Infamous Internet imageboard and wretched hive of scum and villainy 4chan was apparently hacked at some point Monday evening and remains mostly unreachable as of this writing. DownDetector showed reports of outages spiking at about 10:07 pm Eastern time on Monday, and they’ve remained elevated since. Posters at Soyjack Party, a rival imageboard that began … Read more
Table of Contents Table of Contents What’s the story? How does it end? What does it all mean? Director Ryan Coogler’s (Creed, Black Panther) new blockbuster, Sinners, has finally premiered, bringing a unique vision of vampire horror to cinemas. This horror-action period movie follows two gangster brothers (both played by Michael B. Jordan) who return … Read more
Weird OS: Microsoft regularly deprecates features in Windows, typically replacing them with improved alternatives or streamlining development. That’s why its decision to drop a relatively new security feature – one it promoted less than a year ago – raises questions about how Windows is evolving and which users might be left behind. Microsoft has quietly … Read more
Key Takeaways Microsoft has acknowledged that there’s a bug in Outlook Classic that slows CPUs by 30-50%. The company has offered a temporary workaround by shifting to the Semi-Annual Channel. This issue is six months old, but Microsoft hasn’t offered a permanent fix so far. Microsoft has acknowledged a bug in its Outlook Classic software, … Read more
Getty Images With the meteoric rise of Nvidia, chief executive Jensen Huang has been nicknamed a tech “rock star” and the ‘Taylor Swift of tech’ Computer chip giant Nvidia has once again found itself at the centre of US-China tensions over trade and technology. On Thursday Nvidia’s chief executive Jensen Huang flew to Beijing to … Read more
Businesses are under attack from all corners of the globe and while many organisations may think that nation-state threat actors would never target or be interested in them, the reality is that no-one is exempt from security threats. Security leaders need to ensure they are staying up to speed on the latest threat intelligence, … Read more
Gemini 2.5 Flash will allow developers to set a token limit for thinking or simply disable thinking altogether. Google has provided pricing per 1 million tokens at $0.15 for input, and output comes in two flavors. Without thinking, outputs are $0.60, but enabling thinking boosts it to $3.50. The thinking budget option will allow developers … Read more
To understand CaMeL, you need to understand that prompt injections happen when AI systems can’t distinguish between legitimate user commands and malicious instructions hidden in content they’re processing. Willison often says that the “original sin” of LLMs is that trusted prompts from the user and untrusted text from emails, webpages, or other sources are concatenated … Read more
If you’ve ever wanted to race at top speeds around one of the most iconic racetracks in the world, then now is your chance. A new Porsche 911 GT3 just set a record for the fastest time around the Nürburgring in a road car with a manual transmission, knocking almost 10 seconds off the previous … Read more
Why it matters: Windows 11’s Snipping Tool already allows you to copy text from images, offering functionality similar to Apple’s Live Text – but Microsoft’s implementation involves a few more steps. A new Windows 11 Insider update aims to streamline the process of grabbing text from various sources for easier copying and pasting. Windows Insiders … Read more
