Update, October 14, 2024 (01:47 PM ET): No, it’s not just you. Facebook appears to currently be experiencing a widespread outage. You can try your luck at some of the troubleshooting tips below, but given the scale it looks like we’re dealing with here, you may just need to wait for Facebook engineers to sort
Read MoreOpen source application packages, including those in Python and JavaScript, have a vulnerability in their entry points that could be used by threat actors to execute malicious code to steal data, plant malware, and more. This warning to developers and infosec leaders comes in a report released today by researchers at Checkmarx. They dub the techniques “command
Read MoreThe growing use of AI and machine learning in financial services globally can lead to financial stability risks and warrants adequate risk mitigation practices by banks, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India said on Monday. From a report: “The heavy reliance of AI can lead to concentration risks, especially when a small number
Read MoreImage: Fujifilm Even as it keeps working to catch up with demand for the massively popular X100VI, Fujifilm has been on a steady cadence of releasing new cameras. The X-T50 was announced in May, and it was the first to feature a physical dial for switching between the company’s signature film simulations. That dial is
Read MoreThe updated Remove Tool in Photoshop can now find and remove common distractions for you. | Image: Adobe Adobe is kicking off its annual Adobe Max conference today with the launch of new AI-powered features across its Creative Cloud apps. New AI features for Photoshop, like automatic background distraction removal and a more powerful Firefly
Read MoreTemu has until 21 October to supply the requested information, then the EU will consider its next steps. Read more: EU asks Temu for information about illegal trading on its platform under DSA
Read MoreFor the disability community, technology can be the most valuable travel companion. These apps and services make it easier to get around a new city.
Read MoreA security expert has recounted how close he came to being fooled by a new AI-based scam call that aimed to get his Gmail account details. Scammers tried to gain control of a security expert’s Gmail account There were already scam ChatGPT apps on the App Store, but now artificial intelligence has been deployed by
Read MoreImage: the Internet Archive The Internet Archive is back online in a read-only state after a cyberattack brought down the digital library and Wayback Machine last week. A data breach and DDoS attack kicked the site offline on October 9th, with a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records also stolen in recent weeks.
Read MoreBobby Renfro spent $1,200 to buy a gas-powered electricity generator for a community resource hub he set up in a former church near hurricane-struck Asheville, North Carolina. He’s spending thousands more on fuel, reports the Associated Press — though he’s just one of many. Right now over 500,000 people are without power in Florida, according
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority HONOR CEO George Zhao has announced that the HONOR Magic 7 series phones will launch on October 30. The phones will likely offer the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip and big batteries. The company also confirmed that Magic OS 9.0 would launch next week. The HONOR Magic 6 Pro
Read MoreWe’ve seen many portable laptops using the Raspberry Pi series of boards in the decade-plus since its launch. The appeal of a cheap board that can run a desktop Linux distro without requiring too much battery is hard not to fall for. Over the years, the bar has been raised from a Pi stuck to
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google Play Store could soon sport a header that is fixed in place on app listings. This header will include key app details, such as the icon, name, developer’s name, average rating, and more. It would also include the Install button. This change would make it easier to install
Read More“Google is developing a Linux terminal app for Android,” reports the blog Android Authority. “The Terminal app can be enabled via developer options and will install Debian in a virtual machine. “This app is likely intended for Chromebooks but might also be available for mobile devices, too.” While there are ways to run some Linux
Read MoreSelf-balancing devices present a unique blend of challenge and innovation. That’s how [mircemk]’s project caught our eye. While balancing cubes isn’t a new concept — Hackaday has published several over the years — [mircemk] didn’t fail to impress. This design features a 3D-printed cube that balances using reaction wheels. Utilizing gyroscopic sensors and accelerometers, the
Read More“Some prominent privacy advocates are encouraging customers to pull their data” from 23andMe, reports SFGate. But can you actually do that? 23andMe makes it easy to feel like you’ve protected your genetic footprint. In their account settings, customers can download versions of their data to a computer and choose to delete the data attached to
Read MoreAmerica’s electric vehicle subsidies brought a 2-to-1 return on investment, according to a paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research. “That includes environmental benefits, but mostly reflects a shift of profits to the United States,” reports the New York Times. “Before the climate law, tax credits were mainly used to buy foreign-made cars.” “What
Read MoreTo avoid overloading local electric grids, Britain’s most productive windfarm “is paid to turn off,” reports the Guardian — and across the industry these so-called “constraint payments” amount to billions every year. “Government officials are hoping to correct the clear inefficiencies in the market by overhauling the market itself.” Greg Jackson, the founder of Octopus
Read MoreImage: The Verge Both T-Mobile and AT&T have plans to release their first devices soon that run on RedCap, a 5G specification that is tooled for Internet of Things devices, according to Fierce Wireless. What is RedCap? Great question! Also called “reduced capability” or NR-Light, RedCap is a low-bandwidth version of 5G that’s expected to
Read MoreSlashdot reader Rick Schumann shared this report from the blog AppleInsider: A new paper from Apple’s artificial intelligence scientists has found that engines based on large language models, such as those from Meta and OpenAI, still lack basic reasoning skills. The group has proposed a new benchmark, GSM-Symbolic, to help others measure the reasoning capabilities
Read MoreIllustration by Laura Normand / The Verge The Presidential campaign of Donald Trump asked X to stop links to a story containing VP nominee JD Vance’s hacked dossier from circulating before X chose to block them, reports The New York Times. X had cited its “rules on posting unredacted private personal information” as its justification
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal reports on a “suspicious fleet of unidentified aircraft… as many as a dozen or more” that appeared in Virginia 10 months ago “over an area that includes the home base for the Navy’s SEAL Team Six and Naval Station Norfolk, the world’s largest naval port.” The article notes this was just
Read MoreOn WhatsApp, you may receive messages or calls from unknown numbers, especially if you’ve shared your number on various platforms. While you can’t completely stop unknown callers from reaching out, there are certain things you can do to identify potential spam. One of the easiest ways to identify potential spam calls on WhatsApp is to
Read MoreAn Optimus robot at the We, Robot event. | Screenshot: Tesla We, Robot livestream Tesla made sure its Optimus robots were a big part of its extravagant, in-person Cybercab reveal last week. The robots mingled with the crowd, served drinks to and played games with guests, and danced inside a gazebo. Seemingly most surprisingly, they
Read MoreThough native Linux game servers have been scarce over the last two decades, “I’ve seen people using the Box64 emulator to play x86_64 games on ARM devices,” writes Slashdot reader VennStone. “It got me thinking: why not apply this to game servers…? “I thought it would be fun to see if I could build a
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