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A January 2022 patch fixed flaws used by Windows UEFI bootkit BlackLotus, but PCs are at risk as Microsoft hasn’t put vulnerable binaries on a revocation list (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: A January 2022 patch fixed flaws used by Windows UEFI bootkit BlackLotus, but PCs are at risk as Microsoft hasn’t put vulnerable binaries on a revocation list — BlackLotus represents a major milestone in the continuing evolution of UEFI bootkits. — Researchers on Wednesday announced …

Assembly Language 80’s Minicomputer Style

In the days before computers usually used off-the-shelf CPU chips, people who needed a CPU often used something called “bitslice.” The idea was to have a building block chip that needed some surrounding logic and could cascade with other identical building block chips to form a CPU of any bit width that could do whatever

The March 2023 Pixel feature drop isn’t here yet, but here’s what to expect

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority A changelog for the March 2023 feature drop has revealed the major additions. It looks like the update is targeting older Pixel phones. Google’s Pixel phones enjoy quarterly feature drops, being quarterly updates that bring a host of new and improved features to handsets. We’re still waiting for the

The March 2023 Pixel feature drop isn’t here yet, but here’s what to expect

Sources: Meta plans to cut thousands of jobs as soon as this week, after it eliminated 13%, or 11,000 jobs in November 2023 in its first major layoff (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Meta plans to cut thousands of jobs as soon as this week, after it eliminated 13%, or 11,000 jobs in November 2023 in its first major layoff — Meta Platforms Inc., the owner of Facebook and Instagram, is planning a fresh round of layoffs and will cut thousands of employees as soon as

The Eyes Have It: Stare Down Your Lighting

You know how you can feel when someone is looking at you? Thanks to a person detector, [Michael Rigsby’s] little robotic light switch also knows when you are looking at it. As you can see in the video below, when it notices you are looking at it, it lights up an LED. If you continue

Autonomous trucking company Embark lays off about 70% of its employees and says remaining staff will focus on winding down day-to-day operations (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Autonomous trucking company Embark lays off about 70% of its employees and says remaining staff will focus on winding down day-to-day operations — Embark Trucks, the autonomous trucking company that went public in 2021 via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company …

WeightWatchers is acquiring Sequence, a digital health company offering $99/month telehealth visits with doctors who can prescribe weight loss drugs, for $106M (Andrea Petersen/Wall Street Journal)

Andrea Petersen / Wall Street Journal: WeightWatchers is acquiring Sequence, a digital health company offering $99/month telehealth visits with doctors who can prescribe weight loss drugs, for $106M — Weight-management company is buying Sequence, which offers telehealth visits with doctors — WW International Inc. …

Apple’s iPhone SE 4 may use OLED screens from a Chinese supplier, not Samsung or LG

The LCD panel used by the 2022 iPhone SE (above) will likely be replaced by a 6.1-inch OLED from Chinese supplier BOE. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge China-based display maker BOE (Beijing Oriental Electronics) has a complicated relationship with Apple. But despite some missteps, it looks like the two companies will be

Yuga Labs says the auction of its Bitcoin NFT project TwelveFold generated 735.7 BTC, about $16.5M; 288 out of 3,246 total bidders were awarded NFTs (Cam Thompson/CoinDesk)

Cam Thompson / CoinDesk: Yuga Labs says the auction of its Bitcoin NFT project TwelveFold generated 735.7 BTC, about $16.5M; 288 out of 3,246 total bidders were awarded NFTs — The company behind Bored Ape Yacht Club auctioned off 288 NFTs in its TwelveFold collection based on the Ordinals protocol.

Alex Gibney is making a documentary about Elon Musk

Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge If the constant deluge of news about Elon Musk hasn’t been enough for you, there’s good news: a new documentary about him is in the works from filmmaker Alex Gibney, who’s directed movies like Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, Zero Days, and The Inventor: Out for

Microsoft makes Outlook for Mac free to use

Outlook for Mac is now free on the App Store. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is making Outlook for Mac free to use today. Outlook is now available free in Apple’s App Store, and you no longer need a Microsoft 365 subscription or Office license to use it. It’s a surprise move that coincides with Microsoft’s

French expense management software maker N2F raised €24M from PSG Equity, and says it processes 1M+ expense reports a month for 10K+ businesses in 86+ countries (Dan Taylor/Tech.eu)

Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: French expense management software maker N2F raised €24M from PSG Equity, and says it processes 1M+ expense reports a month for 10K+ businesses in 86+ countries — According to the startup, they’re processing over one million expense reports per month for more than 10,000 businesses in over 86 countries.

