Month: November 2023
The Verge’s staff tries to survive the holiday season
Thanksgiving is coming, and after that, December and all of its various holidays. For many of us, this means lots of cooking and traveling and family gatherings, with all that entails. And this year, conversations around the dinner table may be even more fraught than usual. So we asked the…
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Exclusive Black Friday deal: the MyHeritage DNA Kit is just $32 for TechRadar readers
DNA kits make fantastic gift ideas, and just in time for the holidays, MyHeritage DNA is offering an exclusive Black Friday deal for TechRadar readers. For a limited time, you can get the MyHeritage DNA kit plus a free 30-day trial on the Complete plan for just $32 when you…
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Unlimited cloud storage provider used ancient technique to boost upload speeds — Son of Intel’s Robson makes a timid return with SSD cache but on a much, much bigger scale
Blackblaze claims to have achieved upload speeds on its B2 Cloud Storage platform that are up to 30% faster than AWS S3 by tapping into a “shard stash” based on solid-state drives (SSDs). When customers previously uploaded small files to Blackblaze B2, the data was written to several hard drives,…
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Warner Bros. Discovery just canned another nearly finished film
Warner Bros. Discovery just canned Coyote vs. Acme, a live-action and animated film featuring John Cena and the classic Looney Tunes hijinks of Wile E. Coyote. Director Dave Green confirmed that the nearly completed film will not be released shortly after Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter broke the news. Coyote…
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Golden Joystick Awards 2023 winners announced – Baldur’s Gate 3 takes home 6 awards
The results are in, and all the winners of this year’s Golden Joystick Awards have been confirmed. The 41st annual awards were hosted today in the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London, UK, with awards handed out for a total of 23 categories. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Larian Studios’ Baldur’s Gate 3 has…
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This new ChatGPT-powered infostealer is targeting cloud platforms
Hackers have developed a new Python-based infostealer malware that is able to specifically target cloud services. It has a few standout features, such as the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. A report from SentinelLabs outlined how it discovered the tool named “Predator AI” being advertised and distributed on Telegram…
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