Category: Technology

Electric bikes were responsible for nearly a third of all calls – 520, to be exact – in the UK last year. Unsurprisingly, retrofitted models were involved in more incidents compared to those that shipped with batteries from the factory. For comparison, there were only 149 calls for ebike fires...

NASA has successfully tested an improved flight system designed for Mars' hostile environment. The new technology can be accelerated beyond the speed of sound (Mach 1), the space agency said, and is expected to significantly enhance the operational capabilities of future exploration missions on the Red Planet. Read Entire Article

Winhanced gives Windows gaming PCs a cleaner, more console-like experience by combining launchers, controller navigation, and system tools into one streamlined interface. Originally built for handhelds, it's also gaining traction on desktop and living room setups as an alternative to juggling Steam Big Picture, Xbox, and multiple launchers. Read Entire...

Hyunwoo Kim, also known as "V4bel," recently disclosed "Dirty Frag," a dangerous security vulnerability that provides local attackers with root access on Linux-based systems. All major – and likely many minor – Linux distributions are affected by the issue, which currently can only be mitigated because no patch is available......

Update (May 11, 4pm): Users report that Microsoft and Playground Games have started issuing bans to players who accessed the leaked Forza Horizon 6 build before launch, with reports ranging from Xbox account suspensions to permanent hardware bans tied to affected PCs. The studio says the leak was not caused......

A Japanese X user called TAKI drew attention to the scam with a post showing some of the counterfeits. The photos show a 16GB DDR5 SO-DIMM module carrying a Samsung label, despite the components on the PCB being clearly marked as SK Hynix parts. Read Entire Article

According to people familiar with the matter, the European Commission is preparing yet another unpleasant regulatory surprise for the current US administration. CNBC talked with two unnamed EC officials, who outlined the significant change that the upcoming "Tech Sovereignty Package" (TSP) might bring to the cloud computing market. Read Entire...

It was last year when Anthropic increased fears around AI by announcing that Claude Opus 4 had threatened to reveal the extramarital affair of a fictional executive after discovering they planned to shut the model down. Read Entire Article

Arjan Brussee, best known as a co-founder of Guerrilla Games and a former global director of product management for Unreal Engine at Epic Games, says he's developing a new platform called The Immense Engine. The idea, as he describes it, is to create an alternative to the dominant engines that......

The company's chief information security officer, Steve Proud, wrote in an incident log that Instructure had "recently experienced a cybersecurity incident perpetrated by a criminal threat actor." A day later, he added that the exposed data included names, email addresses, student ID numbers, and messages exchanged on the platform. How......