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digitpatrox5 hours ago
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This digital D&D watch lets you roll a fireball from your wrist

Dice hoarding is a common hobby among Dungeons and Dragons players, but I’m betting most won’t have a digital watch in their collection. Alongside displaying the time, day, and date, the Timestop D-20 includes all the dice-rolling features you need to play tabletop roleplaying games directly from your wrist at the push of a button. The watch allows the wearer…
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digitpatrox3 days ago
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Google now lets you manage all of your old Nest Cams from the Home app

Google now lets you manage Nest Cam IQ indoor and outdoor cameras — which were both released in 2017 — through a public preview in the Google Home app, meaning that you can now technically manage all Nest cams from as early as 2015 from the Home app instead of the Nest app. Google has been slowly making it possible…
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digitpatrox5 days ago
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WhatsApp now lets you save message drafts

WhatsApp dropped the most “I can’t believe this wasn’t already there” feature this week: message drafts. Now, WhatsApp lets you know if you have unsent messages typed up in chats so you know to get back to them later. To let you know about a draft, messages you’ve started writing will show a green and bold “Draft” word followed by…
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digitpatrox2 weeks ago
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Cisco bug lets hackers run commands as root on UWRB access points

Cisco has fixed a maximum severity vulnerability that allows attackers to run commands with root privileges on vulnerable Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (URWB) access points that provide connectivity for industrial wireless automation. Tracked as CVE-2024-20418, this security flaw was found in Cisco’s Unified Industrial Wireless Software’s web-based management interface. Unauthenticated threat actors can exploit it in low-complexity command injection attacks that…
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digitpatrox4 weeks ago
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This new AI jailbreaking technique lets hackers crack models in just three interactions

A new jailbreaking technique could be used by threat actors to gradually bypass safety guardrails in popular LLMs to draw them into generating harmful content, a new report warns. The ‘Deceptive Delight’ technique, exposed by researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42, was able elicit unsafe responses from models in just three interactions. The approach involves embedding unsafe or restricted…
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digitpatrox4 weeks ago
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Windows 11 KB5044380 preview update lets you remap the Copilot key

Microsoft has released the optional KB5044380 Preview cumulative update for Windows 11 23H2 and 22H2, which brings seventeen changes, including a new Gamepad keyboard and the ability to remap the Copilot keyboard key. The KB5044380 cumulative update preview is part of Microsoft’s optional non-security preview updates schedule, released on the fourth week of every month. This update allows Windows admins to…
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digitpatrox4 weeks ago
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Runway just changed filmmaking forever — Act-1 lets you control AI characters

Runway, one of the leading artificial intelligence video platforms, has just announced a new feature that will completely change the game for character consistency and filmmaking in general. Act-1 is a new approach to AI video generators. It is a form of modern-day puppeteering, allowing you to film yourself or an actor performing a part and then use AI to…
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digitpatrox4 weeks ago
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WhatsApp Will Finally Lets You Add Contacts from Any Device

Among the slew of WhatsApp features added in September, we spotted a new contact syncing and custom contact list creation functionality being tested with beta users. So, we knew WhatsApp was taking its contact management system seriously. Now, WhatsApp has announced that it will let you “privately add and manage your contacts on WhatsApp, from any device you may be…
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digitpatroxOctober 20, 2024
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Apple’s macOS Sequoia lets you snap windows into position — here’s how

For many a year, Windows users have been dragging their program windows over to the borders of the screen to snap them into position, splitting the screen up evenly into halves or quarters. Now, with the rollout of macOS Sequoia, Mac users can do the same. You can get a Spotify playlist up alongside your email inbox, for example, or…
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digitpatroxOctober 15, 2024
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New FIDO proposal lets you securely move passkeys across platforms

The Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) Alliance has published a working draft of a new specification that aims to enable the secure transfer of passkeys between different providers. Passkeys are a method of authentication without a password that leverages public-key cryptography to authenticate users without requiring them to remember or manage long strings of characters. FIDO reports that sign-ins have gotten…
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