From The Verge: UK regulators are now formally investigating Microsoft’s hiring of Inflection AI staff, months after most of Inflection’s staff joined Microsoft’s new AI division. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is now opening up a phase one merger investigation into the partnership...
From PC Mag: Rite Aid says a recent data breach affects 2.2 million users — far fewer than the 45 million claimed by the ransomware group allegedly behind the attack.
The drugstore chain was previously mum on the number of users affected. But on Monday, Rite Aid disclosed the 2.2 million figure in...
From CNET: The new OnePlus Nord 4 has an all-metal unibody design, which OnePlus says is the first of its kind in a 5G phone. Sadly, the device looks set for a Europe-only release, so US fans clamoring for a slick metal phone will have to look on in envy. The Nord 4 is joined by a suite of other new...
From The Verge: Apple just launched a version of its HomePod Mini smart speaker in a new “midnight” color. The dark color looks very similar to the original space gray that the Mini launched in, but the new naming brings it in line with the midnight HomePod second-gen that was released early last...
From PC Mag: AMD's new "Strix Point" Ryzen AI 300 Series processors are coming to laptops this month, and the chip maker just dropped more details about performance, architecture changes, and AI capabilities. Promising faster speeds, longer battery life, and improved gaming are par for the course...
From PC World: AMD fans have been salivating today as the company officially announced the launch date for its next-gen desktop CPU lineup. The Ryzen 9000 series is headlined by the 9950X, an absolute CPUnit with 16 cores and a maximum boost boost of up to 5.7 gigahertz. But the proof is in the...
I was helping out with youth camp for my church a few months ago. At the camp, different groups were assigned to different duties on different days. My group of boys were assigned to cleaning all the tables and washing everyone's lunches after dinner on the Saturday, which, for that particular meal, was quite an operation -- I estimate we had to process over four hundred items for the five of them. There were three sinks and two faucets in the...
Would you agree that "less is more", or is more actually more? From the bygone era of the 1960s, minimalist design has surprisingly gained quite a bit of traction in computer case design. Although computer chassis have stayed mostly in the shape of a box, there have been quite a few examples in recent memory that take after the box even more. Maximalism, on the other hand, is opposed to minimalism. It embraces showy, abundant excess. In our...
From The Verge: AT&T revealed Friday morning that a cybersecurity attack had exposed call records and texts from “nearly all” of the carrier’s cellular customers (including people on mobile virtual network operators, or MVNOs, that use AT&T’s network, like Cricket, Boost Mobile, and Consumer...
From PC Mag: X is once again exploring the idea of adding a "dislike" button for Twitter replies.
As TechCrunch reports, the button is intended to help X rank replies, so it may only appear on responses to tweets, not the original post. As for how it would be displayed, code in the X iOS app...
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