DVDs (and Blu-Rays), and their players, are region-locked, meaning that you can't play discs coded for a different region on your region-locked player, but why?
A group of hackers, including some based in the UK, soon took credit for the attack, but now investigators suggest a Russian collective might be behind the costly incident.
Training a frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model costs billions of dollars and years of research. Reproducing much of its behavior can cost a fraction of that, if you have access to enough of its outputs. That gap is what makes model distillation, a tec…
At 4.42pm on July 4, 2019, Alan Rusbridger, Principal of Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford University sent a confidential email. Its tone could be described as gushing, sycophantic even.
I prefer a movie where a character does something that genuinely pisses the other off.
The Reflecting Pool fiasco says everything about how the Trump administration operates.
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Russian hackers were behind last year’s devastating cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover, according to a New York Times investigation published Thursday. The breach, which began on 31 August 2025, shut down production across JLR’s factories for nearly six weeks a…
Recompute-and-diff verification: re-execute a result, recompute its headline number from the raw outputs, and prove or break the claim — plus a validity layer (leakage / overfitting / survivorship / look-ahead / era-embargo / risk-sim).
Snap up these discounted Switch games, plus travel cases, charging accessories, and more, before Amazon Prime Day ends in a few hours! Amazon Prime Day is one of the best times of the year to expand your game library without paying full price, but the sale en…
Chinese-speaking APT CL-STA-1062 targeted Southeast Asian government and energy networks open-source tools, and a new TinyRCT backdoor. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers published a detailed report on a Chinese-speaking threat actor, tracked as CL-STA-10…
In this episode, Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start off by taking a trip down the Raspberry Pi memory lane and then tackle a fresh pile of listener mail. The discussion moves on t…
A Chinese-speaking advanced persistent threat (APT) actor has been linked to a new custom backdoor called TinyRCT as part of cyber attacks aimed at government entities and critical infrastructure in Southeast Asia. The activity, particularly aimed at state-o…
Eric Migicovsky, leader of the revived Pebble, is making smartwatches for himself. You're just along for the ride.
Price cuts as deep as 35% don't come around every day on prebuilt gaming PCs, so take advantage of Prime Day before it all ends tonight. Updated June 26: This is it! The final 24 hours of Amazon Prime Day are here, and if you've put off picking up a new PC ga…
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The Joes are also facing a new kind of threat with the arrival of Axel "Synapse" Soma, a new high-tech battlefield operative entering Hasbro's G.I. Joe Classified Series. Synapse is a cyber warfare specialist who is part hacker, part weapons developer, and oc…
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Android security threats are changing fast, but modern mobile protection is evolving alongside them
Jake Tapper sounded the alarm over Trump's potential future abuses of power amid bombshell revelations from the explosive new Maggie Haberman tome. The post CNN’s Jake Tapper Sounds Alarm on Trump Power Grab Amid Maggie Haberman Bombshells first appeared on M…
With increased cryptocurrency online usage, protecting the user’s private keys has become one of the most important aspects of self-custody. What Is a Hardware Wallet... The post How to Use Ledger Nano & Hardware Wallets: Step-by-Step Guide to Secure Your Cr…
Welcome to Friday, June 26, 2026 and National Barcode Day, a great innovation that is now universally used. Barcodes became commercially successful after they were adopted to automate supermarket checkout systems, a task for which they have become almost univ…