Category: Technology

Redditor "Ordo_Liberal" recently claimed to have won back their compromised Microsoft account by taking the tech giant to court. The episode offers a useful playbook for dealing with the company's customer support, and serves as a warning as gaming companies phase out physical media. Read Entire Article

Spectral Compute was founded in 2018 by four engineers with about 60 years of combined HPC optimization experience. The founders say the effort grew out of frustration: while working at an AI firm, they grew tired of the cost of Nvidia GPUs and the poor performance of alternative compilers, which......

The feud between "NightmareEclipse" and Microsoft continues to hold unpleasant surprises for the Windows ecosystem. The disgruntled security researcher, who accused Redmond of hiding a pernicious backdoor in BitLocker's volume encryption, recently shared details about RoguePlanet, a new zero-day flaw that could be abused by cybercriminals to gain full administrative......

Martino worked for DigitalMint, a firm that helps companies navigate ransomware incidents, including negotiating payments with attackers. In that role, he worked on active breach cases and had access to detailed information about victims, including ransom demands, insurance coverage, and internal negotiation strategies. According to prosecutors, he used that access......

The successor to College Football 26 initially earned high praise from both gamers and reviewers for engaging gameplay and immersive graphics, but it's now facing widespread backlash for introducing what some gamers are describing as "predatory" microtransactions in the offline single-player modes. Read Entire Article

WhatsApp's desktop app turns your Windows or Mac into a full messaging hub. You can link up to four devices at once, make voice and video calls straight from your webcam, and type on a real keyboard instead of a phone screen. Your phone only needs to reconnect once every...

Diving seabirds like puffins use their wings to both fly and swim, even though air and water behave very differently. "Thinking of a wing that could operate in both somewhat efficiently seems implausible," Zufferey tells NPR. Read Entire Article

Apple has sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing its trade secrets to develop an AI-focused device and other hardware. Apple alleges that as over 400 former employees left to join the ChatGPT maker, many of them routinely accessed Apple's confidential data related to unreleased products. Read Entire Article

Shawn Layden recently said that bringing PlayStation games to PC was never about money. However, newer estimates of Steam's user base could put the former Sony executive's comments in a different perspective. Companies that do business with PC's most successful digital storefront have access to a massive pool of potential......

The Productivity and Jobs panel is one of five new task forces created by Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh to examine areas central to monetary policy. The others will focus on communications, balance sheet policy, economic data, and inflation frameworks. Read Entire Article