2025-03-17
Users Cheer as Microsoft Accidentally Removes Hated AI Feature From Windows 11
Microsoft has "unintentionally uninstalled" its Copilot AI assistant app on some devices running its latest operating system Windows 11 ā and users are rejoicing. "Weāre aware of an issue with...
Song Exploder talks to Theodore Shapiro about how he created the main...
Song Exploder talks to Theodore Shapiro about how he created the main title theme music for Severance. š¬ Join the discussion on kottke.org ā
Why Are People Still Falling For Gift Card Scams?
"Gift Card Scams in 2025: How Are People STILL Falling for This Ridiculous Fraud? Seriously, how can anyone be so naive as to believe that a tech company or the...
Michael Tsaiās Roundup of Links and Commentary on My āSomething Is Rottenā Piece Last Week
Iāve been commenting and expanding upon some of the commentary my piece prompted, and I have a few more coming, but itās good to have Tsai collect a comprehensive overview. Ā ...
From One Million Experiments, a printable zine meant to be āused as...
From One Million Experiments, a printable zine meant to be āused as a template for those seeking to make an activism or organizing planā with knowledge distilled from seasoned activists....
Ray Maker on the Heart Rate Sensor of the Beats PowerBeats 2 Pro
Ray Maker, writing at DC Rainmaker: This would not only be the first time Apple has created a non-watch heart rate sensor, but even more notably, the first time the...
European Cyber Report 2025: 137% More DDoS attacks Than Last Year - What Companies Need To Know
The number of DDoS attacks has more than doubled, and they are shorter, more targeted, and more technically sophisticated. Organizations that do not continuously evolve their security strategies face significant...
Flailing OpenAI Calls for Ban on Chinese AI
Weeks after Sam Altman's admission that OpenAI's scaling model had run out of steam, it seems the billionaire tech baron is now changing course. In a recently published white paper,...
Chance Miller Reviews the Beats Powerbeats Pro 2
Iām a month late linking to it, but Chance Miller wrote a terrific review for 9to5Mac: The last several releases from Beats, such as the Studio Buds Plus and Solo...
Michael Gartenberg on the Lessons Apple Learned (and Hopefully Has Not Forgotten) From MobileMe
Sebastiaan de With, on X, linking to my āSomething Is Rottenā piece last week: Ex-MobileMe team here. This was a brutal time. It was so bad that when he presented...
All AI-Generated Material Must Be Labeled Online, China Announces
In collaboration with a number of government ministries, the Chinese internet watchdog Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has announced that all AI-generated content on the internet will have to be...
AI Honeypots Are the Future of Cybersecurity
Clone traps are next-gen honeypots that are about to turn the table on cybercriminals. They are deeply integrated with a firewall and provide AI-driven intelligence to super-target protection.
Researcher "Threatened to Kill" Colleagues Trapped in Antarctic Base
Things seem to be going nightmarishly bad at an isolated scientific base in Antarctica, where a researcher has been accused of assaulting and threatening to murder colleagues. As England'sĀ The...
The Curious 100 from The Eames Institute is, āa celebration of one...
The Curious 100 from The Eames Institute is, āa celebration of one hundred courageous leaders and creative minds across the United States who are harnessing the transformative power of curiosity...
āGoing National: The Drexel Microcomputing Projectā
From Drexelās YouTube channel: But far less recognized is that Drexel made the very bold decision of committing all students to purchase a previously unreleased and untested computer from Apple....
Why All of the JFK Assassination Documents Havenāt Been Released Yet
"The conspiracies are funny, everyone is acting like not getting instant responses for complicated, broad searches is malice. A lot of it is just very unexciting."
Rules Over Followers: BYDFiās Official Response to ExtraVODās False Allegations
BYDFi has been accused of misleading accusations made by the content creator of ExtraVOD on social media against BYDFi. ExtraVod claimed ignorance of the policy but admitted to creating a...
Indie game Blobun has a joke setting that eliminates its lesbian content....
Indie game Blobun has a joke setting that eliminates its lesbian content. But the main character is gay āso flipping the so-called ālesbian toggleā in the options menu removes her...
ā40 Years Ago, Drexel Made Computerāāāand AppleāāāHistoryā
Alissa Falcone, in a good piece looking back at (my alma mater) Drexel Universityās groundbreaking deal with Apple 40 years ago to provide deeply discounted Macintoshes to all students, and...
Meet AWS Marketplace: HackerNoon Company of the Week
This week, we proudly present AWS Marketplace - a one-of-a-kind online store that connects businesses with thousands of software solutions designed to run on Amazon Web Services (AWS). From security...
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