owned Starlink's direct-to-cell capability,' Reuters reported this week, citing an announcement from T-Mobile: T-Mobile and Elon Musk's SpaceX are currently testing the Starlink cell network on a trial basis after receiving...
The photography blog PetaPixel once interviewed the photographer who took one of the most famous 'Tank Man' photos showing a tank-defying protester during 1989's Tiananmen Square protests. But this week PetaPixel reported... A Reddit user discovered that the new Chinese LLM...
In 2023, Microsoft began including a free VPN feature in its 'Microsoft Defender' security app for all Microsoft 365 subscribers ('Personal' and 'Family'). Originally Microsoft had 'called it a privacy protection feature,' writes the blog Windows Central, 'designed to let...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: Scientists have found that using seismometers is a new and inexpensive method to detect falling space junk, which can cause damage on impact and carry toxic materials — and may someday turn deadly... It's not an...
Friday TechCrunch reported that OpenAI 'used the subreddit, r/ChangeMyView to create a test for measuring the persuasive abilities of its AI reasoning models.' The company revealed this in a system card — a document outlining how an AI system works — that was released along...
Bill Gates' blog has been updated with short videos about his upcoming book, including one about how his school ended up with an ASR-33 teletype that could connect their Seattle classroom to a computer in California. 'The teachers faded away pretty quickly,' Gates adds, 'But ...
On January 24th Brooklyn blogger Jeffrey Emanuel made the case for shorting NVIDIA, remembers MarketWatch, 'due to a number of shifting tides in the AI world, including the emergence of a China-based company called DeepSeek.' He published his 12,000-word post 'on his...
Wednesday the Linux Foundation wrote that both 'regulatory compliance' and 'increased cybersecurity risk' were 'creating burdens...that must be met' for open source communities. And so, as Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes, 'the Linux Foundation has released a comprehensive...
Saturday February 1, 2025. 11:12 PM
Thursday America's FDA 'raised concerns about cybersecurity vulnerabilities' in patient monitors from China-based medical device company Contec 'that could allow unauthorized individuals to access and potentially manipulate those devices,' reports Reuters. The patient...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Reuters: New York-based cybersecurity firm Wiz says it has found a trove of sensitive data from the Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek inadvertently exposed to the open internet. In a blog post published Wednesday,...
SC World reports: A new phishing scam targeting mobile devices was observed using a 'never-before-seen' obfuscation method to hide links to spoofed United States Postal Service (USPS) pages inside PDF files, [mobile security company] Zimperium reported Monday. The method...
'Sometimes, government makes a bad bet...' writes the Los Angeles Times. Opening in 2014, the Ivanpah concentrated solar plant 'quickly became known as an expensive, bird-killing eyesore.' Assuming that state officials sign off — which they most likely will, because the deal...
Star Wars star Mark Hamill, science fiction author William Gibson, XKCD cartoonist Randall Munroe, and The Onion have joined millions of others bringing Bluesky's user count to 30 million, reports CNET. In fact Bluesky has added over 14 million users in the last three...
Nearly three years ago a team of Chinese AI engineers working for DeepSeek's parent company unveiled an earlier AI supercomputer that the Washington Post says was constructed from 10,000 A100 GPUs purchased from Nvidia. Roughly six months later 'Washington had banned Nvidia...
'A jury may never see the gun that authorities say was used to kill Blake Story last year,' reports Cleveland.com. 'That's because Cleveland police used a facial recognition program — one that explicitly says its results are not admissible in court — to obtain a search...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: To cap off a day of product releases, OpenAI researchers, engineers, and executives, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, answered questions in a wide-ranging Reddit AMA on Friday. OpenAI the company finds itself in a bit of a ...
A recent video from retro tech YouTuber Clint 'LGR' Basinger takes a deep dive into the history of the SereneScreen Marine Aquarium, exploring how former Air Force pilot Jim Sachs transformed a lackluster Windows 95 screensaver into a 25-year digital phenomenon. PC Gamer...
Despite being removed from app stores and facing a potential U.S. ban, TikTok has regained nearly 90% of its user traffic, according to Cloudflare Radar. 'DNS traffic for TikTok-related domains has continued to recover since service restoration, and is currently about 10%...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: In the first serious fallout from President Donald Trump's early actions against offshore wind power, oil and gas giant Shell is walking away from a major project off the coast of New Jersey. Shell told The...
Bruce66423 shares a report from the Associated Press: Federal officials on Thursday approved a new type of pain pill designed to eliminate the risks of addiction and overdose associated with opioid medications such as Vicodin and OxyContin. 'It's the first new pharmaceutical ...
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