AI Powered Vending Machines Lie, Cheat, And Whine
The results of a research project that put three different AI models in charge of vending machines is both truly sad and utterly hilarious. Andon Labs tests AI models for safety and…
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AMD Seems To Have Silently Cut TSME Memory Encryption From Consumer Chips
****Update**** AMD has officially stated "Regarding certain non-PRO Ryzen 9000-series desktop processors, a BIOS option to enable Memory Guard was previously available but was removed in a recent update. Based on valuable community…
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Quelle Surprise, Google, Microsoft, and Meta Still Tracking Users After Opt-Out
A privacy search engine called webXray conducted an audit of Microsoft, Meta, and Google web traffic, specifically checking for the presence of ad cookies that were dropped onto machines which had already…
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Microsoft Copilot Was Injecting Ads Into GitHub Pulls Requests And Merges
There were more than a few developers flabbergasted to find out Copilot had injected advertisements into the descriptions of GitHub pull requests they made recently. Microsoft was injecting ads for...
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HP Quietly Offers OMEN Laptops As A Service
The PCPer Podcast broadcast live on February 4th is now two for two in predicting the next ideas coming from the computer industry, one good and one completely awful. The first was…
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YouTube Continues To Embrace Doctorow’s Word; Say Goodbye To Background Playback
If you've been enjoying YouTube on your mobile device, Alphabet has gone out of their way to once again hold that enjoyment for ransom. If you aren't paying for YouTube Premium you…
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Anyone Else Getting A Sinking Feeling About Subnautica 2?
Subnautica 2 hasn't been released yet, even in early access, but it is certainly generating a lot of attention. The saga started with the game developer, Krafton, firing three executives including Charlie…
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245 Different Extensions, With Nearly 1 Million Downloads Turn Your System Into A Web Scraping Machine
It might seem odd to think that web scraping is still profitable, until you recall that is all that our AI overlords do right now. There are a wide variety of tools…
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The RTX 5060 Is Now Available And It Has Upset A Lot Of Reviewers
The RTX 5060 arrived in stores yesterday but you won't see a lot of traditional reviews of the card thanks to NVIDIA's mandated test conditions for previews and reviews. The card itself…
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This Targeted Ad Brought To You By PayPal
If you were upset you weren't getting enough targeted advertisement then the newly revived PayPal Ads group is there for you. The details are still in the works but from the…
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Accept Roku’s New Individual Arbitration Terms Or Else!
Roku owners in the US are being greeted with a choice when they fire up their TV or HDMI adapters today. They can either accept the new terms of service...
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HP Never Learns, Here Comes Yet Another Lawsuit About Proprietary Ink
HP's proprietary ink business makes them a lot of money, at least it better considering the number of times they've been sued over it. They might not be quite as bad as…
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Great, BlackLotus Windows UEFI Source Code Revealed To All
While source code leaks are often a bad thing, in this case it can only be considered wonderful. BlackLotus, which we have covered before, has been horrifying security professionals and...
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NVIDIA “Unlaunches” The RTX 4080, But The RTX 4080 Is Still Available
It turns out that launching two very different video cards with the same name is as bad an idea as it sounds. Today NVIDIA has pushed the 'unlauch' button on...
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A Class Action Suit Fired At Canon For Tying Low Ink To Scanning
The printer industry, or at least Canon, seem to have forgotten the lesson HP learned twice. It was back in 2005 when HP was originally taken to court, for programming in an…
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Western Digital Makes A Crucial Error With The Cache On The WD SN550 Blue
Storage companies have surprisingly poor memories, as they keep changing their drive's internals without notice even though they tend to get caught doing it. Crucial was recently reminded of this when they…
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Global Chip Shortage Or Counterfeiters Paradise?
As always seems to be the case, when there is a crisis and people are hurting some individuals will chose to profit off the situation regardless of the damage they cause others. …
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Those Cute Little Favicons Always Did Seem Pretty Sus
Move over LSOs and get out of the way super cookies, there's a new way to track people's movement on the internet that works on just about every browser. It's those cute…
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