Over the past few months, I've spotted something a little odd and unexpected happening to Sony's old PlayStation Portable. There's been no corporate push, no announcement of the truly portable Sony handheld we used to h…
A security researcher has discovered that Microsoft Edge will load all your stored passwords into memory in plaintext at startup, making it easy for malware to scrape those passwords.
Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg have been sued by five publishers and author Scott Turow, who allege the tech company illegally copied millions of books, articles and other works to train Meta's AI systems.
The Internet Archive, Wikimedia, academics, and hobby archivists are having trouble finding hard drives or are having to pay extremely high prices for them.
A new quantum-inspired algorithm is reshaping how scientists approach some of the most complex materials known, enabling rapid analysis of structures that were previously beyond computational reach.
The American phonemaker's Indian arm has named X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Google, and Meta in a lawsuit asking to take down existing and future “defamatory” content.
Brandolini's law (or the bullshit asymmetry principle) is an Internet adage coined in 2013 by Italian programmer Alberto Brandolini. It compares the considerable effort of debunking misinformation to the relative ease o…
In 1985, the Innovative Design Fund placed an ad in Scientific American offering up to $10,000 to support clever prototypes for clothing, home decor, and textiles. William Freeman Ph.D., then an electrical engineer at P…
Solarpunk is sometimes thought of as the “good ending” to cyberpunk– there’s technology, but it’s community-focused instead of in the hands of evil conglomerates, and&…
Notepad++ creator Don Ho said the macOS version of the popular Windows code editor is fake and using the Notepad++ trademark without permission. The unofficial Notepad++ app for macOS In a blog post, Ho said the macOS a…
Using a 1930s trade law, Homeland Security targeted the manâwho hasnât entered the US in more than a decadeâfollowing posts on X condemning the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
Enhanced weathering, also termed ocean alkalinity enhancement when proposed for carbon credit systems, is a process that aims to accelerate natural weathering by spreading finely ground silicate rock, such as basalt, on…
A 19-year-old influencer is suing the dating app Meete, alleging the company misappropriated her TikTok videos and used geofencing to target "friends with benefits" ads to men in her own college dormitory.
A Commission spokesperson says the EU has decided to take “concrete action right now” against the “risk of disruption of the EU’s critical infrastructure by foreign actors.”
Virginia and Washington, D.C. paused the data collection and sharing, after Bloomberg's investigation found their health insurance marketplaces were sharing users' information with advertisers.