There were some that doubted the day would ever come, but we’re happy to report that the ambitious self-destructing USB drive that security researcher [Walker] has been working on for the last 6+ months has finally stopped working. Which in this case, is a good thing. Readers may recall that the goal of the Ovrdrive
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Read MoreReuters: Salesforce reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $8.38B, vs. $7.99B est., Q1 revenue guidance above est., and a share buyback program boost to $20B; CRM jumps 15%+ — Salesforce Inc (CRM.N) on Wednesday forecast first-quarter revenue above Wall Street estimates as pandemic-induced migration …
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Read More(Credit: Mishaal Zahed/Unsplash)After years of griping, Apple is finally going to release an iPhone with USB-C in 2023. All it took was a supranational political and economic union of 27 individual states to force its hand. But you know what they say: Be careful what you wish for. When the first USB-C iPhone debuts later
Read MoreThe humble desktop serial terminal may have long disappeared from the world of corporate IT, but there are still plenty of moments when professionals and enthusiasts alike need to hook up to a serial port. Many of us use a serial port on our laptops or other mobile devices, but [Neil Crawforth] has gone one
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: Arm decided against a London listing for now to focus on a sole NYC listing later in 2023; in 2022, SoftBank was aiming for a $60B+ valuation for Arm — Arm Ltd. has decided against selling shares on the London Stock Exchange for now, dealing a blow to UK politicians who were lobbying
Read More(Credit: Adrià García Sarceda)Meta may have become the laughingstock of the internet over the last year, but there’s one domain in which it’s reportedly succeeding: Meta Quest. The company says it’s sold nearly 20 million Quest units, marking clear consumer interest in its virtual reality headset line. Meta shared the statistic with employees on Tuesday
Read MoreBill Toulas / BleepingComputer: GitHub’s free secret scanning alerts service, which notifies users of potential repository leaks, hits general availability, after a December 2022 beta release — GitHub has announced that its secret scanning alerts service is now generally available to all public repositories and can be enabled …
Read MoreZeynep Geylan / CryptoSlate: Robinhood launches a standalone Robinhood Wallet app globally on iOS, with Polygon and Ethereum network support, and says an Android app is coming later in 2023 — Crypto exchange platform Robinhood’s wallet application launched on the iOS application store on Mar. 1, according to the announcement published on the Robinhood blog.
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Tesla owners pulling up to certain Supercharger locations in the US are being greeted with an unfamiliar sight: electric vehicles from other car companies, parked in the spots previously reserved just for them, sipping up electrons alongside Model 3s and Model Ys. Tesla’s Supercharger network, once exclusive
Read MoreCredit: Fone Arena Official renders of the Galaxy A34 and Galaxy A54 have leaked once again. The new renders show off both phones from every angle. The renders also show the devices in all four colorways. It’s only been a week since the last time, but a new batch of Galaxy A34 and Galaxy A54
Read MoreThe 2020 Motorola Razr is the most recent one released in the US. | Photo: Dieter Bohn / The Verge Motorola’s launching yet another Razr this year, according to a report from CNBC. Yang Yuanqing, the CEO of Motorola’s parent company Lenovo, told the outlet that the next-gen foldable would arrive “very soon” with some
Read MoreBloomberg: How Commerce Department Secretary Gina Raimondo became a key player in the US’ stricter China policy, including helping steer the CHIPS Act, exports, and TikTok — Gina Raimondo is the first to admit that she often can’t see the line between work and play—or even work and pray.
Read MoreTodd Bishop / GeekWire: Amazon’s Ring names former Meta and Microsoft executive Elizabeth Hamren as its CEO, replacing Ring founder Jamie Siminoff, who will remain as chief inventor — Five years after its acquisition by Amazon, smart doorbell and home security technology company Ring named a new CEO: Elizabeth …
Read MoreWe all know the basics of how metal casting works, a metal is heated up to melting point and the resulting liquid metal is poured into a mold. When the metal sets, it assumes the shape of the mold. It’s a straightforward way to reliably replicate a metal item many times over, and the basics
Read MoreNo, it’s not April 1st–but you wouldn’t be alone in thinking this headline was some kind of prank. For ages, iPhone users and PC users have been forced to live in separate worlds. Apple only allows iMessage on its own devices, and that pairing keeps a lot of people happily trapped in Apple’s walled garden.
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI launches ChatGPT API for businesses, with dedicated capacity plans and priced at $0.002/~750 words, and says Snap and Shopify are among early adopters — To call ChatGPT, the free text-generating AI developed by San Francisco-based startup OpenAI, a hit is a massive understatement.
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Following criticism, OpenAI says it won’t use data submitted through its API for “service improvements”, including AI model training, unless a customer opts in — As the ChatGPT and Whisper APIs launch this morning, OpenAI is changing the terms of its API developer policy …
Read MoreDatabase-as-a-service provider EnterpriseDB (EDB) has released the next generation of its popular distributed open-source PostgreSQL database, dubbed EDB Postgres Distributed 5.0, designed to offer high availability, optimized performance and protection against data loss. In contrast to its PostgreSQL14 offering, EDB’s Postgres Distributed 5.0 (PGD 5.0) offers a distributed architecture along with features such as logical
Read MoreDavid Shepardson / Reuters: The House Foreign Affairs Committee votes 24 to 16 to give President Joe Biden the power to ban TikTok and other apps; committee Democrats opposed the bill — The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee voted on Wednesday to give President Joe Biden the power to ban Chinese-owned social media app TikTok
Read MoreImage: Tesla Tesla’s first Investor Day event is today, at which Elon Musk will pull back the curtain on the company’s third “Master Plan.” It’s a sequel to a 2016 blog post in which Musk said the company would expand its EV offerings to more vehicle segments and make them autonomous. The third plan is
Read MoreThe LG A2 is a great TV if you want an OLED on a slightly tighter budget. | Image: LG If you’re more of a movie and TV show watcher than a gamer and you want a TV with deep black levels and better viewing angles, LG’s A2 OLED is on sale at Best Buy
Read MorePatrick George / The Verge: Volkswagen Group plans to roll out an app store for its car brands soon, including apps from TikTok, Spotify, Yelp, and other third-party car-optimized apps — If you’ve long felt like the one thing missing from your Audi was in-car TikTok, fret no more. Volkswagen Group is the latest …
Read MoreKatrina Manson / Bloomberg: A look at Russia’s cyberattack on Viasat’s KA-SAT network in February 2022, leading some countries and the satellite industry to rethink satellite cybersecurity — Andreas Wickberg loves snowmobiling to the house he built in the icy reaches of Lapland, north of the Arctic Circle.
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