Computer pioneer Alan Turing is best known for his eponymous experiment to test whether artificial and human intelligence can be distinguished. However, the more important test he faced during his lifetime was cracking the Enigma code used by Nazi Germany during World War II. Now, a pair of cryptanalysts say they’ve cracked two long-unsolved messages … Read more
Every new Premier League season starts with a warning about the cost of piracy, and this year is no different. BeStreamWise, the anti-piracy campaign backed by Sky, the Premier League, FACT, the BBC and the UK Intellectual Property Office, among others, released a new report this week to highlight the ongoing challenge. The campaign commissioned … Read more
Slate Auto Fastback SUV Photograph: Joyce Lee Tisha Johnson is a rarity in the car world: an automotive design leader who is not a man. Women are sometimes put in charge of the interiors or the materials, but few get to shape the whole look of a vehicle. As head of design at the EV-maker … Read more
This post’s title may seem odd to you, if you’re up to date, but a few things have changed from React 18 to 19, and one of them is how you manage document metadata. Before it, you likely had some shenanigans going on, like react-helmet or react-helmet-async in place to dynamically update your document title, … Read more
Thousands of databases hosted by development platform Supabase are exposing people’s sensitive information to the public web, new security research by cybersecurity firm UpGuard has found. UpGuard told TechCrunch that it found around 16,000 databases on which some degree of personal data was exposed while they were hosted by Supabase, which allows web and app … Read more
Over the past three years, authors have filed a series of lawsuits accusing AI companies of training their models on pirated books. Some of those cases have already produced rulings, with a bittersweet victory for Meta in California for example. In New York, several other cases were bundled into a single proceeding where Judge Sidney … Read more
There are numerous reasons why you might want to record what’s happening on your phone. Maybe you’re having a problem with an app and you want to share what’s going wrong with a tech-savvy friend; or maybe you’re the tech-savvy friend, and you want to show someone else how to fix a bug. Perhaps you’re … Read more
There is a strange moment in the life of a software product when everyone agrees that it still works, yet someone starts calling it legacy. The application opens, customers can log in, transactions go through, reports are generated, and employees know exactly how to use it. There may not even be a serious performance problem. … Read more
Farmers around the world face a pressing problem: The equipment they use to till, plant, and harvest their fields is killing their margins. Studies have estimated that soil compaction can reduce yields by 20% to 60%. Plowing can help, but it’s a laborious and expensive task that harms soil health in different ways. Muju Earth … Read more
Home > Anti-Piracy > DMCA > Stray Kids is one of the biggest bands in today’s music industry. Because of that massive reach, a solo track from member Han went from a YouTube exclusive to bootleg releases on Apple Music and TikTok in days. Label JYP Entertainment now wants to identify the bootlegger. Instead of … Read more