Published on: 2025-07-22 08:58:07
Rep. Gerald Connolly, ranking member of the U.S. House Oversight Committee, has initiated an investigation into whether expense management startup Ramp is receiving preferential treatment in its bid for a $25 million government contract. Connolly sent a letter to the General Services Administration (GSA) Acting Administrator, Stephen Ehikian, demanding information and documents related to the GSA’s reported plans to award a contract for a pilot program to Ramp. News of the probe was first repor
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Installing this Intel generic graphics driver will overwrite your computer manufacturer (OEM) customized driver. OEM drivers are handpicked and include customized features and solutions to platform-specific issues. The generic Intel driver provides users the latest and greatest feature enhancements and bug fixes that OEMs may not have customized yet to address platform-specific needs. Users can check for matching OEM versions at OEM websites. Any graphics issues found using Intel generic graphi
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Bottom line: Chipmakers typically use microcode updates to fix bugs and improve CPU reliability. However, this low-level layer between hardware and machine code can also serve as a stealthy attack vector – capable of hiding malicious payloads from all software-based defenses. As threats evolve, even the deepest layers of a system can no longer be assumed safe. A security researcher designed a way to "weaponize" microcode updates to install ransomware directly onto the CPU. Rapid7 analyst Christ
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IrfanView is a compact and fast image viewer and editor for Windows, known for its simplicity and ability to handle a wide variety of graphic file formats, including BMP, DIB, JPEG, GIF, animated GIF, WEBP, PNG, PCX, multipage TIFF, and TGA. IrfanView offers features such as batch conversion, thumbnail creation, and basic image editing tools. In addition, it features drag-and-drop support, directory viewing, TWAIN support, slide shows, and modifications such as color depth, crop, blur, and shar
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ScotRail trials wi-fi using satellite technology 1 hour ago Share Save Share Save BBC Some services operating out of Inverness will have the technology on a trial basis ScotRail will use Elon Musk's satellite technology to supply passenger wi-fi on trains for the first time during a six-month trial. Six trains in the north of Scotland have been fitted with equipment that connects to the low Earth orbit (Leo) satellite network Starlink. The trains operate on the Inverness to Wick, Thurso, Kyle
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Perplexity AI is in late-stage talks to raise $500 million at a $14 billion valuation, a source familiar with the situation confirmed to CNBC. Accel, the Palo Alto-based venture capital firm, will lead the round, according to the source, who spoke anonymously because the round is not yet finalized. The Wall Street Journal first reported on the late-stage numbers. The funding is on the lower end of Perplexity's planned raise, which CNBC reported in March. During those early-stage talks, Perplex
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USA Today is publishing automated sports stories that serve as SEO-targeted vehicles for sports gambling ads, toeing ethical lines and blurring the boundaries between sports journalism and the rapidly growing sports betting industry, the rise of which has been linked to a tidal wave of gambling addiction. At a quick glance, the posts — which list the day's Major League Baseball (MLB) schedule in a minimal, bullet-pointed list — look like any other USA Today sports article. They have fairly norm
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Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Google introduced its four-color G logo back in 2015. The Google app on both iOS and Android has now started deploying a new G logo with a gradient spread to its colors. The new rainbow G has yet to appear on other Google products. Is there any branding in modern tech more iconic than the rainbow-colored Google logo? It’s taken a lot of forms over the years, and just about one decade ago, we saw Google condense its wordmark down into a multi-color, segme
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Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR The Galaxy Buds Core were recently spotted in the Nemko certification database. The listing reveals the successor to the Galaxy Buds FE will get a battery upgrade. The earbuds are rated for 200mAh, and the case for 500mAh. Samsung’s most affordable earbuds — the Galaxy Buds FE — are getting a successor. Based on an FCC filing spotted last month, we know that these earbuds won’t be called the FE 2, but instead will be branded as the Galaxy Buds Core. Thes
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Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Reports suggest that some T-Mobile customers threatening to cancel are getting better-than-usual retention offers. The reported discounts range from $10 to $20 off per month for six months. There’s no official policy change, but recent price hikes may be prompting T-Mobile to act. One of the most longstanding pieces of kitchen-table wisdom is that you can usually get a better deal on a subscription service if you threaten to cancel. It’s not always true,
