By late 2021, major updates for Windows’ built-in Notepad text editor had been so rare for so long that a gentle redesign and a handful of new settings were rated as a major update. New updates have become much more common since then, but like the rest of Windows, recent additions have been overwhelmingly weighted…
“It was really a setback for the company [Gouach] at the time,” Vallette said. “But we knew that the technology itself was good, so we designed our own casing.” Gouach’s casing is now rated IP67, Vallette said, and meets UL 2271 standards. Gouach’s video demonstrating its battery case’s fire resistance. Unexpected resistance There are three…
Researchers have found malicious software that received more than 6,000 downloads from the NPM repository over a two-year span, in yet another discovery showing the hidden threats users of such open source archives face. Eight packages using names that closely mimicked those of widely used legitimate packages contained destructive payloads designed to corrupt or delete…
Pocket did more than this and leaned into longform journalism and literary writing. The site’s “Best of 2020” won a Webby award, and it regularly curated collections on a range of topics. Pocket is already used to curate recommendations on Firefox’s new tab page (if you choose that version of it) and will likely see…
Google is implementing AI-driven enhancements to its software and collaboration tools that could translate to big productivity gains. Google CEO Sundar Pichai started his keynote at the Google I/O developer conference this week with one of those features: real-time language translation in Google Meet, which was until now in research. The feature uses Google’s AI…
Do you miss the feel of tactile buttons on your kitchen appliances or lament car manufacturers’ insistence on touchscreens? Have you ever found yourself clumsily fumbling with the door handles of a vehicle or distracted by the bright blue light beaming from your vacuum or Wi-Fi router? If so, you’re not alone. The way technology…
VMware’s business model under Broadcom is “legally and ethically flawed,” a group of cloud service provider (CSP) customers and partners alleged in a report released today. The report (PDF) comes from the European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO), which describes itself as “independent monitoring body” composed of members of the Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe…
Project Moohan looks like a traditional VR or AR headset. Credit: Ryan Whitwam Project Moohan looks like a traditional VR or AR headset. Credit: Ryan Whitwam Unlike the Meta Ray-Bans, Google’s glasses have a display embedded in the right lens (you can just make out the size and location of the display in Sergey’s glasses…
On Thursday, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, marking the company’s return to larger model releases after primarily focusing on mid-range Sonnet variants since June of last year. The new models represent what the company calls its most capable coding models yet, with Opus 4 designed for complex, long-running tasks that can…
A consortium of global law enforcement agencies and tech companies announced on Wednesday that they have disrupted the infostealer malware known as Lumma. One of the most popular infostealers worldwide, Lumma has been used by hundreds of what Microsoft calls “cyber threat actors” to steal passwords, credit card and banking information, and cryptocurrency wallet details….