Month: February 2025
This robot video is weirdly depressing, and I’ve never been so happy to be human
It’s rare that a robot video fills me with sadness, but this new one from 1X featuring the company’s new Neo Gama humanoid robot left me in a state of ennui. Neo Gamma is an update to the Neo Beta 1X introduced six months ago. At the time, the company…
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Fraudsters seem to target Seagate hard drives in order to pass old, used HDDs as new ones using intricate techniques
Seagate Exos and IronWolf Pro HDDs are prime targets for scammers Scammers alter QR codes and even drive serial numbers Toshiba and Western Digital are not as targeted as Seagate — why? The controversy of fraudsters modifying used Seagate hard drives to appear unused despite having been powered on for…
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Hackers steal over $1bn in one of the biggest crypto thefts ever
Bybit confirms suffering a large cyberattack Hackers stole approximately $1.5bn worth of Ethereum Their identities are not confirmed, but researchers speculate it was Lazarus One of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world has suffered a devastating cyberattack in which it lost approximately $1.5 billion worth of Ethereum. The attack…
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Annapurna’s 2025 lineup of indie games is full of tea and T-poses
Annapurna Interactive is hosting its first showcase of the year, and it’s an important one. Last year, Annapurna Interactive’s entire staff resigned en masse after negotiations to spin off the respected indie game publisher into its own independent entity broke down. Since then, those employees have formed their own company…
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Google Drive gets searchable video transcripts
Google has announced new searchable transcripts for videos you store in Google Drive. The feature is rolling out to all Google Workspace users, starting today and finishing by March 26th. The transcripts look a lot like those you’d see on YouTube. If one is available, it’ll appear in a sidebar…
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Microsoft set to rival Google, IBM with first-of-its-kind quantum chip with topological core architecture
Microsoft unveils a quantum chip with a Topological Core for stable and scalable qubits Majorana 1 features eight topological qubits, aiming for a million-qubit scale Breakthrough is comparable to how semiconductors revolutionized modern computing Microsoft has unveiled Majorana 1, a quantum chip built on a Topological Core architecture, marking a…
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