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Kerry Wan/ZDNET Is your smart TV slow to respond or stuttering during scenes? You're not alone -- many people experience laggy performance and choppy playback. The good news? A few simple fixes can get things running smoothly again. Also: Don't sleep on this TCL TV in 2025: This new Mini LED model gives OLED a close fight Modern TVs have plenty of features and apps (and services that run in the background) that can slow them down over time. Fortunately, some simple actions can rectify your fl
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ZDNET's key takeaways HSFTools' HF96V thermal camera is available now for $219, with a $50 off coupon on Amazon. It has a broad temperature range and a high level of accuracy with an eight-hour battery life. It has an IP54 rating for dust and water-resistance, but it's not waterproof. View now at Amazon Regular readers will know that I am a little obsessed with thermal imaging cameras. I regularly use them built into smartphones, those that can be attached to smartphones, and standalone camer
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Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Debian, Fedora, and Arch: the big three distributions on which nearly all other flavors of Linux are based. You can throw a rock into an ocean of distributions and be certain you'll hit an operating system based on one of those. Also: I found a minimal Linux distro that's fast and efficient for all experience levels I'm not saying that's a bad thing. In fact, if I were going to build my own Linux distribution, you can be sure I would base it on Ubunt
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Vicki Jauron, Babylon and Beyond Photography/Getty Images Linux runs very well on all types of systems. It's built for speed and proves to me, on a daily basis, how superior it is in terms of speed and reliability. That doesn't mean it's perfect. Things happen (albeit rarely) that can add to a system slowdown. One such issue can be internal storage that has been used up. I remember, a few years ago, I was working on a Linux server that had become almost unresponsive. Turns out a rogue applicat
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ZDNET's key takeaways The 12-inch Microsoft Surface Pro is available for preorder now starting at $799 for the Platinum color, and $899 for the new Violet and Ocean colors. The 12-inch version is exceedingly thin and light with a fast-charging battery, and the refreshed form factor looks more premium. The 256GB of storage is not enough for a device at this price point, and the cost adds up quickly, as the keyboard, mouse, and even the power adapter are sold separately. View now at Microsoft Vi
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Ex-UK Special Forces break silence on 'war crimes' by colleagues 12 hours ago Share Save Hannah O'Grady, Joel Gunter & Rory Tinman BBC Panorama Share Save A video compiled by UK Special Forces shows how members of one squadron kept count of their kills Former members of UK Special Forces have broken years of silence to give BBC Panorama eyewitness accounts of alleged war crimes committed by colleagues in Iraq and Afghanistan. Giving their accounts publicly for the first time, the veterans des
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Airweave Airweave is a tool that lets agents semantically search any app. It's MCP compatible and seamlessly connects any app, database, or API, to transform their contents into agent-ready knowledge. 🎥 Watch Demo airweave_launch_bf_demo_vid_inverted_4k.mp4 Overview Airweave simplifies the process of making information retrievable for your agent. Whether you have structured or unstructured data, Airweave helps you break it into processable entities, store the data and make it retrievable thr
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Hey HN! I'm Win, founder of ParaQuery ( https://paraquery.com ), a fully-managed, GPU-accelerated Spark + SQL solution. We deliver BigQuery's ease of use (or easier) while being significantly more cost-efficient and performant. Here's a short demo video demonstrating ParaQuery (vs. BigQuery) on a simple ETL job: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu379YnccGU It's well known that GPUs are very good for many SQL and dataframe tasks, at least by researchers and GPU companies like NVIDIA. So much so
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Three years ago, while searching for Vitsoe setups, I stumbled upon Barbican. I delved deeper and discovered a building complex that that was beyond my imaginations. Young Fatih would definitely find it ugly; current me finds it beautiful. The estate was built between 1965 and 1976. And, since I first saw it, I started watching and reading everything I could find. There are a few YouTube videos where you can peek into the lives of the residents. And there are a few books as well. Of course, my
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I was first introduced to Spacetop when the company making it still believed laptops could be different. Sightful, the creators of the $1,900 Spacetop G1 promised the next evolution in laptop design wouldn’t sport a screen at all. Instead, the laptop would use a pair of augmented reality glasses and a custom operating system to navigate an ultrawide AR space for your apps. It was perfunctory—and its OS seemed barebones—but I couldn’t help but admire the gumption of trying something truly new in
