An anonymous reader quotes a report from War Is Boring: An OPSEC violation has once again made a case for why using TikTok should be a punishable offense in the military, this time after someone revealed some US stealth technology testing going on and …
Ring Puts An Eero Router Inside Its New Home Alarm System
Eero and Ring — two Amazon-owned companies — have teamed up to produce a home security system that incorporates an Eero router inside. Engadget reports: Ring COO Mike Harris said that the decision to work with Eero was not one foisted down from upon …
AI Study Suggests a London Gallery’s Been Exhibiting a Fake For Years
Thomas Macaulay writes via The Next Web: Samson and Delilah is among the most famous works by Peter Paul Rubens, one of the most influential artists of the 17th century. The painting depicts an Old Testament story in which the warrior Samson is betraye…
New Windows 11 Install Script Bypasses TPM, System Requirements
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: A new script allows you to install Windows 11 on devices with incompatible hardware, such as missing TPM 2.0, incompatible CPUs, or the lack of Secure Boot. Even better, the script also works o…
Identical Twins Carry Genetic Modifications No One Else Has
sciencehabit shares a report from Science.org: Identical twins are living proof of how genetics shapes our looks and traits. Now, researchers have found they carry a molecular signature on their DNA that no one else has — one that becomes fixed in the…
April Fools’ Copy-Paste Button For Lazy Programmers Now Actually For Sale
Stack Overflow’s copy-paste keyboard, an April Fools’ Day prank that ribbed lazy programmers, is now actually for sale. CNET reports: It’s been a joke in programming circles for years: Instead of writing your code from scratch, just head over to the St…
Leaked Documents Show How Amazon’s Astro Robot Tracks Everything You Do
em1ly shares a report from Motherboard: Amazon’s new robot called Astro is designed to track the behavior of everyone in your home to help it perform its surveillance and helper duties, according to leaked internal development documents and video recor…
Facebook’s Effort To Attract Preteens Goes Beyond Instagram Kids, Documents Show
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Wall Street Journal: Facebook has come under increasing fire in recent days for its effect on young users and its efforts to create products for them. Inside the company, teams of employees have for years be…
Apple Watch Can Detect Arrhythmias Other Than AFib, Study Shows
According to new research published this week in American Heart Association Journal, Apple Watch can detect arrhythmias other than Atrial Fibrillation (AFib). The Apple watch irregular pulse detection algorithm was found to have a positive predictive v…
Microsoft Knew of Exchange Autodiscover Flaw Five Years Ago
Thomas Claburn writes via The Register: Microsoft Exchange clients like Outlook have been supplying unprotected user credentials if you ask in a particular way since at least 2016. Though aware of this, Microsoft’s advice continues to be that customers…