2023

Beethoven and Brahms move audience members to synchronization symphony 07/10/2023 at 13:32 By Lindsay Clark Music sets hearts beating in lockstep, researchers find Researchers in Germany have found that classical music audience members synchronize their heart rate and breathing during the performance.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

AI girlfriend encouraged man to attempt crossbow assassination of Queen 07/10/2023 at 01:47 By Katyanna Quach 21-year-old jailed for nine years after he was egged on by Replika bot A man jailed after attempting to kill the Queen of England had been encouraged by an AI chatbot, according to messages revealed in court.… This article

Never mind SETI and NASA, if your Ring somehow snaps ET, Amazon might give you $1M 07/10/2023 at 00:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo Fly light-years to our planet and get the real Earth experience: Privacy invaded by doorbell cam Amazon is back with a cheeky way to normalize the privacy conundrum that are Ring doorbell cameras

Apple pays $500K to make sales bods’ complaint about wage theft go away 06/10/2023 at 23:47 By Thomas Claburn About four minutes of quarterly profit, and it’s settled Apple has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by salespeople who claimed the iPhone giant underpaid them for overtime work and failed to cover expenses when traveling

Google says that YouTube vid can wait if it saves on energy 06/10/2023 at 23:32 By Dan Robinson No you don’t need to see Mr Beast as much as that local utility needs to power hospitals Google has run a pilot to cut datacenter power consumption during periods of peak demand.… This article is an

Musk in hot water with SEC for failure to comply with subpoena 06/10/2023 at 22:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo What do you mean they aren’t optional for billionaires? The US Securities and Exchange Commission is taking Elon Musk back to court to compel his testimony in its ongoing investigation of the billionaire’s purchase of Twitter stock

CISA reveals ‘Admin123’ as top security threat in cyber sloppiness chart 06/10/2023 at 21:47 By Connor Jones Calls for wider adoption of security-by-design principles continue to ring loudly from Uncle Sam The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) are blaming unchanged default credentials as the prime security misconfiguration

Elon Musk’s ambitions for Starship soar high while reality waits on launchpad 06/10/2023 at 20:50 By Richard Speed Monster rocket yet to trouble orbit, let alone the Red Planet Comment  Elon Musk took part in an interview at the International Astronautical Congress this week and demonstrated a reality distortion field that would make even the

Microsoft Cortana’s farewell tour comes to the Windows Insider program 06/10/2023 at 19:19 By Richard Speed Last season’s assistant shuffles off from the Canary build of Windows 11 Microsoft has hammered yet another stake through the heart of its doomed assistant, Cortana, with a Windows Insider release that removes the service once and for all.…