[ad_1] The common bed bug (Cimex lectularius).Image: Akos Nagy (Shutterstock) The city of lights is beset by bed bugs. Sightings of the tiny urban pest in public places throughout Paris have apparently increased as of late, and officials are calling for aggressive action to curtail the menace in time for the 2024 Summer Olympics. Taylor … Read more

[ad_1] In a blog post published today, crowdfunding site BackerKit announced it will no longer allow “solely” AI-generated content on its platform. This new policy “aims to address growing concerns regarding ownership of content, ethical sourcing of data, and compensation for the process of creating content.” This policy comes after the widespread critique of Terraforming … Read more

[ad_1] We’ve still got a few days left until Amazon kicks off its massive October Prime Big Deal Days sale, but you don’t have to wait until Oct. 10 to start scoring big savings. The online retailer is currently offering some serious bargains on Roborock robot vacuums, including a whopping $250 off the S7 — our favorite … Read more

[ad_1] The Amazon Kindle is one of the most popular e-readers on the market — claiming over half the spots on our list of the best models for 2023. And it’s come a long way since the first model hit shelves all the way back in 2007. The latest and greatest entry — the Kindle … Read more

[ad_1] Samsung is reportedly set to formally launch cloud gaming inside the Samsung Game Launcher on Galaxy phones at its developer conference this week on October 5th, according to the Korea Economic Daily. The new cloud service, which has been in slowly expanding beta for a few months now, is targeted at mobile games, unlike … Read more

[ad_1] X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has made a special revenue sharing deal with Paris Hilton and her media company, 11:11. It even includes a custom hashtag for a word that Hilton has been trying to popularize since at least 2019: “sliving.” A combination of the words “slaying” and “living,” sliving is supposed … Read more

[ad_1] Beams’ co-founders, Jana Schellong and Mihri Minaz, see a fundamental problem with how product teams work. While they have productivity tools that are supposed to help them work smarter, too often they end up distracted by a mishmash of notifications. They created Beams to help teams regain focus and work in a healthier and … Read more

[ad_1] Crypto pretty much seems to have lost its allure as far as venture capitalists are concerned. According to new data from Crunchbase, investments into web3 startups declined in the third quarter compared to the second quarter, marking the seventh straight quarter of declines for the sector since crypto venture fundraising peaked in Q4 2021. … Read more

[ad_1] The MOVEit incident eclipses them, though, both in the number of victim organizations and individuals whose data was compromised. Antivirus company Emsisoft has been tracking the number of MOVEit victim organizations that have publicly declared they were impacted since May. The researchers have combed individual US state breach notifications, filings with the US Securities … Read more

[ad_1] Back in February, when a Conservative Party lawmaker in the UK’s House of Commons voiced support for the 15-minute city conspiracy, he was laughed at by his fellow members of Parliament. Now, eight months later, the British government is fully embracing the fringe conspiracy and placing it at the heart of government policy. “Right … Read more