Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google has added more channels to Google TV devices in recent months. These channels join 10 more that were added to the platform back in June. Google TV devices offer a variety of built-in free TV channels, ranging from movies and food to reality TV and game shows. Google
Read MoreTelegram CEO Pavel Durov. | Getty Images Telegram says its CEO and founder Pavel Durov has “nothing to hide” after he was arrested by French authorities outside of Paris. “It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform,” the company says in an unnamed statement posted
Read MoreTelegram CEO Pavel Durov. | Getty Images Telegram says its CEO and founder Pavel Durov has “nothing to hide” after he was arrested by French authorities outside of Paris. “It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform,” the company says in an unnamed statement posted
Read More[Marius Taciuc’s] latest endeavor, the B4 Thinker, offers a captivating glimpse into microcontroller architecture through a modular approach. This proof-of-concept project is meticulously documented, with a detailed, step-by-step guide to each component and its function. Launched in 2014, the B4 Thinker project began with the ambitious goal of building a microcontroller from scratch. The resulting
Read MoreAmerica’s Department of Energy has three R&D labs, according to Wikipedia, one of which is Sandia National Labs. And that New Mexico-based lab has just announced that “A milestone in quantum sensing is drawing closer, promising exquisitely accurate, GPS-free navigation.” with research into “a motion sensor so precise it could minimize the nation’s reliance on
Read MoreFormula 1 racer Lando Norris in Bahrain in 2022. | Photo: Hasan Bratic / Picture Alliance via Getty Images Formula 1 broadcast footage from the Dutch Grand Prix qualifiers at Circuit Zandvoort this weekend that was captured by a gyro camera system mounted above the helmet of the weekend’s race winner, Lando Norris. The camera,
Read MoreFormula 1 racer Lando Norris in Bahrain in 2022. | Photo: Hasan Bratic / Picture Alliance via Getty Images Formula 1 broadcast footage from the Dutch Grand Prix qualifiers at Circuit Zandvoort this weekend that was captured by a gyro camera system mounted above the helmet of the weekend’s race winner, Lando Norris. The camera,
Read MoreSecurityWeek reports: A significant backdoor in millions of contactless cards made by China-based Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Group allows instantaneous cloning of RFID smart cards used to open office doors and hotel rooms around the world. French security services firm Quarkslab has made an eye-popping discovery… Although the backdoor requires just a few minutes of physical
Read MoreA university in Taiwan was breached with “a previously unseen backdoor (Backdoor.Msupedge) utilizing an infrequently seen technique,” Symantec reports. The most notable feature of this backdoor is that it communicates with a command-and-control server via DNS traffic… The code for the DNS tunneling tool is based on the publicly available dnscat2 tool. It receives commands
Read MoreLong-time Slashdot reader UnderAttack explains: A blog post at the SANS Internet Storm Center suggests that OpenAI actions are being abused to scan for WordPress vulnerabilities. Honeypot sensors at the Storm Center detected scans for URLs targeting WordPress that originated exclusively from OpenAI systems. The URLs requested all pages including the pattern ‘%%target%%’, which may
Read MoreLong-time Slashdot reader mmell writes: Recent reports have indicated a near-complete collapse in the population of Snow Crabs in the Bering Sea. Scientists with the US Government’s National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration have concluded that warming in the environment has led to vast numbers of snow crabs starving to death. There has been a lot
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shared this story from the blog Decrypt: Michael Lewis, author of Going Infinite, an account of the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, has argued that the disgraced FTX founder didn’t have “the character of a thief” in a new The Washington Post article. “His crime was of a piece with his
Read MoreApple Intelligence is already available, and if you’re interested, you can try it out today. However, there are some conditions for trying Its features. If you don’t know, Apple Intelligence is a personal intelligence system that embeds powerful generative models in the core of your iPhone. Apple Intelligence brings incredible new features to help users
Read MoreThe nonprofit American Radio Relay League — founded in 1914 — has approximately 161,000 members, according to Wikipedia (with over 7,000 members outside the U.S.) But sometime in early May its systems network was compromised, “by threat actors using information they had purchased on the dark web,” the nonprofit announced this week. The attackers accessed
Read MoreEveryone has a favorite browser, whether it’s a standard pick like Firefox or a security-focused one like DuckDuckGo or Brave. And, when you settle on a good browser, you tend to stay there for a long time, perfecting your settings to make it feel like home. But when you get comfortable, you start to ignore
Read MoreVolkswagen said this week it would wait to see where EV demand goes before building out the last three of its six planned battery factories. And now Ford has also cancelled its planned electric SUV and delayed production of an all-new electric pickup, according to CNBC, moves Ford now believes could cost up to $1.9
Read MoreAfter announcing it had 200 million active users earlier this month, Threads is now “testing the option for users to put a 24-hour expiration timer on their posts,” writes Engadget: A spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that the feature is being tested among a group of users after it was first spotted earlier this summer by
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Read MoreImage: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 49, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you like podcasts, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about upstart baseball teams
Read MoreSix months after going public, Reddit “is winning over advertisers,” reports Bloomberg, “by showing that it’s different than other internet platforms, which often rely on users’ identities and personal information to target ads.” Instead, Reddit is targeting people based on their interests, relying on the site’s [100,000+] deeply detailed communities — called subreddits — to
Read MoreOne great advantage of sharing files via Google Drive is the ability to set expiration dates. Yes, you can set expiration dates for the files you share with others on Google Drive, but many users don’t know about it. Expiration Date for Files on Google Drive You may want to set an expiration date for
Read MoreVPNs are essential these days, especially if you care about your privacy. They have now become an essential security tool for accessing the web. With a VPN, you can easily bypass blocked websites, hide IP Addresses, and more. It also encrypts your internet traffic for enhanced security. Despite their features, VPNs were not without their
Read MoreVPNs are essential these days, especially if you care about your privacy. They have now become an essential security tool for accessing the web. With a VPN, you can easily bypass blocked websites, hide IP Addresses, and more. It also encrypts your internet traffic for enhanced security. Despite their features, VPNs were not without their
Read More“At The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit China conference, Linus Torvalds and his buddy Dirk Hohndel, Verizon’s Head of the Open Source Program Office, once more chatted about Linux development and related issues,” reports ZDNet: Torvalds: “Later this year, we will have the 20th anniversary of the real-time Linux project. This is a project that
Read MoreLunar Module pilot Charles Duke saluting the US flag during Apollo 16. (Credit: NASA) Imagine: you spent years training for a sojourn to the Moon, flew there on top of a Saturn V rocket as part of Apollo 16, to ultimately land on the lunar surface. You then spend the next few days on the
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