Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority An Android TV security oversight left emails and other data exposed on TVs with a signed-in Google account if you sideload Google Chrome. Google has fixed the issue by no longer using the login token of the Google account when Chrome is sideloaded. The change will improve security for
Read MoreAs Tesla faces a drop in sales and reports of mass layoffs, it appears Musk is turning to China in a bid to reverse the company’s fortunes. Read more: Musk visits China to reportedly push Tesla self-driving tech
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shared a report this week from Reuters: The U.S. Department of Commerce is reviewing the national security implications of China’s work in open-source RISC-V chip technology, according to a letter sent to U.S. lawmakers… The technology is being used by major Chinese tech firms such as Alibaba Group Holding and has become
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shared this report from CNN: Five times the size of Paris. Visible from space. The world’s biggest energy plant. Enough electricity to power Switzerland. The scale of the project transforming swathes of barren salt desert on the edge of western India into one of the most important sources of clean energy anywhere
Read MoreThere’s always an appeal to a cool-looking computer case or cyberdeck – and with authentic-looking Vault-Tec style, [Eric B] and [kc9psw]’s fallout-themed cyberdeck is no exception. The case looks like it came straight out of one of the Fallout games and acts the part: while (obviously) not capable of withstanding a direct nuclear bomb impact,
Read MoreThough it’s long past Y2K, another date-related bug is still with us, writes Slashdot reader Bruce66423, sharing this report from the BBC. “A 101-year-old woman keeps getting mistaken for a baby, because of an error with an airline’s booking system.” The problem occurs because American Airlines’ systems apparently cannot compute that Patricia, who did not
Read MoreCredit: Adamya Sharma / Android Authority Google Contacts is redesigning the Create Contact page. It’s now less cluttered, has new buttons, and fresher options. The redesign is rolling out on version 4.30 of the Google Contacts app. Google Contacts is getting a handy redesign that makes it easier to add a new contact or edit
Read MoreThere are many claims in the air about the capabilities of AI systems, as the technology continues to ascend the dizzy heights of the hype cycle. Some of them are true, others stretch definitions a little, while yet more cross the line into the definitely bogus. [J] has one that is backed up by real
Read MoreChina’s state-sponsored disinformation campaign has been running at a massive scale for seven years—but no one is looking at it.
Read MoreWell, it’s official — AI is ruining everything. That’s not exactly news, but learning that LLMs are apparently being used to write scientific papers is a bit alarming, and Andrew Gray, a librarian at University College London, has the receipts. He looked at a cross-section of scholarly papers from 2023 in search of certain words
Read MorePursuing an unfair business practices case against Amazon, America’s Federal Trade Commission has now “accused” Amazon of using Signal, reports the Seattle Times: The newspaper notes that the app “can be set to automatically delete messages, to hide information related to the FTC’s ongoing antitrust investigation into the company.” In a court filing this week,
Read MoreFrequent leaker Sonny Dickson has revealed a photo purporting to show the forthcoming iPhone 16 lineup, and the screen sizes for each of the four models. Photo on Dickson’s Twitter account revealing sizes for each model The image, which appears on Dickson’s X/Twitter account, supports recent rumors of different screen sizes for every model. With
Read MoreIn this week’s look at the Apple crime blotter, Canadian Police are looking into iPhone thefts, fraud has been alleged in third-party Apple Store pick-ups, an iPhone was stolen in a viral video, and more! The Apple Store on Manhattan’s Upper West Side A New York City police officer has been acquitted of charges related
Read MoreCredit: HBO Game of Thrones captivated audiences like almost no other TV series since the turn of the century, but its final season left us with a disappointing ending. Luckily, we only had to wait a couple of years before HBO would announce a prequel series titled House of the Dragon. Billed as the first
Read MoreLong-time Slashdot reader lee1 shares “an interesting essay on the history of orthodoxy in quantum mechanics,” published this week in Nature. Its title? “‘Shut up and calculate’: how Einstein lost the battle to explain quantum reality.” [T]he views of Danish physicist Niels Bohr came to dominate. Albert Einstein famously disagreed with him and, in the
Read MoreThat’s too cold! | Image: Amazon I don’t know about you, but when I have a nasty case of the hot phone, I have to get rid of that heat this instant. Just kidding, I usually just put it down for a while or restart it when it’s being especially stubborn. But there are companies
Read MoreCredit: HBO Game of Thrones captivated audiences like almost no other TV series since the turn of the century, but its final season left us with a disappointing ending. Luckily, we only had to wait a couple of years before HBO would announce a prequel series titled House of the Dragon. Billed as the first
Read MoreWhat do you do when you find an ancient piece of test gear and want to have fun? Well, you can always try getting BASIC running on it, and that’s precisely what [David Kuder] did. The HP4952A Protocol Analyzer actually looks a lot like an old computer, even if it was never meant for general-purpose
Read More“In less than 15 years, battery costs have fallen by more than 90%,” according to a new report from the International Energy Agency, “one of the fastest declines ever seen in clean energy technologies.” And it’s expected to get even cheaper, reports Reuters: An expected sharp fall in battery costs for energy storage in coming
Read MoreLet’s admit it; sometimes, while watching videos on social networking sites, we often see videos we want to save. We were not interested in the video, but the audio attracted us. In such a situation, you can rely on third-party Windows software to extract audio from a video file or convert the video into an
Read MoreIn September NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope investigated an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth, and “revealed the presence of carbon-bearing molecules including methane and carbon dioxide.” Webb’s discovery adds to recent studies suggesting that [planet] K2-18 b could be a Hycean exoplanet, one which has the potential to possess a hydrogen-rich atmosphere and
Read MoreImage: Marvel Studios I’ve been making more of an effort to keep up with movies lately and even managed the rare feat of seeing one in an actual movie theater. I saw Guy Ritchie’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which stars Henry Cavill, Alan Ritchson, Alex Pettyfer, Elza González, Babs Olusanmokun, and others in what
Read MoreHundreds of music streaming apps have been made for Android and iPhone; most are free to download and use but require in-app purchases. One good example of such a music streaming app is Spotify, which is available for Android, iPhone, and the web. Spotify is a great music streaming app that offers an unlimited music
Read MoreThis year Dell moved to soldered RAM for its XPS 14 and 16, writes Digital Trends, which “makes it impossible to upgrade, or even repair.” “This was a big change from the past, where the XPS 15 and 17 were both celebrated for their upgradability.” Of course, Dell isn’t the first to make the transition.
Read MoreFrequent leaker Sonny Dickson has revealed a photo purporting to show the forthcoming iPhone 16 lineup, and the screen sizes for each of the four models. Photo on Dickson’s Twitter account revealing sizes for each model The image, which appears on Dickson’s X/Twitter account, supports recent rumors of different screen sizes for every model. With
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