Denmark, Greece, Spain, France, and Italy are the first to test the technical solution unveiled by the European Commission on July 14, 2025. The announcement came less than two weeks before the UK enforced mandatory age verification checks on July 25. These have so far sparked concerns about the privacy and security of British users, Read more about After the UK, online age verification is landing in the EU[…]
Half a billion years ago, nature evolved a remarkable trick: generating vibrant, shimmering colors via intricate, microscopic structures in feathers, wings and shells that reflect light in precise ways. Now, researchers from Trinity have taken a major step forward in harnessing it for advanced materials science. A team led by Professor Colm Delaney from Trinity’s Read more about Technique to print microscopic colour pixels for tiny microsensors developed[…]
Birds have a strong ability to learn and mimic sounds. So, Benn Jordan converted a PNG image into a spectrogram and then played the resulting sound to a starling, a bird known for its mimicking. The starling was able to copy the sound, thus demonstrating an ability to store data in its song. Let’s just Read more about Storing PNG image data in a bird’s song[…]
Palo Alto Networks will buy Israeli security biz CyberArk in a $25 billion cash-and-stock deal confirmed today. It’s Palo Alto Networks’ largest purchase to date, and one of the most expensive acquisitions this year coming in behind Google paying $32 billion for cloud security upstart Wiz in March. CyberArk provides identity security and privileged access Read more about Palo Alto Networks inks $25b deal to buy human and machine identity manager CyberArk[…]
There’s been some trouble at home lately. Not your home, hopefully, but if you live in Google HQ, then maybe. Last week, people using the Google Home app flooded Reddit with complaints over smart home products that mysteriously stopped working—lights, cameras, smart plugs, you name it. Those complaints were so numerous, in fact, that Google Read more about Google Home Is So Bad That a Lawsuit Could Be on Its Way[…]
[…] Martinez is part of a growing backlash to Steam and Itch.io purging thousands of games from their databases at the behest of payment processing companies. Australia-based anti-porn group Collective Shout claimed credit for the new wave of censorship after inciting a write-in campaign against Visa and Mastercard, which it accused of profiting off “rape, Read more about Gamers Flood Credit Card Hotlines Demanding End To Censorship in games – this won’t just blow over[…]
[…] It seems like a simple concept that everyone should be able to agree to: if I buy a product from you that does x, y, and z, you don’t get to remove x, y, or z remotely after I’ve made that purchase. How we’ve gotten to a place where companies can simply remove, or Read more about Echolon Exercise Bikes Lose Features, must phone home to work at all after Firmware Update[…]