Just another news site
Ericsson will mehrere 100 Millionen US-Dollar in eine Intel-Sparte investieren. Der Mobilfunkausrüster ist von Intel NEX stark abhängig, und Intel will hier ausgründen. (Ericsson, Intel)
“AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite” lead to more debugging work.
AI tools are widely used by software developers, but those devs and their managers are still grappling with figuring out how exactly to best put the tools to use, with growing pains emerging along the way.
That's the takeaway from the latest survey of 49,000 professional developers by community and information hub StackOverflow, which itself has been heavily impacted by the addition of large language models (LLMs) to developer workflows.
The survey found that four in five developers use AI tools in their workflow in 2025—a portion that has been rapidly growing in recent years. That said, "trust in the accuracy of AI has fallen from 40 percent in previous years to just 29 percent this year."
The man needed surgery to remove the lesion and to have his neck reconstructed.
A 20-year-old man in China may be anxiously reassessing his chances of eternal damnation after the cross he had tattooed on his neck inexplicably vanished after five months and was replaced by an aggressive necrotic ulcer and grave inflammation. The case is so strange that doctors say it "expands the spectrum of tattoo-associated pathology."
In an uncanny case report published Thursday in JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, the man's doctors noted the multiple ways in which his lesion was striking. First, they could find no trace of an infection. The pigment used for the tattoo, which was red, had disappeared from his skin, leaving just scarring behind in places not yet covered by the ulcer. This isn't entirely unusual; in normal cases of people having a bad reaction to a tattoo, pigment has been known to migrate into lesions or lymph nodes. But in this case, there was no sign of the red ink, even with deeper digging.
When people's bodies reject tattoos, the abnormal immune reactions usually stay in the upper layers of tissue, and they almost never cause tissue death. But the man's lesion went deep and was clearly an invasive, crusty, bleeding necrotic ulcer. Moreover, doctors could also see that his neck was swollen on either side of the lesion. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed that large masses had formed on both sides of the ulcer and below it. The masses were all in the ballpark of 4 cm by 3 cm, and they were eclipsing his jugular veins. Subsequent scans with enhanced computed tomography showed the internal jugular veins on both sides of his neck had formed clots.
End goal is the installation of a malicious TLS root certificate for use in intel gathering.
Russian-state hackers are targeting foreign embassies in Moscow with custom malware that gets installed using adversary-in-the-middle attacks that operate at the ISP level, Microsoft warned Thursday.
The campaign has been ongoing since last year. It leverages ISPs in that country, which are obligated to work on behalf of the Russian government. With the ability to control the ISP network, the threat group—which Microsoft tracks under the name Secret Blizzard—positions itself between a targeted embassy and the end points they connect to, a form of attack known as an adversary in the middle, or AitM. The position allows Secret Blizzard to send targets to malicious websites that appear to be known and trusted.
“While we previously assessed with low confidence that the actor conducts cyberespionage activities within Russian borders against foreign and domestic entities, this is the first time we can confirm that they have the capability to do so at the Internet Service Provider (ISP) level,” members of the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team wrote. “This means that diplomatic personnel using local ISP or telecommunications services in Russia are highly likely targets of Secret Blizzard’s AiTM position within those services.”
Any YouTuber wrongly labeled a teen must provide an ID, credit card, or selfie.
Privacy experts are demanding transparency after YouTube announced it would test using AI to estimate user ages in the US ahead of a wider rollout of the age check system.
Throughout the first half of August, YouTube will begin interpreting "a variety of signals" to determine if certain users are under 18. No new user data will be collected, but those signals could include things like "the types of videos a user is searching for, the categories of videos they have watched, or the longevity of the account," YouTube said.
Anyone determined to be too young will automatically be hit with protections, with YouTube disabling their personalized advertising, "turning on digital wellbeing tools," and "limiting repetitive views of some kinds of content" determined to be harmful or too mature.
Google’s failed appeal could open up the market for Android apps.
Google has lost its appeal in the long-running app store antitrust case, which marks another major victory for Epic Games. Google lost the original case in 2023 when a jury found it abused its market position in smartphones to block competition from Epic and others. Google was able to get the penalties suspended while it pursued its appeal, but now it may need to make plans for a more open future on Android.
