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A day after announcing that CEO Patrick Spence is departing the company, Sonos revealed that chief product officer Maxime Bouvat-Merlin is also leaving. Bouvat-Merlin had the role since 2023. As first reported by Bloomberg, Sonos will not fill the chief…
The FBI said today that it removed Chinese malware from 4,258 US-based computers and networks by sending commands that forced the malware to use its “self-delete” function. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) government paid the Mustang Panda group to…
Alexithymia is a term you may not have heard before. But it describes something many people experience: difficulties in identifying, distinguishing and expressing emotions. It affects how people engage with their emotions at work, in relationships and even within themselves.…
OpenAI is making ChatGPT work a little more like older digital assistants with a new feature called Tasks, as reported by TechCrunch and others. Currently in beta, Tasks allows users to direct the chatbot to send reminders or to generate…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has announced a dramatic restructuring of the company’s engineering organization—all around pivoting the company’s focus to developing the tools that will underpin agentic AI. Dubbed “CoreAI – Platform and Tools,” the new division rolls the existing…
Research published in Personality and Individual Differences suggests that humility—both as a trait and as an experimentally induced state—was associated with lower levels of anger and reduced hostile attributions in ambiguous social situations. Anger can be a destructive and difficult-to-regulate…
The Federal Trade Commission said yesterday it is sending over $1 million in refunds to 6,764 consumers who purchased Razer Zephyr masks that were deceptively marketed as providing N95 protection during the COVID-19 pandemic. The FTC sued Razer in April…
Anticipating that 2025 will be an “intense year” requiring rapid innovation, Mark Zuckerberg reportedly announced that Meta would be cutting 5 percent of its workforce—targeting “lowest performers.” Bloomberg reviewed the internal memo explaining the cuts, which was posted to Meta’s…
The tick was found lodged in the skin of her left ear canal after a thorough examination by her doctors.
Parts of Southern California are covered with pink fire retardant as firefighters try to control deadly wildfires raging in Los Angeles. But what is Phos-Chek fire retardant and is it safe?
