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Before we dive into the matter, you first have to understand what DisplayLink is. It is a proprietary graphics transport technology that lets computers connect to one or more external displays over USB, using docks or adapters built around DisplayLink chips. It works by compressing display data on the hostContinue Reading

Three weeks ago, I wrote that if you can reverse engineer it, it’s open source. Looks like the frontier labs didn’t love that idea. Claude Code users are hitting “safety checks” in the middle of decompiling things. Some Codex users got warnings and account restrictions for poking at their ownContinue Reading

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has until Wednesday to agree to a briefing investigating whether his affair exposed American secrets., Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has until Wednesday to agree to a briefing investigating whether his affair exposed American secrets., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The tech consultant convicted in the stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee was sentenced in San Francisco on Tuesday to 16 years to life to prison. A jury in December 2024 found Nima Momeni guilty of second-degree murder, rejecting the defendant’s claim that heContinue Reading

A new version of High Tide, an unofficial TIDAL music streaming app for Linux built with GTK4/libdwaita, is out. Hight Tide 1.6.0 plumbs in support more features found in the paid streaming service’s official clients, including the ability to block artists and tracks for appearing in playlists or auto-play queues,Continue Reading

Elections have consequences — and big elections have big consequences. Few have been bigger than last week’s US midterms, featuring a Blue Tsunami that swept aside Republican control of Congress and signaled the end of Trumpenführerenführerism. Those consequences will especially be felt by Big Tech and Big AI. Voters madeContinue Reading

Adobe will open its Creative Cloud applications to third-party AI assistants, with the ability to edit content in Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator, and Premiere from tools such as ChatGPT or Claude, the company announced at its Max event. The model context protocol (MCP) integration, due in private beta in earlyContinue Reading

Australian EV charging specialist GoEV has launched a transportable, battery-backed charging system. The ChargeNOW system combines a 640 kW DC fast charger, battery energy storage system (BESS) and electrical switchboard in a single 20-foot (6.1-meter) skid-mounted package. The system is designed to enable high-power charging at transport depots, logistics facilitiesContinue Reading

WeaveGrid, a grid orchestration software provider for electric utilities, has launched a managed charging program in partnership with North Carolina’s Electric Cooperatives, an organization that supports the state’s 26 community-based electric cooperatives. The new program, EVConnectNC, allows members of participating cooperatives to earn incentives by charging their EVs during off-peakContinue Reading

Typing accented characters on Ubuntu isn’t as easy as it is on macOS (or modern smartphone keyboards), where you just have to a key to see available characters appear in a pop-over, and then pick one. Accent Hold is a GNOME Shell extension that adds macOS-style press-and-hold behaviour. Just pressContinue Reading

There’s a new flavor of cereal on the table, but not the appealing kind, particularly for defenders. A new report from global security company ESET describes a “sophisticated, modular, and tightly interconnected” toolset designed to run on compromised Exchange servers for long-term cyberespionage. The malware is named ‘Cereal’ because itContinue Reading