May 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananBiometric Data / Privacy Google has agreed to pay the U.S. state of Texas nearly $1.4 billion to settle two lawsuits that accused the company of tracking users’ personal location and maintaining…
May 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Cybercrime Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (aka Bundeskriminalamt or BKA) has seized the online infrastructure and shutdown linked to the eXch cryptocurrency exchange over allegations of money laundering and operating…
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We don’t have iPhones with Bluetooth 6 yet—in fact, only a couple second-tier Android phones even claim to support it so far. But that’s not stopping the Bluetooth group, which is keeping with its twice-a-year…
The LegoGPT system works in three parts, shown in this diagram. Credit: Pun et al. The researchers also expanded the system’s abilities by adding texture and color options. For example, using an appearance prompt like…
Summer is for traveling the world, hiking the trails, laying out at the beach, and enjoying concerts out in the open. The only thing that can ruin the day when the sun is shining is…
Picture this: you’re on the go, your boss calls and you have to pick up the phone for a meeting. The meeting keeps getting longer and longer and, suddenly, your phone’s low-battery warning pops up.…
Cleaning a swimming pool ranks right up there with scrubbing bathroom floors, but the consequences of neglecting either chore are equally unhealthy. Fortunately, in the age of robots you can ditch the laborious chores of…
DOOM 2016 is one of my favorite shooters, and a big part of that is how fast and smooth it feels, despite being no slouch in the visuals department. Its threequel, DOOM: The Dark Ages,…
A joint international law enforcement action shut down two services accused of providing a botnet of hacked internet-connected devices, including routers, to cybercriminals. U.S. prosecutors also indicted four people accused of hacking into the devices…