🚀 Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'
Microsoft’s ‘unhackable’ Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss' — the 2013 console finally fell to voltage glitching, allowing the loading of unsigned code at every level | Tom's Hardware Skip to main content Don't miss these Cybersecurity Intel's Heracles chip computes fully-encrypted data without decrypting it PlayStation RPCS3 Emulator boasts over 1500 FPS on the Minecraft title screen Xbox Microsoft confirms next-gen Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, will be powered by custom AMD SoC and feature 'FSR Diamond' Handheld Gaming ROG Xbox Ally X gaming handheld to get Auto Super Resolution boost in April Cybersecurity Invisible malicious code attacks 151 GitHub repos and VS Code Cybersec...
Microsoft’s ‘unhackable’ Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss' — the 2013 console finally fell to voltage glitching, allowing the loading of unsigned code at every level | Tom's Hardware Skip to main content Don't miss these Cybersecurity Intel's Heracles chip computes fully-encrypted data without decrypting it PlayStation RPCS3 Emulator boasts over 1500 FPS on the Minecraft title screen Xbox Microsoft confirms next-gen Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, will be powered by custom AMD SoC and feature 'FSR Diamond' Handheld Gaming ROG Xbox Ally X gaming handheld to get Auto Super Resolution boost in April Cybersecurity Invisible malicious code attacks 151 GitHub repos and VS Code Cybersec...
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🚀 Apple can delist apps "with or without cause," judge says in loss for Musi app
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Musi, a free music streaming app that had tens of millions of iPhone downloads and garnered plenty of controversy over its method of acquiring music, has lost an attempt to get back on Apple’s App Store. A federal judge dismissed Musi’s lawsuit against Apple with prejudice and sanctioned Musi’s lawyers for “making up facts to fill the perceived gaps in Musi’s case.” Musi built a streaming service without striking its own deals with copyright holders. It did so by playing music from YouTube, writing in its 2024 lawsuit against Apple...
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Musi, a free music streaming app that had tens of millions of iPhone downloads and garnered plenty of controversy over its method of acquiring music, has lost an attempt to get back on Apple’s App Store. A federal judge dismissed Musi’s lawsuit against Apple with prejudice and sanctioned Musi’s lawyers for “making up facts to fill the perceived gaps in Musi’s case.” Musi built a streaming service without striking its own deals with copyright holders. It did so by playing music from YouTube, writing in its 2024 lawsuit against Apple...
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🚀 Arizona indicts prediction market Kalshi for running illegal gambling operation
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Arizona’s attorney general filed criminal charges against prediction market Kalshi, accusing it of operating a gambling business without a license and offering illegal wagers on elections. “Kalshi may brand itself as a ‘prediction market,’ but what it’s actually doing is running an illegal gambling operation and taking bets on Arizona elections, both of which violate Arizona law,” Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a statement on Tuesday. While Arizona’s case is the first time criminal charges have been brought against the company...
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Arizona’s attorney general filed criminal charges against prediction market Kalshi, accusing it of operating a gambling business without a license and offering illegal wagers on elections. “Kalshi may brand itself as a ‘prediction market,’ but what it’s actually doing is running an illegal gambling operation and taking bets on Arizona elections, both of which violate Arizona law,” Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a statement on Tuesday. While Arizona’s case is the first time criminal charges have been brought against the company...
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🚀 Trump's plan to shut down weather and climate center triggers lawsuit
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav On Monday, a consortium that oversees the US’s premier atmospheric research center announced it was suing the Trump administration over plans to shut it down. The National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, provides a home for interdisciplinary and collaborative research focused on anything atmospheric. Many of the country’s leading academic researchers in the field have spent time working there or have been involved in collaborations that involve NCAR. But all of that is dependent upon government support for the research done there a...
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav On Monday, a consortium that oversees the US’s premier atmospheric research center announced it was suing the Trump administration over plans to shut it down. The National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, provides a home for interdisciplinary and collaborative research focused on anything atmospheric. Many of the country’s leading academic researchers in the field have spent time working there or have been involved in collaborations that involve NCAR. But all of that is dependent upon government support for the research done there a...
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🚀 FDA links raw cheese to outbreak; Makers "100% disagree," refuse recall
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav The Food and Drug Administration has linked cheddar cheese made from raw (unpasteurized) milk to a multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli . But the cheese’s maker, Raw Farm, is rejecting the regulator’s findings and refusing to voluntarily recall its cheese. In an outbreak investigation notice, the FDA said seven cases have been identified in three states: California (five cases), Florida (one case), and Texas (one case). Of the seven cases, two required hospitalization. Four of the seven cases were in children age 3 or younger...