Microsoft’s latest AI CoPilot could be the voice behind a deluge of work emails

Image: The Verge If you notice that emails from salespeople or responses from customer support agents seem a bit off — or that they’ve gotten a significant bump in writing quality — you may be have AI to thank. Microsoft has announced that it’ll be introducing AI features into Dynamics 365, its set of enterprise

Microsoft makes Outlook for Mac free to use

Your Phone is a 200X Microscope — Sort Of

[A. Cemal Ekin] over on PetaPixel reviewed the Apexel 200X LED Microscope Lens. The relatively inexpensive accessory promises to transform your cell phone camera into a microscope. Of course, lenses that strap over your phone’s camera lens aren’t exactly a new idea, but this one looks a little more substantial than the usual piece of

Atlassian is cutting 500 jobs, about 5% of its workforce; filing: the company will incur about $70M to $75M in restructuring costs through the end of June (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Atlassian is cutting 500 jobs, about 5% of its workforce; filing: the company will incur about $70M to $75M in restructuring costs through the end of June — Atlassian Corp. will cut about 5% of its workforce, or 500 full-time employees, becoming the latest software company to eliminate jobs.

AI Machines: The Role of Humans In Data Analytics

The internet lit up the day ChatGPT was launched. Almost everyone across every social media platform plugged in to assess just how intelligent it was. Undoubtedly, it beat the people’s imagination and had their mouths agape with ghostly stupefaction. Like jeez, it did not only write computer programs, poems, essays, and everything in between and

MEMS Teardown and Macroscopic Models

There is a bit of a paradox when it comes to miniaturization. When electronics replaced mechanical devices, it was often the case that the electronic version was smaller. When transistors and, later, ICs, came around, things got smaller still. However, as things shrink to microscopic scales, transistors don’t work well, and you often find —

Source: Twitter broke on Monday after the only site reliability engineer assigned to the project for migrating to a paid API made a “bad configuration change” (Platformer)

Platformer: Source: Twitter broke on Monday after the only site reliability engineer assigned to the project for migrating to a paid API made a “bad configuration change” — The high cost of cutting expenses — Twitter’s website is breaking in novel new ways — and while the company managed …

Scammers are using AI voices to steal millions by impersonating loved ones

AI voice-generating software is allowing scammers to mimic the voice of loved ones. These impersonations have led to people being scammed out of $11 million over the phone in 2022. The elderly make up a majority of those who are targeted. AI has been a central topic in the tech world for a while now,

Google’s one step closer to building its 1,000-language AI model

Illustration: The Verge As Microsoft and Google butt heads over whose AI chatbot is better, that isn’t the only use for machine learning and language models. Along with rumored plans to show off more than 20 products powered by artificial intelligence during its annual I/O event this year, Google’s progressing toward its goal of building

How to use Zoom on a Chromebook

Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge Until last year, the way to use Zoom on a ChromeOS device was to download and use Zoom’s ChromeOS app. However, in August of 2022, that app was sunsetted and replaced by the Zoom PWA (progressive web app) for ChromeOS. According to the Zoom blog, the idea was to

At an all-hands last week, Sundar Pichai defended Google Cloud’s new desk-sharing policy; an exec says ~35% of staff are in the office at least four days a week (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: At an all-hands last week, Sundar Pichai defended Google Cloud’s new desk-sharing policy; an exec says ~35% of staff are in the office at least four days a week — – Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed employee criticism of the cloud unit’s new desk-sharing policy at an all-hands meeting last week.

Golang returns to the top 10

Google’s Go language has re-entered the top 10 of the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, after a nearly six-year absence. Go ranks 10th in the March edition of the index, after placing 11th the previous month. The language last appeared in the top 10 in July 2017. The re-emergence of Go in the March

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