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Plans move to Rust, with help from AI Microsoft wants to translate its codebase to Rust, and is hiring people to make it happen.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed charges against multiple companies for their alleged involvement in an elaborate cryptocurrency scam that swindled more than $14 million from retail investors. ...

A pro-Russian hacker group has come forward as the perpetrator of a DDoS attack on the French national postal service La Poste that took place on December 22, according to Reuters. The distributed denial-of-service attac...

The version of Apple Intelligence released in China must pass a test to ensure that it does nothing to challenge official government propaganda. It will be tested with 2,000 questions designed to elicit information censo...

The Trump administration has issued travel bans that prohibit five European tech researchers, including one former EU Commissioner, from entering the United States. For far too long, ideologues in Europe have led organiz...

Apple has been fined €98.6 million ($116 million) by Italy's antitrust authority after finding that the company's App Tracking Transparency (ATT) privacy framework restricted App Store competition. The Italian ...

An Indian LVM3 rocket launched AST SpaceMobiles next-generation direct-to-device BlueBird satellite Dec. 23, kicking off a rollout of dozens of spacecraft built around the largest commercial communications antenna ever d...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Across Uzbekistan, a network of about a hundred banks of high-resolution roadside cameras continuously scan vehicles' license plates and their occupants, sometimes...

President Trump previously threatened 100 percent tariffs, administration now plans something else starting in 2027 World War Fee The United States will impose tariffs on semiconductors imported from China, starting in 2...

As of Dec. 24, get 46% off the Amazon Fire TV Stick HD at Amazon.

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Christmas Day famously belongs to football. This Dec. 25, there are three NFL games to watch: the Dallas Cowboys vs. Washington Commanders, the Detroit Lions vs. the Minnesota Vikings, and the Denver Broncos vs. Kansas C...

Adult children across the United States are increasingly reporting that their aging parents have developed what looks remarkably like the smartphone addiction [non-paywalled source] typically associated with teenagers, a...

Michelin and Goodyear are perhaps the two most well-known brands of tires to have ever been on the market, but what makes one better than the other?

Starting at around 1PM ET on December 24, Steam experienced an outage that impacted users ability to access the game store and play games online. Valve didnt acknowledge the outage publicly, but SteamDBs unofficial Steam...

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After Anna's Archive published a massive scrape containing 86 million songs and metadata from Spotify, the streaming giant responded by disabling the nefarious accounts responsible. A spokesperson for Spotify told Re...

Like most tech companies, Apple comes out with new products relatively fast, but that means they have to say goodbye to others. Here are 14 of them.

Microsoft has denied any plans to rewrite Windows 11 using AI and Rust after a LinkedIn post from one of its top-level engineers sparked a wave of online backlash by claiming the company's goal was to "eliminate ...

The axion could be a contender to explain the mystery of dark matter.

Execs say DIY OpenAI connections risked pushing CRM data past the trust boundary Salesforce users running Agentforce with ChatGPT Enterprise or Edu can now update CRM data directly from the bot, a move aimed at curbing h...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of a macOS information stealer called MacSync that's delivered by means of a digitally signed, notarized Swift application masquerading as a messaging app insta...