I have tested dozens of MagSafe iPhone desk chargers, and a lot of them suffer from the same super-annoying flaw. Unless they are made of solid steel and weigh five pounds, they slide all over your desk when you try to grab your iPhone or tap the screen to check a notification. You’ll often have ...
A year ago, Mercedes-Benz did the prudent thing and paused its EQ lineup of electric vehicles in the US. With customer demand drying up for luxury EVs, and federal incentives getting axed by vengeful Republicans, Mercedes put its first-generation EVs on ice. But then, in January, Mercedes quietly...
What the nostalgic throwback lacks in complexity it makes up for in repetitive charm.
N-Day-Bench tests whether frontier LLMs can find known security vulnerabilities in real repository code. Each month it pulls fresh cases from GitHub security advisories, checks out the repo at the last commit before the patch, and gives models a sandboxed bash shell to explore the codebase. Stati...
Dutch fitness giant Basic-Fit announced that hackers breached its systems and gained access to information belonging to a million of its customers. [...]
A new investigation shows that hackers are still relying on old tricks to break into iPhones and Android devices. Here are the details. more…
One was patched almost 14 years ago Crooks are exploiting four Microsoft vulnerabilities - one patched 14 years ago and another tied to ransomware activity - according to America's lead cyber-defense agency, which on Monday gave federal agencies two weeks to patch them.…
In the 2024-2025 school year, only 78.5% of kindergartners had measles vaccination.
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This past Saturday at the Coachella music festival, Justin Bieber played the first of two headlining sets in a deal reportedly worth $10 million. It was his most significant solo performance in years. But Bieber spent some of his time on stage the way many of us do on Saturday nights: on YouTube....
Cellular modems are complex black boxes of legacy code, but Google is making them safer with Rust.
Uber employees can now hail a Lucid robotaxi as part of the testing.
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What, you think basic usability is improved just for your benefit, human? Cloudflare is rebuilding Wrangler’s command-line tooling by adding commands for products and interfaces that still lack CLI support. And yes, AI agents are a big reason why.…
Launched in 2022, Outlook Lite is a lightweight version of the regular Outlook app, designed for Android phones with limited storage and regions with slower internet connections. The app had already been scheduled for retirement.
NZXT will forgive up to $5,000 in debt for customers of the Flex program.
Microsoft just raised the prices across its line of Surface devices amid the global RAM shortage. Now, the 13-inch Surface Pro 11 and the 13.8-inch Surface Laptop 7 cost $500 more than their original starting price, going from $999 to $1,499, as reported earlier by Windows Central. Last year, Mic...
The internet’s most jacked leftist shares the tech and daily rituals that fuel his marathon streams.
I have a proposal that addresses long-term memory problems for LLMs when new data arrives continuously (cheaply!). The program involves no code, but two Markdown files. For retrieval, there is a semantic filesystem that makes it easy for LLMs to search using shell commands. It is currently a scra...
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