Persuading teen girls to part with their iPhones is no easy feat. But Samsung’s newest foldable could be the phone to convince them….
Just How Is Voyager 2 Going To Sort Out Its Dish Then?
Anybody who has set up a satellite TV antenna will tell you that alignment is critical when picking up a signal from space. With a satellite dish it’s a straightforward …read more
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First US Nuclear Reactor Built In Decades Enters Commercial Operation
ZipNada writes: A new reactor at a nuclear power plant in Georgia has entered commercial operation, becoming the first new American reactor built from scratch in decades. Georgia Power announced Monday that Unit 3 at Plant Vogtle, southeast of Augusta,……
White House: Losing Section 702 spy powers would be among ‘worst intelligence failures of our time’
As expert panel suggests some tweaks to boost public’s confidence in FISA The White House has weighed in on the Section 702 debate, urging lawmakers to reauthorize, “without new and operationally damaging restrictions,” the controversial snooping power……
Air-Gapped ICS Systems Targeted by Sophisticated Malware
Researchers uncovered new worming second-stage tools used to locally exfiltrate data from air gapped ICS environments, putting threat actors one step away from transmission of the info to a C2….
Dell Is All In On Generative AI
It isn’t just software companies looking to enter the generative AI fray. Dell, the PC maker, is going all in on generative AI and offering hardware to run powerful models and a new platform to help organizations get started. From a report:The company ……
A Usable Arduino Debugging Tool
For as popular as the Arduino platform is, it’s not without its problems. Among those is the fact that most practical debugging is often done by placing various print statements …read more
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Amazon Modifies Ad Revenue, Impressions Share Policy for International Fire TV Apps
Amazon will soon require international app developers who offer ad-supported streaming video services available to Fire TV users to opt into their in-house ad publishing service or, where unavailable, offer up a cut of their ad revenue. From a report: ……
Abyss Locker Ransomware Looks to Drown VMware’s ESXi Servers
The 4-month-old ransomware gang is now actively targeting VMware’s virtual environments with a second variant of its custom malware….
Do Facebook’s algorithms drive political polarization? Meta says no, but researchers say it’s complicated
Plus: Google DeepMind’s latest visual-language model robot, and more
AI in brief Four research papers this week concluded that users’ political beliefs and behavior don’t seem to be all that impacted by information amplified by Facebook’s algorithms.……