Apple has added a High Power performance mode, previously reserved for its Max chips, to the M4 Pro in both the Mac mini and in the new MacBook Pro
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Humane's Ai Pin seems like a bizarre cross between Google Glass and a pager, the lack of apps feels extremely limiting, and the $699 price is hard to understand
and more importantly their team—a massive disservice. I would be devastated if I was an employee. It's low energy. … Casey Newton / @crumbler : I tried out Humane's long-awaited ...
Humane's Ai Pin seems like a bizarre cross between Google Glass and a pager, the lack of apps feels extremely limiting, and the $699 price is hard to understand
The Humane AI pin has no screen, no apps, and a creepy in-your-face camera. — Not since Magic Leap has a “next-generation” …
A look back at PLATO, an educational computer system released in 1960 that some consider a precursor to graphics, touchscreens, messaging apps, games, and more
A look back at PLATO, an educational computer system released in 1960 that some consider a precursor to graphics, touchscreens, messaging apps, games, and more
Forums, instant messaging, and multiplayer video games all started here. — Bright graphics, a touchscreen, a speech synthesizer … LinkedIn: Ray Ozzie . Mastodon: @davidgerard@cir...
A January 2022 patch fixed flaws used by Windows UEFI bootkit BlackLotus, but PCs are at risk as Microsoft hasn't put vulnerable binaries on a revocation list
Researchers on Wednesday announced a major cybersecurity find—the world's first-known instance of real-world malware that can hijack … Tweets: @arstechnica : Researchers are soundi...
An interview with Geekbench creator John Poole on making the tool cross-platform from the start, what's new in Geekbench 6, why benchmarking matters, and more
so that you can tell when something is wrong. https://arstechnica.com/...
A look at the history of generative AI and developments that paved the way for breakthroughs, including CUDA, convolutional neural networks, and transformers
A new class of incredibly powerful AI models has made recent breakthroughs possible. — Progress in AI systems often feels cyclical. Tweets: @arstechnica Tweets: @arstechnica : We...
Elon Musk says he now thinks Twitter will “be okay next year” and would have faced a “negative cash flow situation of $3B a year” without his cost cutting
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With AI image generation tools like Stable Diffusion and DreamBooth, it is easy to make life-wrecking deepfakes with a few photos of a person from social media
and the same process can apply to real people with just a few real photos pulled from social media: https://arstechnica.com/... https://twitter.com/... Susan Bell / @susanbellair :...
iPad Pro (2022) review: M2 runs GPU-intensive tasks well and Pencil hover is nice, but the upgrade is incremental and the front camera remains on the wrong side
McAfee security researchers found 16 clicker apps in Google Play with 20M+ downloads in total; Google removed the adware apps after McAfee reported them
Security researchers at McAfee have discovered a set of 16 malicious clicker apps that managed to sneak into Google Play, the official app store for Android.
Microsoft admits Windows was not properly downloading and applying updates to the driver blocklist designed to thwart “bring your own vulnerable driver” attacks
Microsoft said Windows automatically blocked dangerous drivers. It didn't. — For almost two years …
Meta says the segment at Connect 2022 announcing the addition of legs to Horizon World avatars in 2023 “featured animations created from motion capture”
A subsequent statement from Meta says ‘the segment featured animations created from motion capture’
Meta adviser and ex-Oculus CTO John Carmack expresses heavy skepticism at pushing for avatar fidelity, focusing on the Quest Pro to drive VR adoption, and more
Intel says the company plans to replace its Pentium and Celeron brands, debuted in 1993 and 1998, with Intel Processor, starting with notebooks in 2023
though details are scarce on what we can expect from the former. https://arstechnica.com/... Shac Ron / @stuntpants : So they want “Intel Processor” to be synonymous with low end, ...
Amazon's new reality show Ring Nation featuring footage from its Ring home security cameras is the company's latest effort to normalize its surveillance network
Amazon's newest effort to normalize its surveillance network will feature footage from Ring surveillance cameras and commentary from comedian Wanda Sykes.
A South Carolina bill would make it illegal to host, or provide access to, a website with information that is “reasonably likely to be used for an abortion”
More states could follow, setting up a battle over the future of online speech across the country. — Listen — Gift Article
Microsoft patches the Follina Windows zero-day, which let hackers execute malicious PowerShell commands and had been exploited by state-backed actors
Microsoft has released security updates with the June 2022 cumulative Windows Updates to address a critical Windows zero-day vulnerability known …
Orca Security: Microsoft took several months and three patches to fix a critical RCE vulnerability in Azure; critics say the slow response put customers at risk
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