September 20, 2024

The Tor Project is seeking to allay fears that its veil of privacy has been pierced. A new report on German efforts to remove illicit content from the Tor network spiked fears that law enforcement had devised a way to unmask users of the service. According to the project, the attacks leveraged in the German case don’t change the game, but Tor users are advised to make sure all their software is updated. The alarm

A new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staff report accuses social media and video streaming sites of engaging in vast surveillance of consumers in order to monetize personal information, while failing to adequately protect children and teens. The government’s battle with social media is nothing new. The US Senate held a hearing at the beginning of this year, in which Senators took turns grilling social media CEOs, such as Mark Zuckerberg, about their roles in the

NASA’s Webb telescope tells an elliptical and spiral galaxy to say “Cheese!” The image is a composite of images, combining observations from Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) and NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) of a pair of galaxies collectively known as Arp 107. The pair of galaxies, located 465 million light-years from Earth, is similar to the Cartwheel Galaxy, one of the first interacting galaxies that Webb observed. However, the spiral galaxy in Arp 107 escaped the collision

TikTok parent company ByteDance is developing not one but two new AI GPUs that are reportedly being made on TSMC 5nm process node, and will enter mass production in 2026. VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES The information is coming from The Information, where according to their sources ByteDance will reduce its reliance on NVIDIA for its AI hardware, all the while staying in the lines of US export regulations. ByteDance’s new AI GPUs are in

Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle has shot his latest movie — 28 Years Later — on Apple’s older-gen iPhone 15 Pro Max smartphone with some attachments. VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES In a new report from WIRED, we’re learning that the $75 million Hollywood sequel was filled on smartphones, with Boyle starting out his directing duties with 28 Days Later back in 2002 which saw the introduction of Cillian Murphy (his latest movie was Oppenheimer) and