As if the VR giants will let that stand – worth a try, though Imagine for a moment that you wanted to spend time in what Meta solipsistically calls the metaverse, a keiretsu of interactive cartoon panoramas powered by commercial surveillance and pay…
Lees meerChrome flaw has public exploit, WebKit hole actively abused along with kernel escalation Google has issued 11 security fixes for desktop Chrome, including one bug that has an exploit for it out in the wild.…
Lees meerLooking to book a large house on a weekend? You'll have to jump through a few hoops Pleased with the "success" of a pilot program in Australia, Airbnb is bringing its "anti-party technology" to the US and Canada. …
Lees meerTop tip: Your RSA private key should not be copied from a public code tutorial A developer says he was able to run his own software on his car infotainment hardware after discovering the vehicle's manufacturer had secured its system using keys that …
Lees meer.NET-based malware can push wide range of malicious payloads, and evades detection, Secureworks says A highly pervasive .NET-based crypter that has flown under the radar since about 2015 and can deliver a wide range of malicious payloads continues t…
Lees meerAs promised, Peter Beck is sending a Photon next year. Because he can Rocket Lab's Peter Beck is sending a Photon spacecraft carrying a small probe to Venus, marking the culmination of a childhood ambition for the CEO.…
Lees meerLinux distro announces the availability of Microsoft tooling on Jammy Jellyfish Ubuntu and Microsoft have brought .NET 6 to the Ubuntu repositories, meaning that you can install it without adding any extra sources to the OS.…
Lees meerHey, it's really about what the Chinese media giant itself is doing with people's data that has them worried TikTok has joined Twitter in publishing new US midterm misinformation rules, with considerable crossover in scope and style.…
Lees meerBoeing 747-based platform now back in California with almost a month to go before science operations end The doomed SOFIA observatory has made an earlier-than-planned return from New Zealand as the Boeing 747-based platform prepares to enter its fin…
Lees meerWhile enterprises are spending more on infrastructure than ever before, what goes up must come down The datacenter industry may be starting to feel the effects of the economic slowdown, leading to further impacts on IT vendors and other suppliers, a…
Lees meer@CEO, that macro looks sus, amirite? Microsoft's Excel is to continue its march to be the coolest software kid on the block as @ mentions move closer to general availability for the desktop version.…
Lees meerBillions in funding at stake as PM hopeful Liz Truss says bloc 'in breach of agreement' The UK government has launched formal consultations with the EU over the failure to secure its inclusion in the EU's €95.5 billion ($97.6 billion) research fundi…
Lees meerLucy probe is five years away from getting a closeup of Polymele’s satellite NASA scientists working on the Lucy mission, humanity’s first exploration of the "Trojan" asteroids that orbit in Lagrange points on Jupiter’s orbit, have found a moon arou…
Lees meerDesktop environment celebrates milestone birthday with a beta The two original developers behind the GNOME project started work 25 years ago, and the 43rd version of their brainchild is nearly here.…
Lees meerScary in post-Roe America, and Poland, and far too many other places It's official: your period and/or pregnancy tracker will probably share your data with law enforcement. And they might even do it on purpose.…
Lees meerTwo trusts saw nearly $18 million go up in smoke when Sensyne Health was delisted from AIM Two NHS hospitals in the UK have lost nearly £15 million ($18 million) between them due to the collapse in value of an AI startup.…
Lees meerPrecedent essentially meant that search results could be considered defamatory, which is dumb Australia's High Court has overturned the 2020 decision that search results pointing to news stories make Google a publisher.…
Lees meerDoes it hope to run Doom on the Moon or something? NASA has awarded a $50 million contract to Microchip Technology, the microcontroller giant, to develop next-generation processors that will enable space computers to be 100 times faster than they cu…
Lees meerTestimonials from Russian generals not welcomed by DJI or Unitree Robotics Russia's military has praised civilian grade Chinese-made drones and robots for having performed well on the battlefield, leading their manufacturers to point out the equipme…
Lees meerResults are rubbish on Earth, but Mars United could be undisputed champions Rocketry, energy, automotive, AI, tequila, tunnelling and (maybe) social media engineering entrepreneur Elon Musk has proclaimed his intention to buy Manchester United — the…
Lees meerRubbishes suggestions poisoned clones or ancient malware are worthy reasons for ban Developers of the open source VideoLAN media player have started sniping at India's government over an apparent block on the project's website.…
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