Author: Zach_Wilson
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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Fortnite Festival is turning into Rock Band with local multiplayer
Fortnite Festival, the game’s Rock Band-like music mode where you play along with real songs, is getting local multiplayer for up to four people on PlayStation and Xbox on January 14th. Currently, you can only play Fortnite Festival multiplayer online, but with this change, you’ll be able to get your…
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The robots we saw at CES 2025: The good, the bad and the completely unhinged
It was an interesting year for robots at CES 2025. While we had hoped the AI boom would bring a new wave of useful robots to the show, it seems that many robotics companies are still figuring out exactly how to best use AI. What we found instead was a…
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A tale of four Kodaks
It was while walking past the RadioShack booth at CES 2025 that I spied the Kodak stand not far ahead. And it was while musing about the fate of those two storied — okay maybe not storied — names that I spied another Kodak booth two rows over. For a…
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