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Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have devised an attack against nearly all virtual private network applications that forces them to send and receive some or all traffic outside of the...
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FBI and NCA spoofed Lockbit’s seized site for some reason
Earlier this year, an international coalition calling itself Cronos and consisting of law enforcement agencies from several countries, including the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and the US’s...
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Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game
Enlarge / I can see the code that controls the Tetri-verse! (credit: Aurich Lawson) Earlier this year, we shared the story of how a classic NES Tetris player hit the game’s “kill screen” for the first...
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League of Legends receives controversial Vanguard anti-cheat, Windows 11 now...
League of Legends players on Windows are now receiving prompts to install Riot Games’ Vanguard anti-cheat system. Since the company introduced the software in Valorant a few years ago, it has sparked...
View ArticleNVIDIA ConnectX-7 OCP NIC 3.0 Review 2-port 200GbE and NDR200 IB
In our NVIDIA ConnectX-7 review, we see how this OCP NIC 3.0 card with dual QSFP112 200GbE/ NDR200 InfiniBand ports works The post NVIDIA ConnectX-7 OCP NIC 3.0 Review 2-port 200GbE and NDR200 IB...
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Cheyenne supercomputer sold to the highest bidder for $480,000
The auction to get a piece of High-Performance Computing (HPC) history ended a few days ago, with the final bidder winning the Cheyenne supercomputer for $480,085 – a mere fraction of its $25-35...
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Hands-on with the new iPad Pros and Airs: A surprisingly refreshing refresh
Enlarge / Apple’s latest iPad Air, now in two sizes. The Magic Keyboard accessory is the same one that you use with older iPad Airs and Pros, though they can use the new Apple Pencil Pro. (credit:...
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Here is what it would look like if you traveled into the event horizon of a...
On Monday, NASA released a video showing what a camera would theoretically capture if it spiraled into a black hole (below). The clip is reminiscent of those Winamp music visualizations in the 90s (and...
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Raspberry Pis get a built-in remote access tool: Raspberry Pi Connect
Enlarge / Raspberry Pi Connect looks like a good reason to make a Pi account, at least if you’re not running your own DynDNS, VPN, and other remote access schemes. (credit: Raspberry Pi) One Raspberry...
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Surprisingly, Google Pixel 8a launches at $499 with 7 years of updates
The new Pixel 8a features Google’s Gemini AI at its core. With seven years of OS updates and powerful hardware, the 8a emerges as a highly desirable mid-ranger. Read Entire Article
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Amid two wrongful death lawsuits, Panera to pull the plug on “charged” drinks
Enlarge / Dispensers for Charged Lemondade, a caffeinated lemonade drink, at Panera Bread, Walnut Creek, California, March 27, 2023. (credit: Getty | Smith Collection/Gado) Panera Bread will stop...
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OpenAI’s flawed plan to flag deepfakes ahead of 2024 elections
Enlarge (credit: Boris Zhitkov | Moment) As the US moves toward criminalizing deepfakes—deceptive AI-generated audio, images, and videos that are increasingly hard to discern from authentic content...
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Apple M4 arrives less than a year after M3 as the AI PC battle looms
Apple’s event mostly focused on iPads, but the presentation also introduced the M4 – the company’s next-generation in-house SoCs. As expected, the processors offer performance improvements over the M3...
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Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause
Enlarge / A scene from the Prime Video original series Fallout. (credit: Prime Video/YouTube) Amazon Prime Video subscribers will see new types of advertisements this broadcast year. Amazon announced...
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Renewable energy sources are now used for a third of the world’s electricity...
Ember has just released its latest Global Electricity Review, a report detailing the use of renewable and fossil fuel sources in generating electric energy for various needs of individuals and...
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Intel’s and Qualcomm’s Huawei export licenses get revoked
Enlarge / Huawei’s Intel-powered Matebook X Pro has drawn criticism from US China hawks. (credit: Huawei) The US’s crackdown on exports to Huawei now includes even stronger restrictions than it has...
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Bike brands start to adopt C-V2X to warn cyclists about cars
Enlarge / A C-V2X bicycle can alert a C-V2X-enabled car to its presence—note the large yellow icon on the screenshot of the Audi’s digital instrument display. (credit: Audi) There’s a fundamental flaw...
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DeepMind adds a diffusion engine to latest protein-folding software
Enlarge / Prediction of the structure of a coronavirus Spike protein from a virus that causes the common cold. (credit: Google DeepMind) Most of the activities that go on inside cells—the activities...
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Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops...
Enlarge / A still image of a robotic quadruped armed with a remote weapons system, captured from a video provided by Onyx Industries. (credit: Onyx Industries) The United States Marine Forces Special...
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40 years later, Kontrabant 2 for ZX Spectrum is rebroadcast on FM in Slovenia
Enlarge / In 1984, the year 2000 was so promising, students made entire games promising to take you there. (credit: Radio Student) Software is almost impossibly easy to download, distribute, and...
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