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav The Food and Drug Administration has linked cheddar cheese made from raw (unpasteurized) milk to a multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli . But the cheese’s maker, Raw Farm, is rejecting the regulator’s findings and refusing to voluntarily recall its cheese. In an outbreak investigation notice, the FDA said seven cases have been identified in three states: California (five cases), Florida (one case), and Texas (one case). Of the seven cases, two required hospitalization. Four of the seven cases were in children age 3 or younger...
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🚀 Mistral AI Releases Forge
Mistral Forge Mistral Forge Build your own frontier models Today, we’re introducing Forge , a system for enterprises to build frontier-grade AI models grounded in their proprietary knowledge . Most AI models available today are trained primarily on publicly available data. They are designed to perform well across a broad range of tasks. But enterprises operate using internal knowledge: engineering standards, compliance policies, codebases, operational processes, and years of institutional decisions. Forge bridges the gap between generic AI and enterprise-specific needs. Instead of relying on broad, public data, organizations can train models that understand their internal context embedd...
Mistral Forge Mistral Forge Build your own frontier models Today, we’re introducing Forge , a system for enterprises to build frontier-grade AI models grounded in their proprietary knowledge . Most AI models available today are trained primarily on publicly available data. They are designed to perform well across a broad range of tasks. But enterprises operate using internal knowledge: engineering standards, compliance policies, codebases, operational processes, and years of institutional decisions. Forge bridges the gap between generic AI and enterprise-specific needs. Instead of relying on broad, public data, organizations can train models that understand their internal context embedd...
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🚀 Here's BMW's first all-electric 3 series, the 2027 i3
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav BMW provided flights from Washington, DC, to Malaga, Spain, and accommodation so Ars could drive the iX3 and be briefed on the i3. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. MALAGA, Spain—Late last year, we got our first chance to drive the new BMW iX3 . An all-electric version of one of BMW’s best-sellers, the electric SUV is arguably the new head of the class in the competitive premium SUV EV segment, with good driving dynamics and an extremely efficient electric powertrain. The next new BMW EVs to use the company’s Neue Klasse platform...
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav BMW provided flights from Washington, DC, to Malaga, Spain, and accommodation so Ars could drive the iX3 and be briefed on the i3. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. MALAGA, Spain—Late last year, we got our first chance to drive the new BMW iX3 . An all-electric version of one of BMW’s best-sellers, the electric SUV is arguably the new head of the class in the competitive premium SUV EV segment, with good driving dynamics and an extremely efficient electric powertrain. The next new BMW EVs to use the company’s Neue Klasse platform...
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🚀 How the Eon Team Produced a Virtual Embodied Fly
Recently, Eon Systems PBC co-founder and founding advisor Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross shared some of the work that we’ve been doing on X , and we were pleasantly surprised at how much attention it’s received. This embodied fly is still very much a work-in-progress, and a first step towards showing how an embodied brain would control a virtual body. We wanted to discuss here how the virtual fly works, and its limitations. This post will be necessarily quite technical. First, we want to acknowledge how much this project depends on the broader neuroscience community. Our work builds directly on the adult fly connectome (Dorkenwald et al., 2024), on connectome-constrained brain models ( Lappal...
Recently, Eon Systems PBC co-founder and founding advisor Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross shared some of the work that we’ve been doing on X , and we were pleasantly surprised at how much attention it’s received. This embodied fly is still very much a work-in-progress, and a first step towards showing how an embodied brain would control a virtual body. We wanted to discuss here how the virtual fly works, and its limitations. This post will be necessarily quite technical. First, we want to acknowledge how much this project depends on the broader neuroscience community. Our work builds directly on the adult fly connectome (Dorkenwald et al., 2024), on connectome-constrained brain models ( Lappal...
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🚀 After Discord fiasco, age-check tech promises privacy by running locally. Does it work?
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Last month, Discord quickly backpedaled after it announced that an age-verification system would roll out globally. Discord’s reversal followed a widespread user backlash, which also intensified scrutiny of the platform’s age-check partners . Suddenly, these often-overlooked players in the “age-assurance” ecosystem had to defend their tech or risk losing major contracts. The whole saga shone a harsh spotlight on the current problems with age-verification tech—and on the technical solutions aiming to make the whole process both secure ...
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Last month, Discord quickly backpedaled after it announced that an age-verification system would roll out globally. Discord’s reversal followed a widespread user backlash, which also intensified scrutiny of the platform’s age-check partners . Suddenly, these often-overlooked players in the “age-assurance” ecosystem had to defend their tech or risk losing major contracts. The whole saga shone a harsh spotlight on the current problems with age-verification tech—and on the technical solutions aiming to make the whole process both secure ...
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