Monthly Archives: April 2025

That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows

Security and privacy advocates are girding themselves for another uphill battle against Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, and store everything a user does every three seconds. When Recall was first introduced in May 2024, security practitioners roundly castigated it for creating a gold mine for malicious insiders,… Read More »

Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs

The extensions share other dubious or suspicious similarities. Much of the code in each one is highly obfuscated, a design choice that provides no benefit other than complicating the process for analyzing and understanding how it behaves. All but one of them are unlisted in the Chrome Web Store. This designation makes an extension visible… Read More »

Masters 2025 tee times, TV coverage, live stream & more to watch Friday’s Round 2

7:40 a.m. Cameron Davis, Rafael Campos, Austin Eckroat 7:51 a.m.  Angel Cabrera, Laurie Canter, Adam Schenk 8:02 a.m. Jose Maria Olazabal, Thriston Lawrence, Brian Campbell 8:13 a.m. Bubba Watson, Matthieu Pavon, Evana Beck (A)  8:24 a.m. Tom Hoge, Matt McCarty, Christiaan Bezuidenhout 8:35 a.m. Charles Schwartzel, Denny McCarthy, Hiroshi Tai (A) 8:52 a.m. Max Homa, Justin Rose, J.J.… Read More »

Braves-Phillies stuck in inexplicable rain delay

Billy Heyen is a freelance writer with The Sporting News. He is a 2019 graduate of Syracuse University who has written about many sports and fantasy sports for The Sporting News. Sports reporting work has also appeared in a number of newspapers, including the Sandusky Register and Rochester Democrat & Chronicle Source

Researchers concerned to find AI models hiding their true “reasoning” processes

Remember when teachers demanded that you “show your work” in school? Some fancy new AI models promise to do exactly that, but new research suggests that they sometimes hide their actual methods while fabricating elaborate explanations instead. New research from Anthropic—creator of the ChatGPT-like Claude AI assistant—examines simulated reasoning (SR) models like DeepSeek’s R1, and… Read More »