UK ISPs Blocked 7,000+ Piracy Domains in the First Six Months of 2024
Next month will mark the 13th anniversary of the first site blocking injunction in the UK. Action by the major Hollywood studios against Usenet indexing site Newzbin led to ISP BT being ordered to...
View ArticleBleeding subscribers, cable companies force their way into streaming
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | stefanamer) It’s clear that streaming services are the present and future of video distribution. But that doesn’t mean that cable companies are ready to give up on your...
View ArticleThe world’s first photograph required how much time of exposure?
French inventor Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce is credited with creating the first permanent photograph in 1826 Read...
View ArticleGameStop investor retracts suit accusing Roaring Kitty of pump-and-dump scheme
Enlarge (credit: jetcityimage | iStock Editorial / Getty Images Plus) Keith Gill—the meme stock influencer known as “Roaring Kitty” and “DeepF—Value” who has rallied millions on X and Reddit behind...
View ArticleThe best Audi EV so far? We drive the 2025 Q6 e-tron SUV
Enlarge / Audi took the lead on developing VW Group’s new Premium Platform Electric, and its first EV to use PPE is the 2025 Q6 e-tron. (credit: Audi) Audi provided flights from Washington to Bilbao...
View ArticleSupermicro AS-1115SV-WTNRT Review 1U AMD EPYC Siena Server
In our Supermicro AS-1115SV-WTNRT review, we see how this 1U AMD EPYC 8004 platform provides lots of NVMe and expansion due to its WIO design The post Supermicro AS-1115SV-WTNRT Review 1U AMD EPYC...
View ArticleGoogle Pixel 9 reveal coming in August to head off iPhone 16
Google has announced this year’s Made By Google event for August 13, where the company is expected to reveal the Pixel 9 phones. New Pixel products, such as a foldable tablet, watch, and earbuds, are...
View Article3 million iOS and macOS apps were exposed to potent supply-chain attacks
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) Vulnerabilities that went undetected for a decade left thousands of macOS and iOS apps susceptible to supply-chain attacks. Hackers could have added malicious code...
View ArticleFirefly is building fast and breaking things on path to a reusable rocket
Enlarge / A test version of Firefly’s Miranda engine fires up on a test stand in Briggs, Texas. (credit: Firefly Aerospace) BRIGGS, Texas—The new medium-lift rocket under development by Firefly...
View Article“RegreSSHion” vulnerability in OpenSSH gives attackers root on Linux
Enlarge Researchers have warned of a critical vulnerability affecting the OpenSSH networking utility that can be exploited to give attackers complete control of Linux and Unix servers with no...
View ArticleAI trains on kids’ photos even when parents use strict privacy settings
Enlarge (credit: Aitor Diago | Moment) Human Rights Watch (HRW) continues to reveal how photos of real children casually posted online years ago are being used to train AI models powering image...
View ArticleReviewers seem to both love and hate Microsoft’s latest Surface Pro
The Surface Pro 11 is among the first Copilot+ PCs to feature Qualcomm’s Arm silicon. Early mixed reviews point to nice performance and battery life upgrades, an impressive display, and promising AI...
View ArticleA bold plan takes shape to build the world’s largest subsea energy...
A group of entrepreneurs is proposing to build the world’s largest subsea energy interconnector, linking Europe and North America with three pairs of high-voltage cables. The connection would transport...
View Article“Breakthrough” robot with lab-grown “human brain” promises advancement in...
Chinese researchers from Tianjin University and the Southern University of Science and Technology have created a groundbreaking robot powered by a tiny organoid derived from human stem cells grafted to...
View ArticleApple Vision Pro, new cameras fail user-repairability analysis
Enlarge / Apple’s Vision Pro scored 0 points in US PIRG’s self-repairability analysis. (credit: Kyle Orland) In December, New York became the first state to enact a “Right to Repair” law for...
View ArticleTwo of the German military’s new spy satellites appear to have failed in orbit
Enlarge / The SARah-1 mission is seen on the launch pad in June 2022. (credit: SpaceX) On the day before Christmas last year, a Falcon 9 rocket launched from California and put two spy satellites into...
View Article48 DDR5 Memory Slots Twisting to Fit in a 2U Server
Gigabyte twists the DDR5 memory slots to fit 48 RDIMMs into a 2U AMD EPYC 9004 dual socket design The post 48 DDR5 Memory Slots Twisting to Fit in a 2U Server appeared first on ServeTheHome.
View ArticleSteve Ballmer’s net worth just passed Bill Gates for the first time ever
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Ballmer is now worth more than Google co-founder Sergey Brin, investor Warren Buffett, Dell founder Michael Dell, Nvidia boss Jensen Huang, and Oracle...
View ArticleCan’t stop your cat from scratching the furniture? Science has some tips
Enlarge / Ariel and Caliban learned as kittens that scratching posts were fair game for their natural claw-sharpening instincts. (credit: Sean Carroll) Ah, cats. We love our furry feline overlords...
View ArticleHigh-altitude cave used by Tibetan Buddhists yields a Denisovan fossil
Enlarge / The Baishiya Karst Cave, where the recently analyzed samples were obtained. (credit: Dongju Zhang’s group (Lanzhou University)) For well over a century, we had the opportunity to study...
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