Some of our favorite TVs are on sale at Amazon and Best Buy just in time for the July Fourth weekend. …read more Source:: CNet

“The Gulf of Mexico was on fire,” quips a headline at Jalopnik. Long-time Slashdot reader phalse phace explains that “A rupture in an underwater gas pipeline operated by Mexico’s state-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (or Pemex) caused a fire to erupt in the ocean west of the Yucatan Peninsula.” Reuters reports: Bright orange flames jumping…

Reactions are starting to come in for GitHub’s new Copilot coding tool, which one site calls “a product of the partnership between Microsoft and AI research and deployment company OpenAI — which Microsoft invested $1 billion into two years ago.” According to the tech preview page: GitHub Copilot is currently only available as a Visual…

Now that NFTs are well known and desirable in the digital art world, Kusama wants to add complex functionality to make them even more valuable. …read more Source:: ZDNet

The commoditised PC is the most versatile tool many of us will own, and since it has been around for a very long time it is also something that can be found for free or very cheaply if the latest components aren’t a concern. It’s not without limitations though, while it’s designed for expansion it…

“A federal judge on Wednesday blocked for the time being a new Florida law that sought to punish large social media businesses like Facebook and Twitter if they remove content or ban politicians,” reports the Associated Press: U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle granted a preliminary injunction stopping the new law from being enforced. The law…

Be the king of summer with your own travel barbecue tools, portable grill and spice crate from Man Crate. …read more Source:: CNet

Plus: Cops seize 3D printers ‘used to print guns’, and more bits and bytes In brief In what’s looking like a nasty supply-chain attack, IT systems management biz Kaseya was compromised by miscreants, which then used its VSA product to infect its own customers and then their customers with ransomware.… …read more Source:: Register

Bitcoin mining just became easier and more profitable, reports CNBC: The world has known for months that more than half the world’s bitcoin miners would be going dark as China cracked down on mining. Now that it’s happened, the bitcoin algorithm has adjusted accordingly to make sure miner productivity doesn’t continue to fall off a…

You don’t have to spend flagship levels of cash to get a phone that’ll suit your needs. Here’s what to buy. …read more Source:: CNet