Oculus founder Palmer Luckey backs new crypto-friendly bank with tech billionaires
Erebor could be the first US bank to hold stablecoins directly on its balance sheet
Ransomware negotiator allegedly struck deals with hackers to profit from extortion payments
Justice Department investigates possible kickbacks in ransom cases
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Hundreds of SD cards tested reveal surprising performance and reliability gaps
Kingston, PNY, and SanDisk 64GB and 128GB SD cards consistently rank best for speed and endurance
Cloudflare tests "pay-per-crawl" system to charge AI firms for scraping website content
AI bots are also being blocked automatically unless granted access
Facebook wants to access your camera roll for Meta AI photo suggestions
Camera roll media will be uploaded to Meta's servers on an "ongoing basis"
A hot potato: The issue of user content being used to train AI is a controversial one. Meta has been doing it with publicly available data for a while now, but its latest move is causing even more outcry: Facebook is asking for access to users' camera rolls so Meta AI can offer suggested edits to photos that haven't been uploaded.
IPv6 reaches majority use in 21 countries as Starlink and other providers modernize global connectivity
Starlink's network is built on IPv6 by default
PNG image format receives HDR and animation support in first spec update in decades
The specification also adds support for Exif data
YouTube adds more AI, but not everyone's happy about it
New AI-generated search carousels, where "quality and accuracy may vary"
Once job board giants, CareerBuilder and Monster head for breakup and sale
Online recruitment has changed dramatically since the company's peak years
AMD Ryzen CPUs continue to crush Intel processors on Amazon best-seller list
Only three Core Ultra 200 CPUs occupy the top 100 list
Ultra-cheap $28 external 500GB HDD from Amazon tested: works, but with caveats
Hidden dangers lurk in low-cost storage devices sold online
The Social Network Part 2 in development, trades startup drama for whistleblowers and algorithmic chaos
Aaron Sorkin is writing and directing the new movie
Amazon says it's expanding same-day and next-day delivery to 4,000 more small cities and towns
Rural customers will soon get household items in hours, not days
US warns of Iranian cyberattacks and propaganda in wake of airstrikes
US water, power, and finance sectors could be prime targets
Greek man sentenced to prison for running a private torrent site 10 years ago
File sharing crime doesn't pay, and could eventually land you behind bars
Cloudflare CEO warns AI crawlers and summaries are eroding the internet's business model
Google now sends fewer visitors to websites, Prince pledges to fight the "existential threat" of AI
Are 16 billion compromised passwords really part of a newly discovered data breach?
The mother of all breaches could just be multiple pre-existing archives fused into one
Low-wage tech support workers become a new gateway for cyberattacks
Outsourced call centers emerge as a new cybercrime battleground
Max now packs 50% more ads into its streams
It's not just Amazon ramping up the ads
Scammers hijack real support pages to show fake phone numbers
Hackers are also manipulating Google ads to plant fake support numbers
Netflix to offer live TV channels for the first time in deal with France's TF1
As traditional broadcasters lose ground, Netflix blurs the line between streaming and TV
Elon Musk responds to report that xAI is burning through $1 billion a month
Musk was uncharacteristically subdued this time