A developer build of Microsoft’s Edge browser displays an invitation to use the new Bing if the user is on Google’s Bard page. | Screenshot: Umar Shakir / The Verge Microsoft’s Edge can be a great Chromium browser alternative to Google’s Chrome, but the former is displaying some annoying new rivalry antics: advertising Microsoft’s Bing
Read MoreLast week we briefly mentioned a vulnerability in the Papercut software, and more details and a proof of concept have been published. The vulnerability is one known as session puzzling. That’s essentially where a session variable is used for multiple purposes, or gets incorrectly set. In Papercut, it was possible to trigger the SetupCompleted class
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge A new Washington state law will require companies to receive a user’s explicit consent before they can collect, share, or sell their health data. Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed the My Health, My Data bill into law on Thursday, giving users the right to withdraw consent at any time
Read MoreMadhumita Murgia / Financial Times: A look at Google’s DeepMind-Brain merger; sources say Demis Hassabis ceded DeepMind’s cherished independence in return for greater power over the future of AI — Start-up founder Demis Hassabis trades independence for greater influence over the future of artificial intelligence
Read MoreA former Apple employee has been sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay Apple $19 million after stealing around $17 million from the company.
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Read MoreDonkey Kong peeks out of his Lego tree house. | Image: Lego Donkey Kong has been around as long as Mario himself, but this August will be the first time he’s officially appeared in Lego form — on August 1st, the Danish toymaker is adding four Lego Donkey Kong sets to the ever-widening Lego Super
Read MoreFinancial Times: A profile of Sarah Cardell, the UK CMA’s Chief Executive, who played a key role in shaping the policy that led to Microsoft’s Activision takeover being blocked — Former corporate lawyer has attracted the ire of the US group by blocking its $75bn acquisition of Activision
Read MoreSidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: Solana’s SOL is up about 125% since December 31, outperforming bitcoin’s 78% rally, as the blockchain tries to move past its association with Sam Bankman-Fried — The SOL token of the Solana blockchain has more than doubled this year, outperforming Bitcoin, as the project tries to move past …
Read MoreIvan Mehta / TechCrunch: Reddit begins testing Discord-like chat channels with 25 volunteer subreddits that have under 100K members and will give moderators control in managing chats — Reddit announced Thursday that it is testing Discord-like chat channels with select subreddits.
Read MoreMicrosoft has launched .NET Community Toolkit 8.2, again with improvements for MVVM (model-view-viewmodel) development. The preceding 8.1 release, published in January, also focused on MVVM capabilities. The .NET Community Toolkit features a collection of APIs and helpers for .NET developers, agnostic of any UI platform. Source code for version 8.2, announced April 27, can be
Read MoreCloud computing has enabled businesses to focus on their core competencies and scale up their operations without worrying about the IT infrastructure. That’s pretty much the same take we had many years ago. Now that cloud computing is already more than 20 years old (depending on who you ask), will interest remain in this technology
Read MoreViola Zhou / Rest of World: A profile of Liu Xiaoping, a dog food seller on Pinduoduo who coaches Chinese merchants on using legal action to fight Pinduoduo’s refund-without-return policy — A dog food seller known as “Lawsuit Bro” is leading the fight. — A dog food seller on Pinduoduo has emerged as an unlikely
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple has revealed the number of active monthly users for various versions of its App Store in Europe in order to comply with the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). The disclosure published on Apple legal resources site reveals that the iOS App Store has 101 million users in
Read MoreAverage sea surface temperatures have soared to record highs, and stayed there. It’s a worrying signal of an ocean in crisis.
Read MoreLight-on-dark displays tap into society’s deepest fears about technology’s ills. But reducing screen light isn’t the same as putting your device away.
Read MoreWith the last manufacturer of 3.5″ floppy disks (FDs) having shut down in 2010, those who are still using this type of storage medium for production and/or retrocomputing purposes have to increasingly rely on a dwindling stack of new old stock, or the used market. With the purported unreliability of this type of magnetic media
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Hackers have reportedly been breaking into AT&T-provided email addresses, and using this access to steal large quantities of cryptocurrency, TechCrunch reports. While it’s not clear how many people have been impacted, one alleged victim claims to have lost $134,000 from a Coinbase account associated with a compromised email
Read MoreCredit: Supplied by Nothing Nothing will be one of the first Google Android partners to offer beta access to Android 14. The company didn’t reveal any release details, though. Google I/O is right around the corner, and that gets us Android fans all excited! We’re expecting to learn a lot more about the major Android
Read MoreSteve Dent / Engadget: Sony reports 6.3M PS5 sales in Q4 2022, up from 2M in Q4 2021, taking FY 2022 to 19.1M and 38.4M since launch, and $29B revenue for FY 2022, up from $19.9B YoY — Now that it’s solved its supply shortages, Sony is seeing a lot of pent-up demand for PlayStation
Read MoreThese high-end cans look fantastic and sound great, but they don’t have noise canceling or advanced EQ.
Read MoreThere’s something of a mystique about RF construction at the higher frequencies, it’s seen as a Black Art only practiced by elite wizards. In fact, UHF and microwave RF circuitry is surprisingly simple and easy to understand, and given the ready availability of low-noise block downconverters (LNBs) for satellite TV reception there’s even a handy
Read MoreCredit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority Apparent Nokia XR21 specs and renders have been posted online. The phone will ostensibly succeed 2021’s Nokia XR20 rugged phone. A new chipset, faster wired charging, and a telephoto camera are the main upgrades here. The Nokia XR20 was an important release for HMD Global in some ways, as
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Sony says it shipped 6.3 million PlayStation 5 consoles in the three months ending March 31st 2022, bringing total sales of the console to 38.4 million, the company reported in its latest earnings release. That’s more than triple what the company shipped in the same quarter the previous
Read MoreTo really understand Apache Kafka—and get the most out of this open source distributed event streaming platform—it’s crucial to gain a thorough understanding of Kafka consumer groups. Often paired with the powerful, highly scalable, highly-available Apache Cassandra database, Kafka offers users the capability to stream data in real time, at scale. At a high level,
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