Collaborate Disseminate
The deal to take control of TikTok’s U.S. business came with an unusual condition, according to people familiar with the matter. The investors — which include Oracle, Abu Dhabi investor MGX, and private-equity firm Silver Lake — “paid the T… Continue reading US Set To Receive $10 Billion Fee For Brokering TikTok Deal
California saw its worst drought in 10,000 years between 2012 and 2015, remembers the Washington Post. And yet genetic analyses of California’s scarlet monkeyflower “found that many rapidly evolved… allowing them to cope with water scarcity and rebou… Continue reading How a Species Evolved Fast Enough to Save Itself from Extinction
China’s National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team (CNCERT) has issued a warning about the security stemming from the use of OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot and Moltbot), an open-source and self-hosted autonomous artificial intelligence (A… Continue reading OpenClaw AI Agent Flaws Could Enable Prompt Injection and Data Exfiltration
“A new study suggests the productivity boost from AI may be far smaller than executives claim,” writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli:
According to research cited in Foxit’s State of Document Intelligence report, while 89% of executives and 79% of end … Continue reading AI’s Productivity Boost? Just 16 Minutes Per Week, Claims Study
We can restore our PC using the bootable recovery options. With just a bootable recovery USB drive, we can fix many issues by recovering the Windows PC. It comes in handy when we face issues with Windows, such as corrupted components or unstable perfor… Continue reading Recover from a drive not showing or working in Windows 11
Last June Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said in a statement that Texans “have a God-given right to know what’s on their plate, and for millions of Texans, it better come from a pasture, not a lab. It’s plain cowboy logic that we must safegu… Continue reading U.S. State Bans on Lab-Grown Meats Challenged in Court
On the podcast, [Tom] and I were talking about the new generation of smartphones which are, at least in terms of RAM and CPU speed, on par with a decent …read more Continue reading What is a Computer?
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new iteration of the GlassWorm campaign that they say represents a “significant escalation” in how it propagates through the Open VSX registry.
“Instead of requiring every malicious listing to embed the loader d… Continue reading GlassWorm Supply-Chain Attack Abuses 72 Open VSX Extensions to Target Developers
ShinyHunters claims it stole up to 1 petabyte of data from Telus Digital, including support recordings, code, and employee records after a breach. Continue reading ShinyHunters Claims 1 Petabyte Data Theft from Telecom Giant Telus
A password manager is great for keeping your information safe, and not everyone needs a fancy one – here’s why. Continue reading Why I use Apple’s and Google’s password managers – and don’t mind the chaos