New York Times: Sources: GM spent an average of $588M a quarter on Cruise in the past year, up 42% YoY, and staff intervened to assist Cruise’s vehicles every 2.5 to five miles — Cruise has hired a law firm to investigate how it responded to regulators, as its cars sit idle and questions grow
Read MoreThe new indoor / outdoor security camera from TP-Link’s Tapo packs a lot into a small package. | Image: TP-Link Tapo, one of TP-Link’s two smart home brands, is continuing to expand its footprint in the home security camera space with the announcement of the $39.99 Tapo C120. This pint-size smart home camera fits in
Read MoreImage: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images Microsoft was planning to remove a free Xbox Game Pass Ultimate benefit for most of its 238,000 employees in January, but the company is now reversing that decision following employee complaints. The Verge reported yesterday that Microsoft employees had expressed objections about the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate benefit being
Read MoreReuters: China says it attended the UK AI Safety Summit’s ministerial meeting on its second day, despite not being listed by the UK among the “like-minded” participants — China said it attended a top-level ministerial meeting at the UK AI Safety Summit on Thursday …
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Microsoft Surface PCs that have shipped on or after January 1st, 2021 will get at least six years of driver and firmware updates, according to a Microsoft support document reported on by Windows Central. Previously, Microsoft had only said it would support devices with at least four
Read MoreThe new indoor / outdoor security camera from TP-Link’s Tapo packs a lot into a small package. | Image: TP-Link Tapo, one of TP-Link’s two smart home brands, is continuing to expand its footprint in the home security camera space with the announcement of the $39.99 Tapo C120. This pint-size smart home camera fits in
Read MoreImage: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images Microsoft was planning to remove a free Xbox Game Pass Ultimate benefit for most of its 238,000 employees in January, but the company is now reversing that decision following employee complaints. The Verge reported yesterday that Microsoft employees had expressed objections about the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate benefit being
Read MoreThe director has made more than 20 feature films, but his ’80s classics like The Fly and Videodrome remain his calling card.
Read MoreCredit: Blizzard Entertainment Blizzard has published a launch trailer for its newly released mobile game Warcraft Rumble. Warcraft Rumble is a tower defense-like game based on the Worlds of Warcraft universe. The game was introduced last year as Warcraft Arclight Rumble. If you’re a mobile game connoisseur, you may have been keeping an eye on
Read MoreBill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Google Play rolls out an “Independent security review” badge for apps that have conducted a Mobile Application Security Assessment audit, starting with VPN apps — Google Play, Android’s official app store, is now tagging VPN apps with an ‘independent security reviews’ badge …
Read MoreThose shrunken-down arcade cabinets are a nifty idea, but they sure do suck in practice. At least, the Dance Dance Revolution game is full of empty promises. With the $25 cabinet, all you get are three songs that come out of a crappy little speaker, and a not-great display to match. [BigRig Creates] endeavored to
Read MoreAndrew Hayward / Decrypt: OpenSea lays off ~50% of staff and is moving to “OpenSea 2.0”; after laying off 20% of its workforce in July 2022, the NFT marketplace said 230 staff remained — A company representative told Decrypt that approximately 50% of employees were impacted across the company.
Read MoreThose shrunken-down arcade cabinets are a nifty idea, but they sure do suck in practice. At least, the Dance Dance Revolution game is full of empty promises. With the $25 cabinet, all you get are three songs that come out of a crappy little speaker, and a not-great display to match. [BigRig Creates] endeavored to
Read MoreBill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Google Play rolls out an “Independent security review” badge for apps that have conducted a Mobile Application Security Assessment audit, starting with VPN apps — Google Play, Android’s official app store, is now tagging VPN apps with an ‘independent security reviews’ badge …
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: An interview with Mozilla Senior Director of Content Carolyn O’Hara about joining the fediverse, technical hurdles when onboarding users, moderation, and more — Consumers are hungry for a new way of social networking, where trust and safety are paramount and power isn’t centralized …
Read MoreControversial position: the world needs more buttons. We’ve gotten so far away from physical interfaces like buttons, knobs, and switches in favor of sleek but sterile touch-screen “controls” that when we see something like this big red button so toddlers can start a TV show, we just have to latch onto the story and see
Read MoreZac Bowden / Windows Central: Microsoft updates its support documentation to say Surface PCs shipped after January 1, 2021, will receive firmware updates for six years, up from four years — Surface PCs shipped in 2021 onward are getting two extra years of firmware updates. — What you need to know
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Surface devices are getting an extra two years of firmware updates. Microsoft previously guaranteed only four years of support. The extended support will come to all Surface PCs released after January 1, 2021. In an unexpected move, Microsoft has quietly updated its Surface device support page. The company now
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: An interview with Mozilla Senior Director of Content Carolyn O’Hara about joining the fediverse, technical hurdles when onboarding users, moderation, and more — Consumers are hungry for a new way of social networking, where trust and safety are paramount and power isn’t centralized …
Read MoreA render of the proposed San Jose development. | Image: Google Google has ended its agreement with Lendlease, the lead developer it had been working with on four major campus projects in Silicon Valley. In an announcement published earlier on Friday, Lendlease said both companies had agreed to end the deal after determining that “the
Read More“Now and Then” was made possible by technology Peter Jackson used on the documentary series Get Back. Listen here.
Read MoreImage: Marvel Studios / Chuck Zlotnick Alaqua Cox’s Maya Lopez immediately stood out when she appeared in Disney Plus’ Hawkeye back in 2021. Among a cast of charismatic goofballs and assassins with hearts of gold, Maya was a terrifyingly deadly foil, constantly reminding the audience and characters of the stakes. Disney was so enamored with
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority YouTube’s crackdown on ad blockers is causing users to uninstall the software in record numbers. However, an even higher number of users are instead turning to better ad blockers that won’t trigger YouTube’s warning. Some users are even going as far as to switch to a new browser. YouTube
Read MoreThomas Claburn / The Register: As the EU prepared to designate Apple as a gatekeeper under the DMA, Apple argued that it has three distinct browsers: Safari for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS — And with a straight face, too. Brussels didn’t buy it — Apple tried to avoid regulation in the European Union by making
Read MoreWe’ve talked a few times here about the issues with the CVSS system. We’ve seen CVE farming, where a moderate issue, or even a non-issue, gets assigned a ridiculously high CVSS score. There are times a minor problem in a library is a major problem in certain use cases, and not an issue at all
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