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Take-Two Boss Says GTA Online 2 Won’t Kill the Original
Take-Two’s CEO has stated that if there is another version of Grand Theft Auto Online (possibly called GTA Online 2), it won’t take away from the current GTA Online. Basically, GTA Online will stay up for as long as there’s an audience. There’s been a lot of talk about what will happen to GTA Online as we approach the release…
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Google to kill Chrome Sync on older Chrome browser versions
Google announced that the Chrome Sync feature will be discontinued in early 2025 for Chrome versions older than four years. When enabled, Chrome Sync keeps users’ bookmarks, passwords, history, open tabs, settings, preferences, and, sometimes, Google Pay payment information. It also automatically signs users into Gmail, YouTube, Search, and other Google services. The move was announced on the company’s community…
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Can a Steam Mop Kill Germs?
Cannon explains that viruses, in general, are very susceptible to heat. “Viruses come ‘shrink-wrapped’ in a layer of fat that helps them to survive in our bodies, by acting as a type of stealthy covering,” she says. The spikes on the outside of this fat layer allow it to latch onto and enter your body’s cells. However, this layer of…
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Google, it’s time to kill CAPTCHAS – Computerworld
Google wanted CAPTCHAs to test whether users were human or bots to protect websites from spam and fraud — but with a twist. Google intended to substitute the original, deliberately distorted letters (readable by people but not bots) with accidentally distorted ones — ambiguous scans from the Google Books Library Project. For example, if most users identified a blurry letter as an…
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Exploding pagers kill at least eight and injure thousands in an attack on Hezbollah
Thousands of people have reportedly been injured by exploding pagers across Lebanon and Syria in what appears to be an attack targeting Hezbollah members on Tuesday, reports Reuters and other news agencies. Lebanon’s health minister, Firass Abiad, said at least eight people, including a child, have been killed, and around 2,800 others have been injured, according to CNN. The explosions…
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Will genAI kill the help desk and other IT jobs? – Computerworld
Organizations are using AI to automate a wide range of business process, including paying suppliers, invoicing, procurement, financial reporting, and optimizing facilities utilization, according to Duke University finance professor John Graham, academic director of the survey. “This is on top of companies using ChatGPT to generate creative ideas and to draft job descriptions, contracts, marketing plans, and press releases,” Graham…
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RIP Control Panel! Microsoft Set to Kill This Iconic Windows Feature
The Control Panel is one of the signature Windows applications, and it’s existed since the inception of Windows. However, with the addition of the Settings app back in Windows 8, and the same improving tremendously with Windows 10 and 11, there’s hardly any reason to justify the existence of the OG Control Panel. Microsoft knows this and has decided to…
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Ransomware gang deploys new malware to kill security software
RansomHub ransomware operators are now deploying new malware to disable Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) security software in Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) attacks. Named EDRKillShifter by Sophos security researchers who discovered it during a May 2024 ransomware investigation, the malware deploys a legitimate, vulnerable driver on targeted devices to escalate privileges, disable security solutions, and take control of…
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