This ransomware negotiator was paid to fight hackers, he was secretly working with them instead
Angelo Martino was sentenced to 70 months after leaking client data to BlackCat, helping squeeze $75 million from his own clients
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Redditor finds "16TB SSD" for $30 that was actually a microSD card with weights glued on
This tech vigilante buys suspicious eBay listings just to report the sellers and claim refunds
Nvidia launches free GeForce trading card collection featuring 14 designs from NV1 to RTX 2080 Ti
New GPUs are too expensive, but at least the cardboard version is free
Minecraft joins Doom in the "can it run?" hall of fame with Game Boy Color port
The port also runs on the original monochrome Game Boy, albeit at half the speed
Professor's chart exposes the scale of AI cheating in college exams
One student's scores are honest if nothing else
Facepalm: The endemic scale of AI-assisted cheating among students over the past few years is well documented, but few visual representations illustrate the problem as well as a recent chart from a Brown University professor. As concerning as the graph is, the university's muted response to it is potentially even more worrying.
This dog tracker uses Starlink to keep tabs on your pet, even without cell service
LEO tracking can detect "adventurous" dogs in the US
Cheyenne suspends datacenter wastewater after rare bacterium traced to Meta's AI site
Another data center water scare gives AI opponents more ammunition
Hardware hacker is building a homemade GPU from 64,000 tiny RISC-V chips
Thousands of $0.13 microcontrollers double as a processor and a pixel
Bryan Johnson, the millionaire biohacker who wants to live forever, diagnosed with incurable autoimmune disease
He plans to "solve" the condition
This German drone just hit 699 km/h, and its maker wants the world record to prove it
Official Guinness world record pending, faster targets planned
Australia's teen social media ban stumbles as platforms skip age checks
Who knew kids would lie about their age?
Why Gen Z is falling in love with film photography – and rejecting the algorithm along with it
Film photography is experiencing a resurrection, summoned by unlikely conjurers: Gen Z
The Supreme Court just ruled that police need a warrant to use phone location data
A 6-3 ruling says geofence warrants require constitutional protections
Researchers built a tiny diving suit for cyborg cockroaches to survive underwater
The goal is to help search-and-rescue teams reach flooded rubble, drains, and narrow gaps robots can't access
Jensen Huang's signed leather jacket could sell for up to $60,000 at charity auction
The auction estimate puts Huang's jacket in the same ballpark as some Nvidia AI hardware
In brief: These days Jensen Huang is better known for turning Nvidia from a beloved gaming company into a somewhat disliked AI supercorporation. But he used to get a lot of attention for his leather jacket. Now, one of those famed items of clothing is going up for auction, and it's expected to raise $40,000 to $60,000 – for charity, of course.
Video Game History Foundation founder says piracy remains the only viable game preservation method
The organization representing game publishers helped kill a preservation bill. Now it's being blamed for pushing archivists toward piracy
Concorde-style supersonic flights could return to the US, as long as they're quiet enough
FAA proposal would replace the decades-old ban with a noise-based standard
Someone finally built a working Game Boy emulator for E-ink screens
This modder proves an old dev board can run 30-year-old games at full speed
Sony will stop making physical PlayStation games starting in 2028
The end of an era is upon us
The video game industry just told lawmakers Minecraft and Call of Duty private servers are illegal piracy
A California Act which would have required refunds or offline modes for shuttered games, fell three votes short in the state Senate
This retro enthusiast forced Windows 11 to run on a Core 2 Quad Q6600 and AGP graphics
The modded system ran "rock stable" despite the aging hardware dating back to 2003
Cargo thieves are now stealing millions in data center hardware, not just GPUs and consoles
Illinois cops just recovered $2.3 million worth of AI data center equipment
Ripple effect: The AI boom may be hurting consumers, white-collar workers, and rural residents living near data centers, but it's opened up "new opportunities" for cargo thieves. Criminals are reportedly cashing in on the data center construction boom by stealing millions of dollars' worth of server hardware, cables, and other high-value tech equipment.
Dbrand kills its Portal-inspired Companion Cube case after admitting it never asked Valve for permission
"Unfortunately, being proud of the thing we made did not give us the right to make it"
Developer builds "complete" OpenStreetMap client for classic Mac OS 9
Fulfilling a childhood dream in the age of cloud, APIs, and software frameworks
Prosecutors used a man's ChatGPT logs to try to link him to the Pacific Palisades fire, but it didn't work
A juror said using ChatGPT shouldn't be treated as a character flaw