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Vision Pro apps: the good, the bad, and the ridiculous
The Vision Pro is Apple’s newest computing platform, and that means we’re going to see a whole bunch of new apps. Apple pitches apps built for the Vision Pro as “spatial” experiences, and even after our initial review experience, we’ll have to see how those differ from or improve upon the virtual reality and mixed reality experiences we’ve seen on…
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My water filtration kit for good times and the very bad
Access to water is always a concern when heading off the grid in my van — not when I’m home in Amsterdam, a city surrounded by the stuff. That certainty changed recently when government ministers began quietly prodding citizens to stock up on emergency supplies due to an increased risk of armed conflict and other regional unpleasantries. One recommendation, of…
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The Galaxy S25 Ultra has a bad night mode camera glitch — here’s what I found
Expected to launch later this week, the Galaxy S25 Ultra is facing a major hurdle before its imminent release after recent reports about a camera glitch. Apparently it’s affecting photos that are captured using night mode on the Galaxy S25 Ultra. Reddit users report that they’re seeing strange white lines in their photos. Based on the report, it appears as…
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Find Out How Bad Is Your Spotify with This Snarky AI Tool
Everyone’s musical journey is unique, and that reflects on the songs we listen to and the playlists we create. That’s one reason we wait for the Spotify Wrapped to find out how we did this past year. But if you want to humble the narcissist within you, and find out that your obscure taste in music is pretty mainstream, or…
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‘Wholly inaccurate and very significantly overstated’: TalkTalk confirms data breach probe – but says it’s not as bad as claimed
UK telecoms firm TalkTalk has confirmed that it’s suffered a data breach, with a hacker known as b0nd claiming responsibility. According to reports from TechCrunch, b0nd is offering the personal data of more than 18.8 million current and former TalkTalk subscribers for sale on a popular cyber crime forum. The data is claimed to include customer names, email addresses, IP…
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Zyxel warns of bad signature update causing firewall boot loops
Zyxel is warning that a bad security signature update is causing critical errors for USG FLEX or ATP Series firewalls, including putting the device into a boot loop. “We’ve found an issue affecting a few devices that may cause reboot loops, ZySH daemon failures, or login access problems,” warns a new Zyxel advisory. “The system LED may also flash. Please note this…
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Bad Tenable plugin updates take down Nessus agents worldwide
Tenable says customers must manually upgrade their software to revive Nessus vulnerability scanner agents taken offline on December 31st due to buggy differential plugin updates. As the cybersecurity company acknowledged in an incident report issued after pausing plugin updates to prevent the issue from impacting even more systems, the agents went offline “for certain users on all sites.” This ongoing…
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TCL’s new AI short films range from bad comedy to existential horror
Earlier this year, TCL released a trailer for Next Stop Paris — an AI-animated short film that seems like a Lifetime movie on steroids. The trailer had all the hallmarks of AI: characters that don’t move their mouths when they talk, lifeless expressions, and weird animation that makes it look like scenes are constantly vibrating. I thought this might be…
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How to watch WWE Bad Blood 2024 live stream anywhere
WWE NXT Deadline 2024 has the Iron Survivor Challenge as its main attraction for a third year running, with five men and five women all having the opportunity to earn themselves a guaranteed title shot. Here’s how to watch WWE NXT Deadline 2024 online and on TV on Saturday, December 7. Hot on the heels of WWE Survivor Series: WarGames…
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2025 will be a bad year for remote work – Computerworld
Why CEOs like back-to-office mandates CEOs (like Musk, Ramaswamy, and, for that matter, Trump) typically favor remote work for themselves, but oppose it for their employees. These leaders have both good reasons and bad for opposing remote work. Among the good reasons, they believe that in-person collaboration generates more and better ideas than remote collaboration. While this may be true,…
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