fjo3 shares a report from the BBC: They can walk, hover and the males can even sing love songs to woo mates — all this with a brain that’s tinier than a pinhead. Now for the first time scientists researching the brain of a fly have identified the position, shape and connections of every single … Read more
This Reddit comment posted to the CentOS subreddit is typical. An admin noticed that two servers were infected with a cryptocurrency hijacker with the names perfcc and perfctl. The admin wanted help investigating the cause. “I only became aware of the malware because my monitoring setup alerted me to 100% CPU utilization,” the admin wrote … Read more
Two Maryland residents who defrauded Apple out of 6,000 iPhones worth over $2.5 million were sentenced to prison today, according to the United States Department of Justice. The duo devised a repair scheme where they sent in counterfeit iPhones in order to get genuine iPhones in exchange. Chinese nationals Haotian Sun and Pengfei Xue will … Read more
Tesla is fixing an issue with the rearview mirror on 27,000 Cybertrucks. A recall report filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said that affected vehicles include those manufactured between November 13, 2023 and September 14, 2024, suggesting that pretty much all of the Cybertrucks on the road require the fix. The notice … Read more
OneNote is journal-creating software designed by Microsoft to be a space where you can jot down ideas, conduct research, and create a highly interactive canvas-style map of “pieces” that will help you organize all those pieces. Here’s how I use it with my research materials, and how you can too. I have used OneNote through … Read more
In an era of fast-evolving AI accelerators, general purpose CPUs don’t get a lot of love. “If you look at the CPU generation by generation, you see incremental improvements,” says Timo Valtonen, CEO and co-founder of Finland-based Flow Computing. Valtonen’s goal is to put CPUs back in their rightful, ‘central’ role. In order to do … Read more
Getty Images Finding the best gate for an aircraft is a surprisingly difficult task Next time you’re running at full tilt towards your airport gate, spare a thought for the airline staff who made sure that that gate was actually available. Gate allocation is a surprisingly complex task. “With 15 gates and 10 airplanes, there … Read more
From startups to industry giants like TikTok, companies are increasingly turning to AI to improve online sales. Digital advertising is moving five times faster than inflation in the U.S.; 71% faster than the costs of TV ads. Further, the average customer acquisition cost (CAC) in e-commerce has risen more than 60 percent over the past … Read more
Space Black MacBook Pro (M3 Max) running MacOS Sonoma wallpaper Jason Hiner/ZDNET At the time of this writing, Amazon’s October Prime Day event is only a few days away, and laptops are selling like hotcakes. I’ve had difficulty finding a good laptop because they’re either sold out or the discount is minimal. Luckily, I stumbled across a … Read more
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against TikTok claiming the company violated a new child privacy law in the state. It’s set to be the first test of Texas’ Securing Children Online Through Parental Empowerment (SCOPE) Act since it went into effect just over a month ago. Under the law, parts of … Read more