Some LLMs (Large Language Models) can act as useful programming assistants when provided with a project’s source code, but experimenting with this can get a little tricky if the chatbot has no way to download from the internet. In such cases, the code must be provided by either pasting it into the prompt or uploading
Read More“Federal regulators are investigating a whistleblower’s claims about flaws in the assembly of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner,” NPR reported this week: Longtime Boeing engineer Sam Salehpour went public Tuesday with claims that he observed problems with how parts of the plane’s fuselage were fastened together. Salehpour warns that production “shortcuts” could significantly shorten the lifespan of
Read MoreThe Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 34, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also, you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been writing about the Humane AI Pin and the
Read MoreMicrosoft released the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.3495 (KB5037000) to the Beta Channel on Friday. One of the highlights of the latest Insider build is that the company could test running ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for Beta users within the US. Microsoft Could Show Ads In Start Menu On Windows 11 According
Read MoreIn the latest Apple Crime Blotter, NASA iPad thefts were investigated, stolen credit cards were used at an Apple Store, and iPhones were stolen from a Philadelphia AT&T Store. The Apple Store in Naperville, Ill. The latest in an occasional AppleInsider series, looking at the world of Apple-related crime. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss
Read MoreJust over a week after Apple changed rules to allow game emulators on iPhone and iPad, the first have made their way into the App Store. Emulators arrive on iPhone Apple made a change to guideline 4.7 of the App Store Review Guidelines in early April, reversing a rule that effectively banned the submission of
Read MoreBy now, 3.3V has become a comfortable and common logic level for basically anything you might be hacking. However, sometimes, you still need to interface your GPIOs with devices that are 5 V, 1.8 V, or something even less common like 2.5 V. At this point, you might stumble upon autosensing level shifters, like the
Read MoreNothing is safe and secure in this digital world; the sites you visit, the search engines you use, the products you’re interested in, etc., are all tracked somehow. While most sites and services today are transparent about their tracking activities, who has the time to read through all those lengthy privacy policy pages? Since we
Read MoreThe world of amateur radio is like many other fields in that there has been a move underway from analogue to digital modes. In fact, amateur radio has often led the way in digital innovation. There’s a snag, though: many of the digital speech modes are proprietary. To address this along comes the M17 project,
Read More“An improved charging protocol might help lithium-ion batteries to last much longer,” writes Science Daily: The best commercial lithium-ion batteries…have a service life of up to eight years. Batteries are usually charged with a constant current flow. But is this really the most favorable method? A new study by Prof. Philipp Adelhelm’s group at HZB
Read MoreThe world of amateur radio is like many other fields in that there has been a move underway from analogue to digital modes. In fact, amateur radio has often led the way in digital innovation. There’s a snag, though: many of the digital speech modes are proprietary. To address this along comes the M17 project,
Read MoreJust over a week after Apple changed rules to allow game emulators on iPhone and iPad, the first have made their way into the App Store. Emulators arrive on iPhone Apple made a change to guideline 4.7 of the App Store Review Guidelines in early April, reversing a rule that effectively banned the submission of
Read MoreThe Iron Dome is going to be put to the test—but it’s not Israel’s only line of defense.
Read MoreDOJ-Collected Information Exposed In Data Breach Affecting 340,000 Information Collected An anonymous reader shared this report from Security Week: Economic analysis and litigation support firm Greylock McKinnon Associates, Inc. (GMA) is notifying over 340,000 individuals that their personal and medical information was compromised in a year-old data breach. The incident was detected on May 30,
Read MoreDOJ-Collected Information Exposed In Data Breach Affecting 340,000 Information Collected An anonymous reader shared this report from Security Week: Economic analysis and litigation support firm Greylock McKinnon Associates, Inc. (GMA) is notifying over 340,000 individuals that their personal and medical information was compromised in a year-old data breach. The incident was detected on May 30,
Read MoreForeign Policy magazine visits a U.S. military training exercise that pitted Lt. Isaac McCurdy and his platoon of infantry troops against machines with camera lenses for eyes and sheet metal for skin: Driving on eight screeching wheels and carrying enough firepower on their truck beds to fill a small arms depot, a handful of U.S.
Read MoreImage: California Highway Patrol Los Angeles citizens can rest easy knowing that a criminal theft ring is no longer stalking the city’s retail stores to feed a Lego black market. That’s because the California Highway Patrol (CHP) announced this week that it had arrested four people it accused of swiping what police estimated was “approximately
Read MoreWhile there’s an argument to be made that retro games should be experienced with whatever input device they were designed around, there’s no debating that modern game controllers are a lot more ergonomic and enjoyable to use than some of those early 8-bit entries. Now, thanks to the PicoNtrol project from [Reogen], you can use
Read MoreOne Gmail inbox for everything we need Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Gmail is working on a subscription management feature that promises to help you declutter your inbox. The feature will intelligently categorize senders by email frequency, making it simple to spot potential spam and forgotten subscriptions. It will gather all your subscriptions
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shared this report from BleepingComputer: Researchers have demonstrated the “first native Spectre v2 exploit” for a new speculative execution side-channel flaw that impacts Linux systems running on many modern Intel processors. Spectre V2 is a new variant of the original Spectre attack discovered by a team of researchers at the VUSec group
Read MoreOlder consumer electronic devices follow a desirability curve in which after they fall from favour they can’t be given away. But as they become rarer, they reach a point at which everyone wants them. Then, they can’t be had for love nor money. CRT TVs are now in the first stage, they’re bulky and lower-definition
Read MoreApple has responded to Epic’s accusation it is in contempt of court for failing to remove anti-steering measures to its liking, by insisting it’s really complying with the order. Fortnite on an iPhone On March 13, the Epic vs Apple saga rumbled on with a motion from Epic asking the court to hold Apple in
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: The U.S. government said Thursday that Russian government hackers who recently stole Microsoft corporate emails had obtained passwords and other secret material that might allow them to breach multiple U.S. agencies. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, an arm of the Department of Homeland Security, on Tuesday issued a rare binding
Read More“After a year of cracking down with rigid return-to-office mandates, defeated CEOs are now finally accepting that hybrid working is here to stay,” reports Fortune: KPMG surveyed U.S. CEOs of companies turning over at least $500 million and found that just one-third expect a full return to the office in the next three years. So
Read MoreMicrosoft introduced Delivery Optimization on Windows 10, which helps your PC download updates faster. The latest operating system from Microsoft – Windows 11, also uses the same feature to make the update process more quickly What is Delivery Optimization in Windows 11? Windows Update Delivery Optimization (WUDO) is a necessary process that allows your Windows
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