Month: November 2023
A cookbook helped me understand Dragon Age’s origins
Food and culture are inseparable. Here in the US that’s perhaps more noticeable during this week than at any other time of the year, as tens of millions of us plan to break bread together in observance of Thanksgiving. But I’ve spent most of a decade considering it in the…
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Dbrand’s new X-Ray skins let you ‘see inside’ 125 different gadgets
It’s also — purely coincidentally, I’m sure! — announcing a brand-new set of skins that take the idea even farther. No, I don’t mean “further”; I’m talking about going literally millimeters deeper into a device’s components with a 450-kilovolt X-ray, showing details you can’t get just by photographing a gadget…
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A new botnet is spreading Mirai across the world, with thousands of devices affected
Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a new campaign to bring additional endpoints into the Mirai botnet. According to a blog post from Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT), unidentified threat actors discovered two new zero-day vulnerabilities and are currently exploiting them to strengthen the infamous DDoS botnet. Given that the zero-days…
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JBL Authentics 200 Review: A Great Little Smart Speaker
If you’re after classic looks and modern smarts, this JBL speaker is a great option for home and the road. Source
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The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered will feature 3 ‘Lost Levels’ Sony confirms
Sony has revealed a bit more information about The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered, and has confirmed that players will be able to play three previously cut ‘Lost Levels’ when the game launches. The Lost Levels are playable sequences that were removed from the original version of The Last…
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The Morning After: Google’s Bard AI is getting better at understanding YouTube
Google has updated its Bard AI chatbot, so you can use it to parse YouTube videos. In its most recent experiment update log, the company has announced it has expanded the capabilities of Bard’s YouTube extension, so when it’s enabled, the generative AI can “understand some video content.” For example,…
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