If you’re among the millions of people who have downloaded DeepSeek, the free new chatbot from China powered by artificial intelligence, know this: The answers it gives you will largely reflect the worldview of the Chinese Communist Party. Since the tool made its debut this month, rattling stock markets and more established tech giants like … Read more
If your city is getting rattier, climate change may be partially to blame. In an analysis of 16 cities around the world, those that saw the biggest temperature rises over the years also had more rat complaints over time, researchers report January 31 in Science Advances. Increased urbanization was also connected with more rat reports. … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain News that artificial intelligence (AI) assistant DeepSeek can compete with models like ChatGPT and Gemini for a fraction of the cost and computing power made headlines on Jan. 27, 2025. The reporting caused technology and energy stocks to sink as much as 21% and raised questions about AI strategies. These large … Read more
Mac apps can often go under the radar, with apps for the iPhone and iPad receiving more attention. For that reason, we have a Mac-focused video series that highlights useful Mac apps we’ve come across. Our first picks of the year are largely simple, one-task apps that add utility to your Mac. Ice Menu Bar … Read more
Drone shows are an increasingly popular form of large-scale light display. These shows incorporate hundreds to thousands of airborne bots, each programmed to fly in paths that together form intricate shapes and patterns across the sky. When they go as planned, drone shows can be spectacular. But when one or more drones malfunction, as has … Read more
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Writing is part of me. I’ve been writing since I was 11 years old — nearly three decades at this point. I started with a pen and paper in the 1990s, then switched to a PC in the early 2000s, and eventually found myself writing short novels on my … Read more
Recently, the IRS realized that it owes $2.4 billion total in COVID stimulus payments to about one million taxpayers, with a maximum payment of $1,400. If you’re eligible for a stimulus check, you don’t have to do anything to receive it: The IRS is sending out honest-to-goodness windfalls to a million Americans. Unlike your tax … Read more
President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the nation’s spy chief may have weakened her chances of confirmation after she refused multiple times to deem ex-National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden a traitor to the country. Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii and an Army combat veteran, testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee Thursday, … Read more
Non-human identities (NHIs) outnumber human identities by between 10 and 50 times, but the industry lacks solutions to properly address this hole in the security perimeter. Traditional IAM solutions and best practices aren’t sufficient when it comes to managing NHIs, as evidenced by some recent breaches that have stemmed from exploitation of NHIs. We spoke … Read more
Lenovo’s range of M Series Tiny small desktops is not the easiest to navigate. At the moment it sells boxes in M70, M75, M80 and M90 configurations and four different generations. What you need to know is that machines with odd numbers use AMD chips and those with even, Intel. Gen 4 and 5 boxes … Read more
