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Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech All is not well in the fourth estate. On Tuesday, the publisher of Axios hit “post” on an article about how he basically uses AI to read for him now, instead of recruiting the moldering neurons in his brain. “AI has become my reading buddy,” began Nicholas Johnston, who formerly served as the news site’s editor-in-chief. According to Johnston, the tedious process of actually reading a book “makes it easy to lose the thread.” James Fenimore Cooper’s “The Last of the Mohicans,” for…
Google launched its new Pixel 11 series earlier this week – there is a new vanilla, two new Pro and one new foldable model. All that’s missing now is an affordable a-phone. The massive increase in RAM prices has affected the Pixel series. Google now offers 256GB storage as standard on all 11-series models, which is a good thing, but the Pixel 11 Pro and 11 Pro XL start with 12GB of RAM. If you want 16GB (which is what all Pixel 10 Pro and 10 Pro XL phones had), you will have to get a 512GB or a 1TB…
iQOO is said to launch the iQOO 16 in September, with the latest rumor from China claiming it will have a higher refresh-rate screen than its predecessor. The word comes from reliable tipster Digital Chat Station, who claimed the iQOO 16 will feature a 165Hz refresh rate screen. It will be a 6.85″ flat 2K display sourced from Samsung. For comparison, last year’s iQOO 15 came with a 6.85″ flat display having a 144Hz refresh rate. Furthermore, DCS claimed that the iQOO 16’s rounded corners and bezels have minimal changes, but said the camera module on the rear is small,…
Threat actors started exploiting an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in GeoServer hours after it was publicly disclosed, attack surface management firm WatchTowr says. The security defect, described as an SQL injection issue that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution (RCE), was disclosed on Wednesday by a security researcher named q1uf3ng. According to the researcher’s post on X, the flaw affects GeoServer’s jsonArrayContains function, a filter expression for querying JSON array fields to check if they contain specific values. It can be used with PostGIS and Oracle JDBC data stores. The SQL injection is likely caused by user-supplied arguments being…
New report examines suspicious Reddit activity, coordinated YouTube content and BBB Scam Tracker entries influencing how the vehicle history platform appears across Google and AI systems VINclarity has published a new investigation into what researchers describe as a coordinated online reputation attack targeting the vehicle history platform across Reddit, YouTube, Google Search and AI-powered discovery systems. The investigation, “VINclarity Becomes the Next Target: Inside the Coordinated Reputation Attack Playbook”, examines a cluster of negative content built around subscription-charge allegations and searches such as “VINclarity scam,” “VINclarity fraud,” “VINclarity reviews” and “is VINclarity legit.” According to the report, the pattern closely…
Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. Eureka Ergonomic Wonder Glowing Glass Desk: Two-minute reviewAs I’m writing this review, I’m surrounded by an abundance of glowing red stars decorated all over my desk. It’s hard not to feel relaxed here, thanks to the beautiful desktop, which can be activated in specific areas by your touch, or turned onto a setting that allows them to twinkle manually all across the glass panel.When it comes to the best…
Cutting the cord doesn’t only come into play when you talk about your cable package. Opting for a wireless charger when you’re trying to give your phone some juice is an easy way to boost your device. The same goes for appliances, like a cordless vacuum, which can suck up bits of dust and litter in no time. Opting for cordless tools has become a hot topic when it comes to home improvement. There are a lot of options when it comes to cordless power tools. Many of them are able to be controlled using one hand and they don’t…
While the autonomy, RTK precision, and mulching capabilities of the Airseekers Tron are fantastic, the obstacle avoidance and wheels leave a lot to be desired. It does a great job clearing open swaths of land, even handling drastic inclines, but it’s rough around the edges and struggling with avoiding contact with certain objects.The only thing better than having a great yard to hang out is not having to spend half your free time maintaining it. Today we go beyond setting up an automatic sprinkler or hiring the neighbor’s kid to do some work; today we can deploy robotics to do…
Hardware crypto wallet provider Trezor says the personal information of nearly 14,000 people was compromised in a data breach. The incident, it says, did not involve Trezor’s systems but rather its third-party shipping provider, ShipMonk. Trezor was notified of the attack on August 10. Customers in the US, the UK, Sweden, Colombia, Brazil, Italy, and Portugal who placed orders between May 10 and August 8 were affected. “We’re extremely sorry to inform our community that customer personal information, including full names, phone numbers, email addresses, and shipping addresses, has been accessed by an unauthorized actor during this breach,” Trezor says…
Explanation: Known for its bright and fast meteors, the annual Perseid Meteor Shower comes to planet Earth’s skies from a radiant in the heroic constellation Perseus. The popular northern summer celestial spectacle is created as grains of dust cast off along the orbit of periodic comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle vaporize in Earth’s dense atmosphere, tracing brief, but beautiful streaks through the night. Taken near the shower’s peak of activity on August 12, this composite image recorded two bright perseid meteors and one meteor’s watery reflection from a location near the coastal village of Grisslehamn, Sweden. Almost as bright as Altair, brightest star…