OPINION When President Donald Trump returned to power, he cast himself as the anti‑Biden on AI. First, he tore up Biden’s Executive Order 14110, which had demanded “safe, secure, and trustworthy” AI. He then replaced it with his own “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence” directive, ordering agencies to rescind or dilute rules…
security Add section name here After years of insisting end-to-end encryption was the future of online comms, Zuckcorp has handed itself full visibility into user chats once again Meta has quietly pulled the plug on encrypted Instagram DMs, meaning private messages on one of the world’s biggest social networks are no longer especially private. The…
Smart lighting company Nanoleaf has been unusually quiet recently. While competitors such as Govee and Philips Hue have been pumping out new products and innovative features at an impressive pace, Nanoleaf has launched just a handful of smart lighting products in the last two years. There’s a reason for this lull — the company has…
Apple now requires proof of eligibility from US customers who purchase products online at discounted education rates, which also apply to the Apple Watch for the first time. According to a new pop-up message displayed on Apple’s education webstore, Apple is directing students, parents, and teachers to verify their status via Unidays’ third-party verification service…
Security ShinyHunters takes the credit and gives developer an F for security Students around the world have an excuse to bunk off after hacking crew ShinyHunters did something nasty to educational SaaS Canvas. Canvas is widely used by schools and universities to communicate with students, publish and store course material, and collect assignments. An outfit…
security Social media biz says watchdog’s fine formula is ‘disproportionate’ and should stop counting global revenue Meta appears to have decided Britain’s Online Safety Act would be much easier to swallow if Ofcom stopped counting all the money the social media giant makes everywhere else. The Facebook and Instagram owner has launched a legal challenge…
EPISODE 9 It’s 3:30 am and I’m at work, having been woken up by numerous outage notifications. The Boss – as useful as Jason Statham’s method acting coach – is also on site, presumably to offer moral support. The Building Manager – who’s so old that his CV likely includes the construction of a vessel for…
Offbeat Movie-inspired set ticks the clever Technic box, but at a price Lego has released a set to coincide with the Project Hail Mary movie, and it’s a clever bit of Technic-style engineering, even if the price is a little high. Usually, we only look at Lego builds of real objects – think Concorde and…
Sony sold just 1.5 million PS5 consoles in its most recent fourth fiscal quarter, down 46 percent year over year. The slump in PS5 sales comes after Sony raised the price of its PS5 consoles twice over the past year, pushing the price of the regular PS5 from $499.99 all the way up to $649.99….
Offbeat Spikes deter pigeons, but Microsoft still managed to foul the screen BORK, BORK, BORK! There was a time when information boards were handwritten or paper-based affairs. Then departure information was shown on split-flap displays, which made a satisfying tick sound as the display changed. Pixel-based boards followed (we took a look at the excellent take-home-and-keep…