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Microsoft: Windows 11 will no longer support Adobe Type 1 fonts
The legacy PostScript fonts will stop working in Windows 11. In an update to its support support, Microsoft marked this old font file for depreciation and will soon remove its support. The...
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Hydrogen fuel cells from Bloom Energy hit 60% efficiency milestone
Bloom Energy has hit a milestone that could make hydrogen a much more viable fuel source for powering everything from data centers to manufacturing plants. The company has achieved 60 percent...
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Windows update flaw allows hackers to downgrade systems to vulnerable versions
A significant vulnerability in Microsoft Windows security tools was unveiled at the Black Hat security conference. Alon Leviev, a researcher from SafeBreach, showcased a method to exploit the Windows...
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YouTube tests Twitter-style community notes to fight misinformation
YouTube says that the experimental feature will allow users of the platform to add notes to provide relevant, timely, and easy-to-understand context on videos. It gives examples such as when a song is...
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Intel and OEMs provide updates on Raptor Lake warranties, Battlemage GPUs...
Intel has confirmed that its recently announced two-year warranty extension for 13th- and 14th-generation Core processors covers i5 K, KF, and above models. The company can only guarantee the extension...
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Who invented Ethernet networking?
Was it Cisco, Packard Bell, Xerox, or AT&T? Read Entire Article
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Intel faces shareholder class-action lawsuit for allegedly concealing foundry...
The Construction Laborers Pension Trust of Greater St. Louis, a Missouri-based pension fund, filed the lawsuit against Intel on behalf of other investors in a San Francisco federal court on Wednesday....
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Check out the HackberryPi Zero, a Raspberry Pi-based hacking tool
ZitaoTech, a Chinese student currently based in Germany, has created a new Raspberry Pi-based device he named HackberryPi Zero. The handheld Linux terminal is only compatible with the Raspberry Pi Zero...
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Google and Meta ignored their own rules in secret teen-targeting ad deals
Enlarge (credit: Maskot via Getty) Google and Meta made a secret deal to target advertisements for Instagram to teenagers on YouTube, skirting the search company’s own rules for how minors are treated...
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This new charger lets all EVs plug in without an adapter
Enlarge / The new ChargePoint Omni Port is actually a pair of cables. (credit: ChargePoint) Last year, a remarkable thing happened in the car world. Just as it looked like everyone other than Tesla...
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Intel made a billion dollar blunder when it declined to invest in OpenAI
In 2017 and 2018, Intel had a game-changing opportunity to acquire a 15% stake in OpenAI for $1 billion, with an option to double that stake if it supplied hardware at cost. This potential investment,...
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More people are returning the Humane Ai Pin than buying it
There was so much hype before the Ai Pin’s launch that Humane managed to secure $240 million from investors including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The company was valued at a massive $850 million last year,...
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Paid services that remove you from people-finder sites aren’t very effective
Consumer Reports (CR) highlighted the trend of people-search sites that collate publicly available data on individuals and make it easily accessible. They’ve led to the rise in services like DeleteMe...
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Rocket Report: Archimedes engine sees first light, New Glenn making moves
Enlarge / Rocket Lab says it fired up the Archimedes engine at full thrust this week. (credit: Rocket Lab) Welcome to Edition 7.06 of the Rocket Report! There has been a lot of drama over the last...
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US military tracks more than 300 pieces of debris from Chinese launch
Enlarge / Debris from the upper stage of China’s Long March 6A rocket captured from the ground by Slingshot Aerospace. (credit: Slingshot Aerospace) The upper stage from a Chinese rocket that launched...
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Apple plans major redesign for Mac mini using AI-enhanced M4 chips
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, citing inside sources, has revealed an upcoming development from Cupertino: the Mac mini is set for its first significant design overhaul since 2010, transforming it into...
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Borderlands movie lands on Rotten Tomatoes with 0% rating
The movie opened to a devastating 0% on Rotten Tomatoes with reviewers calling it out for sloppy writing, bad directing, poor dialogue, and more – even as some praised it for getting the...
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Intel’s problems continue: AMD erodes market share, credit rating downgraded,...
The latest piece of news Intel could have done without comes from Mercury Research (via PC Gamer). The PC component market research group’s most recent report shows that AMD’s share of the desktop x86...
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Doom + Doom II is a great excuse to jump back into Hell, for free or for $10
Enlarge / I don’t know what this flame crossbow (?) is from the Legacy of Rust campaign, but I am going to keep running and gunning until I get it. (credit: Bethesda Softworks) I have only one...
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512-bit RSA key in home energy system gives control of “virtual power plant”
Enlarge When Ryan Castellucci recently acquired solar panels and a battery storage system for their home just outside of London, they were drawn to the ability to use an open source dashboard to...
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