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A new online payment system that is socially, ecologically, and fiscally responsible, to make finance easy for common people. That’s the aim of the Next Generation Internet pilot named NGI TALER. This project, coordinated by the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), is operated by a consortium of eleven partners from...

Chinese hackers are determined to ‘wreak havoc’ on US critical infrastructure, FBI director warns::FBI Director Chris Wray has told House lawmakers that Chinese government hackers are busily targeting critical infrastructure inside the United States, including water treatment plants, the electrical grid and transportation...

The Pentagon Tried to Hide That It Bought Americans’ Data Without a Warrant::US spy agencies purchased Americans’ phone location data and internet metadata without a warrant but only admitted it after a US senator blocked the appointment of a new NSA director.

Tech companies are slashing thousands of jobs as they pivot toward AI::Technology companies are axing jobs as they pile deeper into artificial intelligence, with one expert calling it a “sobering signal.”

Ventoy is an open source tool to create a bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. With Ventoy, you don’t need to format the drive over and over, you just need to copy the image files to the USB drive, and Ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them and boot from it....

European gas and electricity prices tumble as wind power surges::Elevated wind generation offers respite for energy supplies after recent cold blast

DPD has disabled part of its online support chatbot after it swore at a customer::The parcel delivery firm says the mistake was a result of a system update, which has been disabled.

Delivery workers won a mandated raise from NYC. Now they say the apps figured out a way to undermine it::undefined

Apple watches are seen on display at the Apple Store in Grand Central Station (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Imag)

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The administrators of the DDoSecrets website write that they have run out of money for funding. If they don’t raise $150,000 by January 31, 2024, they might be forced to suspend operations. This is written on the red banner that appears when you go to the site....

Lawmakers declare war on deepfakes that threaten to upend this year’s presidential election::State lawmakers rather than federal officials are leading the charge against AI-generated images that are intended to influence voting.

Data regulator fines HelloFresh £140k for sending 80M+ spams | Messaging menace used text and email to bombard people::Messaging menace used text and email to bombard people

Cummins engine-maker to pay record air pollution fine::Federal and California officials say the company illegally installed devices on about one million pickup trucks.

iPhone survives 16,000-foot fall from Alaska Air flight 1282::undefined

Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994::Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.

As Bobby Kotick leaves Microsoft and Activision for good, an ex-employee describes how he once threatened to “have an employee killed”::Today marks Bobby Kotick’s last day at the helm of Activision Blizzard King, a day this former employee chose to share an interesting tale of Kotick’s alledged behaviour while CEO of the...

Nearly half of new passenger cars in EU electrified -ACEA::Sales of electric cars in the European Union were almost half of all new passenger car registrations in the EU between January and November 2023 and already crossed the halfway mark in the month of November alone, data showed on Wednesday. Electrified vehicles - either...

Verizon Gave Her Data to a Stalker. ‘This Has Completely Changed My Life’::A stalker haphazardly posing as a cop demanded sensitive data from Verizon. Verizon complied, and the stalker drove to an address armed with a knife. 404 Media spoke to the victim.