Month: January 2025
NATO wants to build an alternative satellite-based internet to be used in case of emergency
Project HEIST wants to mitigate physical sabotaging of underwater cables HEIST is expected to use laser optics rather than radio Exabytes of data flow in more than 1 million Km of fiber across the globe NATO is reportedly developing a satellite-based backup for global internet communications to address vulnerabilities exposed…
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Automattic cuts WordPress contribution hours, blames WP Engine
Automattic, the company that runs WordPress.com, is scaling back its contributions to the WordPress open-source project, according to an announcement on Thursday. The company says it’s decreasing contributions to “match” the amount of time companies like WP Engine spend on the ecosystem, further escalating the tension between Automattic CEO Matt…
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How Elon Musk’s xAI is quietly taking over X
When Elon Musk launched his own AI startup, xAI, he touted a key advantage over his competitors: access to the vast trove of data from his newly acquired social media platform Twitter. By implementing new API fees on the network he quickly renamed X, Musk locked out other AI companies,…
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Researcher nets major reward for finding Facebook bug able to unlock the gates to its internal systems
A security flaw found in Facebook’s ad platform has been fixed by Meta The researcher who discovered the flaw was awarded a $100,000 bug bounty The flaw allowed the researcher to effectively take control of a Facebook server Meta has awarded cybersecurity researcher Ben Sadeghipour a bug bounty of $100,000…
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Citizen Sleeper 2 asks how we stay human in a hopeless future
Life for Sleepers is fraught. They gain consciousness in a state of indentured servitude, an emulated human mind inside an android body, forced to work until they’re discarded. Those who escape don’t last long due to trackers in their bodies, and their hardcoded dependence on a drug known as Stabilizer.…
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Lenovo CES 2025: The 10th-gen Legion Pro 7i gaming laptop supports up to RTX 5090 graphics
Lenovo has a new series of updated Legion gaming laptops at CES 2025. The star of the show is the 10th-generation Legion Pro 7i. It supports up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU, thanks to its cooling system that enables up to 250W thermal design power (TDP). It…
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