The Defunct Scooter Company, and the Default Key
Äike were an Estonian scooter company, which sadly went bust last year. [Rasmus Moorats] has one, and since the app and cloud service the scooter depends...
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Age Verification Is Reaching a Global Tipping Point. Is TikTok’s Strategy a Good Compromise?
TikTok’s new age-detection tech seems like a better solution than automatically banning youth accounts. But experts say it still requires social platforms to surveil users more...
Read moreVVenC H.266 Encoder Rolls Out More ARM Optimizations For Nice Performance Gains
Fraunhofer HHI this week released a new version of VVenC, their open-source H.266 video encoder. Among the changes this release are more performance optimizations for ARM...
Read moreGiving your healthcare info to a chatbot is, unsurprisingly, a terrible idea
Every week, more than 230 million people ask ChatGPT for health and wellness advice, according to OpenAI. The company says that many see the chatbot as...
Read moreMore security tools are slowing down your incident response
Time plays a crucial role in an organization’s defense posture, including the timestamping of events, whether they occurred during business or non-business hours, context, such as...
Read moreVoidZero Announces Oxfmt Alpha with Rust-Powered Performance and Prettier Compatibility
VoidZero has unveiled Oxfmt, a cutting-edge Rust-based code formatter that offers over 30x faster performance than Prettier for JavaScript and TypeScript projects. Compatible with existing Prettier...
Read moreWhy this winter storm will likely be a wild one
Most of the US is bracing for a prolonged stretch of frigid weather and a massive winter storm that could wreak havoc on roads and power...
Read moreThe Math on AI Agents Doesn’t Add Up
A research paper suggests AI agents are mathematically doomed to fail. The industry doesn’t agree.
Read more[$] Filesystem medley: EROFS, NTFS, and XFS
Filesystems seem to be one of those many areas where the problems are well understood, but there is always somebody working toward a better solution. As...
Read moreMonster Neutrino Could Be a Messenger of Ancient Black Holes
Nearly three years ago, a particle from space slammed into the Mediterranean Sea and lit up the partially complete Cubic Kilometer Neutrino Telescope (KM3NET) detector off...
Read moreThe end of the Sony era in TVs
There aren’t many tech companies that can claim Sony’s level of influence in how we live our lives. From the Walkman to the PlayStation to the...
Read morePresentation: Kraken’s Serverless Architecture for Keeping the Grid Green
Kevin Bowman shares how Kraken Technology balances the UK’s 30GW energy grid using renewable sources. He discusses an architectural blueprint leveraging AWS Lambda, EventBridge, and DynamoDB...
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