Trump wants CBS license revoked; FCC chair explains that isn’t going to happen
Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel today slammed Donald Trump for his repeated attacks on TV news networks. Trump, the former president and current presidential...
View ArticleFormer Apple hardware chief Dan Riccio is retiring
Dan Riccio, one of Apple’s most prominent executives for more than two decades, will retire from the company this month, according to a report in Bloomberg that cites people with knowledge of the...
View ArticleAmazon, Apple make a deal to offer Apple TV+ in a Prime bundle
Apple TV+ will now be available as an add-on in Amazon Prime Video bundles, and users will be able to watch Apple TV+ films and shows in Prime Video apps and devices without downloading a separate...
View ArticleIntel’s Core Ultra 200S CPUs are its biggest desktop refresh in three years
Intel’s 14th-generation desktop processors were a mild update on top of a mild update: a barely faster revision of the 13th-gen Core CPUs, which were themselves a modest tweak to 2021’s 12th-gen Core...
View ArticleIn a rare disclosure, the Pentagon provides an update on the X-37B spaceplane
After more than nine months in an unusual, highly elliptical orbit, the US military’s X-37B spaceplane will soon begin dipping its wings into Earth’s atmosphere to lower its altitude before eventually...
View ArticleBreakdancers at risk for “headspin hole,” doctors warn
Breakdancing has become a global phenomenon since it first emerged in the 1970s, even making its debut as an official event at this year’s Summer Olympics. But hardcore breakers are prone to injury...
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Ryzen 7 9800X3D could be the first 3D V-Cache CPU to outpace the standard...
The leak comes from the Chinese video platform Bilibili, where someone shared a Cinebench R23 benchmark run supposedly from the unannounced 9800X3D chip. The most eye-catching specification is its...
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Researchers want to use pyrolysis to turn asteroids into food for long-term...
A team of scientists from Western University’s Institute for Earth and Space Exploration have proposed mining asteroids to convert the raw, rocky materials into edible biomass for astronauts. Their...
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Steam adds the harsh truth that you’re buying “a license,” not the game itself
There comes a point in most experienced Steam shoppers’ lives where they wonder what would happen if their account was canceled or stolen, or perhaps they just stopped breathing. It’s scary to think...
View ArticleAsahi Linux’s bespoke GPU driver is running Windows games on Apple Silicon Macs
A few years ago, the idea of running PC games on a Mac, in Linux, or on Arm processors would have been laughable. But the developers behind Asahi Linux—the independent project that is getting Linux...
View Article5th Circuit rules ISP should have terminated Internet users accused of piracy
Music publishing companies notched another court victory against a broadband provider that refused to terminate the accounts of Internet users accused of piracy. In a ruling on Wednesday, the...
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Steam now explicitly states you’re not buying the game, just a license
Steam has begun displaying a new notice in its shopping cart, explicitly clarifying the transaction: “A purchase of a digital product grants a license for the product on Steam.” The change is Valve’s...
View ArticleClimate change boosted Milton’s landfall strength from Category 2 to 3
As attempts to clean up after Hurricane Milton are beginning, scientists at the World Weather Attribution project have taken a quick look at whether climate change contributed to its destructive...
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RIAA’s Flags Latest Piracy Threats, Sees a Future for AI
The artificial intelligence boom promises progress and innovation but, at the same time, it poses a threat to existing industries. Over the past two years, dozens of lawsuits were filed against...
View ArticleEx-Twitter execs push for $200M severance as Elon Musk runs X into ground
Former Twitter executives, including former CEO Parag Agrawal, are urging a court to open discovery in a dispute over severance and other benefits they allege they were wrongfully denied after Elon...
View ArticleOver 86% of surveyed health care providers are short on IV fluids
More than 86 percent of healthcare providers surveyed across the US are experiencing shortages of intravenous fluids after Hurricane Helene’s rampage took out a manufacturing plant in western North...
View ArticleASRock Rack TURIN2D48G 48 DIMM Motherboard Launched
The ASRock Rack TURIN2D48G-2L+ motherboard supports up to two 500W AMD EPYC Turin CPUs with up to 768 threads and a whopping 48 DDR5 DIMMs The post ASRock Rack TURIN2D48G 48 DIMM Motherboard Launched...
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Microsoft teases a new OneDrive UX for Windows 11 and macOS
The 2024 OneDrive event happened last week, and Microsoft had a lot to share. You’ll witness a new OneDrive, that works flawlessly with both Windows and Mac devices. The company didn’t clarify whether...
View ArticleWhy a diabetes drug fell short of anticancer hopes
Pamela Goodwin has received hundreds of emails from patients asking if they should take a cheap, readily available drug, metformin, to treat their cancer. It’s a fair question: Metformin, commonly...
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Hands-On: Windows 11 Snipping Tool now lets you extract data table from...
Snipping Tool has had the Text Actions feature for a year. It’s an OCR feature that identifies and extracts text from the screenshots. In a new experimental build, Microsoft has added an option to...
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