A coordinated international operation has hit the infrastructure of a pro-Russian cybercrime network linked to a string of denial of service attacks targeting Ukraine and its allies, the European Union’s police agency Europol announced Wednesday.
A “click-to-cancel” rule, which would have made it easier for consumers to end unwanted subscriptions, has been blocked by a federal appeals court days before it was set to go into effect. But there are ways to end those subscriptions a
Stage fright is not a term you’d associate with Elvis Presley, but in 1968 he was all shook up—with nerves. Ahead of his make-or-break “comeback special” after years floundering in Hollywood, the King had cold feet. He told the special’s director, Steve Binder, he was “terrified,” adding, “I don’t know if I can
Inbox fatigue is real. According to one analysis, the average person receives more than 120 emails a day, with some office-based staff receiving even more due to their work environment. From Substack newsletters to marketing emails from local stores (alongside standard business updates), it can be
Tech nostalgia runs strong among Gen Z. The retro movement has made long-outdated devices desirable once more. When it comes to personal computer nostalgia, you’d be hard-pressed to find a PC more fondly remembered than the Commodore 64.
Now, the machine that served as the starter computer for many old-school gamers is
For much of the AI era, intelligence has been on-demand: a user issues a prompt, and the model responds after reasoning through the request. But as AI systems grow more autonomous and expectations rise for real-time reasoning, low latency, and cost-efficiency, the definition of intelligence is shifting. We’re entering a new phase where AI is expected to stay ready for
Every so often, Microsoft design director Diego Baca boots up an old computer so he can play around with Windows 95 again.
Baca has made a hobby of assembling old PCs with new-in-box vintage parts, and so his office has become a kind of shrine to Windows history. Still, Windows 95 stands out, he says, because of how easy it made computing for everyone. Many of its foundational concepts, such as the Start menu and taskbar, are still core parts of Windows today.
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Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey is back with a new app that tracks sun exposure and vitamin D levels.
Sun Day uses location-based data to show the current UV index, the day’s high, and additional details like cloud cover, sunrise, and sunset times. Users can choose their skin type from six options and indicate their clothing, such as “light (shorts & t-shirt)”, then manually toggle when they’re in or out of the sun.
Based on this input, the app calculates how lo
Under the ocean’s surface lies the true backbone of the internet: an estimated 870,000 miles of submarine cables that ferry over 95% of global intercontinental data traffic across every major ocean. These cables are critical infrastructure, carrying everything from our daily video calls to mul
AI chatbot therapists have made plenty of headlines in recent months—some positive, some not so much.
A new paper from researchers at Stanford University has evaluated five chatbots designed to offer accessible therapy, using criteria based on what makes a good human therapist. Nick Haber, an assistant professor