BGR

You're Probably Using Your USB-C Ports Wrong - Here's How

For those who have used PCs for a sufficiently long time, you probably remember trying to insert a USB plug into a port, only to have to flip it upside-down to get it in there. The advent of USB-C in ...
Tom's Guide

I use the 'unicorn prompt' with every chatbot — it instantly fixes the worst AI problem

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New Linux botnet SSHStalker uses old-school IRC for C2 comms

A newly documented Linux botnet named SSHStalker is using the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) communication protocol for command-and-control (C2) operations.
College of Computing - Georgia Tech

Student Wins International Programming Competition

Georgia Tech continues to excel in the world’s premier student programming competition. Computer science Ph.D. student Xieting  (Creatix) Chu placed first in the Third International Collegiate ...
Daily Maverick

Sustainable use of wildlife in Africa is not the problem, it’s the way the term is exploited

Few terms in conservation generate as much heat, and as little shared understanding, as sustainable use. Across Africa, it is raised by policymakers, conservationists, traditional healers, hunters, ...

Ransomware gang uses ISPsystem VMs for stealthy payload delivery

Ransomware operators are hosting and delivering malicious payloads at scale by abusing virtual machines (VMs) provisioned by ...
Hackaday

When Mains Networking Fails, Use Phone Wires

A quiet shift over the last couple of decades in many places has been the disappearance of the traditional copper phone line. First the corded landline phone was replaced by cordless, then the ...
The Guardian

The Guardian view on the class crisis in the arts: the UK’s culture must not become the preserve of the elite

Countless reports and celebrities have called for greater working-class representation, so why has nothing changed? In his McTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV festival in 2024, the playwright James ...
The Guardian

We have lost so much of ourselves to smartphones: can we get it back?

My use of mobile phones has been compulsive – has it been for better or for worse? From a priest to a pensioner, a teenager to a tech CEO: can you guess our screen time? In 2003, the Stanford social ...
Time

ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study

Does ChatGPT harm critical thinking abilities? A new study from researchers at MIT’s Media Lab has returned some concerning results. The study divided 54 subjects—18 to 39 year-olds from the Boston ...
Oxfam America

Top 5 ways billionaires are bad for the economy

A massive surge in billionaire wealth threatens our everyday lives and economy, from the rights of workers to the stability of the social safety net. As elites gather this week in Davos, Switzerland ...