Information is diesel for a hacker’s engine, and it’s fascinating how much can happen when you share what you’re working on. It could be a pretty simple journey – say, you record a video showing you fixing your broken headphones, highlighting a particular trick that works well for you. Someone will see it as an
Read MoreCredit: Joe Hindy / Android Authority Cybersecurity firm Home Security Heroes published a study about AI and its ability to crack passwords. A new AI password cracking tool is capable of cracking a majority of six-character passwords and under instantly. Passwords with 12 characters or more are considered tough to crack, for now. With the
Read MoreIsaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post: Sources: Meta told political campaigns that it is reviewing AI-generated images under its fact-checking program from which candidates and parties are exempt — Facebook parent is reviewing AI-generated images under its fact-checking program, it recently confirmed to campaigns, meaning politicians may be exempt from the rules
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Artificial intelligence has… let’s say, a fraught relationship with the arts community, and transformative fandom is no exception. Many fans have embraced some tools like Character.ai bots, but plenty have also bristled at the prospect of text generators getting trained on their fanfiction; in my fandom circles, I’ve
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge (Disclosure right up front: SB Nation is part of Vox Media, and so is The Verge; we’re all co-workers and friends. I reported this story mostly by talking to my colleagues.) SB Nation’s Twitter account has a little over 300,000 followers. Or, at least, it did last Friday.
Read MoreInformation is diesel for a hacker’s engine, and it’s fascinating how much can happen when you share what you’re working on. It could be a pretty simple journey – say, you record a video showing you fixing your broken headphones, highlighting a particular trick that works well for you. Someone will see it as an
Read MoreOne of the interesting features of the 8086 back in 1978 was the provision for “string” instructions. These took the form of prefixes that would repeat the next instruction a certain number of times. The next instruction was meant to be one of a few string instructions that operated on memory regions and updated pointers
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge Sony told regulators in the UK that they were “irrational” for having sided with Microsoft in the fight over the proposed Microsoft-Activision merger. One reason: Microsoft could sabotage future Call of Duty games by making performance even slightly worse on PlayStation — because gamers are apparently so perceptive
Read MoreDan Primack / Axios: Substack discloses financials as required by crowdfunding rules: 2021 gross revenue of $11.9M vs $2.3M in 2020, 2021 net loss of $22M vs $2.3M in 2020 — When newsletter platform Substack last month launched a crowdfunding campaign, its writers and fans responded with more than $7.5 million …
Read MorePictured: a business I suspect is collapsing. | Image: Substack Is there a funnier phrase in the English language than “negative revenue”? Look, I felt pretty confident Substack was doing badly when it failed to raise from VC and went to retail investors. (Hot tip: the phrase “financial inclusion” indicates that the speaker thinks you
Read MoreOne more year. | Will Joel / The Verge Google is ending support for the Dropcam and the Nest Secure home security system in one year, on April 8th, 2024. They are among the few remaining Nest products that haven’t been brought over to Google Home, and their demise hints that the new Google Home
Read MoreIt may not be fancy-pants titanium or an Hermes edition, but that sleek steel looks much nicer than the basic aluminum. | Image: Apple Look, the Apple Watch Series 8 is a perfectly fine device. But have you considered that it’s also kind of boring? Sure, it sometimes goes on sale for as low as
Read MoreHonor Among Thieves is the movie D&D fans deserve.
Read MoreThe Verge: Substack founders criticize Twitter over restrictions, saying this is a reminder of why writers need a platform “that protects the free press and free speech” — / Substack’s founders say this serves as a reminder of why writers need a platform that ‘puts them in charge …
Read MoreJoin Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi as they review some of their favorite hacks and projects of the past week. The episode starts with a discussion about the recently announced Artemis II crew, and how their mission compares to the Apollo program of the 1960s and 70s. From there, the pair theorize as
Read MoreWith new satellites and programs, the agency is tackling air quality from all angles—for the health of people and the planet.
Read MoreTwitter appears to have called time on its free API and it’s caused a lot of apps to break.
Read MoreMichael Kan / PCMag: MSI confirms in a filing that it was breached, without giving many details, after a ransomware gang claims to have breached MSI and stolen its source code — The ransomware group is reportedly demanding $4 million or it will leak the stolen data, which includes company source code.
Read MoreThere are a lot of business “solutions” out there. Marketing tools, IT software, accounting automation, CMS platforms, and countless other products and services are proffered as innovative ways to make a business’s problems go away. But how effective are these tools? Contiem is one company pointing out that, without a comprehensive, full-service approach to content
Read MoreThey may have originally been designed for touchscreens, but these four apps work great on Mac, too.
Read MoreReed Albergotti / Semafor: Sources: Stability AI looks to bring in a Sheryl Sandberg-like exec after burning through a big chunk of $100M raised in 2022 without generating much revenue — Stability AI, one of the hottest companies in artificial intelligence, is burning through cash and has been slow to generate revenue …
Read MoreThe Texas Rangers are at the Chicago Cubs on Apple TV Plus at 2:25 PM EST today. Here’s how to watch.
Read MoreTP-Link has announced the Kasa Matter Smart Plug with a pack of two costing just $40.
Read MoreNearly six months after the release of the Google Pixel Watch, the accessory ecosystem is catching up. While we only had a limited choice of stands, chargers, straps, bands, and cases at first, that’s no longer the case now. Both well-known brands and white-label companies have jumped on board and there’s a lot to pick
Read MoreNew York Times: Sources and internal documents: the success of ChatGPT has made Microsoft and Google willing to take greater risks despite their AI ethics guidelines — Technology companies were once leery of what some artificial intelligence could do. Now the priority is winning control of the industry’s next big thing.
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