You can now apply for the ‘opportunity to purchase’ an RTX 5090 or 5080 from NVIDIA

You can now apply for the ‘opportunity to purchase’ an RTX 5090 or 5080 from NVIDIA

While graphics cards have been getting almost ludicrously over the years, it’s also been increasingly difficult to actually . In an effort to address this problem, NVIDIA has introduced a plan it’s calling Verified Priority Access for its recently released GeForce RTX 50 series of GPUs. Verified Priority Access offers an unspecified number of people … Read more

DOGE Now Has Access to the Top US Cybersecurity Agency

DOGE Now Has Access to the Top US Cybersecurity Agency

Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old engineer with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) known as “Big Balls,” is now on staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), WIRED has confirmed. He is joined by another member of the DOGE team, 38-year-old software engineer Kyle Schutt, who is now also on the CISA … Read more

Saronic raises $600M to mass-produce autonomous warships

Saronic raises 0M to mass-produce autonomous warships

Austin-based defense startup Saronic has raised a $600 million Series C to build an autonomous ship factory called “Port Alpha,” it announced yesterday, quadrupling its valuation to $4 billion from its last round.  Investor Elad Gil led the round, with General Catalyst joining existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, and Caffeinated Capital, among others. That should … Read more

OnePlus 13 camera gains much needed Instagram feature

OnePlus 13 camera gains much needed Instagram feature

What you need to know OnePlus announced that its latest flagship phone will now feature a night mode setting on Instagram. This tool is known for capturing images/videos in low light settings and will be built into the in-app camera. Users are urged to test out the moon icon when it pops up on Instagram. … Read more

US Army Soldier Pleads Guilty To AT&T and Verizon Hacks

US Army Soldier Pleads Guilty To AT&T and Verizon Hacks

Cameron John Wagenius pleaded guilty to hacking AT&T and Verizon and stealing a massive trove of phone records from the companies, according to court records filed on Wednesday. From a report: Wagenius, who was a U.S. Army soldier, pleaded guilty to two counts of “unlawful transfer of confidential phone records information” on an online forum … Read more

Here’s When Apple Will Release iOS 18.4

Here’s When Apple Will Release iOS 18.4

Wednesday February 19, 2025 11:38 am PST by Juli Clover Following the launch of the iPhone 16e, Apple updated its iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia pages to give a narrower timeline on when the next updates are set to launch. All three pages now state that new Apple Intelligence features and languages will … Read more