Month: November 2024
Teenage Engineering’s new OP–XY makes me wish I had a bigger budget for music gear
Teenage Engineering’s new OP-XY is a portable synthesizer and sequencer that looks similar to the company’s OP–1 Field. But functionally it’s instead a more capable upgrade to the company’s six-year-old OP-Z, with a stronger focus on layering sounds with various effects and a steeper $2,299 price tag. With an “anodized,…
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I wasted my day on Bluesky Social and no, I’m not sorry
I would like to say I saw Bluesky Social’s big moment coming. After all, I joined the social network in April 2023 when few knew about it, and Twitter Founder and ex-charmingly quirky tech CEO Jack Dorsey was leading it. I rooted around a bit, and despite its threadbare interface,…
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Save Big During the All-Clad Factory Seconds Sale
All-Clad cookware is the best you can buy—and it has a price tag to match. This sale will stretch your dollars. Source
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This devious new malware is going after macOS users with a whole barrel of tricks
Security researchers from Group-IB discover unique new piece of malware It abuses extended attributes for macOS files to deploy the payload The malware is most likely built by North Korean state-sponsored actors Cybersecurity researchers have stumbled upon yet another malware variant for macOS likely built by the notorious North Korean…
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TikTok plugs Getty Images into its AI-generated ads and avatars
TikTok will let advertisers pull in content from Getty Images when using the platform’s AI ad creation tool. With the integration, advertisers can use Getty’s licensed images and videos to make ads containing AI-generated content, including AI avatars that look like real people. The integration will be available through TikTok’s…
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ADL report finds Steam is ‘rife’ with racist posts and images
Valve’s Steam store is more than just a place to buy computer games online. It’s an active community of gamers. Unfortunately, a sizable portion of those gamers are posting an “unprecedented” amount of hateful, racist and anti-Semetic content on the gaming site’s cyber social gathering place Steam Community, according to…
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