Since the dawn of the mobile app era, it was customary for both Apple and Google to take a sizable cut of developer revenue, but no one had the resources to challenge the status quo until Fortnite took off. The success of Epic's battle royale title gave it an opening to go after both Apple and Google in 2020. The developer added external payment options to the free-to-play game, causing it to be pulled from both stores. The lawsuit followed soon after.
Epic was unable to secure a victory against Apple, which has an undeniably more restrictive app store than Google. However, the 2023 trial overseen by US District Judge James Donato revealed a pattern of scheming on Google's part to prevent the distribution of alternative app stores on Android phones. While Android devices do allow sideloading of apps, and the platform is open source, Google's scale and partnerships with OEMs made it a de facto monopoly. This led the court to impose extensive remedies that could remake the mobile app ecosystem.
We hope downforce doesn’t ruin the racing when it arrives in a couple of years.
LONDON, ENGLAND—Formula E’s 11th season came to a close in its now-traditional London home this past weekend. In its first two seasons, it tried to make a go of racing in Battersea Park, a race that local residents rejected as too disruptive. After a five-year gap, the sport found a more receptive home at Excel London in the city’s Docklands, racing around and then through the cavernous exhibition center—something that’s only really possible with electric racing cars (or very fume-tolerant authorities).
As a location for an ePrix, Excel London is nigh-perfect. It’s fed by a pair of light rail stations just minutes from the center of town and comes preinstalled with concessions and restrooms and much of the other infrastructure that normally has to be brought in for a temporary circuit, with hotels literally walking distance. But like with most Formula E races, the few thousand fans in attendance, while not exactly an afterthought, aren’t really why the series shows up—this is a sport for an audience watching behind a screen.
It’s going to be the speed of the cars, rather than the size of the crowds, that causes Formula E to outgrow the 20-turn, 1.3-mile (2.09 km) circuit. Next year will be the final visit, before a possible Silverstone ePrix in 2027, once Gen 4 gets going.
Epic Games CEO says the Epic Games Store is coming to the Google Play Store. The news comes in response to a ruling by a US federal appeals court that means Google cannot prohibit developers from using the Play Store to distribute third-party app store…
Epic Games CEO says the Epic Games Store is coming to the Google Play Store. The news comes in response to a ruling by a US federal appeals court that means Google cannot prohibit developers from using the Play Store to distribute third-party app stores and/or apps that use third-party billing. Epic has spent the […]
The post The Epic Games Store is coming to Google Play, following Epic’s latest court victory appeared first on Liliputing.
Zerstörung mit System, starke Klassen und neue Taktiken: Der Multiplayer von Battlefield 6 hat beim Anspielen einen klasse Eindruck gemacht. Ein Hands-on von Peter Steinlechner (Battlefield, Electronic Arts)
Zerstörung mit System, starke Klassen und neue Taktiken: Der Multiplayer von Battlefield 6 hat beim Anspielen einen klasse Eindruck gemacht. Ein Hands-on von Peter Steinlechner (Battlefield, Electronic Arts) Also, a cybersecurity firm analyzes the smart TV in question.
Only a week has passed since two Oklahoma Board of Education members complained about seeing nude women appear on a TV set during an official board meeting. And yet we've already reached the "just asking questions" stage of the scandal lifecycle, with the state's hard-right education boss wondering aloud if Oklahoma's governor might not be behind the whole thing.
On the surface, this appears an odd reaction. One might have expected Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters to agree with his outraged board members. You know, a sort of "Together we will unmask the degenerates who are making a mockery of our meetings with their streaming retro pornography!"
But no. Walters first put out a press release, titled "Response to the Most Absurd, False, and Gutter Political Attack from a Desperate, Failing Establishment," in which he said that "any suggestion that a device of mine was used to stream inappropriate content on the television set is categorically false."
Ericsson will mehrere 100 Millionen US-Dollar in eine Intel-Sparte investieren. Der Mobilfunkausrüster ist von Intel NEX stark abhängig, und Intel will hier ausgründen. (