Category Archives: IT

The recent surge in bitcoin prices has the phones at crypto wallet recovery firms ringing off the hook, as retail investors locked out of their digital vaults make frantic calls to regain access to their accounts. From a report: Cryptocurrencies exist … Continue reading Wallet Recovery Firms Buzz as Locked-out Crypto Investors Panic in Bitcoin Boom→

Marc Whitten, Unity Create’s chief product and technology officer, is stepping down on June 1, 2024, following the company’s contentious Runtime Fee policy. Whitten will assist with the transition until December 31, 2024. The now-discarded Runtime Fee,… Continue reading Unity’s Marc Whitten Resigns Amid Runtime Fee Controversy→

mspohr shares a report: The solar storm that brought the aurora borealis to large parts of the United States this weekend also broke critical GPS and precision farming functionality in tractors and agricultural equipment during a critical point of the … Continue reading Solar Storm Knocks Out Farmers’ Tractor GPS Systems During Peak Planting Season→

mspohr shares a report: The solar storm that brought the aurora borealis to large parts of the United States this weekend also broke critical GPS and precision farming functionality in tractors and agricultural equipment during a critical point of the … Continue reading Solar Storm Knocks Out Farmers’ Tractor GPS Systems During Peak Planting Season→

An anonymous reader shares a report: Sonos has responded to the avalanche of feedback — some good, plenty bad — about the company’s redesigned mobile app that was released on May 7th. In the days since, customers have complained about missing feature… Continue reading Sonos Says Its Controversial App Redesign Took ‘Courage’→

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is exploring whether users should be allowed to create AI-generated pornography and other explicit content with its products. From a report:While the company stressed that its ban on deepfakes would continue to apply… Continue reading OpenAI Considers Allowing Users To Create AI-Generated Pornography→

An anonymous reader shares a report: One Raspberry Pi often leads to another. Soon enough, you’re running out of spots in your free RealVNC account for your tiny boards and “real” computers. Even if you go the hardened route of SSH or an X connection, … Continue reading Raspberry Pis Get a Built-in Remote-Access Tool: Raspberry Pi Connect→

An anonymous reader shared this report from SFGate:
Late last year, tales of tech workers paying $700 a month for tiny “bed pods” in downtown San Francisco went viral. The story provided a perfect distillation of SF’s wild (and wildly expensive) housin… Continue reading Some San Francisco Tech Workers are Renting Cheap ‘Bed Pods’→

A Miami-based CEO will serve over six years in prison for selling counterfeit Cisco equipment to numerous buyers on Amazon and eBay, with some of the shoddy hardware ending up in sensitive US government systems. From a report: On Wednesday, 40-year-old… Continue reading Individual Gets 6 Years in Prison for Selling Fake Cisco Gear on Amazon, eBay→