Technology

Federal regulators are fighting Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of the video game powerhouse Activision Blizzard.

Apple has joined the growing number of organizations opposed to the UK's pending Online Safety Bill, saying the proposed law threatens the end-to-end encryption that protects private messages....

An internal investigation by IRL's board of directors found that 95% of the app's reported 20 million users were "automated or from bots."

Including protections against unlawful data transfers.

Quantum computing could revolutionize our world. For specific and crucial tasks, it promises to be exponentially faster than the zero-or-one binary technology that underlies today's machines, from supercomputers in laboratories to smartphones in our pockets. But developing quantum computers hinges on building a stable network of...

In the wake of Twitch’s seemingly unattainable Partner Plus program, jaded streamers are claiming they’ll move to the streaming rival Kick.

Reading this article on the challenges makes me wonder how feasible it is. Three different approaches:...

Google has killed a project internally known as "Iris" that it established to build augmented reality glasses, according to Business Insider..

Twitter looking into a bug restricting some users from liking and retweeting.

Alphabet-owned Google on Tuesday said it is cutting jobs at mapping app Waze as it merges the app's advertising system with Google Ads technology, without giving details on the number of layoffs.

If this happens, will it be a mass exodus to Linux/Mac? Or will people just live with it? The fact that the Steam Deck has shown great promise in playing games on Linux has made me reconsider Windows yet again.

The dramatic fallout continues, with as many as 122 organizations now breached.

Looking for a replacement for GitHub Gist. Only limitation is I would rather it not be self-hosted, but feel free to provide those if you really enjoy what you are using....

Texas passed a Dara privacy and security Act (the TSDPA). It doesn't go into effect until March 1st, 2024...

Developer has ported modern SSL/TLS libraries to Windows 3.1 to get it working.

Blender 3.6 is out today... with Raytracing....

In an interview with Wired, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis claimed that DeepMind's next chatbot will perform better than OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Developed at Caltech’s Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies, a new robot can autonomously choose from a variety of motions to move through a complex environment.

When former Samsung executive won a contract with Foxconn in 2018, he tapped his former employer's supplier network to steal secrets to help his new client set up a chip factory in China, an indictment by South Korean prosecutors alleges.

A few days ago, I advertised my small /kbin instance on a few magazines. For those that checked it out--thank you! I have a number of updates to share, and I thought I'd re-post here for those who may not be subscribed to our meta magazine or may not have seen the original post....

The closed display halves almost touch, and that can smash debris into the screen.

Macquarie University cyber security experts have invented a multi-lingual chatbot designed to keep scammers on long fake calls to waste their time and ultimately reduce the huge number of people who lose money to global criminals every day.

Pixel Fold is pretty sweet and I'm loving it. But it's also $1800 and has a real set of flaws.Get a Robot City skin at https://dbrand.com/shop/robot-cityMKBH...

While AMD has always tended to be one of the more responsive vendors in its segment, it was when the company decided to go after the game console market, which none of its peers wanted, that forced AMD to improve its responsiveness and partner collaboration, and it is this extra step that has turned AMD from a lamb to a lion in...

Open-source ChatGPT client for Windows 3.1 and later (16-bit and 32-bit). Works natively, no proxy required.