The dumb reason why flag emojis aren’t working on your site in Chrome on Windows
After doing more digging than I feel like I should have needed to, I found my answer: it appears that due to concerns about the fact that acknowledging the existence of certain countries can be perceived as a nominally political stance, Microsoft has o...
2025-02-04 12:36
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Opera launches a new browser that can help you remain calm and focused while browsing
Opera has launched a new web browser that aims to offer an “stress-free” browsing experience, with features such as breathing exercises, relaxing sounds, and more. Read more...
2025-02-04 12:14
How China saved Apple from bankruptcy but now holds the company hostage
An upcoming book Apple in China promises to tell the story of how a seemingly smart idea back in 1996 now leaves the company hostage to the whims of an authoritarian regime. Subtitled “the capture of the world’s greatest company,” the book featur...
2025-02-04 12:07
Game distribution on the App Store in Vietnam
The Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) requires games to be licensed to remain available on the App Store in Vietnam. To learn more and apply for a game license, review the regulations.Once you have obtained your license: Si...
South of Midnight PC requirements and specs — Is your computer ready for this Southern folktale adventure?
South of Midnight is an upcoming adventure game from Compulsion Games and Xbox, so check to make sure your PC has the specs to meet the requirements.
2025-02-04 12:00
Redox OS Makes Progress On Dynamic Linking, New Ports
The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system is out with a new status report to highlight the progress their developers made over the course of January...
2025-02-04 11:49
Nvidia releases new hotfix driver with patches for Valorant crashes and FFXVI freezes
Nvidia has released a new hotfix driver to address Valorant crashes on new RTX 5000 graphics cards and Final Fantasy XVI freezes. Read more...
2025-02-04 10:56
TuxTape: a kernel livepatching solution
Geico, an American insurance company, is building a live-patching solution for the Linux kernel, called TuxTape. TuxTape is an in-development kernel livepatching ecosystem that aims to aid in the production and distribution of kpatch patches to vendor-...
2025-02-04 10:39
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Microsoft Patches Critical Azure AI Face Service Vulnerability with CVSS 9.9 Score
Microsoft has released patches to address two Critical-rated security flaws impacting Azure AI Face Service and Microsoft Account that could allow a malicious actor to escalate their privileges under certain conditions. The flaws are listed below - CVE...
2025-02-04 10:38
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Anthropic unveils new framework to block harmful content from AI models
Anthropic has showcased a new security framework, designed to reduce the risk of harmful content generated by its large language models (LLM), a move that could have far-reaching implications for enterprise tech companies. Large language models underg...
2025-02-04 10:31
FFmpeg Lands Video Encoding/Decoding Improvements For NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs
Merged this week to FFmpeg Git for this widely-used open-source multimedia library are a number of NVIDIA video encoding "NVENC" improvements for benefiting the new GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" graphics processors...
2025-02-04 10:27
Google Patches 47 Android Security Flaws, Including Actively Exploited CVE-2024-53104
Google has shipped patches to address 47 security flaws in its Android operating system, including one it said has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-53104 (CVSS score: 7.8), which has been described a...
2025-02-04 10:21
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ID@Xbox showcase with looks at upcoming indies to kick off February 24
The next showcase from Xbox has been revealed to be the returning indie event ID@Xbox. The show will kick off later in February with games from a large number of indie studios and publishers. Read more...
2025-02-04 10:20
Microsoft's AI push includes funding a UK college student's innovative startup to make call centers less terrible
Microsoft backed a UK college students startup creating an AI solution for call centers to the tune of £150,000.
2025-02-04 10:10
Microsoft's AI push includes funding a college student's innovative startup
Microsoft backed a UK college students startup creating an AI solution for call centers to the tune of £150,000.
2025-02-04 10:10
Firefox 135 Brings New Tab Page Tweaks, AI Chatbot Access + More
Right on schedule, a new update to the Mozilla Firefox web browser is available for download. Last month’s Firefox 134 release saw the New Tab page layout refreshed for users in the United States, let Linux go hands-on with touch-hold gestures, seede...
2025-02-04 10:10
Microsoft SharePoint Connector Flaw Could've Enabled Credential Theft Across Power Platform
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability impacting the Microsoft SharePoint connector on Power Platform that, if successfully exploited, could allow threat actors to harvest a user's credentials and stage follow-o...
2025-02-04 09:59
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