Emma Raducanu has revealed she refused to use antiseptic spray on insect bites at the Australian Open, fearing it could lead to a failed drug [more…]
Category: Technology
Quordle today – my hints and answers for Friday, December 27 (game #1068)
Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going strong now more than 1,000 games later. It offers a genuine challenge, though, [more…]
Japan Airlines cyberattack disrupts flights, but systems now seem to be back to normal
Japan Airlines experienced a major network disruption An investigation uncovered cyberattack by an unknown threat actor The attack lasted a few hours and caused delays [more…]
NYT Connections today — my hints and answers for Friday, December 27 (game #565)
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read [more…]
Hertz is asking EV renters if they want to keep it, permanently
Hertz has contacted multiple electric vehicle renters recently with interesting low-cost offers for cars like Teslas, offering them the option to buy their rental EVs [more…]
ChatGPT and Sora went down for the second time this month
ChatGPT, Sora, and OpenAI’s developer-facing API were down on Thursday for more than four hours. OpenAI says it started experiencing a major outage at 11 [more…]
o3 Model Wraps 12 Days of Announcements
The next step for OpenAI’s reasoning models is o3, a model previewed on Dec. 20. o3 and its smaller cousin, o3-mini, outperformed o1 in coding, [more…]
NYT Strands today — my hints, answers and spangram for Friday, December 27 (game #299)
Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great fun. It can be difficult, [more…]
Netflix’s Christmas Day NFL games pulled in more than 64 million viewers
Netflix says it had a big audience for its live NFL games on Christmas Day, with Nielsen ratings designating them “the most-streamed NFL games in [more…]
AI sales rep startups are booming. So why are VCs wary?
When you really probe venture capitalists about investing in AI startups, they’ll tell you that businesses are experimenting wildly but are very slow to add [more…]
7 Ways to Stop VoIP DDoS Attacks from Crashing Your Phones
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack vector attempts to overwhelm a VoIP server with phony user requests. Because this massive volume of traffic is more than [more…]
What Is an LOA and When Will My Number Get Ported?
A Letter of Authorization (LOA) is a document that you must send to your telecom provider when you want to switch to a new business [more…]
Nvidia in 2024: year in review
Nvidia experienced a memorable 2024 in some ways, and certainly CEO Jensen Huang won’t forget the year in which his company finally outdid Apple as [more…]
Watch this robotic ‘Superman Suit’ rotate around a gymnastics bar
Scientists at the Suzumori Endo Robotics lab in Tokyo have developed the Superman Suit: a suit powered by hydraulic artificial muscles that allows it to [more…]
When to Use Cloud Network Security (And When to Avoid It)
From data storage to business applications and beyond, companies of all sizes rely on the cloud for day-to-day operations and critical business processes. Protecting cloud-based [more…]
8 apps to help you achieve your 2025 fitness goals
If 2025 is the year you’ve finally promised yourself you will actually get fit, lose weight, run that marathon, or lift those weights, then you [more…]
ChatGPT Search can be tricked into misleading users, new research reveals
ChatGPT Search, an AI-powered search engine that went live this month, can be fooled into generating completely misleading summaries, UK newspaper The Guardian has found. [more…]
Samsung pulls curtains on classified operation called Project Infinity, where teams compete relentlessly to improve security on billions of Galaxy phones
Project Infinity and Mobile Security Rewards Program bolster Samsung’s security strategy Red, Blue, and Purple teams safeguard Galaxy devices from cyber threats CTI task force [more…]
A weird Windows 11 bug won’t let some people install any security updates
When using media to install Windows 11, version 24H2, the device might remain in a state where it cannot accept further Windows security updates. This [more…]
ChatGPT and Sora are down for the second time this month
ChatGPT, Sora, and OpenAI’s developer-facing API went down Thursday for an hour and counting. OpenAI says it started experiencing a major outage at 11 a.m. [more…]
Tesla emerges as surprising rival to AMD and Nvidia in quest to grab next-gen HBM4 memory for AI and supercomputers
HBM4 chips poised to power Tesla’s advanced AI ambitions Dojo supercomputer to integrate Tesla’s high-performance HBM4 chips Samsung and SK Hynix compete for Tesla’s AI [more…]
