Travel expert Simon Calder has warned of “painful” disruption to festive journeys for Britons, as major train stations and airports are reducing and cancelling services [more…]
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Top WordPress plugins found to have some serious security flaws, so make sure you’re protected
Two WordPress plugins found carrying 18 security flaws Most of them are deemed critical, since they allow RCE, among other things All have now been [more…]
Home Is Where the Couch Is: Photos by Natcha Wongchanglaw
While the accommodations vary greatly from couch to couch, one thing is always certain: there typically isn’t a photo of where you’ll be sleeping. Instead, [more…]
American Airlines system outage grounds flights across the US
American Airlines has grounded all of its flights in the US due to unspecified technical issues, disrupting travel at the start of a busy Christmas [more…]
After two decades, GIMP 3.0 has arrived with high-resolution compatibility and extensive improvements
GIMP 3.0 revamps the interface for high-resolution screens Keeps projects compatible with older versions Extensive testing ensures a bug-free GIMP 3.0 After two decades of [more…]
Disney Pulled the Plug on This Game in 2013. A Group of Teens Kept It Alive
Today, Toontown Rewritten has more than 2 million registered users, with an average of 50,000 monthly users and 10,000 daily users. Ziolkowski, now 26 and [more…]
This solid aluminum keyboard costs as much as a MacBook Pro
If statement keyboards are your thing and you have some serious cash to burn, you should check out this brutalist flagship offering from Serene Industries. [more…]
Xerox buys Lexmark for $1.5 billion to build US printer giant capable of rivaling HP
Lexmark acquisition will strengthen Xerox as it seeks to improve footprint in enterprise market Lexmark was IBM’s former printer arm and, like its PCs and [more…]
Max confirms more monster mayhem after renewing the DC animated series Creature Commandos for season 2
Max renews Creature Commandos for a second season The show marks the first project in the new DC Universe Creature Commandos tells the story of [more…]
It Was a Record Year for Dating Apps. They Still Don’t Have It Figured Out
To fix that, several startups launched niche dating apps—some puzzling, others entirely predictable—designed to satisfy unique needs, with many of them built around the promise [more…]
Netflix’s Zero Day teaser is the first time I’ve seen Robert De Niro starring in a TV series
The creators of Netflix’s new show also brought us Narcos and Griselda De Niro is a former President investigating a devastating cyberattack Zero Day is [more…]
People With Extreme Wealth Should Give It Away—or Be Penalized
In 2024, wealth concentration rose to an all-time high. According to Forbes’ Billionaires List, not only are there more billionaires than ever—2,781—but those billionaires are [more…]
Proton’s device aims to help those with kidney disease, and cut heart failure risks
People with chronic kidney disease, or those at risk of heart failure, are greatly affected by potassium imbalances in the body. These can even be [more…]
Halide’s next version will come with new film filters, HDR
Lux, which makes the iPhone camera app Halide, published a roadmap on Monday detailing the app’s next version, called Halide Mark III, to be released [more…]
Best free games 2024 | TechRadar
The best free games provide a crucial resource for those who love the pastime but don’t enjoy spending large amounts of money after every new [more…]
Electric aircraft startup Lilium ceases operations, 1,000 workers laid off
Lilium, once a darling in the nascent industry of electric aircraft that raised more than $1 billion before going public, has ceased operations and laid [more…]
Russian hosting firm RUVDS takes server tech to the South Pole for high-speed data tests in extreme conditions
RUVDS expands hosting to Earth’s coldest, remote regions Tests promise high-speed data access for extreme remote environments Antarctica mission tests data center limits and innovation [more…]
30% off Samsung Promo Codes – January 2025
Samsung makes everything from gaming monitors to dishwashers. I’m always looking for a sale (I’m assuming you are, too), and I’ve found the best Samsung [more…]
Yoast’s former CEO calls for a ‘federated’ approach to WordPress repository
Days after web hosting provider WP Engine won a preliminary injunction against WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg and rival hosting provider Automattic, Mullenweg announced that WordPress.org [more…]
This tiny wireless speaker promises to sound like a big beefy stereo system using psychoacoustic tricks
Two 15W drivers in a very small cube-style case Digital signal processing adjusts speaker output to emulate distance Available from Japan for roughly $255 One [more…]
A popular technique to make AI more efficient has drawbacks
One of the most widely used techniques to make AI models more efficient, quantization, has limits — and the industry could be fast approaching them. [more…]