Isaac Schultz reports via Gizmodo: Nine years and 3.2 billion pixels later, it is complete: the LSST Camera stands as the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy and will serve as the centerpiece of the Vera Rubin Observatory, poised to begin its exploration of the southern skies. The Rubin Observatory’s key goal is the
Read MoreJessica Lyons reports via The Register: The FCC appears to finally be stepping up efforts to secure decades-old flaws in American telephone networks that are allegedly being used by foreign governments and surveillance outfits to remotely spy on and monitor wireless devices. At issue are the Signaling System Number 7 (SS7) and Diameter protocols, which
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google is reportedly exploring ways to offer AI-powered Search features for a fee, potentially within existing subscriptions. The traditional ad-supported Google Search would remain available for free. Google, the tech giant synonymous with online search, could be considering a radical change to its business model. According to a Financial
Read MoreAn anonymous reader writes: The massive GPU clusters needed to train Stability AI’s popular text-to-image generation model Stable Diffusion are apparently also at least partially responsible for former CEO Emad Mostaque’s downfall — because he couldn’t find a way to pay for them. According to an extensive expose citing company documents and dozens of persons
Read MoreApple’s system status page showed 11 outages across its services including Apple Music, Apple Arcade, Apple TV+, and the App Store. Apple services were down Starting at 6:31 p.m. eastern on Wednesday, Apple acknowledged a widespread outage across multiple cloud services and systems. Outages seem to make the affected services completely unavailable to users. The
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple’s online services were hit with an outage that cut many of us off from the App Store, Apple TV, and Apple Music on Wednesday night. The system status page for Apple’s online service noted an outage beginning at 6:31PM ET affecting those services, as well as Arcade,
Read MorePaid ChatGPT users can now edit AI-generated images using text prompts from within ChatGPT. Axios reports: In a demo shared on X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI showed off the new capability, using it to add bows to a poodle’s ears in an image created by DALL-E. DALL-E will also begin letting people choose the aspect ratio
Read MorePhoto by Chris Welch / The Verge Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 on October 14th, 2025, and you’ll need to pay yearly if you want to continue using the operating system securely. Microsoft will offer Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows 10 users, with pricing starting at $61 for the first year. The
Read MoreThis week Jonathan Bennett and David Ruggles sit down with Joshua Colp to talk about Asterisk! That’s the Open Source phone system software you already interact with without realizing it. It started as a side project to run the phones for Linux Support Services, and it turned out working on phone systems was more fun
Read MoreThe Lunar Dawn LTV from Lunar Outpost, Lockheed Martin, General Motors (GM), Goodyear, and MDA Space. | Image: Lunar Outpost NASA has selected Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and Venturi Astrolab to develop the lunar terrain rover for its Artemis lunar explorations. All three companies are in the running for task orders with a potential value
Read MoreCredit: Oliver Cragg / Android Authority Owners of the Limited Edition Steam Deck OLED are reporting cracks in their handheld PCs. The cracks appear to be caused by screws that are overly tight. The issue may also be linked to the transparent plastic used for the back. It’s been about five months since Valve launched
Read MoreA new ChromeOS update (M123) is rolling out that brings keyboard shortcuts and mouse buttons and enables hotspot connections on cellular Chromebooks. The Verge reports: The keyboard shortcut feature will work like it does in other operating systems, in which you can assign specific actions to specific key combinations. Google uses the examples of tweaking
Read MoreAs reported by Bloomberg (paywalled), Apple is exploring the development of personal home robots following the shut down of its electric vehicle project. CNBC reports: Engineers at Apple have been looking into a robot that can follow users around their homes and a tabletop device that uses robotics to adjust a display screen, Bloomberg reported,
Read MoreGoogle has introduced Jpegli, a JPEG library for image encoding. The new library is intended to be faster, more visually pleasing, and more efficient than traditional JPEGs. Proponents of the technology said it has the potential to make the Internet faster and more beautiful. Announced April 3 and accessible from GitHub, Jpegli maintains high backward
Read MoreRumors suggest Google is looking to offer premium generative AI features just as Apple is allegedly planning an AI App Store for iOS 18. Google could introduce paid premium AI features Speculation and rumors about tech giants come in waves, but if you pay close enough attention, patterns and intent can break through the noise.
Read MoreGoogle is preparing a Private Space feature for Android 15 that creates a separate profile for you to save apps to. This Private Space feature was first spotted in an Android beta a few months ago. Google has continued to work on this feature, recently adding new settings to automatically lock your private space as
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge WhatsApp went down worldwide on Wednesday afternoon, impacting the 2 billion users of the messaging service. Users started experiencing issues connecting to WhatsApp in multiple countries just after 2PM ET today, with the service stuck on “connecting” for many. Users can still send messages, but they weren’t delivered
Read MoreAn Apple robotics division has risen from the ashes of the Apple Car and wants to build an autonomous robot companion for your home. A generated image of a toy-like Apple robot The Apple Car may not have panned out, but research into autonomous systems and robotics may have opened the door to Apple’s next
Read MoreThe Taiwan earthquake will cause issues for a number of Apple suppliers beyond TSMC, but the supply chain’s impact probably won’t be severe long-term, thanks to globalization. Here are some of Apple’s suppliers that the company will need to keep an eye on for a while. Fractured Apple logo Wednesday’s earthquake rocked Taiwan, with the
Read MoreImage: Roblox Roblox asked a federal judge in California to dismiss a suit from two mothers who allege the platform allowed an illegal gambling ring to prey on their children. Instead, the judge has allowed the case to proceed — though some of the claims, including RICO allegations, have been dismissed. The company argued that
Read MoreNothing but respect for MY president. | Image: OpenAI OpenAI’s DALL-E is getting a couple of upgrades today that help you shape your AI-generated masterpieces. First, you’ll now find image editing tools when using DALL-E within ChatGPT, both on the web and on mobile. Second, DALL-E now offers preset style suggestions to help inspire image
Read MoreHow do you get an AI to answer a question it’s not supposed to? There are many such “jailbreak” techniques, and Anthropic researchers just found a new one, in which a large language model (LLM) can be convinced to tell you how to build a bomb if you prime it with a few dozen less-harmful
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge WhatsApp is down worldwide, impacting the 2 billion users of the messaging service. Users started experiencing issues connecting to WhatsApp in multiple countries just after 2PM ET today, with the service stuck on “connecting” for many. The Meta-owned messaging service appears to be experiencing a major outage worldwide.
Read MoreImage: Annapurna Interactive You could breeze through Open Roads, the new mystery game from publisher Annapurna Interactive. It’s only around two hours long, and it isn’t the kind of game where you’re likely to get stuck. There are no real puzzles to solve or obstacles to overcome. Instead, you steadily move through a story about
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Samsung has reinstated the Galaxy Note 20 series to monthly security updates. Earlier this week, the Galaxy S20 series and Note 20 series were demoted to quarterly security updates. The Galaxy S20 FE will also continue receiving monthly security updates. Samsung has built a reputation for providing some of
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