Edit messages, AI Bitmoji fashion, and reminders round out the new Snapchat update. | Image: Snap Snap is launching a slew of new features in Snapchat, including the ability to edit already sent messages allowing you to rectify a “your” vs. “you’re” typo or other embarrassing errors. Snapchat is also getting emoji reactions, map reactions,
Read MoreImage: Crunchyroll While Crunchyroll’s monthly prices haven’t jumped in five years, Sony is getting ready to change that for subscribers in a handful of countries. Crunchyroll announced today that the prices for its Mega Fan and Ultimate Fan streaming subscription tiers are going up as a result of “the company’s investment in more anime, additional
Read MoreMicrosoft has confirmed that the April 2024 Windows security updates break VPN connections across client and server platforms. From a report: The company explains on the Windows health dashboard that “Windows devices might face VPN connection failures after installing the April 2024 security update or the April 2024 non-security preview update.” “We are investigating user
Read MoreThe National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) told employees Wednesday that it is blocking access to ChatGPT on agency-issued laptops to “protect our data from security threats associated with use of ChatGPT,” 404 Media reported Wednesday. From the report: “NARA will block access to commercial ChatGPT on NARANet [an internal network] and on NARA issued
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Dropbox said its digital-signature product, Dropbox Sign, was breached by hackers, who accessed user information including emails, user names and phone numbers. The software company said it became aware of the cyberattack on April 24, sought to limit the incident and reported it to law enforcement and
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shares a report: Two months after hackers broke into Change Healthcare systems stealing and then encrypting company data, it’s still unclear how many Americans were impacted by the cyberattack. Last month, Andrew Witty, the CEO of Change Healthcare’s parent company UnitedHealth Group, said that the stolen files include the personal health information
Read MoreCompared to through-hole construction, inspecting SMD construction is a whole other game. Things you thought were small before are almost invisible now, and making sure solder got where it’s supposed to go can be a real chore. Add some ball grid array (BGA) chips into the mix, where the solder joints are not visible by
Read MoreAn ethernet port! | Screenshot: Superdell-TV Walmart is apparently getting ready to release a new Onn “Pro” Google TV 4K streaming box that’s also a smart speaker. Yesterday, YouTuber Superdell-TV hosted a livestream where he showed off the streaming device, which he said he had bought from the retailer in-store for $50. As 9to5Google noted
Read More“Tens of millions” of people are using technical workarounds to secretly access WhatsApp in countries where it is banned, the messaging platform’s boss has said. From a report: “You’d be surprised how many people have figured it out,” Will Cathcart told BBC News. Like many Western apps, WhatsApp is banned in Iran and North Korea
Read MoreCath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Getty Images A new bill seeking to track security issues by mandating the creation of a database recording all breaches of AI systems has been filed in the Senate. The Secure Artificial Intelligence Act, introduced by Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Thom Tillis (R-NC), would establish an
Read MoreAlong with releasing Python specialists, Google also has laid off Flutter and Dart teams according to various reports. Google did not respond this morning to InfoWorld’s inquiry about Flutter and Dart layoffs. But comments were circulating online about staff reductions at Google. Flutter is an open source framework for building multi-platform applications from a single codebase. Dart,
Read MoreWe’re often told to “work smarter, not harder,” but with only so many hours in a day, making extra time is essential. For this, a slew of AI productivity tools, which streamline, automate, and optimize are available right now to help with this workload. Not only can these nifty AI apps and tools help boost
Read MoreArsTechnica: Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language on the college’s General
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile has completed its acquisition of Mint Mobile, the carrier partially owned by Ryan Reynolds. In an update on Wednesday, T-Mobile says Mint Mobile will continue to offer its $15 per month / 5GB of data plan (that requires paying for three months upfront), while also offering access to
Read MoreCredit: T-Mobile Mint Mobile is now officially part of T-Mobile. The carrier says it will continue offering Mint Mobile’s $15 plan. Customers are also getting a couple of new benefits. On April 26, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved T-Mobile’s acquisition of Ka’ena Corporation, the parent company of Mint Mobile. The carrier has now
Read MoreMacworld The next version of the Mac operating system, macOS 15, is expected to make its debut at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, which kicks off with a keynote on June 10. After a beta period, the official release occurs in the fall. Rumors of what macOS 15 will entail are scarce as usual–because software development
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Fossil is holding a massive sale on its Wear OS smartwatches. Originally priced around $300, these watches are now being sold for a mere $79 each. Fossil had previously announced its exit from the smartwatch market. Fossil’s smartwatch era is officially extinct. After announcing its departure from the smartwatch
Read MorePhoto by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images It’s gone from one piece to three. Tesla’s ambitious plans to manufacture the underbody of its vehicles into a single piece, a process known as gigacasting, has been put on hold, according to Reuters, citing two sources with knowledge of the move. It was another sign that the
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge WhatsApp is adding a new way to plan and organize events in group messages, making it easier for friends and organizations like schools and neighborhoods to set up virtual and in-person meetings. The new events feature lets members of a group set up birthday parties, work meetings, and more, similar to various
Read MoreWe always can use more tools for FPGA debugging, and the Manta project by [Fischer Moseley] delivers without a shadow of a doubt. Manta lets you add a debug and data transfer channel between your computer and your FPGA, that you can easily access with helpfully included Python libraries. With just a short configuration file
Read MorePennsylvania state representatives have pushed forward a second piece of legislation that would penalize the unauthorized use of Bluetooth trackers, like AirTag, to track someone. Apple AirTag There’s no shortage of instances where someone discovered they were being tracked without their knowledge via AirTag. While the $29 coin-sized trackers have proven useful when retrieving lost
Read MoreImage: Bethesda Softworks Starfield players on Xbox will no longer have to deal with the game’s 30-frames-per-second (fps) cap. As part of an update arriving on May 15th, Bethesda will let Xbox Series X players run the game at 60fps. The 60fps option comes as part of several new display customization settings. The game will
Read MoreMacworld The Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 may have only debuted in September 2023, but the clock is already ticking for the release of their successors. We gather up all the news and rumors that give us some clues about what we might find in the Apple Watch Series 10, Ultra 3 and
Read MoreWindows 11’s market share dropped in April 2024, falling below 26% after reaching an all-time high of 28.16% in February. According to Statcounter, Windows 11 lost 0.97 points, while Windows 10 gained 0.96 points, crossing the 70% mark for the first time since September 2023. Neowin adds: Some argue that Windows 11 still offers little
Read MoreJava 17, a Long Term Support (LTS) version of the Java language released in September 2021, has become the most-used Java LTS version, according to New Relic’s 2024 State of the Java Ecosystem report, published April 30. Java 21, an LTS version released in 2023, also is seeing higher adoption. More than 35% of applications
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