Month: November 2022
We finally have an idea of what kind of stuff David Zaslav wants Warner Bros. Discovery to make.
The swiftness with which Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav began canceling shows and entire movies as part of his plan to boost the company’s revenue was cause for much alarm earlier this year. As series like Infinity Train and Summer Camp Island began disappearing from HBO Max, that alarm…
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This sneaky hijack malware replaces your crypto addresses with lookalikes
Audio player loading… A brand new clipper malware has been found taking the theft of cryptocurrency to a whole new level, researchers have claimed. Clippers are a well-known security threat, as they are malware variants that monitor the clipboard of a Windows-powered endpoint (opens in new tab), and when they…
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Westworld is over
Westworld has been canceled. The Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan show about robots and apocalypses captivated and then confused audiences and finally seemed to have forgotten what it was about entirely by the time its fourth and final season aired earlier this year. So while it’s a bummer the show…
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A New WhatsApp “Communities” Feature Makes Organizing Groups A Snap. Critics Say It Will Make Spreading Misinformation Easier.
“It works like a pyramid,” said Nemer, whose research focuses on Bolsonarism, misinformation, and social media, and the “human infrastructure” behind political misinformation that spreads through WhatsApp. “At the top, you have people who produce misinformation. In the middle, you have Bolsonaro supporters who work like a swarm of bees…
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Intel’s pay-as-you-go CPU platform finally has a name, but is still shrouded in secrecy
Audio player loading… Intel has released fresh details about its new pay-as-you-go CPU platform, which is now officially set to be dubbed ‘Intel On Demand’. The software-defined platform will enable system administrators to pay an additional fee to activate special-purpose accelerators integrated into its 4th Generation Xeon Scalable ‘Sapphire Rapids‘…
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Watch iFixit’s teardown of the ‘largely unfixable’ Meta Quest Pro
At this point, you might have a pretty good idea of what the inside of a smartphone is like, but how about a highly advanced VR headset? The experts at iFixit have posted their video teardown of Meta’s new Quest Pro, and while they conclude that it’s a “fascinating, if…
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