Month: December 2024
How Netflix took on live TV — and got ready to take on the NFL
Brandon Riegg has spent the better part of a decade trying to make live TV happen at Netflix. He joined the company in 2016, after stints at NBC, ABC, and VH1, where he’d worked on shows like Dancing with the Stars, The Voice, and America’s Got Talent. All those shows…
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Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2024) review: slightly larger, slightly faster, slightly better
Three years have passed since Amazon last updated its flagship e-reader, and while this year’s Kindle lineup seemed focused on Amazon’s first color offering, the Paperwhite still got some welcome improvements. With a higher-contrast screen and snappier performance, the 12th-generation Kindle Paperwhite remains the best e-reader on the market. I…
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AMD RDNA 4 GPU rumors flood forth, including possible name change to RX 9070 – because bigger is better, compared to Nvidia’s RTX 5070?
AMD is supposedly launching RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 next-gen GPUs Previous rumors suggested these would be the RX 8000 series Performance is rumored to be a bit slower than previous chatter from the grapevine Rumors around AMD’s next-gen GPUs have gone into overdrive this past weekend, and we’ve…
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A new Microsoft 365 phishing service has emerged, so be on your guard
Researchers said that Rockstar2FA went quiet in November 2024 But a new PaaS emerged soon afterwards, with partly overlapping infrastructure The new PaaS is called FlowerStorm, and it targets Microsoft365 accounts Cybersecurity researchers from Sophos have warned a new Phishing-as-a-Service (PaaS) tool has emerged, allowing threat actors to easily hunt…
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Trump announces new tech policy picks for his second term
In a pair of Truth Social posts on Sunday, Donald Trump announced a set of picks for his administration’s tech policy team that will report to David Sacks, Trump’s “AI and crypto czar.” The picks include Michael Kratsios, who will lead the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) if…
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Nissan and Honda officially announce plans to merge
Honda and Nissan have officially confirmed rumors that they're pursuing a merger, the companies wrote in a joint press release. Each would continue to operate under its own brand, but with a new joint holding company as parent. If Nissan-controlled Mitsubishi also came on board, the combined group would become…
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