Spotify is preparing to unveil its long-rumored lossless audio feature, but the company won’t be taking Apple Music‘s approach. Lossless audio & AirPods optimization coming to Spotify The concept of Spotify offering lossless audio isn’t new. Initially dubbed “Spotify HiFi,” the idea was first teased in 2021, hinting at a premium subscription model named “Supremium.”
Read MoreT-Mobile employees from around the country are reportedly receiving text messages offering them cash in exchange for swapping SIMs. SIM swapping is when cybercriminals trick a cellular service provider into switching a victim’s service to a SIM card that they control, essentially hijacking the victim’s phone number and gaining access to two-factor authentication codes. From
Read MoreBack in the 1990s, you could get a tape player shaped like a can of Coca Cola. [Simon the Magpie] scored one of these decks and decided to turn it into a tape echo effect instead. It didn’t work so well, but the concept is a compelling one. You can see the result in the
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: In a major clean energy benchmark, wind, solar, and hydro exceeded 100% of demand on California’s main grid for 30 of the past 38 days. Stanford University professor of civil and environmental engineering Mark Z. Jacobson has been tracking California’s renewables performance, and he shares his findings
Read MoreAdobe is using its Firefly machine learning model to bring generative AI video tools to Premiere Pro. “These new Firefly tools — alongside some proposed third-party integrations with Runway, Pika Labs, and OpenAI’s Sora models — will allow Premiere Pro users to generate video and add or remove objects using text prompts (just like Photoshop’s
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post: The Biden administration marked the close of tax season Monday by announcing it had met a modest goal of getting at least 100,000 taxpayers to file through the Internal Revenue Service’s new tax software, Direct File — an alternative to commercial tax preparers. Although the
Read MoreRoku has made two-factor authentication (2FA) mandatory for all users following two credential stuffing attacks that compromised approximately 591,000 customer accounts and led to unauthorized purchases in fewer than 400 cases. The Register reports: Credential stuffing and password spraying are both fairly similar types of brute force attacks, but the former uses known pairs of
Read MoreThe Compaq Portable III hails from the 386 era — in the days before the laptop form factor was what we know today. It’s got a bit of an odd design, but a compelling one, and the keyboard is pretty nifty, too. [r0r0] found one of these old-school machines and decided it was well worth
Read MoreIllustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images Officials at the UK’s Department of Science, Innovation and Technology have started drafting legislation to regulate AI models, Bloomberg reports. It’s unclear how any future regulation will intersect with the UK’s already-extant AI Safety Institute, which already conducts safety tests of the most
Read MoreECMAScript 2024, a planned update to ECMA’s standard for JavaScript, is set to include seven new features ranging from array grouping to Unicode strings. The 2024 specification, from ECMA’s Technical Committee 39, is expected to be approved in June. Among the list of finished features cited for publication this year is a proposal for array
Read MoreMichael Larabel reports via Phoronix: Within yesterday’s Linux 6.9-rc4 release is an interesting little nugget by Linus Torvalds to battle Kconfig parsers that can’t correctly handle tabs but rather just assume spaces for whitespace for this kernel configuration format. Due to a patch having been queued last week to replace a tab with a space
Read MoreImage: Parker Ortolani / The Verge Over the last few days, Tesla has delayed some Cybertruck deliveries. The company hasn’t specified why or even publicly commented on the delays, but commenters in the Cybertruck Owners Club forum have reported receiving texts or calls telling them their deliveries were being rescheduled. One user said they’d been
Read MoreIllustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to propose new regulations that would require data brokers to comply with the Fair Credit Reporting Act. In a speech at the White House earlier this month, CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said the agency is looking into
Read MoreGoogle is preparing to tweak the Pixel Launcher’s animations and feature set in Android 15. The Pixel Launcher app powers the home screen and recents screen on Pixel phones. There’s a new swipe-to-home animation that’s snappier, a new title bar in the recents screen, widget recommendations, and more. The app that powers your phone’s home
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Dropout’s Dungeons & Dragons actual play show, Dimension 20, is getting pretty close to selling out a 19,000-seat venue just hours after ticket sales opened to the general public. To the uninitiated, it may seem absurd to go to a massive sports arena and watch people play
Read MoreJapan is poised to dramatically increase the penalties for tech giants accused of monopolistic practices like Apple. New Japanese laws could slap Apple with up to 20% sales penalty In an extensive global effort to limit the power of major technology companies, the Japanese government plans to revise its antitrust regulations. The strategy could lead
Read MoreKeanu Reeves as John Wick. | Image: Lionsgate The third Sonic movie already seemed like it was going to kick all kinds of ass by bringing Shadow the Hedgehog into the picture, but Paramount’s just upped the ante by adding one Keanu Reeves to its cast. According to both The Hollywood Reporter and Variety, Keanu
Read MoreImage from NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover captured in April 2024. | NASA Budget constraints have NASA looking for a faster and cheaper method to bring samples from Mars’ surface back to Earth. In a teleconference on Monday, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said that an independent review concluded that the agency’s current plan to bring the
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Current and former T-Mobile employees are receiving text messages offering them $300 for every SIM swap they perform. SIM swapping allows a bad actor to gain access to a phone line, which they can use to obtain two-factor authentication codes sent to the victim. It appears the criminals were
Read MoreIf you have a well-equipped shop, it isn’t unusual to have a welder. Stick welders have become a commodity and even some that use shield gas are cheap if you don’t count buying the bottle of gas. But plasma cutters are still a bit pricey. Can you get one from China for under $300? Yes.
Read MoreTop takeaways from Stanford’s new AI Index Report [PDF]: 1. AI beats humans on some tasks, but not on all. AI has surpassed human performance on several benchmarks, including some in image classification, visual reasoning, and English understanding. Yet it trails behind on more complex tasks like competition-level mathematics, visual commonsense reasoning and planning. 2.
Read MoreThe weekend drama surrounding emulation on the App Store isn’t the first one, and it won’t be the last. Here’s what you need to know about emulators in the App Store and the complexities surrounding them. Emulation is coming to the App Store – eventually To make a long weekend saga short, a developer released
Read MoreIt’s time for another audio-first social network with a long wait list and vague moderation policies. What could go wrong?
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is bringing its ad blocker fight to mobile. In an update on Monday, YouTube writes that users accessing videos through a third-party ad blocking app may encounter buffering issues or see an error message that reads, “The following content is not available on this app.” Last year, YouTube
Read MoreThe U.S. government is warning that smart locks securing entry to an estimated 50,000 dwellings nationwide contain hard-coded credentials that can be used to remotely open any of the locks. Krebs on SecurityL: The lock’s maker Chirp Systems remains unresponsive, even though it was first notified about the critical weakness in March 2021. Meanwhile, Chirp’s
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