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A pair ofsecurityresearchers hasrevealedvulnerabilities in the McHire chatbot Paradox, developed for McDonald’s, that could have been exploited to reveal personal information about roughly 64 million people who have used the service to apply for jobs at their local franchises. (Hat-tipWired.) I was “hacked” the first time when I was 14. I put that in scare quotes because the password for the account was “1234.” (Without the quotes or period, of course, which makes it even worse....

Microsoftis no longer producing theSurface Laptop Studio 2, its most powerful laptop that folds forward to create an easel. There are no rumors of a Surface Laptop Studio 3, suggesting that Microsoft is cutting the hybrid laptop — the only one with a discrete GPU — from its lineup.The news comes fromThe Verge, which reports that the Laptop Studio 2 ended production earlier this month, and that the system will be pronounced as “end of life” next month....

Don’t get scared if your TV keeps turning off while watching your favorite show. It’s normal for a TV to keep turning off or to restart by itself. There are few technical reasons why this may happen. Irregular power supply or misconfigured settings are the primary reasons the TV turns off itself. Or, in the worst case, the capacitor or any other components on your TV’s motherboard may malfunction, and you may encounter the issue....

The use of 3D circuitry is key in continuing to miniaturize electronics, but it’s been subject to serious drawbacks. The requirement for support materials and external pressure limits how small manufacturers can go, but one research team might have an answer. The engineers have developed a way to build free-standing, self-healing metallic structures without those needs. Led by Associate Professor Benjamin Tee, the research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS)recently published its findings....

OnNintendo’s specs page, the CPU and GPU in theNintendo Switch 2are boiled down to a vague “Custom processor made by NVIDIA.” At a developer roundtable with some of the Switch 2’s creators, we learned more about what to expect from the Switch 2’s hardware, and the tools it can deliver to game developers.Producer Kouichi Kawamoto, technical director Tetsuya Sasaki, and director Takuhiro Dohta took questions from the press (questions and answers through interpreter Raymond Elliget) about the new Switch....

Members of the Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA) from TU Delft, QuTech, University of Innsbruck, INRIA, and CNRS have published aresearch paperdetailing what they bill as the world’s first operating system, QNodeOS, designed for quantum networks (viaPhys.org). QNodeOS is designed to be hardware-agnostic and strives to abstract away low-level details from programmers for easy application development and deployment. It is a platform-independent framework capable of executing applications in a quantum network using high-level programming languages....

Qualcomm has confirmed its long-rumored data center CPU rollout will start in collaboration with Saudi Arabia’s state-backed AI cloud infrastructure project, in partnership with HUMAIN AI. In apress release, the company confirmed it has signed a memorandum of understanding with HUMAIN, a new Saudi Arabian venture backed by the country’s Public Investment Fund (PIF). The move represents a return to making data center CPUs after Qualcomm’s first failed initiative. Qualcomm famously developedCentriq data center CPUs in 2017but thencanceled the project in 2019....

TheRaspberry Pi Picois a very handy microcontroller with plenty of GPIO pins to tinker with. Each of these pins is designated to a particular protocol but none of that matters to maker and developer Tom Fox. In his latest project, Fox demonstrates another useful yet somewhat primitive feature of these pins. Fox has created a custom PCB he callsSpokethat turns all 26 pins on the Pico into an individual touch sensor....

A report fromThe Informationsurfaced recently, claiming that the U.S. Department of Commerce is reportedly asking Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) about possible dealings with Huawei on smartphone and A.I. chips and whether it’s conducting due diligence on its customers to prevent sanctioned companies from acquiring TSMC tech through intermediaries. TSMC does not confirm or deny the allegation. On the other hand, the U.S. Department of Commerce and Huawei haven’t commented on the issue yet....

Hardware hacker Joe Grand, also known as Kingpin, along with a partner from Germany, successfully cracked into a 10-year-old crypto wallet by utilizing a flaw in the password manager RoboForm, as requested by the wallet’s owner. Since losing access to his wallet in 2013, the owner finally has access to his 43.6 Bitcoins, now worth over $3 million. Joe Grand, or Kingpin — not to be confused with EVGA legendKingpin— was first requested to break into this Bitcoin wallet by Michael (last name unknown perWired) in 2022 after Grand went viral for breaking into another wallet....

A suspended IT worker caused at least $200,000 of damage in an act of revenge upon his employer, according to a press release published by theWest Yorkshire Police, in England (h/tThe Register). The report indicates that Mohammed Umar Taj went on a digital rampage following his suspension from work. Employer-hostile acts included altering login credentials and disrupting the company’s multifactor authentication (MFA) systems. Taj was sentenced to seven months and 14 days after admitting the charges at Leeds Crown Court last week....

Two outlets have benchmarked Nvidia’s newest RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU, revealing its full capabilities against the RTX 5090 and other GeForce GPUs.Privaterbok on Redditrevealed eightbenchmarkson the new workstation GPU, featuring 3DMark and Geekbench 6 benchmark runs. The Redditor published benchmark runs of the Blackwell-based workstation GPU in TimeSpy, TimeSpy Extreme, Steel Nomad, Port Royal, and Geekbench 6. On average, theRTX Pro 6000is roughly 10-15% faster than a stockRTX 5090, and even faster with an overclock, according to RTX 5090 data from Videocardz....

Samsung is bringing back 3D technology by launching theOdyssey 3D, a 27-inch or 37-inch glasses-free 3D display that uses a lenticular lens, eye tracking, and view mapping to deliver 3D content. However, this means that only one person can use the 3D monitor at a time since the display can only optimize content for one pair of eyes. Optionally, you can turn off the 3D function on the Odyssey 3D and use it as a regular monitor....