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When you go to the theater to see Final Destination Bloodlines this weekend, you expect to be disgusted. You expect to laugh and scream at outrageous deaths. But what you aren’t expecting is to get moved to tears, and that just might happen thanks to an incredible scene from the late, great Tony Todd. Todd has been a part of the Final Destination franchise since the beginning. He plays William Bludworth, a mortician who, for some reason, knows more about Death’s plan than everyone else. In Fina
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Prescription drug costs in the United States have been out of control for ages, and it’s only getting worse. But after a weekend rant about the U.S.’s “embarrassing” drug prices, President Donald Trump signed an expansive executive order he claimed would slash drug prices nationwide by reviving a controversial policy from his first term. On Sunday, Trump announced his plans in a lengthy post on Truth Social, writing that the U.S.’s elevated prescription drug costs were “always very difficult to
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Matthew LaBrot, a Tesla employee who created the website Tesla Employees Against Elon Musk, was fired from the company two weeks ago. LaBrot claimed in a LinkedIn post that he was terminated for having created the site, and because he was part of a larger group of employees who publicly asked Elon Musk to resign from the company. Tesla has faced several crises this year—major recalls, declining sales, litigation, and a volatile stock price, to name a few. Sales of the cars declined for the firs
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When you walk into Santa Monica's newly opened Fred Fitness, you wouldn't think, "This place runs on AI." The space is open and welcoming, with warm wood beams, plant life scattered throughout, a comfy couch, window seating and even a community table where members can work between workouts. But as you venture further into the space, that's when you see it's filled with AI-powered machines and fitness tech designed to maximize your fitness journey. Even on the window seats that look out onto the
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The 2025 NBA playoffs are still going on, but NBCUniversal is already looking forward to resurrecting its broadcasts for the 2025-2026 season on NBC and Peacock. It's been a long time since the network aired the league's games -- 23 years -- and the media giant is launching a host of new features on its streaming service to bring you courtside action and player facts, the company announced during its Upfront event on Monday. Following its rollout of special interactive features during the summe
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Andor, the celebrated Star Wars spy thriller spin-off, follows Cassian's transformation into a Rebel hero as the story hurtles straight toward the events of Rogue One. After two epic seasons, the gritty drama is coming to an end. Diego Luna is back as the Rebel intelligence officer. The once reluctant interstellar criminal is now fully committed to the revolution and fighting against the tightening grip of the Galactic Empire. Watching his transformation has been riveting. Picking up after sea
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is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. The Nintendo Switch 2 will have an option to set a PIN to unlock your console when you turn it on. You can see the new “System Lock” option in a new video in the Nintendo Today app that’s actually about a battery-preservation feature. The lock setting “locks your system with a PIN to protect it from people who don’t play on it,” according to the description in the menu shown
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is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. Nintendo will give Switch 2 owners the option to sacrifice a little per-session playtime in the interest of battery health longevity. The company announced, via its Nintendo Today news app, that the console will have a setting to slow the console’s charge as it approaches 90 percent capacity, then maintain it around that amount. Such a feature has made it
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The long-awaited antitrust trial between Meta and the Federal Trade Commission kicked off on April 14th. Over about two months, DC District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg is hearing arguments about whether then-Facebook illegally monopolized the market for “personal social networking services” through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. The FTC first brought the case in late 2020. While it was initially thrown out by the judge, he let an amended version move forward after the governme
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is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. The Sega Dreamcast wasn’t the first home console to store game saves on a portable memory card, but its virtual memory unit (VMU) stood out with a built-in screen, controls, and playable mini games. 8BitMod’s upcoming VMU Pro offers the same functionality as Sega’s original, but it’s rebuilt from the ground up with upgrades that include a full-co
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