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The spam came from inside the house: How a smart TV can choke a Windows PC
Enlarge / I have hundreds of UUIDs and I must scream. The modern "smart" TV asks...
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Kremlin-backed actors spread disinformation ahead of US elections
Kremlin-backed actors have stepped up efforts to interfere with the US presidential election by planting disinformation...
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Home Assistant has a new foundation and a goal to become a consumer brand
Home Assistant, until recently, has been a wide-ranging and hard-to-define project. The open smart home platform...
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After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip
Enlarge / A cropped portion of a ca. 1980 ad for the Microsoft Z80 SoftCard, which...
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First real-life Pixel 9 Pro pictures leak, and it has 16GB of RAM
Enlarge / OnLeak's renders of the Pixel 9 Pro XL, the Pixel 9 Pro, and the...
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Dragonfly Mission to Titan
Enlarge / Artist's illustration of Dragonfly soaring over the dunes of Titan. NASA has formally approved...
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Explore a digitized collection of doomed Everest climber's letters home
Enlarge / The final letter from George Mallory from Camp I, Mount Everest, to his wife...
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Windows vulnerability reported by the NSA exploited to install Russian backdoor
Kremlin-backed hackers have been exploiting a critical Microsoft vulnerability for four years in attacks that targeted...
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NASA may alter Artemis III to have Starship and Orion dock in low-Earth orbit
Enlarge / This image taken by NASA's Orion spacecraft shows its view just before the vehicle...
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It's cutting calories–not intermittent fasting–that drops weight
Intermittent fasting, aka time-restricted eating, can help people lose weight—but the reason why may not be...
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Microsoft's VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track
Enlarge / A sample image from Microsoft for "VASA-1: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces Generated in Real...
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OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships 2022
Enlarge / An AI-generated image from DALL-E 2 created with the prompt "A painting by Grant...
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Google merges the Android, Chrome, and hardware divisions
Google is doing a major re-org of Android, Chrome, and the Google hardware division: They're merging!...
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Hospital prices for the same emergency care vary up to 16X
Enlarge / Miami Beach, Fire Rescue ambulance at Mt. Sinai Medical Center hospital. ] Since 2021,...
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Elon Musk's Grok keeps making up fake news based on X users' jokes
X's chatbot Grok is supposed to be an AI engine crunching the platform's posts to surface...
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Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules
The US Constitution's Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination does not prohibit police officers from forcing a...
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How to keep Earth from being cooked by the ever-hotter Sun
I’d wager a guess that we are, as a species, rather fond of our home planet...
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Feds appoint "AI doomer" to run US AI safety institute
The US AI Safety Institute—part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)—has finally announced...
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Life-threatening rat pee infections reach record levels in NYC
Enlarge / A rat looks for food while on a subway platform at the Columbus Circle...
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Climate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°
Almost from the start, arguments about mitigating climate change have included an element of cost-benefit analysis:...
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Power-hungry AI is putting the hurt on global electricity supply
Electricity supply is becoming the latest chokepoint to threaten the growth of artificial intelligence, according to...
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Linus Torvalds adds arbitrary tabs to kernel code
Enlarge / Cans of Tab diet soda on display in 2011. Tab was discontinued in 2020....
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ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC's Internet rules, critics say
Some net neutrality proponents are worried that soon-to-be-approved Federal Communications Commission rules will allow harmful fast...
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YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked
YouTube is putting third-party ad-blocking apps on notice. An ominous post on the official YouTube Community...