If you want to get better at your favorite sport, there’s really no substitute to putting in more training hours. For solo activities like running or cycling that’s simple enough: the only limit to your training time is your own endurance. But if you’re into games that require a partner, their availability is another limiting
Read MoreDan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers report critical vulnerabilities in the Exim mail transfer agent allowing remote code execution; Exim is used by as many as 253K servers — Remote code execution requiring no authentication fixed. 2 other RCEs remain unpatched. — Thousands of servers running the Exim mail transfer agent …
Read MoreDespite the fact that it constantly seems like we’re in the midst of a robotics- and artificial intelligence-driven revolution, there are a number of tasks that continue to elude even the best machine learning algorithms and robots. The clothing industry is an excellent example, where the flimsy materials can easily trip up robotic manipulators. But
Read MoreJoel Khalili / Wired: A look at FTX 2.0 Coalition, a group of creditors led by FTX CEO John Ray III that has almost 3,000 members and is looking to relaunch the exchange without SBF — As SBF’s trial approaches, a group of FTX creditors want to relaunch the collapsed exchange. It’s not as crazy
Read MoreOlivia Solon / Bloomberg: Research: ahead of Slovakia’s parliamentary elections, AI-generated deepfake videos of politicians are spreading on Facebook, Telegram, and other platforms — Videos featuring AI-generated deepfake voices of politicians are spreading on social media ahead of the Slovak parliamentary elections this weekend …
Read MoreThe Commodore 64 is celebrated to this day for its capable SID sound chip, which provided the soundtrack for some of the best video games of its era. Even today, it’s still in demand as a chiptune synth. [gavinlyons] decided to take a breadbox-style C64 and mod it to be a more dedicated synth platform,
Read MoreDevastating deluges around the world point to the metropolis of tomorrow: the “sponge city.” Think more parks and fewer parking lots.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Su Zhu, the co-founder of the collapsed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), was arrested in Singapore on Friday. Zhu was taken into custody while attempting to leave the country from Singapore’s Changi Airport, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. Teneo, the liquidation firm in charge of liquidating
Read MoreA general view of a flooded street in Williamsburg, New York, United States on September 29th, 2023. | Photo by Fatih Aktas / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images New York City came to a grinding halt Friday as floods shut down roads and subways and inundated schools in one of the biggest storm-related emergencies since
Read MoreCarl Franzen / VentureBeat: Meta quietly unveils Llama 2 Long, which has been trained with longer sequences, outperforming GPT-3.5 Turbo and Claude 2 when responding to long user prompts — Meta Platforms showed off a bevy of new AI features for its consumer-facing services Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp …
Read MoreSony’s $200 gaming device is just around the corner. | Image: Sony For months, rumors had been circulating about the release date for Sony’s upcoming handheld, the PlayStation Portal. And last month, Sony finally gave us an answer: the PlayStation Portal will launch on November 15th. The portable device, which will be able to stream
Read MoreOnewheel at CES in 2015. | Image: The Verge Future Motion, the maker of the Onewheel electric skateboard, is recalling every one of them, including 300,000 Onewheel self-balancing vehicles in the US. Alongside the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the company now seeks to remedy the products after four known death cases — three
Read MoreForbes: Letter: the US SEC told Bolt the startup likely won’t face enforcement action after a 15-month probe into whether Bolt violated securities laws when fundraising — In a letter viewed by Forbes, the SEC said that it does not intend to recommend any action against the startup following …
Read MoreForbes: Letter: the US SEC told Bolt the startup likely won’t face enforcement action after a 15-month probe into whether Bolt violated securities laws when fundraising — In a letter viewed by Forbes, the SEC said that it does not intend to recommend any action against the startup following …
Read MoreA painting of Munchlax and Snorlax inspired by Van Gogh’s “The Bedroom.” | Image: The Pokémon Company The horde of people that descended upon the Van Gogh Museum yesterday to snatch up as much merchandise as they could was the first sign that the Pokémon x Van Gogh collaboration might be a bit more chaotic
Read MoreCredit: Instagram / Viral Bhayani Indian movie star Anushka Sharma was spotted by paparazzi using a OnePlus Open. The Open is the company’s first foldable phone and is unreleased. Sharma appears to have never used a foldable before, so this situation was likely staged by OnePlus. OnePlus is poised to launch its first foldable phone in
Read MoreAn Xbox 360 wireless headset. | Photo by Alphathon (Wikimedia Commons) If you’re going to do financial crimes, maybe an Xbox isn’t your best bet? That is one but hopefully not the only lesson learned by 26-year-old Anthony Viggiano, a former Goldman Sachs investment analyst who’s been indicted for insider trading, along with two of
Read MoreNatasha Mascarenhas / The Information: Sources: Jasper, which offers an AI writing tool for marketers, cut its $140M ARR projections for 2023 by 30%+ and its internal valuation by 20% from $1.5B — Jasper AI, an early darling of the generative artificial intelligence boom, has cut the internal value of its common shares 20% …
Read MoreImage: Nintendo / Insomniac Games / Sega October is a lousy month for games. It’s just stuffed full of some of the biggest releases of the year. Remember back in the summer when Tears of the Kingdom, Diablo IV, and Final Fantasy XVI all released in the span of five weeks? October is that on
Read MorePop-pop boats are a neat little science teaching tool that many children end up playing with at some point or other. They’re normally sized to float around a sink or bathtub. [Steve Mould] recently got the opportunity to board a much larger example, sized for an actual human passenger. The boat belongs to the The
Read MoreAn Xbox 360 wireless headset. | Photo by Alphathon (Wikimedia Commons) If you’re going to do financial crimes, maybe an Xbox isn’t your best bet? That is one but hopefully not the only lesson learned by 26-year-old Anthony Viggiano, a former Goldman Sachs investment analyst who’s been indicted for insider trading, along with two of
Read MoreNatasha Mascarenhas / The Information: Sources: Jasper, which offers an AI writing tool for marketers, cut its $140M ARR projections for 2023 by 30%+ and its internal valuation by 20% from $1.5B — Jasper AI, an early darling of the generative artificial intelligence boom, has cut the internal value of its common shares 20% …
Read MoreCredit: Instagram / Viral Bhayani Indian movie star Anushka Sharma was spotted by paparazzi using a OnePlus Open. The Open is the company’s first foldable phone and is unreleased. Sharma appears to have never used a foldable before, so this situation was likely staged by OnePlus. OnePlus is poised to launch its first foldable phone in
Read MoreCredit: Instagram / Viral Bhayani Indian movie star Anushka Sharma was spotted by paparazzi using a OnePlus Open. The Open is the company’s first foldable phone and is unreleased. Sharma appears to have never used a foldable before, so this situation was likely staged by OnePlus. OnePlus is poised to launch its first foldable phone in
Read MoreAn Xbox 360 wireless headset. | Photo by Alphathon (Wikimedia Commons) If you’re going to do financial crimes, maybe an Xbox isn’t your best bet? That is one but hopefully not the only lesson learned by 26-year-old Anthony Viggiano, a former Goldman Sachs investment analyst who’s been indicted for insider trading, along with two of
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