Android stopped trying to impress me; I couldn't be happier about it
Or do they? I'm no stranger to lackluster Android updates. With the exception of the Material 3 Expressive refresh , my Android experience hasn't changed much in recent years beyond some quality-of-life improvements.…
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I tried Proton's AI Paper Trail tool — and I couldn't believe how much data chatbots know about me
The free tool built by privacy software engineers at Proton has one job: to analyse your exported chat history from ChatGPT or Claude and show you exactly how much of yourself you have inadvertently handed over. It runs…
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How Meta plans to deliver petabit connectivity between US and France
Meta has been collaborating on the buildout of subsea network capacity with Marea in 2018, which used eight fibre pairs providing 192 tbps (terabits per second). In 2023, this was expanded to 24 fibre pairs in the 384…
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Chinese cities offer subsidies and cheap computing to lure AI film studios
He told the agency that officials from big cities and small towns now call him every day, asking him to move his technology or his company to them. He also runs the AI-generated content department at China Wit Media, a…
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New Clayface trailer's Batman Easter egg renews fan hopes over Caped Crusader cameo
Revealed yesterday (September 24), the movie's latest teaser offers a fresh look at its body horror vibes, slick cinematography, and Matt Hagen's tragic villain origin story. Thankfully, the DC Universe ( DCU ) film's…
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Motorola Signature 27 will be the first non-Pixel phone to support GrapheneOS
You see, this privacy-focused operating system that’s been built on top of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), was previously limited to Pixel phones — which is somewhat ironic given it’s likely to appeal to people…
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How CISA plans to shake up the CVE program
Under the plans, the agency wants to create a more resilient, transparent, and sustainable vulnerability management ecosystem, while making sure that CVE data remains accurate and responsive to a rapidly evolving threat…
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Judge uses electronic tag on Pokémon card tracker. It's super effective!
She discovered it while making a delivery to Walmart on June 18 and was described in court documents as "a carrier/vendor of Pokémon cards." Kubasta initially pleaded not guilty to illegal use of a tracking device, but…
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Mathematician discovers rare eight-faced shape
Mathematicians can define abstract patterns, describing which vertices, edges and faces should connect. But working out whether those rules can actually be turned into an object in three-dimensional space , without parts…
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The first season of Heroes is almost perfect – here’s why
But that is exactly what happened to me, 20 years ago this month, when a show called Heroes first aired. As you may have gathered from the title, it followed ordinary people whose genes have blessed (or cursed) them with…
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