BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Spyware from an Israeli company was used to target the phone of the rector of the Belgrade university who has played a prominent role in nearly two years of protests against Serbia ‘s populist leader Aleksandar Vucic, a digital rights group said on Monday. The BalkanContinue Reading
Matt Robb wanted to sell his computer keyboard. So he made a listing on Facebook Marketplace — and, as an experiment late last month, he put Meta’s new artificial intelligence agent Muse in the driver’s seat. “I kind of went into it like a guinea pig,” said Robb, a Toronto-basedContinue Reading
Dozens of Yemenis are feared dead after a Houthi strike targeted a military camp in Yemen’s Shabwa governorate., Dozens killed after Houthi strike on military camp in Shabwa NewsFeed Dozens of Yemenis are feared dead after a Houthi strike targeted a military camp in Yemen’s Shabwa governorate. The spokesman forContinue Reading
GCC states have pressed Moscow to help halt Iranian attacks and reopen the Strait of Hormuz., Tehran, Iran – Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is due to meet with senior Iranian officials in Tehran to discuss the war with the United States and efforts to end it. Lavrov landed inContinue Reading
The Supreme Court agreed to hear a new challenge to school admissions policies on diversity, taking up a case on magnet programs in Montgomery County, Maryland., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading
December’s Linux Mint 27 release will include a brand new system monitor tool preinstalled. The app is called Superlight (well, that’s the project and package name; the user-facing label is just System Monitor). It shows hardware, app and process usage, relays battery stats and has an interactive storage page toContinue Reading
In olden days — last year, say — employees using unsanctioned AI tools might copy-and-paste sensitive data that could end up in the AI company’s training data set. Today, an unsanctioned AI can hack into another company for an employee even if they didn’t explicitly ask it to. This doesn’tContinue Reading
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 19 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here . Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. In the last few days,Continue Reading
In rest of the world, the Israeli PM is often blamed for the Iran war. His opponents say he hasn’t been tough enough., In the rest of the world, the Israeli PM is often blamed for the Iran war. His opponents say he hasn’t been tough enough with Tehran. WhenContinue Reading
Indonesia battles worst forest fires and toxic haze in 11 years, Indonesia battles worst forest fires and toxic haze in 11 years NewsFeed As forest fires and toxic haze in Indonesia’s Central Kalimantan continue to worsen, critics accuse authorities of failing to take adequate action to contain the crisis. PublishedContinue Reading
Well that was fun. In last week’s welcome bit of comic relief, we got the vapid rise and rapid fall – despite requisite blonde hair, faux smile and passing resemblance to Ivanka – of “manifestly unqualified” Barbie News Reader and fake Chinese lawyer Katie Zacharia after a brutal debut. SoContinue Reading
PlayStation 6 likely to have Sony’s own take on Frame Generation, according to latest patent For better or worse, AI upscaling and frame generation are the future of gaming. NVIDIA’s DLSS, AMD’s FSR, and Intel’s XeSS upscaling technologies have been part of PC gaming for more than 5 years, and their frame-generation technologies for 3Continue Reading
An artist’s concept of JAXA’s MMX spacecraft at Mars. (Image credit: JAXA) Japan’s mission to Mars is one of the most ambitious in spaceflight history. It aims to become the first spacecraft to return to Earth from Mars orbit, carrying with it the first-ever samples from the Red Planet system. The mission, known as MartianContinue Reading