Month: August 2025
NYT Wordle today — answer and my hints for game #1534, Sunday, August 31
Looking for a different day? A new NYT Wordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Saturday’s puzzle instead then click here. It’s time for your guide…
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Verizon’s ‘software issue’ has disconnected many wireless customers across the US
Verizon has confirmed to customers in stores and online that its network is having an issue on Saturday. Many people have been unable to connect and make or receive calls for hours, while DownDetector’s tracker peaked in the afternoon at around 3:30PM ET with more than 20,000 reports. Some customers…
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This creative concept reinvents the 1.44MB floppy disk as a modern storage device – a holder for today’s SD cards packing terabytes of storage
The iconic floppy disk is reborn as a storage case for today’s terabyte-packing SD cards From 1.44MB past to terabyte present, the new design bridges eras creatively Fun artwork references glitch aesthetics and retro computing Floppy disks are unquestionably a relic from the past, although they still keep resurfacing in…
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Got no signal? This devious cyberattack can downgrade your phone from 5G to 4G without you knowing
5G phones can be silently downgraded to insecure 4G, leaving the device exposed The exploit works without setting up expensive and complex fake towers Tested smartphones include flagship models from Samsung, Google, Huawei, and OnePlus In late 2023, researchers uncovered a set of flaws in 5G modem firmware from major…
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‘Going to sell like hotcakes’: First reviews of Nvidia Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit leaves me with no doubt – Nvidia has a sleeper hit on its hands
Nvidia Jetson AGX Thor debuts with Blackwell GPU, 128GB memory, and 1TB storage Early reviews describe a capable platform offering serious performance improvements over Jetson Orin Reviewers agree it will appeal to developers needing powerful hardware for projects Nvidia recently launched the Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit, a $3,499 platform…
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No, a Windows update probably didn’t brick your SSD
For the last week or two, reports have been circulating that recent Windows 11 updates (specifically KB5063878 and KB5062660) were causing some SSDs using Phison controllers to fail. Tech influencers on YouTube and TikTok were quick to jump on the reports of corrupted data and disappearing drives, laying the blame…
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