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President Trump’s closure of the de minimis customs loophole in May — which previously allowed Chinese packages valued under $800 to enter the U.S. duty-free — has redirected a flood of cheap goods toward Europe, where similar exemptions for packages… Continue reading All That Cheap Chinese Stuff Is Now Europe’s Problem
alternative_right writes: Grocery delivery service Instacart will refund $60 million to settle FTC claims that it misled customers with false advertising and unlawfully enrolled them in paid subscriptions. Instacart partners with over 1,800 retailers t… Continue reading FTC: Instacart To Refund $60M Over Deceptive Subscription Tactics
Insiders on the Dev and Beta Channels will soon be able to test how AI agents will appear on the taskbar, starting with Microsoft’s Researcher agent.
The post Microsoft Prepares Windows Insiders for the Arrival of AI Agents on the Taskbar appeared firs… Continue reading Microsoft Prepares Windows Insiders for the Arrival of AI Agents on the Taskbar
Similar pledges to fight scam networks were made by members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in the months leading up to the Bangkok conference.
The post Thailand Conference Launches International Initiative to Fight Online Scams appeared … Continue reading Thailand Conference Launches International Initiative to Fight Online Scams
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman estimates that staying competitive in frontier AI development will require “hundreds of billions of dollars” over the next five to ten years, a sum that doesn’t even account for the high salaries companies are paying i… Continue reading Microsoft AI Chief: Staying in the Frontier AI Race Will Cost Hundreds of Billions
The television industry’s brightness war may have hit its inflection point in 2025, the year TCL and Hisense released the first consumer TVs capable of 5,000 nits under specific settings — a figure that would have seemed absurd not long ago when manuf… Continue reading 2025 Was the Beginning of the End of the TV Brightness War
In a recent video, [Andrew Zonenberg] takes us through the process of decapsulating a PIC12F683 to take a peak at its CMOS implementation. This is a multipart series with five …read more Continue reading Decapsulating a PIC12F683 to Examine Its CMOS Implementation
A suspected Russia-aligned group has been attributed to a phishing campaign that employs device code authentication workflows to steal victims’ Microsoft 365 credentials and conduct account takeover attacks.
The activity, ongoing since September 2025, … Continue reading Russia-Linked Hackers Use Microsoft 365 Device Code Phishing for Account Takeovers
This week’s Hackaday Podcast sees Elliot Williams joined by Jenny List for an all-European take on the week, and have we got some hacks for you! In the news this …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 350: Damnation for Spreadsheets, Praise for Haiku, and Admiration for the Hacks In Between
Uber is hiring more engineers rather than fewer because AI tools have made them “superhumans,” CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said, pushing back against the industry trend of using productivity gains to justify headcount cuts. Speaking on the “On with Kara Swis… Continue reading Uber is Hiring More Engineers Because AI is Making Them More Valuable, CEO Says