This Shark self-emptying robot vacuum is $300 off for the Amazon Big Spring Sale

[ad_1] Robot vacuums are one of the great modern conveniences. They can check one time-sapping chore off your daily to-do list and if you can find a self-emptying model for a decent price, that’s one fewer thing for you to worry about. As it happens, the is a self-emptying option and it’s 46 percent off … Read more

US signs up more countries for its anti-spyware push

[ad_1] During its third Summit for Democracy held on March 18, 2024, the White House made a significant announcement confirming that six additional nations have pledged their support to an international coalition focused on countering commercial spyware. With the inclusion of Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Poland, and the Republic of Korea, the international coalition has … Read more

Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory

[ad_1] When I took over as the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, I inherited a project that tracks temperature changes since 1880. Using this trove of data, I’ve made climate predictions at the start of every year since 2016. It’s humbling, and a bit worrying, to admit that no year has confounded … Read more

Another Microsoft vulnerability is being used to spread malware

[ad_1] Hackers are using a novel phishing technique to deliver remote access trojans (RAT) to unsuspecting victims. According to the report, published this Monday, threat actors are using a technique called Object Linking and Embedding (OLE). This is a Windows feature that allows users to embed and link documents within documents, resulting in compound files … Read more

So … you’ve been hacked

[ad_1] It’s every researcher’s worst nightmare. A careless click on an e-mail and years of laboratory data are instantaneously encrypted by hackers. Or a piece of legacy lab equipment is compromised through its ancient, zero-security connection to the Internet. The machine might have been a godsend for running experiments from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, … Read more

Best Buy shaves $100 off the powerful Asus ROG Ally Z1 Extreme gaming handheld

[ad_1] If you’re shopping for a premium gaming handheld with specs that beat out both the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck, then you should check out this excellent Best Buy discount on the ultra-powerful Asus ROG Ally Z1 Extreme. Right now, you can purchase the Asus ROG Ally Z1 Extreme for $100 less than its … Read more

AI image generators often give racist and sexist results: can they be fixed?

[ad_1] Illustration by Ada Zielińska In 2022, Pratyusha Ria Kalluri, a graduate student in artificial intelligence (AI) at Stanford University in California, found something alarming in image-generating AI programs. When she prompted a popular tool for ‘a photo of an American man and his house’, it generated an image of a pale-skinned person in front … Read more

NVIDIA says its Blackwell GPUs are the world’s most powerful chips

[ad_1] NVIDIA’s H100 chips are used by nearly every AI company in the world to train large language models hooked into services like ChatGPT. It’s been great for business. Now, the company is ready to make those chips look terrible, announcing a next-generation platform called Blackwell. Named for David Harold Blackwell, a mathematician who specialized … Read more