VW Group had sensitive info, including GPS coordinates, of 800K+ electric vehicles exposed on an unprotected AWS database for months before it was alerted (Thanos Pappas/Carscoops)
Thanos Pappas / Carscoops : VW Group had sensitive info, including GPS coordinates,…
How to step up your stargazing game in 2025 on the cheap, according to space experts
There’s nothing quite like looking up at the night sky. It’s always brought me a deep…
The technology of passkeys is elegant, but the complexities of syncing them to password managers can contribute to platform lock-in and make them less usable (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica : The technology of passkeys is elegant, but the complexi…
HPE now allows customers to run its most powerful server on AWS but is it actually a good idea?
U7inh instance has 1,920 virtual CPUs and 32TB of memory, and you can run 4 of thes…
Five ways Apple can save the Vision Pro in 2025
Apple's most fantastic piece of hardware, the future-leaning Vision Pro, is not a…
Tech Resolutions 2025 – 7 ways to survive January and upgrade your life with tech this year
New year's resolutions are just the kind of chore you don't need after a week…
Netflix's foray into live sports caps off a strong year, with its share price up 90%+ in 2024, but the stock's rich valuation sets a high bar for follow-up act (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)
Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal : Netflix's foray into live sports caps off…
Trump supports H-1B visas, saying "I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I've been a believer in H-1B", siding with Musk in the MAGA debate on the issue (Jon Levine/New York Post)
Jon Levine / New York Post : Trump supports H-1B visas, saying “I have many H-1B vi…
I’m swapping Spotify for CDs with the affordable Fiio DM13 in 2025 –here's why
I used to own a lot of CDs. And by “a lot”, I mean a lot . Since I was a teenager in …
Netflix? More like Netfix - world's most popular streaming service is tied at the neck with its biggest rival, and doesn't even know how much it spends on cloud computing
AWS is Netflix's only cloud computing platform But AWS is also part of Amazon,…
Finland, Canada, the US, and other countries are testing tech for passport-free travel, including facial recognition and a "digital travel credential" (Matt Burgess/Wired)
Matt Burgess / Wired : Finland, Canada, the US, and other countries are testing tec…
Sydney-based Sitemate, which offers no-code software tools for industries like infrastructure and utilities, raised a AU$27.5M Series A at a ~AU$150M valuation (Shivaune Field/Forbes Australia)
Shivaune Field / Forbes Australia : Sydney-based Sitemate, which offers no-code sof…
You can now rent Google's most powerful AI chip: Trillium TPU underpins Gemini 2.0 and will put AMD and Nvidia on high alert
Trillium has hit general availability just months after preview release Powerful A…
Meta expects AI-generated characters to "generate and share content" and "over time, exist on our platforms", similarly to regular accounts (Financial Times)
Financial Times : Meta expects AI-generated characters to “generate and share conte…
Microsoft adds Copilot to Microsoft 365 in Australia and Southeast Asia and raises 365's price, a sign of how it aims to turn a profit from its AI investments (Tom Dotan/Wall Street Journal)
Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal : Microsoft adds Copilot to Microsoft 365 in Austra…
Apple's new BFF, Broadcom, reveals three hyperscalers want to deploy 1,000,000 GPUs or XPUs by 2027; something that will make Nvidia wince
Broadcom is rumored to have an ongoing partnership with Apple to help it build its …
US federal lobbying disclosure forms reveal how Meta, with a team of 14 directly employed lobbyists, led efforts to block the passage of KOSA in Congress (Ruth Reader/Politico)
Ruth Reader / Politico : US federal lobbying disclosure forms reveal how Meta, with…
Analysis: roughly two-thirds of 39 public digital health companies have lost value in 2024, while the Nasdaq is up 32% (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
Ashley Capoot / CNBC : Analysis: roughly two-thirds of 39 public digital health com…
Analysis: Coinbase International saw its total trading volume grow 124% week-over-week to $119B+ this past week; it averaged just $2.5B per day in November 2024 (The Block)
The Block : Analysis: Coinbase International saw its total trading volume grow 124%…
Fluid-as-a-service? No, it's not what you think - F1 stalwart is quietly innovating to bring its expertise in cooling to data centers and beyond
Castrol planning fluid-as-a-service model launch to eliminate waste and increase su…
Beyoncé wins the holidays with an ultra-clever Netflix joke
Beyoncé is promoting her Christmas Day half-time NFL football game performance She…
Filing: Apple asks to participate in Google's upcoming US search antitrust trial, saying it can't rely on Google to defend their revenue-sharing agreements (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
Jody Godoy / Reuters : Filing: Apple asks to participate in Google's upcoming U…
Arc B580 surprises in content creation review: Intel's 12GB GPU is more than a match for the competition but driver issues dampened my enthusiasm
$250 GPU card is competitive with both the GeForce 4060 and the RX 7600 on numerous…
Iran claims it will lift its ban on "certain widely used foreign platforms", naming WhatsApp and Google Play as the first two apps to be unblocked (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Iran claims it will lift its ban on “certain widely used foreign platfo…
How to send a personal video message from Santa using AI
Want to send a special message straight from the North Pole this year? AI video devel…
A $100bn tech company you've probably never heard of is teaming up with the world's biggest memory manufacturers to produce supercharged HBM
HBM is fundamental to the AI revolution as it allows ultra fast data transfer close…
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