Brian Cox as Logan Roy. | HBO While Succession’s fourth and final season makes good on the series’ name, it does so while feeling comfortably stuck in a familiar holding pattern of treachery and ‘gotcha’ backstabbing. Continue reading…
Read MoreBack when commercial quadcopters started appearing in the news on the regular, public safety was a talking point. How, for example, do we keep them away from airports? Well, large drone companies didn’t want the negative PR, so some voluntarily added geofencing and tracking mechanisms to their own drones. When it comes to DJI, one
Read MoreTired: the metaverse. Wired: the message-verse? | Image: OpenAI / David Pierce It’s pretty obvious that nobody saw ChatGPT coming. Not even OpenAI. Before it became by some measures the fastest growing consumer app in history, before it turned the phrase “generative pre-trained transformers” into common vernacular, before every company you can think of was
Read MoreWith WWDC 2023 looming, we asked ourselves what we’d like to see in the next major macOS update.
Read MoreViola Zhou / Rest of World: A look at the Chinese social e-commerce app and women-friendly “lifestyle bible” Xiaohongshu, which has 200M MAUs and critics describe as a consumerist trap — Known as China’s “lifestyle bible,” the social media platform is an aspirational living guide or a consumerist trap.
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority More than likely, your watch face is the most viewed screen on your Apple Watch. Why not make it harder working? Whether you want at-a-glance stats, a favorite photo, or an adorable animation, there are plenty of looks to consider. We round up the best Apple Watch faces available.
Read MoreIn today’s installment of Betteridge’s law enforcement, here’s an evil USB-C dock proof-of-concept by [Lachlan Davidson] from [Aura Division]. We’ve seen malicious USB devices aplenty, from cables and chargers to flash drives and even suspicious USB fans. But a dock, however, is new. The gist is simple — you take a stock dock, find a
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Experts say some US suppliers plan to sidestep export controls by selling tech to the unlisted subsidiaries of Inspur and other Chinese firms on the Entity List — Suppliers can sell to unlisted subsidiaries of companies on Commerce Department list, officials say
Read MoreAny mention of crypto was deliberately veiled at this year’s festival. And that strategy might catch on.
Read MoreThe GOP-fueled far right differs from similar movements around the globe, thanks to the country’s politics, electoral system, and changing demographics.
Read MoreSure, anyone can use OpenAI’s chatbot. But with smart engineering, you can get way more interesting results.
Read MoreMany of the clocks we feature here on Hackaday are entirely built from scratch, or perhaps reuse an unusual display type. But sometimes, an old clock is just perfect as it is, and only needs a bit of an upgrade to help it fit into the modern world. One such example is the lovely 1960s
Read MoreThis fat-tire electric bike is more refined than before and still an affordable (if heavy) way to get around town.
Read MoreThe neocortex is the seat of human intellect. New data suggests that mammals created it with new types of cells only after their evolutionary split from reptiles.
Read MoreTaylor Lorenz / Washington Post: Hollywood and music industry insiders, actors, and others say a TikTok ban could seriously hurt their businesses and are scrambling to create contingency plans — The entertainment industry has become so reliant on TikTok that banning the app could hurt business, industry insiders say
Read MoreJoe Brock / Reuters: Sources: concerned about Chinese spying, the US helped SubCom win its $600M bid for an Asia-Europe subsea cable project through incentives and investor pressure — Subsea cables, which carry the world’s data, are now central to the U.S.-China tech war. Washington, fearful of Beijing’s spies …
Read MoreChloe Xiang / VICE: A look at the community of users who “jailbreak” GPT models to generate unfiltered content and see themselves as fighting back against OpenAI’s closed policies — “The problem is when GPT-X is released and we are unable to discern its values since they are being decided behind the closed doors of
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority More than likely, your watch face is the most viewed screen on your Apple Watch. Why not make it harder working? Whether you want at-a-glance stats, a favorite photo, or an adorable animation, there are plenty of looks to consider. We round up the best Apple Watch faces available.
Read MoreWill Knight / Wired: Norway-based 1X, which is developing humanoid robots, raised a $23.5M Series A2 led by the OpenAI Startup Fund with participation from Tiger Global and others — Autonomous machines are still too clumsy for delicate tasks. But humans can operate mechanical arms from afar, turning physical labor into remote work.
Read MoreNikkei Asia: Meta Quest Pro teardown: US parts account for 34% of the headset’s estimated component costs, China 18%, South Korea 10%, Japan 3%, and 35% remain unidentified — Among the design differences between the Meta Quest Pro and Meta Quest 2 is the color; the new model is black rather than white.
Read More[Machining and Microwaves] got an interesting request. The BBC asked him to duplicate the Great Seal Bug — the device the Russians used to listen covertly to the US ambassador for seven years in 1945. Turns out they’re filming a documentary on the legendary surveillance device and wanted to demonstrate how it worked. The strange
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has pushed an update to fix a screenshot editing vulnerability in Windows 10 and 11, as spotted earlier by Bleeping Computer. The security flaw, dubbed the “aCropalypse,” could let bad actors recover the edited portions of screenshots, potentially revealing personal information that had been cropped out or concealed.
Read MoreHave you ever thought how amazing it is that every bit of DRAM in your computer requires a teeny tiny capacitor? A 16 GB DRAM has 128 billion little capacitors, one for each bit. However, that’s not the only densely-packed IC you probably use daily. The other one is the image sensor in your camera,
Read MoreLawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Microsoft releases Windows 10 Snip & Sketch and Windows 11 Snipping Tool updates to fix the “aCropalypse” bug used to reveal info edited out in some screenshots — Microsoft released an emergency security update for the Windows 10 and Windows 11 Snipping tool to fix the Acropalypse privacy vulnerability.
Read MoreEric Benjamin Seufert / Mobile Dev Memo: How Meta could sidestep ATT’s impairments by launching a mobile games store, as Apple reportedly prepares multiple app store support on iOS due to the EU’s DMA — This week, Microsoft declared that it will launch a mobile games app store on both iOS and Android next year,
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