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The Chrome extension Honey has lost over 4 million users after a viral video exposed it for hijacking affiliate codes and misleading users about finding the best coupon deals. 9to5Google reports: As we reported in early January, Honey had lost around 3 million users immediately after the video went viral, but ended up gaining back around 1 million later on. Now, as of March 2025, Honey is down to 16 million users on Chrome, down from its peak of 20 million.
This drop comes after new Chrome policy has take
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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The prediction markets giant is under investigation in connection with false or deceptive marketing practices, according to news reports. Read more ›
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Brian Armstrong of Coinbase and Star Xu of OKX offered new users sign up bonuses of up to 8% of their deposits or transfers from other accounts. Read more ›
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Intel's flagship 52-core Nova Lake processor could feature a 474W PL2 power limit. At the same time, the new LGA1954 platform may introduce motherboard tiers for up to 175W CPUs and optional triple EPS power connectors on enthusiast boards. Read more ›
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AI isn't killing tech jobs, says Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince. It's changing which roles companies value most. Read more ›
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A number of rituals begin each summer in Cannes, France. The rosé gets opened. The sun shines in abundance. And the film festival crowd quickly shuffles out of town to give way to a whole other set from the C-suites of Silicon Valley, Hollywood and Madison Avenue. The annual Cannes Lion International Festival of Creativity, which wrapped up earlier this week, drew in people including Apple’s Eddy Cue, Google’s Demis... Read more ›
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When Anthropic on Tuesday launched a high-profile AI product for businesses that use Slack, some employees at Salesforce, which owns Slack, were confused. In social media posts, Salesforce promoted Anthropic’s new product, Claude Tag, which works as a kind of AI teammate that lives inside group Slack chats. It sees and remembers everything that’s been discussed, flags unanswered threads, and handles coding, analytics, file search and other tasks. But Slack... Read more ›
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Nostalgia remains a powerful force. So much so that, in exploring the echoes of a late-'90s childhood spent skimming the water of Corneria and sneering "cocky little freaks!" in time with a monkey encased in a Gundam suit, I'm simultaneously describing playing Star Fox 64 (Lylat Wars if you're nasty) in 1997 and streaming it […] Read more ›
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Based on the time I've spent with it, macOS 27 Golden Gate is an update that's worth looking forward to later in 2026. Read more ›
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Vibe coding startup Rocket is in talks with US-based Susquehanna International Group (SIG) to raise a fresh round of funding,… Read more ›
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В этой статье разбираются способы реализации анимации, используя Direct2D, а также дальнейшие идеи для статей. Читать далее Read more ›
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vivo just recently unveiled the X Fold6 in China, and alongside it, a new set of premium wireless buds. The vivo TWS 5 Pro buds look pretty unassuming on the surface, but actually deliver quite a few premium features. The earbuds feature a dual-driver acoustic setup consisting of a custom ultra-miniature balanced armature co-developed by vivo and Knowles, paired with a self-developed dual-ring dynamic driver. The two drivers are arranged... Read more ›
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Government-backed cooperative ride-hailing platform Bharat Taxi plans to expand to more than 500 cities and towns across India within the… Read more ›
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Anthropic said it is restoring access to Mythos 5 for a set of US organizations that "operate and defend critical infrastructure." Read more ›
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High-octane fuels are critical for the proper operation of some performance engines due to how they're engineered to deliver that extra power and torque. Read more ›
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Tim Cook recently said price increases were "unavoidable" and described the company's pricing as "unsustainable." The 16-inch MacBook Pro saw its price go up by $300. The 11-inch iPad Air went from $599 to $749. Even the HomePod Mini got a $30 bump to $129. Cook squarely placed the blame at the feet of the […] Read more ›
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How to decide which of these surround sound formats is best for your home theater. Read more ›
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The Free Software Foundation's GNU Savannah hosts thousands of free software projects — both GNU and non-GNU projects, including Drupal. But in early May, security researchers from Hacktron.AI reported vulnerabilities and demonstrated an exploit, according to a new statement Friday from the FSF: We have been working with these researchers since their initial report, and have also addressed additional security issues they submitted. All reported issues have been patched thanks... Read more ›
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Ars Technica's senior security editor reports: Microsoft says it has detected new self-propagating malware that spreads through USB drives in search of cryptocurrency credentials, which it then sends to attacker-controlled servers. The company named the worm Crypto Clipper because it monitors the contents of device clipboards for patterns consistent with wallet addresses or seed phrases. When found, the malware also takes five screenshots over a 10-second period... "The execution of... Read more ›
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The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers has published over 800 technical standards over the years (as a professional association for the media and entertainment industry). But this week SMPTE "announced that its complete Standards catalog, the technical backbone behind everything from SDI and timecode to IP-based broadcast workflows, is now freely available to anyone in the global media technology community," reports the filmmaking news site CineD, arguing it's... Read more ›
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CNN reports: An unauthorized alert bearing a mysterious message that was sent to cell phones in several states across Brazil on Saturday morning is suspected to be the work of hackers, the Brazilian government said. Devices lit up with the word "misantropi4," an alphanumeric spelling of the Portuguese word "misantropia," which in English translates to "misanthropy". The final letter "a" was substituted with a number '4' — a practice often... Read more ›
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CNBC reports: Waymo is recalling almost 3,900 robotaxis in the U.S. to fix software issues after some cars drove into freeway construction zones, according to notices filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The voluntary recall, the Alphabet-owned company's second in just over a month, followed 13 known incidents where Waymo robotaxis drove into construction zones on freeways in Phoenix, or entered freeway lanes with active construction in the... Read more ›
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Long-time tech pundit Robert Cringely started his career at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab back in 1978. Last month 73-year-old Cringely explained why his site went on a two-year hiatus — and it's not just because of a heart attack and a stroke last July: Just like everyone else, I've been busy all this time on Artificial Intelligence, founding with two partners a company called 2Brains... The work we were... Read more ›
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Long-time Slashdot reader smooth wombat writes: Alan Turing, one of the more famous people who worked at Bletchley Park to decipher the German Enigma coding machine, was also working on a separate project. His private papers, known as the Bayley papers for his assistant Donald Bayley who held onto the papers until his death in 2020, reveal Turning had produced a working model of a portable voice encryption device. He... Read more ›
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This week OpenAI announced a 750-task test to to measure "whether AI systems can support realistic life science research tasks, not just answer biology questions." But while OpenAI's top-performing GPT-Rosalind model led the rankings, Slashdot reader BrianFagioli notes that "it achieved a pass rate of just 36.1 percent, failing nearly two-thirds of benchmark tasks." Nerds.xyz points out that means "the best-performing model failed nearly two-thirds of the benchmark's tasks." The... Read more ›
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The Wall Street Journal reports on internet-connected devices — and how every year millions of them "can contain a secret digital backdoor that opens up access to your home internet, so that anyone... can surf the web as if they were you." (And this is especially true for "knockoffs that you buy online"...) In a video report this week they tested two digital picture frames from Amazon and three streaming... Read more ›
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The gaming news site Aftermath reports: Four gamers are suing Sony Interactive Entertainment for allegedly breaking a California law that requires digital storefronts selling games to make it clear people are buying licenses, not actually owning the games. Sony Interactive Entertainment's PlayStation store uses language like "Buy Now" and "Confirm Purchase," lawyers wrote in a complaint filed on Thursday... "In reality, consumers who 'purchase' digital games through PlayStation do not... Read more ›
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