A new American Heart Association scientific statement concludes that up to about 400 milligrams a day, or roughly three to five cups of plain coffee, is safe for most adults and may be linked to lower risks of cardiovascular disease. The benefits appea…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Hackers are breaking into websites that run vulnerable versions of the popular blogging software WordPress, according to several cybersecurity firms. One estimate puts the number of vulnerable WordPr…
A draft New Orleans Police Department drone manual briefly published online would have allowed police drones to carry weapons with written approval from the superintendent, according to 404 Media. NOPD says the document was only an early draft and that…
sandbagger writes: Fark.com is ancient in internet terms. It’s not social media. It’s not quite a news site. It’s a holdover from the dot-com era and is invisible to Google, which makes its community great but has necessitated begging. “[W]e won’t surv…
Moonshot AI has temporarily paused new subscriptions for its Kimi K3 model after demand surged beyond the company’s current capacity within days of the launch. The open-source Chinese AI model, described as one of the largest of its kind at 2.8 trillio…
Chris Fall has resigned as director of the U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation just three months after being appointed to lead the Commerce Department’s federal AI testing institute. Arvind Raman, who oversees the Commerce office responsible fo…
The European Commission has fined AliExpress more than $625 million, the largest penalty yet under the Digital Services Act, after finding that the marketplace failed to “diligently assess and mitigate risks relating to the sale of illegal, unsafe, or …
VideoCardz reports that connecting certain LG monitors to Windows PCs can trigger Windows Update to automatically install the LG Monitor App Installer, which runs at startup and repeatedly displays McAfee trial promotions. From the report: Gamers Nexus…
A hacker reportedly wiped Romania’s entire land registry database after a failed extortion attempt, halting property transactions across the country and preventing notaries from issuing land extracts, authenticating sales, or registering mortgages. “On…
Researchers at Louisiana State University have created a room-temperature quantum material made from a thin gold film on glass, patterned with microscopic slits that act like artificial atoms. “We call this robust transport. These quantum states carry …