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Cats suffer H5N1 brain infections, blindness, death after drinking raw milk

Mammal-to-mammal transmission raises new concerns about the virus's ability to spread.

30 Apr 2024 4:11 am
Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time

Meanwhile, Roku keeps making more money.

30 Apr 2024 2:38 am
Dead Boy Detectives turns Neil Gaimans ghostly duo into Hardy Boys on acid

Supernatural horror detective series has witches, demons, and a charming Cat King.

30 Apr 2024 2:09 am
Critics question tech-heavy lineup of new Homeland Security AI safety board

CEO-heavy board to tackle elusive AI safety concept and apply it to US infrastructure.

30 Apr 2024 1:45 am
Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says

iPads must comply with the same DMA regulations as the iPhone.

30 Apr 2024 1:22 am
FCC fines big three carriers $196M for selling users real-time location data

FCC finalizes $196M penalties for location-data sales revealed in 2018.

30 Apr 2024 1:21 am
Connected devices with awful default passwords now illegal in UK

The law aims to prevent global-scale botnet attacks.

30 Apr 2024 1:15 am
Account compromise of unprecedented scale uses everyday home devices

Credential-stuffing attack uses proxies to hide bad behavior.

30 Apr 2024 1:05 am
Customers say Metas ad-buying AI blows through budgets in a matter of hours

Based on your point of view, the AI either doesn't work or works too well.

29 Apr 2024 11:53 pm
Intel reportedly blames motherboard makers for Core i9 CPU crashes

Motherboard makers disable thermal and power delivery safeguards by default.

29 Apr 2024 9:11 pm
Elon Musk loses at Supreme Court in case over funding secured tweets

Musk can't kill SEC settlement that requires pre-approval of tweets about Tesla.

29 Apr 2024 8:57 pm
Ford BlueCruise driver assist under federal scrutiny following 2 deaths

NHTSA has opened an investigation after two separate fatal crashes at night.

29 Apr 2024 7:18 pm
Meta to face EU probe for not doing enough to stop Russian disinformation

Insufficient moderation of political ads risk undermining electoral process.

29 Apr 2024 7:10 pm
First post: A history of online public messaging

Come with us on a tour of messaging platforms and their evolution over the years.

29 Apr 2024 5:00 pm
Swimming and spinning aquatic spiders use slick survival strategies

Some make nests inside seashells, others tote bubbles of air on their backs.

28 Apr 2024 4:41 pm
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coaland why it wont go back

The past year has seen record renewable power production nationwide.

27 Apr 2024 4:57 pm
Theres never been a better time to get into Fallout 76

Fallout 76 is good now. Actually, its always been good.

27 Apr 2024 4:30 pm
Putting Microsofts cratering Xbox console sales in context

Why declining quarterly numbers might not be awful news for Microsoft's gaming business.

27 Apr 2024 3:01 am
Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband

New York obtains significant win for states' ability to regulate broadband.

27 Apr 2024 2:40 am
Android TV has access to your entire accountbut Google is changing that

Should sideloading Chrome on an old smart TV really compromise your entire account?

27 Apr 2024 1:05 am
Hackers try to exploit WordPress plugin vulnerability thats as severe as it gets

WP Automatic plugin patched, but release notes don't mention the critical fix.

27 Apr 2024 12:37 am
USs power grid continues to lower emissionseverything else, not so much

Excluding one pandemic year, emissions are lower than they've been since the 1980s.

27 Apr 2024 12:21 am
Message-scraping, user-tracking service Spy Pet shut down by Discord

Bot-driven service was also connected to targeted harassment site Kiwi Farms.

26 Apr 2024 11:36 pm
TikTok owner has strong First Amendment case against US ban, professors say

Professor: US faces uphill battle justifying law against First Amendment suit.

26 Apr 2024 11:19 pm
Microsoft open-sources infamously weird, RAM-hungry MS-DOS 4.00 release

DOS 4.00 was supposed to add multitasking to the OS, but it was not to be.

26 Apr 2024 11:00 pm
Switch 2 reportedly replaces slide-in Joy-Cons with magnetic attachment

Design choice may have implications for current Joy-Con compatibility.

