Torrenting, or P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing, is a convenient way to download large files quickly. But it isn’t without its risks. Not only is there the risk of accidentally downloading a malicious file or malware, but there’s a privacy risk as well — your ISP can see all your online activity and they usually don’t
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Samsung’s tiny 128GB flash drive is a steal for 67% off right now
Image: Samsung Need another USB flash drive? Of course you do! It’s impossible to have too many of them, especially when you’re always moving files from one machine to another. And right now, you can grab this 128GB Samsung Fit Plus flash drive for just $15 on Amazon, a huge discount off its normal price
iPhone 16 and 16 Pro hands-on: Camera Control for everyone
Apple has shown off its latest and greatest iPhones, and the new hardware combined with iOS 18 promises to deliver an incredible host of new camera features that set an exciting baseline for the iPhone platform to launch even further into the pro camera space. Beyond that, other improvements across all phones bring better performance
Samsung planning global layoffs up to 30 percent in some divisions: report
The company plans to reduce sales and marketing staff by about 15 percent and administrative staff by up to 30 percent Sep 11, 20244:46 PM EDT 0 comments Samsung reportedly will cut up to 30 percent of overseas staff in some divisions by the end of the year. Three sources with knowledge of the matter
Datricks gets $15M from SAP and others for AI-powered risk and compliance platform
September 11, 2024 12:56 PM Credit: VentureBeat made with Midjourney Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Datricks, an AI-powered financial integrity and compliance software startup headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by
How to take advantage of a generative tool fueling Glean’s $260M raise: GraphRAG
September 11, 2024 12:45 PM Credit: VentureBeat made with Midjourney Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More When a sales representative at Glean, an innovative enterprise search company, needed to prepare for a crucial client meeting, they turned to their own powerful generative
Noisy Neighbor Detection with eBPF
By Jose Fernandez , Sebastien Dabdoub , Jason Koch , Artem Tkachuk The Compute and Performance Engineering teams at Netflix regularly investigate performance issues in our multi-tenant environment. The first step is determining whether the problem originates from the application or the underlying infrastructure. One issue that often complicates this process is the “noisy neighbor”
Why Copilot Is Making Programmers Worse at Programming
posted Wed, Sep 11, 2024 by darren horrocks Over the past few years, the evolution of AI-driven tools like GitHub’s Copilot and other large language models (LLMs) has promised to revolutionise programming. By leveraging deep learning, these tools can generate code, suggest solutions, and even troubleshoot issues in real-time, saving developers hours of work. While
The Download: a quantum breakthrough, and the Internet Archive ruling
Plus: OpenAI is planning a big launch in the next few weeks This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Google says it’s made a quantum computing breakthrough that reduces errors The news: Google researchers claim to have made a
Why a ruling against the Internet Archive threatens the future of America’s libraries
The decision locks libraries into an ecosystem that is not in readers’ interests. Congress must act. Stephanie Arnett/MIT Technology Review | NYPL (lion), Adobe Stock, Envato I was raised in the 1980s and ’90s, and for my generation and generations before us, the public library was an equalizing force in every town, helping anyone move