FTC “click to cancel” rule seeks to end free trial traps, sneaky...
It will soon be easy to “click to cancel” subscriptions after the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) adopted a final rule on Wednesday that makes it challenging for businesses to opt out of easy...
View ArticleStudent was punished for using AI—then his parents sued teacher and...
A school district in Massachusetts was sued by a student’s parents after the boy was punished for using an artificial intelligence chatbot to complete an assignment. The lawsuit says the Hingham High...
View ArticleKioxia XD8 E1.S EDSFF SSDs Launched at OCP Summit 2024
At OCP Summit 2024, the new Kioxia XD8 PCIe Gen5 drive is on the show floor with its E1.S EDSFF form factor for modern servers The post Kioxia XD8 E1.S EDSFF SSDs Launched at OCP Summit 2024 appeared...
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Double Dragon and Atari Classics land in the palm of your hand with new Super...
HyperMega Tech launched its first Super Pocket handhelds last year, with two distinct models focused on Capcom and Taito games. Now, the company has added two new variants to the Super Pocket line,...
View ArticleX’s depressing ad revenue helps Musk avoid EU’s strictest antitrust law
Following an investigation, Elon Musk’s X has won its fight to avoid gatekeeper status under the European Union’s strict competition law, the Digital Markets Act (DMA). On Wednesday, the European...
View ArticleMen accused of DDoSing some of the world’s biggest tech companies
Federal authorities have charged two Sudanese nationals with running an operation that performed tens of thousands of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against some of the world’s biggest...
View ArticleInventec 96 DIMM CXL Expansion Box at OCP Summit 2024 for TBs of Memory
Perhaps the coolest bit of hardware at OCP Summit 2024, Inventec has an 8-way Intel Xeon 6 server with a 96 DIMM CXL Box for 224 DIMMs total The post Inventec 96 DIMM CXL Expansion Box at OCP Summit...
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Perception of generative AI technology in the insurance industry is a bag of...
IBM recently shared some notable research regarding the current state of generative AI and its implementation in the insurance industry. Big Blue said there is an apparent “disconnect” between...
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Money first, fun last: Former PlayStation president warns of gaming’s...
Former President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment America, Shawn Layden, says the industry has stopped focusing on making fun games and instead spends all its energy on monetization....
View ArticleIt’s increasingly unlikely that humans will fly around the Moon next year
Don’t book your tickets for the launch of NASA’s Artemis II mission next year just yet. We have had reason to doubt the official September 2025 launch date for the mission, the first crewed flight...
View ArticleUS vaccinations fall again as more parents refuse lifesaving shots for kids
Measles, whopping cough, polio, tetanus—devastating and sometimes deadly diseases await comebacks in the US as more and more parents are declining routine childhood vaccines that have proved safe and...
View ArticleHow the Malleus maleficarum fueled the witch trial craze
Between 1400 and 1775, a significant upsurge of witch trials swept across early-modern Europe, resulting in the execution of an estimated 40,000–60,000 accused witches. Historians and social...
View ArticleRedbox easily reverse-engineered to reveal customers’ names, zip codes, rentals
Since Redbox went bankrupt, many have wondered what will happen to those red kiosks and DVDs. Another question worth examining is: What will happen to all the data stored inside the Redboxes? Redbox...
View ArticleQualcomm cancels Windows dev kit PC for “comprehensively” failing to meet...
It’s been a big year for Windows running on Arm chips, something that Microsoft and Arm chipmakers have been trying to get off the ground for well over a decade. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite and X...
View ArticleCheap AI “video scraping” can now extract data from any screen recording
Recently, AI researcher Simon Willison wanted to add up his charges from using a cloud service, but the payment values and dates he needed were scattered among a dozen separate emails. Inputting them...
View ArticleBiden administration curtails controls on some space-related exports
The US Commerce Department announced Thursday it is easing restrictions on exports of space-related technology, answering a yearslong call from space companies to reform regulations governing...
View ArticleAmazon exec tells employees to work elsewhere if they dislike RTO policy
Amazon workers are being reminded that they can find work elsewhere if they’re unhappy with Amazon’s return-to-office (RTO) mandate. In September, Amazon told staff that they’ll have to RTO five days...
View ArticleDesalination system adjusts itself to work with renewable power
Fresh water we can use for drinking or agriculture is only about 3 percent of the global water supply, and nearly 70 percent of that is trapped in glaciers and ice caps. So far, that was enough to...
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Tesla’s “full self-driving” faces another NHTSA probe after fatal crashes in...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigation centers around four accidents where Teslas running the Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta crashed after entering areas of reduced visibility...
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Future Artemis III astronauts will wear Prada during their spacewalks
American private space company Axiom and Italian luxury brand Prada announced a partnership to design a new spacesuit for the NASA Artemis program in 2023. The fruits of that labor are beginning to...
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