Meta didn’t hold back with their announcements at Meta Connect this year. As Facebook has done every year or so, the company is shaking up their avatar products. This year as Meta focuses more heavily on the metaverse, the company made a big addition to their updated higher-detail avatars: legs. Read more…
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser wants to dismiss the country’s cybersecurity chief due to possible contacts with people involved with Russian security services, German media reported late on Sunday, citing government sources. Reuters reports: Arne Schoenbohm, president of the BSI federal information security agency, could have had such contacts through Read more…
Game developer Sam Chiet has found another use for Microsoft Notepad. The ingenious creator has gotten Doom (1993) to run at 60 FPS through the boring text editor in Windows. Chiet highlighted that he didn’t have to modify the Notepad application. Dubbed “NotepadDOOM,” the project is fully playable. Although Chiet Read more…
More than a dozen public-facing airport websites, including those for some of the nation’s largest airports, appeared inaccessible Monday morning, and Russian-speaking hackers claimed responsibility. From a report: No immediate signs of impact to actual air travel were reported, suggesting the issue may be an inconvenience for people seeking travel Read more…
“The iPhone 14’s new Crash Detection feature, which is supposed to alert authorities when it detects you’ve been in a car accident, has an unexpected side effect,” reports the Verge. “It dials 911 on rollercoasters.” According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, the feature has had law enforcement Read more…
“Our new robot overlords are making a whole lot of progress in the space of AI music generation,” quips TechCrunch, discussing a new project called “Harmonai” backed by Stability AI (creators of the open source AI image generator Stable Diffusion): In late September, Harmonai released Dance Diffusion, an algorithm and Read more…
Look at the full moon! Tonight it may appear larger and more orange than usual, reports Space.com, “taking on a fitting appearance for the fall season and for the build-up to Halloween.” This is the result of something called the ‘moon illusion’ and the fact it is being viewed close Read more…