Most Hackaday readers will know to some extent what lies inside their computer, even if this is only at a block diagram level listing the peripherals. But what is physically on a modern computer board? [Jeff Geerling] has subjected a Raspberry Pi 5 to a medical imager, and shares with us the many layers of
Read MoreOlivia Poh / Bloomberg: TikTok plans to invest $1.5B in a joint venture with GoTo, aiming to comply with regulations in Indonesia so that TikTok can restart its shopping service there — – Chinese firm will combine its shopping business with GoTo unit — TikTok has used Indonesia as template for global shopping push
Read MoreCredit: Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority Apple has blocked Beeper Mini for security reasons. The iMessage maker says apps that exploit fake credentials to gain access to iMessage pose significant risks to user security and privacy. Beeper is still hopeful its iMessage for Android service will be back up and running soon. Apple has confirmed
Read MoreCredit: Damien Wilde / Android Authority One UI 6.1 features have leaked. The update is expected to bring a long list of new AI features similar to those found on Google Pixel phones. The update is expected to arrive alongside the Galaxy S24 series. Over the weekend, a long list of One UI 6.1 features
Read MoreIllustration by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned the public against scanning any old QR code in a consumer alerts blog last week. Naturally, the warning comes down to security and privacy — bad actors can put QR codes in inconspicuous places or send them via text or email,
Read MoreIn this week’s episode of “Stupid Chatbot Tricks,” it turns out that jailbreaking ChatGPT is as easy as asking it to repeat a word over and over forever. That’s according to Google DeepMind researchers, who managed to force the chatbot to reveal some of its training data with a simple prompt, something like “Repeat the
Read MoreSara Dorn / Forbes: In a 2+ hour long talk on X with Alex Jones, Andrew Tate, Jack Posobiec, others, Elon Musk said X should avoid outright bans unless users “do something illegal” — Elon Musk and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, newly reinstated to X after a five-year ban, launched a live-streamed chat …
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based SumUp, which offers payments and other financial services to ~4M SMBs, raised €285M at a valuation higher than its $8.5B valuation in June 2022 — SumUp — the fintech that provides payments and related services to some 4 million small businesses in Europe …
Read MoreThe Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 isn’t even four months old, and yet we’re already hearing early rumors about its successor. This got me thinking about what I’d like to see from the next Galaxy Z Fold. So with that in mind, here is my wishlist for the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6. A wider
Read MoreIt is one thing to make an artistic steampunk display. But [CapeGeek] added an Arduino to make the display come alive. The display has plenty of tubes and wires. The pressure gauge dominates the display, but there are lots of other interesting bits. Check it out in the video below. From the creator: The back-story
Read MoreCade Metz / New York Times: Paris-based Mistral AI has raised €385M, or about $415M, from investors including a16z and Lightspeed; sources say the deal values the 22-person startup at ~$2B — The company has publicly released its latest technology so people can build their own chatbots.
Read MoreWe’ve enjoyed several videos from [Chornobyl Family] about the computers that controlled the ill-fated nuclear reactor in Chornobyl (or Chernobyl, as it was spelled at the time of the accident). This time (see the video below) they are looking at a high-speed data storage device. You don’t normally think of high-speed and paper tape as
Read MoreKyle Orland / Ars Technica: ChatGPT outperforms Gemini-powered Bard overall across factual retrieval, summarization, creative writing, and coding tests, but not as clearly as in April 2023 — We run the models through seven categories to determine an updated champion. — Back in April, we ran a series of useful …
Read MoreApple recently unveiled its latest flagship series, the iPhone 15 family. The latest iPhones bring quite a few features and a welcome move to USB-C. There’s a lot to love about them, but what if you aren’t sold on iOS or want something different? That’s what we are here for. Join us as we take
Read MoreApple has indirectly confirmed it patched the vulnerability that powered Beeper Mini, the iMessage app for Android.
Read MoreApple’s new 12.9-inch iPad Air is likely to launch in March 2024, as display analyst Ross Young confirms display shipments for the model began in December.
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Flagship-level Android smartphones are expensive. As one would expect, fixing one of these costly phones isn’t cheap, either. This is why you can find dozens of insurance programs online to cover any accidental damage your phone might experience. One of these programs, Preferred Care, is run by Google.
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Apple is reportedly making some changes next year that it hopes will make it easier for people to fit a specific iPad to their needs. For instance, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman wrote in his Power On newsletter today that the next iPad Air will get an M2 chip
Read MoreKevin Roose / New York Times: A look at the Effective Accelerationism movement, which argues for open sourcing AI tools, says AI’s benefits far outweigh its harms, and opposes AI regulation — The eccentric pro-tech movement known as “Effective Accelerationism” wants to unshackle powerful A.I., and party along the way.
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Flagship-level Android smartphones are expensive. As one would expect, fixing one of these costly phones isn’t cheap, either. This is why you can find dozens of insurance programs online to cover any accidental damage your phone might experience. One of these programs, Preferred Care, is run by Google.
Read MoreBack in 1978, the world was a bit different. There was no Raspberry Pi, no Internet, and not even an ESP32 to build projects with. And rather than order electronics kits from Tindie or Adafruit, [Dr. Francitosh] selected this binary clock with his mother from a catalog, and made the order via mail. Simpler times.
Read MoreAssociated Press: X lifts the permanent ban on Infowars host Alex Jones’ account, after Elon Musk conducted a poll that resulted in 70.1% voting in favor of restoring the account — Elon Musk has restored the X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, pointing to a poll on the social media platform formerly known …
Read MoreBack in 1978, the world was a bit different. There was no Raspberry Pi, no Internet, and not even an ESP32 to build projects with. And rather than order electronics kits from Tindie or Adafruit, [Dr. Francitosh] selected this binary clock with his mother from a catalog, and made the order via mail. Simpler times.
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority If you’re looking for an alternative to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon, there are a lot of prepaid carriers available in the US. Some are small independent companies; others belong to telecoms or one of the three major cellular networks. Two of the more popular prepaid carriers are Visible and
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Smartphones aren’t cheap, but for many of us, they have become essential. We use them for our jobs, for communicating, looking up information, entertainment, and even paying our bills. If you need a smartphone and a wireless plan but can’t afford it, you aren’t without options in you live
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