Slashdot reader storagedude shares a provocative post from the cybersecurity news blog of Cyble Inc. (a Ycombinator-backed company promising “AI-powered actionable threat intelligence”). The post delves into concerns that the new “Recall” feature planned for Windows (on upcoming Copilot+ PCs) is “a security and privacy nightmare.” Copilot Recall will be enabled by default and will
Read MoreSlashdot reader storagedude shares a provocative post from the cybersecurity news blog of Cyble Inc. (a Ycombinator-backed company promising “AI-powered actionable threat intelligence”). The post delves into concerns that the new “Recall” feature planned for Windows (on upcoming Copilot+ PCs) is “a security and privacy nightmare.” Copilot Recall will be enabled by default and will
Read MoreLong-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: “This is truly game-changing news!” exclaims Minecraft Education’s Laylah Bulman in a LinkedIn post targeting high school CS educators. “We’re thrilled to announce that the AP Computer Science Principles with Minecraft and MakeCode Curriculum has officially been approved by The College Board! And we are offering free professional learning for
Read MoreA new report doubles-down on the improbability of new hardware debuts at WWDC — and pushes back the rumored arrival of an Apple TV set-top box update. Apple’s next Mac Studio and Mac Pro models won’t be announced at WWDC Walking back one of its own predictions, Bloomberg now says that no new hardware will
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge It sounds like Apple’s WWDC plans go beyond sprinkling AI fairy dust on everything (though that’s going to be a big part of it, too). Besides Siri gaining new AI-powered app control, the company also plans to overhaul things like the Settings apps for iOS and macOS, Control
Read MoreA bicyclist’s fortuitous AirPod bounce after a terrible crash helped police track down a hit-and-run driver. Suspect’s vehicle was tracked by an AirPod that fell into it after accident. Photo: Martin County Sheriff’s Office. A New York Times report told the story of 15-year-old Lochlan Nicol of Jensen Beach, Florida, who rode his bike to
Read MoreCompact, cute, and fairly cheap, Nubia’s Flip 5G could be your first foldable, but the software lets it down.
Read MoreCredit: Oliver Cragg / Android Authority NVIDIA has claimed that its GPUs can technically run Microsoft’s Copilot Plus features. However, a representative acknowledged that an NPU was better suited to running these features due to better efficiency. This isn’t a surprise, especially after a modder got a key Copilot Plus capability running on an old
Read More“Chinese scientists develop cure for diabetes,” reads the headline from the world’s second-most widely read English-language newspaper. (“Insulin patient becomes medicine-free in just 3 months.”) The researchers’ results were published earlier in May in Cell Discovery, and are now getting some serious scrutiny from the press. The Economic Times cites a University of British Columbia
Read MoreMacworld We don’t have to stop learning our native language after grade school, nor should we. Sometimes, what we say isn’t half as important as the words we choose, which is where the Wordela Vocabulary Builder comes in. For less than $10, new users can have lifetime access to an app that lets you build
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Read MoreMacworld Dads love getting stuff done, so sometimes the most practical Father’s Day gifts are the best. This year, surprise him by turning his home PC into a real workhorse with a lifetime license to both Windows 11 Pro and Microsoft Office Pro 2021 for $59.97. Rated 5/5 stars by users, this deal is a
Read MoreChina’s Chang’e-6 probe successfully lands on far side of the moon China’s moon probe has “successfully touched down on the far side of the moon,” CNN reports, in “a significant step for the ambitious mission that could advance the country’s aspirations of putting astronauts on the moon” by 2030. The mission’s ultimate goal is to
Read MoreWith every large event in our circles comes a badge, and Electromagnetic Field 2024 is no exception. We’ve told you about the Tildagon when it was announced, it’s a hexagonal badge designed with provision for user-created “Hexpansions”, which can be picked up at future camps. The idea of this badge is to make something with
Read MoreWith every large event in our circles comes a badge, and Electromagnetic Field 2024 is no exception. We’ve told you about the Tildagon when it was announced, it’s a hexagonal badge designed with provision for user-created “Hexpansions”, which can be picked up at future camps. The idea of this badge is to make something with
Read More‘”As AI programs shake up the office, potentially making millions of jobs obsolete, one group of perpetually stressed workers seems especially vulnerable…” writes the New York Times. “The chief executive is increasingly imperiled by A.I.” These employees analyze new markets and discern trends, both tasks a computer could do more efficiently. They spend much of
Read More‘”As AI programs shake up the office, potentially making millions of jobs obsolete, one group of perpetually stressed workers seems especially vulnerable…” writes the New York Times. “The chief executive is increasingly imperiled by A.I.” These employees analyze new markets and discern trends, both tasks a computer could do more efficiently. They spend much of
Read MoreThere’s a good few options for exporting data out of FPGAs, like Ethernet, USB2, or USB3. Many FPGAs have a HDMI (or rather, sparkling DVI) port as well, and [Steve Markgraf] brings us the hsdaoh project — High-Speed Data Acquisition Over HDMI, using USB3 capture cards based on the Macrosilicon MS2130 chipset to get the
Read More“The seemingly star-cross Boeing Starliner — within minutes of its long-delayed blastoff on the spacecraft’s first piloted test flight — was grounded again Saturday,” writes CBS News, “when one of three redundant computers managing the countdown from the base of the launch pad ran into a problem, triggering a last-minute scrub.” More details from NPR:
Read MoreAre you tired of the same old music, but can’t afford any new tunes, even if they’re on dead formats? Boy, do we know that feeling. Here’s what you do: build yourself a GlobeTune music player, and you’ll never want for new music again. The idea is simple, really. Just turn what we assume is
Read MoreAre you tired of the same old music, but can’t afford any new tunes, even if they’re on dead formats? Boy, do we know that feeling. Here’s what you do: build yourself a GlobeTune music player, and you’ll never want for new music again. The idea is simple, really. Just turn what we assume is
Read More“The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a critical security bug in Linux to its list of vulnerabilities known to be actively exploited in the wild,” reported Ars Technica on Friday. “The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-1086 and carrying a severity rating of 7.8 out of a possible 10, allows people who have already
Read MoreApple has quietly changed the M2 iPad Air’s listed GPU core count from 10 cores to nine cores, and Metal benchmark testing suggests that the nine-core spec is accurate. Apple has corrected the GPU core count in the M2 iPad Air’s description. The M2 iPad Air was originally announced as having a 10-core GPU in
Read MoreLong-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares the announcement of a new report from the International Energy Forum: The seemingly universal presumption persists that the copper needed for the green transition will somehow be available… This paper addresses this issue by projecting copper supply and demand from 2018 to 2050 and placing both in the historical context
Read MoreJournalist Steven Brill has written a new book called The Death of Truth. Its subtitle? “How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons They Needed to Destroy Trust and Polarize the World-And What We Can Do.” An excerpt published by Wired points out that last year around the world,
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