Amazon Web Services (AWS) has integrated its AWS Chatbot into Microsoft Teams to allow enterprise users to interact with their AWS resources from within the chat application. AWS Chatbot, which was first showcased in 2019 and made generally available in 2020, is a service that offers enterprise development and IT teams to receive notifications about
Read MoreWall Street Journal: A shortage of skilled workers is impeding Micron’s goal of a chip manufacturing campus in Syracuse, NY, where it plans to invest $100B and hire 9K employees — Micron plans to hire 9,000 employees at a new suburban Syracuse campus amid shortage of skilled workers
Read MoreSome people take their coffee grinding seriously. So what do you do when the hot new grinders automatically weigh coffee, and yours doesn’t? Well, if you are like [Tech Dregs] and the rest of us, you hack your existing grinder, of course. The link is to the source code, but for a quick overview, check
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority The price of a YouTube TV subscription is going up from $65 per month to $73 per month. The hike will take effect for existing customers from April 18. Meanwhile, the service is cutting the cost of the 4K Plus add-on by half. YouTube TV is hiking its price
Read MoreCredit: Supplied by Qualcomm Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 last year, following in the footsteps of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 by adopting a new naming convention. Now, the company has announced an all-new chipset in the Snapdragon 7 line, dubbed the Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2. I know what you’re thinking, but
Read MoreGoogle Fi is offering a seven-day trial of its service via an eSIM. This allows you to quickly sign up for and use the trial instead of waiting for a physical SIM. Google Fi is one of the better networks for prepaid users and frequent travelers. The MVNO is now trying to get the word
Read MoreImage: Capcom The updated version looks incredible, plays well, and has a level of focus that’s rare in modern games. Also, there are lots of explosive barrels. Continue reading…
Read MoreCredit: Samsung Samsung is now selling two cool camera accessories for the Galaxy S23 series. The attachments plug into the Gadget Case for the Galaxy S23 phones. One of them is a slim tripod and a hand grip, while the other is a remote-controlled mini tripod and camera grip. Samsung seems to have introduced two
Read MoreWhen you’re maintaining a fish tank, it’s actually quite important to get all your basic chemistry right. Mismanage things, and you’ll kill all the helpful bacteria in the tank, or kill your fish when things get too alkaline or too acidic. To help him get things just right, [yojoebosolo] built a custom dosing pump to
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Samsung phones have been in the headlines this week after a Redditor’s experiment revealed that Galaxy phones do some questionable things when taking photos of the moon. More specifically, the Redditor found that Galaxy phones added lunar details to a blurry, low-resolution photo of the moon when the Scene
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Karat, which helps companies conduct technical interviews, plans to acquire its competitor Triplebyte for an undisclosed amount; Triplebyte raised ~$50M — The technology industry continues to rack up an ever-longer list of layoffs — which now stand at nearly 139,000 according to Layoffs.fyi …
Read MoreWired: How the vague and varied US legal definitions of “cybercrime” causes issues, as the UN negotiates an international cybersecurity treaty with similar broad terms — From US state laws to the international stage, definitions of “cybercrime” remain vague, broad, and increasingly entrenched in our legal systems.
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Project Zero, Google’s team dedicated to security research, has found some big problems in the Samsung modems that power devices like the Pixel 6, Pixel 7, and some models of the Galaxy S22 and A53. According to its blog post, a variety of Exynos modems have a
Read MoreJessica Hagen / MobiHealthNews: SpectrumAi, which offers tools like EHR for applied behavior analysis therapy for autism patients, raised up to a $20M Series A led by CVS Health Ventures — The funds will be used to accelerate the adoption of the platform’s applied behavior analysis-focused tools.
Read MoreThe 8086 has been around since 1978, so it’s pretty well understood. As the namesake of the prevalent x86 architecture, it’s often studied by those looking to learn more about microprocessors in general. To this end, [Ken Shirriff] set about reverse engineering the 8086’s multiplication algorithm. [Ken]’s efforts were achieved by using die photos of
Read MoreReuters: New Zealand plans to ban TikTok on all devices with access to the parliamentary network by the end of March 2023 because of cybersecurity concerns — New Zealand will ban TikTok on devices with access to the parliamentary network because of cybersecurity concerns, a government official said on Friday.
Read MoreJon Brodkin / Ars Technica: The FCC is requiring carriers to block SMS messages from “invalid, unallocated, or unused numbers”, targeting the increase in scam robotexts sent to consumers — First robotext rule requires blocking of texts from invalid and unused numbers. — The Federal Communications …
Read More@zoeschiffer: Sources: Twitter downranked rivals’ corporate accounts including Instagram, Snap, and TikTok since December, as well as non-rivals like the US @HHSGov account — Little scoop from me today: Twitter has been down-ranking the corporate accounts of its competitors, including 19 official TikTok accounts, 3 Snap accounts, and 2 Instagram accounts. This means their tweets
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Project Zero, Google’s team dedicated to security research, has found some big problems in the Samsung modems that power devices like the Pixel 6, Pixel 7, and some models of the Galaxy S22 and A53. According to its blog post, a variety of Exynos modems have a
Read MoreCredit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority ChatGPT has received a number of small and incremental updates since its release, but none compare to the latest one: GPT-4. It introduces a number of under-the-hood improvements to the chatbot’s capabilities as well as support for image input. Up until this point, ChatGPT has been based on GPT-3.5,
Read MoreMichael Kozlowski / Good e-Reader: Amazon stops selling newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print, and plans to shut down Kindle Newsstand in September 2023 — Amazon has announced they are abandoning the Kindle for Periodicals or the Kindle Newsstand, which will completely shutter on September 2023.
Read MoreYou can find a lot of strange things inside IC packages. For example, the Dallas DS12885 and DS12887 real time clock “chips” were available in a large package with an internal battery. The problem, of course, is that batteries die. [New Old Computer Show] wanted to restore a machine that used one of these devices
Read MoreA Pornhub billboard in Times Square A Canadian private equity firm has acquired MindGeek, the company behind Pornhub, YouPorn, and other major adult media sites. Financial Times reported that newly formed Ethical Capital Partners acquired MindGeek for an undisclosed amount and that it will continue to operate under an unidentified group of current executives alongside
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is starting to set up the legal framework that would let companies provide satellite service directly to cell phones, like SpaceX, T-Mobile, AST Spacemobile, and Lynk are trying to do. Today it adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that lays out how companies
Read MoreHere’s to hoping Hyperkin fixes one of the worst D-pads of all time. | Image: Hyperkin Good news for nostalgic millennial gamers: Hyperkin’s remake of the Xbox 360 controller is inching closer to release. The Xenon controller was first announced by Hyperkin back in November, but not much solid info was given outside of some
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