Doom marine crashes art gallery, politely sips wine
Just when you thought you had seen every possible Doom mod, two game developers released a free browser game that reimagines the first level of 1993’s Doom as an art…
After embarrassing blunder, AT&T promises bill credits for future outages
AT&T, following last year’s embarrassing botched update that kicked every device off its wireless network and blocked over 92 million phone calls, is now promising full-day bill credits to mobile…
China is having standard flu season despite widespread HMPV fears
There’s a good chance you’ve seen headlines about HMPV recently, with some touting “what you need to know” about the virus, aka human metapneumovirus. The answer is: not much. It’s…
Federal Court Blocks Tennessee’s Unconstitutional Age Verification Law
As Michael McGrady pointed out in his recent guest post for Techdirt, nearly 41 percent of Americans subject to age verification laws targeting porn and, of course, porn consumers. An…
How I program with LLMs
This article is a summary of my personal experiences with using generative models while programming over the past year. It has not been a passive process. I have intentionally sought…
Misconfigured license plate readers are leaking data and video in real time
In just 20 minutes this morning, an automated license-plate-recognition (ALPR) system in Nashville, Tennessee, captured photographs and detailed information from nearly 1,000 vehicles as they passed by. Among them: eight…
New videos show off larger Nintendo Switch 2, snap-on Joy-Cons
Nintendo still isn’t ready to officially reveal any details about the Switch 2 (beyond a brief mention of backward compatibility in November). But that hasn’t stopped gaming accessory maker Genki…
NASA defers decision on Mars Sample Return to the Trump administration
For nearly four years, NASA’s Perseverance rover has journeyed across an unexplored patch of land on Mars—once home to an ancient river delta—and collected a slew of rock samples sealed…
Neglected Domains Used in Malspam to Evade SPF and DMARC Security Protections
Cybersecurity researchers have found that bad actors are continuing to have success by spoofing sender email addresses as part of various malspam campaigns. Faking the sender address of an email…
In His Amicus Brief Trump Tells SCOTUS That The Copia Institute Is Right (OK, Perhaps Inadvertently)
A lot of people dunked on the amicus brief Donald Trump filed at the Supreme Court in the constitutional challenge of the law effectively banning TikTok. And there is plenty…