IT News 7 months ago

Kill Russian Soldiers, Win Points: Is Ukraine's New Drone Scheme Gamifying War? - ABC News reports that Ukrainian drones struck Moscow last night — over 100 of them... -

Kill Russian Soldiers, Win Points: Is Ukraine

ABC News reports that Ukrainian drones struck Moscow last night — over 100 of them — closing all four of Moscow

#military

IT News 7 months ago

Google sues 25 alleged BadBox 2.0 botnet operators, all of whom are in China - Ads giant complains of damage to its reputation and finances ... and crime, too Google ha... -

Google sues 25 alleged BadBox 2.0 botnet operators

: Ads giant complains of damage to its reputation and finances ... and crime, too

IT News 7 months ago

Microsoft offers vintage Exchange and Skype server users six more months of security updates - It looks like enough of you are struggling to migrate that Redmond is willing to help out... -

Microsoft extends updates for old Exchange and Skype servers

: It looks like enough of you are struggling to migrate that Redmond is willing to help out – for a price that might buy nothing

IT News 7 months ago

LibreOffice Lands Built-In Support For Bitcoin As Currency - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phoronix: Merged yesterday to the latest ... -

LibreOffice Lands Built-In Support For Bitcoin As Currency - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phoronix: Merged yesterday to the latest development code for the LibreOffice open-source office suite is...

#bitcoin

IT News 7 months ago

Pulling at Threads With the Flipper Zero - Gone are the days when all smart devices were required an internet uplink. The WiF... -

Hackaday

Pulling At Threads With The Flipper Zero

Gone are the days when all smart devices were required an internet uplink. The WiFi-enabled IoT fad, while still upon us (no, my coffee scale doesn...

#microcontrollers #homeautomation #networkhacks #flipperzero #homehacks #matter #thread

IT News 7 months ago

Nvidia to resume sales to China – with Trump administration approval - Maybe CEO Jensen Huang's million-dollar meal at Mar-a-Lago has paid off in the form of pe... -

Nvidia to resume sales to China with US approval

: Maybe CEO Jensen Huang's million-dollar meal at Mar-a-Lago has paid off in the form of permission to sell the H20 and a new RTX Pro GPU

IT News 7 months ago

Teachers urge parents not to buy children smartphones - Teachers fear some children use smartphones for eight hours a day and overnight. -

Monmouthshire teachers urge smartphone ban for children under 14

Teachers fear some children use smartphones for eight hours a day and overnight.

IT News 7 months ago

You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem - here's how to stop it - Thick resumes with thin LinkedIn connections are one sign. Refusing an in-person intervie... -

Fake North Korean IT workers: How companies can stop them

: Thick resumes with thin LinkedIn connections are one sign. Refusing an in-person interview is another

IT News 7 months ago

Wire Like a Pro: Peeking into Wire Harness Mastery - There are many ways to learn, but few to none of them compare to that of spending ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/12/wire-like-a-pro-peeking-into-wire-harness-mastery/ #cableharness #wireharness #connectors #how-to #wiring

IT News 7 months ago

Ex-ASML employee sentenced to three years' imprisonment for sharing company secrets with Russia - An ex-ASML employee has been sentenced to three years impri... -

Tom

Ex-ASML employee sentenced to three years

He accessed files beyond the scope of his employment for several years.

#semiconductors #manufacturing #techindustry

IT News 7 months ago

Grok’s Nazi tirade sparks debate: Who’s to blame when AI spews hate? - Antisemitic outbursts from the chatbot promoted by Elon Musk shows how AI companies often... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/11/grok-ai-elon-musk-antisemitism/

IT News 7 months ago

Ohio City Using AI-Equipped Garbage Trucks To Scan Your Trash, Scold You For Not Recycling - The city of Centerville, Ohio has deployed AI-enabled garbage trucks that scan res... -

Ohio City Using AI-Equipped Garbage Trucks To Scan Your Trash, Scold You For Not Recycling - Slashdot

The city of Centerville, Ohio has deployed AI-enabled garbage trucks that scan residents

#ai

IT News 7 months ago

Former reality TV star appointed NASA Interim Administrator - Can Sean Duffy embrace the challenge? NASA has a new interim Administrator. US President ... -

Former reality TV star appointed NASA interim administrator

: Can Sean Duffy embrace the challenge?

IT News 7 months ago

Won’t somebody care for the European children? Meta and Google put up their hands to help on the same day - Zuck backs a ‘digital majority age’ and Google open sources tech that might enforce it Go... -

Meta, Google, weigh in to Europe

: Zuck backs a ‘digital majority age’ and Google open sources tech that might enforce it

IT News 7 months ago

Ford CEO Predicts AI Could Eliminate Half of US White-Collar Jobs - Ford CEO Jim Farley believes half of all white-collar workers in the U.S. could lo... -

Ford CEO Predicts AI Could Eliminate Half of US White-Collar Jobs - Slashdot

Ford CEO Jim Farley believes half of all white-collar workers in the U.S. could lose their jobs to AI in the coming years, he said. He joins other ...

#ai

IT News 7 months ago

German charity refuses to comply with Bitcoin ransomware demand — hackers attempt to extort hunger-fighting group for over $2 million - A German hunger-fighting charity is on the hook for some $2... -

Tom

German charity refuses to comply with Bitcoin ransomware demand — hackers attempt to extort hunger-fighting group for over $2 million

The group says they won

#cybersecurity #techindustry

IT News 7 months ago

Arm muscles into server market – but can't wrestle control from x86 just yet - Server shipments surge 70% in 2025, still shy of datacenter dominance goal Arm-based serv... -

Arm-based servers to grow 70% this year

: Server shipments surge 70% in 2025, still shy of datacenter dominance goal

IT News 7 months ago

Ancient SoundBlaster Cards Just Got A Driver Update - Old hardware tends to get less support as the years go by, from both manufacturers... -

Hackaday

Ancient SoundBlaster Cards Just Got A Driver Update

Old hardware tends to get less support as the years go by, from both manufacturers and the open-source community alike. And yet, every now and then...

#soundblaster #linuxhacks #creative #awe32 #linux

IT News 7 months ago

PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation - The W3C updated PNG to make it work with HDR content, and i... -

Tom

PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation

The demand for subtitles in HDR content led to this update.

#software

IT News 7 months ago

Games Run Faster On SteamOS Than Windows 11, Ars Testing Finds - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Nearly a decade ago, Ars te... -

Games Run Faster On SteamOS Than Windows 11, Ars Testing Finds - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Nearly a decade ago, Ars testing found that Valve

#windows