Amazon MGM Studios The screenwriter of the 1989 action film Road House is suing MGM Studios and its owner Amazon Studios, accusing them of copyright infringement over the upcoming Road House remake, report the Los Angeles Times and The Hollywood Reporter. The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in the U.S. Central District Court in Los Angeles,
Read MoreFast food chain Wendy’s announced it’s adopting a similar approach to Uber’s Surge Pricing policy by dynamically adjusting the prices of its menu items during peak demand periods at certain locations. The controversial strategy seeks to leverage real-time data to align pricing and demand, enhancing efficiency and potentially improving customer satisfaction. From a report: During
Read MoreA massive update to the wildly popular farm life sim has an official release date. Here’s when it’ll arrive and what you can expect from it.
Read MoreThe United States Department of Justice seems to be in its final stages before filing an antitrust suit against Apple. United States Department of Justice It has been a long and winding road if you’ve been following the DOJ’s probe into Apple’s business practices. Spotify started the process in 2019 with pushes from Apple’s other
Read More“Documentation authors at Canonical have launched the Open Documentation Academy to offer an easy way to get started contributing to open-source projects,” writes longtime Slashdot reader tykev. From the blog post: Open and inclusive collaboration, and the sharing of ideas, remains the best way to develop software (and to do many other things!), but we
Read MoreA federal judge in Texas has granted a temporary order blocking the U.S. government from monitoring the energy usage of cryptocurrency mining operations, stating that the industry had shown it would suffer “irreparable injury” if it was made to comply. The Guardian reports: The US Department of Energy had launched an “eemergency” initiative last month
Read MoreWedbush believes Apple’s alleged move to cancel the development of the Apple Car provides a laser focus on what’s next for the company — AI. Apple will do fine without Apple Car Reliable sources say that Apple has ended work on Project Titan, meaning, if true, that an Apple Car will never see the light
Read MoreEmanuel Maiberg reports via 404 Media: Dozens of Ghost kitchens, restaurants that serve food exclusively by delivery on apps like DoorDash and Grubhub, are selling food that they promote to customers with AI-generated images. It’s common for advertisements to stage or edit pictures of food to make it look more enticing, but in these cases
Read MoreTelescopes are fun to point around the sky, but they’re even better when you have some idea of what you’re actually looking at. Experienced sky-gazers love nothing more than whipping out some quality glassware and pointing it to the heavens to try and view some photons from some fancy celestial point of interest. To aid
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The FBI and partners from 10 other countries are urging owners of Ubiquiti EdgeRouters to check their gear for signs they’ve been hacked and are being used to conceal ongoing malicious operations by Russian state hackers. The Ubiquiti EdgeRouters make an ideal hideout for hackers. The
Read MoreEufy Anker’s Eufy brand has started shipping a new 4K security camera that should offer 360-degree views, panning 344 degrees and tilting up to 70 degrees. It could also run indefinitely without wired internet or power. That’s because in addition to Wi-Fi, the $249.99 Eufy 4G LTE Cam S330 can connect to nearby LTE towers
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Meta will soon begin “collecting anonymized data” from users of its Quest headsets, a move that could see the company aggregating information about hand, body, and eye tracking; camera information; “information about your physical environment”; and information about “the virtual reality events you attend.” In an
Read MoreTwo months ago, the FBI “disrupted” the BlackCat ransomware group. They’re already back—and their latest attack is causing delays at pharmacies across the US.
Read MoreApple has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for refusing to grant trademarks covering the company’s augmented-reality software development tools “Reality Composer” and “Reality Converter.” Reuters reports: Apple, whose augmented-reality technology is a centerpiece of its newly released Vision Pro headset, asked the court (PDF) on Friday to reverse the USPTO’s
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you’ve ever seen a Steam Deck playing a Legend of Zelda game, chances are you were seeing the Yuzu emulator at work. Now, Nintendo has sued the developers of Yuzu in US federal court, with the intent of squashing Yuzu for good. In the lawsuit, spotted by
Read MoreThe Atomic Stealer malware still relies on users installing fake software with a payload hidden in the .dmg file, but it is evolving to get harder to detect. Atomic Stealer infects macOS via illegitimate software Atomic Stealer hides in illegitimate software downloads, gets into macOS through user error, and stays hidden using scripts while it
Read MoreAV1 is a video codec that’s gaining traction among online streaming services because it’s free of royalties and delivers good video quality without needing a lot of bandwidth. However, many devices lack hardware accelerators for playing back videos encoded in AV1, which means they need to use a software decoder running on the CPU. Android
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google is widely rolling out a glanceable directions feature for the Maps app. The feature is available on Android and iOS. You’ll need to turn the setting on first to start using it. Google Maps is about to become a lot more useful on your lock screen. The app
Read More[packetandy] had a problem. He was still into classic analog photography, but local options for development were few and far between. After some frustration, he decided to take on the process himself, creating an automatic development tank for that very purpose. For black and white film, developing is fairly straightforward, if dull and time consuming.
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge OpenAI has claimed in a motion filed Monday that The New York Times used “deceptive prompts” to get ChatGPT to regurgitate its content. For that and other reasons, the company is asking the US District Court in southern New York to dismiss several of the claims in the outlet’s copyright infringement lawsuit.
Read MoreAmazon has issued an update to Fire TV streaming devices and televisions that has broken apps that let users bypass the Fire OS home screen. From a report: The tech giant claims that its latest Fire OS update is about security but has refused to detail any potential security concerns. Users and app developers have
Read MoreWith summer on the way and adventures to be had, an action camera can be the ideal way to capture your best moments. That doesn’t mean spending $400 on a GoPro when the Brave 7 4K Action Camera is more than capable. It’s also more than affordable right now, with an Amazon Lightning Deal dragging
Read MoreTwist on your trainer’s cap and try to catch these deals before they sell out. | Image: The Pokémon Company Oh, would you look at that. It’s Pokémon Day, an annual celebration commemorating the game’s launch on this very day in 1996. Fun fact: Pokémon was first a video game, but it was quickly adapted
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft is already testing Windows 11 24H2, this fall’s big new Windows release. The company has already demonstrated a few new features, like 80Gbps USB4 support and Sudo for Windows, and the new version could also give a significant refresh to the Windows installer for the first time since
Read MoreApple Vision Pro users may have noticed that most pre-installed Apple apps can’t be deleted, but that changes with visionOS 1.1. Delete pre-installed apps on visionOS 1.1 Apple includes 15 pre-installed visionOS native apps, and only two could be deleted in the 1.0 release, Keynote and Encounter Dinosaurs. With visionOS 1.1, Apple allows users to
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