An anonymous reader quotes a report from Crypto News: Power providers in the Siberian crypto mining hotspot of Irkutsk have discovered an illegal mining “farm” operating on their own property. The Irkutsk Region Prosecutor-General’s Office posted on VK, explaining that an unnamed Irkutsk-based “electric grid supply organization” was “found illegally providing a plot of land”
Read MoreWesley is back to being a full-time iPad Pro user, but there’s a splash of Apple Vision Pro and a mountain of other tech involved in the day-to-day. Here’s how he gets work done at AppleInsider. Wesley’s current desk setup If there’s one thing I like writing about, it’s my setup and workflows. There’s a
Read MoreThe $1,599 M3 Pro MacBook Pro flash deal reflects the lowest price we’ve seen in Q4 for the closeout laptop. Upgraded configurations are up to $500 off too, with the deals ending Dec. 31. Save up to $600 with blowout MacBook Pro discounts. The $400 price drop is available at B&H, with limited supply available
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Mobi is offering 5GB of high-speed data and unlimited 1.5Mbps data every month for a whole year for just $50 total, or what works out to just $4.16 a month. The only catch is that this is a beta, and so the experience might have a few hiccups. You
Read MoreApple’s new Enhanced Visual Search in Photos uses machine learning to recognize things like landmarks. The service works by sharing encrypted data from your pictures with Apple, and includes privacy safeguards. Some users are still concerned that Enhanced Visual Search is enabled by default, rather than having you opt in. There are a million different
Read MoreNvidia has completed its acquisition of Run:ai, a provider of GPU cloud orchestration software for AI workloads, and announced plans to open-source the platform. The deal, valued at $700 million, brings the Israel-based startup under Nvidia’s umbrella after their collaboration since 2020. Run:ai’s software helps enterprises manage and schedule Nvidia GPU resources for AI applications
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge One of the big benefits of buying a “Pro” iPhone is currently that you get a fancy high-refresh rate OLED display, but that may become standard across the iPhone 17 lineup, according to a Weibo leak from Digital Chat Station spotted by MacRumors. The outlet notes that
Read MoreCredit: Jonathan Feist / Android Authority I obviously own some smart devices. I have a smartphone, which is somewhat important in this job and generally handy in life. I also have a smart TV — you’d probably have to go far out of your way to find any other kind of TV. But that’s it.
Read MoreImage: Cath Virginia / The Verge PlayStation had a rocky 2024 but still put out some great games. Read the full story at The Verge.
Read MoreThey call it the fastest internet at sea — Royal Caribbean’s Starlink-powered Voom service — and I guess that’s true. After all, I don’t think Google is interested in running Fiber to the middle of the water off the Bahamas. Either way, I was excited to try it on a recent cruise, whether I was
Read MoreAn Asus ROG Ally X, running Bazzite. It looks just like SteamOS, because they share an interface. The first time I installed Bazzite on a Windows gaming handheld, I laughed. It looked like such a blatant clone of Valve’s Steam Deck interface. Its many bugs kept me at bay. Now, an Asus ROG Ally X
Read MoreFrom Elon Musk and Donald Trump to state-sponsored hackers and crypto scammers, this was the year the online agents of chaos gained ground.
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Leaked files suggest the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra will have a car crash detection sensor. Previous Samsung flagships also have the same sensor, but Samsung has not yet rolled out the car crash detection feature. Android smartphones have several personal safety features you hope never to use, but
Read MoreGrab the lowest price in 30 days on the Apple Watch Series 10 at Amazon — or pick up an SE 2 for under $200. Grab the lowest price in 30 days on the Apple Watch Series 10. Amazon has issued steeper price drops on Apple Watch models this weekend, with the Series 10 dipping
Read MoreTides ebb and flow. Pendulums swing. Ideas come and go, especially in programming, where the technologies and techniques for creating software continuously evolve. Some programming languages, libraries, platforms, and tools become hot and irresistible. When they’re mentioned, everyone at the planning meeting jumps on the table and cheers. Others lose steam or fall from favor,
Read MoreOpen Source Initiative (OSI) chief Stefano Maffulli says Meta is “bullying” the industry on the concept of open source. The Economist more colorfully characterizes the dispute as “bare-it-all purists … confronting Meta, the social-media giant controlled by a mankini-clad Mark Zuckerberg.” It’s all much ado about something as AI proves exceptionally difficult to stuff into
Read MoreCredit: LG LG has revealed what it calls the world’s first 5K2K bendable monitor. The UltraGear OLED Bendable Gaming Monitor has a 5,120 x 2,160 resolution and can turn into a 900R curved screen. The Korean company hasn’t revealed pricing or availability details just yet. We’ve seen several bendable displays over the years, allowing users
Read MoreThe Samsung XR is expected to be a more upscale experience than the Quest 3 (pictured). Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Meta is working to fix a faulty software update that bricked many Quest headsets. The company says most affected headsets should be working properly now. It has also offered to fix out-of-warranty
Read MoreThe Samsung XR is expected to be a more upscale experience than the Quest 3 (pictured). Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Meta is working to fix a faulty software update that bricked many Quest headsets. The company says most affected headsets should be working properly now. It has also offered to fix out-of-warranty
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Spotify search results for popular artists have been surfacing porn videos for many users. The platform removed some flagged clips, but poor moderation is evident from how long the videos have remained online. It looks like Spotify has a content moderation problem on its hands. Searches for popular artists
Read MoreFormer U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died. Born in 1924, he had just celebrated his 100th birthday on October 1st. If you want to catch a glimpse of his political charisma, YouTube has a clip of Carter’s appearance on “What’s My Line” when he was still only governor of Georgia. Within five years he’d be
Read MoreImage: LG LG isn’t waiting until CES begins to reveal its new collection of gaming monitors. The 2025 lineup is led by the UltraGear OLED Bendable Gaming Monitor, which LG claims is the “world’s first 5K2K-resolution bendable OLED display.” That strikes me as extremely specific, but hey, it’s always worth bragging when you’re first, I
Read MoreImage: LG LG isn’t waiting until CES begins to reveal its new collection of gaming monitors. The 2025 lineup is led by the UltraGear OLED Bendable Gaming Monitor, which LG claims is the “world’s first 5K2K-resolution bendable OLED display.” That strikes me as extremely specific, but hey, it’s always worth bragging when you’re first, I
Read MoreImage: LG LG isn’t waiting until CES begins to reveal its new collection of gaming monitors. The 2025 lineup is led by the UltraGear OLED Bendable Gaming Monitor, which LG claims is the “world’s first 5K2K-resolution bendable OLED display.” That strikes me as extremely specific, but hey, it’s always worth bragging when you’re first, I
Read MoreThe DJI Flip is expected to fly nearly twice as long as the DJI Neo, pictured here. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge New images of the rumored DJI Flip folding drone hit late last week, showing the compact, light-colored drone both folded and unfolded, and even in a carrying case. The images
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