26 Apr 2024 8:53 pm
20% of grocery store milk has traces of bird flu, suggesting wider outbreak

The milk is still considered safe, but disease experts are alarmed by the prevalence.

26 Apr 2024 7:56 pm
Nixon administration couldve started monitoring CO2 levels but didnt

President Nixon's science advisors recommended building global CO2 monitoring network.

26 Apr 2024 7:49 pm
Apple releases eight small AI language models aimed at on-device use

OpenELM mirrors efforts by Microsoft to make useful small AI language models that run locally.

26 Apr 2024 2:25 am
Toyota will spend $1.4 billion to build electric 3-row SUV in Indiana

This is a different new 3-row EV from the one Toyota will build in Kentucky.

25 Apr 2024 11:19 pm
Deciphered Herculaneum papyrus reveals precise burial place of Plato

Various imaging methods comprised a kind of ionic eye to examine charred scroll.

25 Apr 2024 11:03 pm
School athletic director arrested for framing principal using AI voice synthesis

Police uncover plot to defame principal with AI-generated racist and antisemitic comments.

25 Apr 2024 9:00 pm
EPA issues four rules limiting pollution from fossil fuel power plants

Coal to be hit hard, natural gas plants will have to capture carbon emissions.

25 Apr 2024 8:37 pm
Qualcomm says lower-end Snapdragon X Plus chips can still outrun Apples M3

Same NPU, same architecture as X Elite, but fewer cores and lower clock speeds.

25 Apr 2024 5:56 pm
No more refunds after 100 hours: Steam closes Early Access playtime loophole

It's largely a win against scammers, but a simple policy doesn't fit all games.

24 Apr 2024 11:08 pm
Google cant quit third-party cookiesdelays shut down for a third time

Google says UK regulator testing means the advertising tech will last until 2025.

24 Apr 2024 11:00 pm
The spam came from inside the house: How a smart TV can choke a Windows PC

The curious case of a living room screen making Windows' Settings app disappear.

24 Apr 2024 3:45 am
Why canned wine can smell like rotten eggs while beer and Coke are fine

Sulfur dioxide in the wine reacts with the aluminum to make hydrogen sulfide.

24 Apr 2024 3:32 am
iPadOS 18 could ship with built-in Calculator app, after 14 Calculator-less years

Every single iPhone and Mac has come with a calculator app, but not the iPad.

24 Apr 2024 1:47 am
Tiny rubber spheres used to make a programmable fluid

The spheres collapse under pressure, giving the fluid very unusual properties.

23 Apr 2024 11:56 pm
Recoding Voyager 1NASAs interstellar explorer is finally making sense again

We're pretty much seeing everything we had hoped for, and that's always good news.

23 Apr 2024 11:26 pm
Rumored new 4K Chromecast may fix long-standing storage issues

It's still $50, would have a new remote, and will hopefully not have 8GB of storage.

23 Apr 2024 11:13 pm
Concern grows as bird flu spreads further in US cows: 32 herds in 8 states

Experts say the US is not sharing as much data on the outbreak as it should.

23 Apr 2024 3:54 am
First real-life Pixel 9 Pro pictures leak, and it has 16GB of RAM

With 16GB of RAM, there's lot of room for Google's AI models to live in memory.

22 Apr 2024 11:13 pm
Secrets of the Octopus takes us inside the world of these aliens on Earth

Dr. Alex Schell on the surprising things we're learning about these amazing creatures

21 Apr 2024 11:56 pm
Hospital prices for the same emergency care vary up to 16X, study finds

Hospitals' rauma activation fees are unregulated and extremely variable.

19 Apr 2024 3:44 am
Prime Video looking to fix extremely sloppy mistakes in library, report says

Business Insider reports of inaccuracy concerns that could hurt viewership.

19 Apr 2024 3:35 am
Google merges the Android, Chrome, and hardware divisions

Google says the new Platform and Devices team will let it move faster.

19 Apr 2024 1:42 am
The largest marine reptile ever could match blue whales in size

Bones from the head of a reptile suggest a body that was well over 20 meters long.

18 Apr 2024 9:37 pm
The 2024 Mercedes E 350 4Matic is the thriftiest luxury workhorse

We test out the refreshed Mercedes midsize sedan.

18 Apr 2024 9:05 pm