With the 2024 election cycle in full swing, a bipartisan House task force was announced Saturday that could tackle the emerging challenges of artificial intelligence and its potentially destructive impact on a wide range of issues. But its focus won’t be on the 2024 election. House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana and House Minority Leader …
Oh, bother! Winnie the Pooh lovers were recently let down when an AI-generated image of a Winnie the Pooh crockpot being sold at Walmart made its rounds on social media. Although Walmart does sell a Winnie the Pooh crockpot, this is different from the one going viral online. The doctored image shows a crockpot bearing …
As temperatures began to rise above freezing for most portions of the state Wednesday afternoon, city and state officials said they are still working to ensure that essential services and infrastructure remain functional. Temperatures throughout the state Monday night going through Wednesday morning were in the single and teen digits even reaching record lows in …
Spectrum internet and phone service customers in the eastern Coachella Valley experienced service interruptions Friday after fiber optic lines were cut in what Indio police believe was vandalism. Spectrum said all of its affected lines had been repaired by the evening. Indio Police spokesperson Ben Guitron said staff from Frontier Communications notified the department at …
Jeff Gill | Guest Columnist Who was it that first said “consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds?” Well, I’m typing this on a laptop connected to the internet, plus I have a smartphone next to me with a good cell connection. Hold on a sec. Huh. It is from an essay in 1841 entitled …
Rutgers Law School student threatened with doxxing: Interview Jannine Masoud, a Rutgers Law School student, said students threatened to dox her and colleagues over a statement they released supporting Palestinians Jannine Masoud was looking at screenshots sent to her from a student group chat at Rutgers Law School when she spotted her own name and …
Groveport Madison schools still have no internet service nearly a week after a computer hack forced officials to shut down the entire system. Since the Dec. 5 incident, teachers have been instructing the district’s 6,000 students the old-fashioned way, with books and paper. The ransomware group BlackSuit hacked into security camera and printers at Groveport …
Cloud computing company VMware is laying off 577 employees in Austin as part of a nationwide job reduction. Cloud computing company VMware Inc. has announced plans to lay off hundreds of employees in Austin. The layoffs of 577 workers will occur at the company’s office at 6500 River Place Blvd., according to a WARN letter …