Month: January 2025

Sony Japan ends production of recordable Blu-rays with ‘no successor’ planned

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Photo by Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/picture alliance via Getty Images Sony is officially ending production of recordable Blu-rays. In an announcement from Japan spotted by Tom’s Hardware, Sony Storage Media Solutions said it will stop manufacturing the discs in February, alongside recordable MiniDiscs, MD-Data, and MiniDV cassettes, adding, “there will be no successor models.” This discontinuation doesn’t … Read more

Secure a generative AI assistant with OWASP Top 10 mitigation

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A common use case with generative AI that we usually see customers evaluate for a production use case is a generative AI-powered assistant. However, before it can be deployed, there is the typical production readiness assessment that includes concerns such as understanding the security posture, monitoring and logging, cost tracking, resilience, and more. The highest … Read more

State Storage in Chrome Extensions: Options, Limits, and Best Practices

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Chrome extensions are a great way for developers to provide users with useful tools without having to build an entire web app. However, Chrome extensions have a specific structure, and data persistence can be tricky. While there are great docs for Chrome’s Storage API, that doesn’t cover everything. Currently, no single resource clearly explains all … Read more

Apple admits next-gen CarPlay is late, but still in development

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Though Apple rarely misses self-imposed deadlines, it’s done so with the next-generation CarPlay. The company originally teased the update back in 2022. With this new version, CarPlay will integrate seamlessly with the instrument cluster to provide information on speed, climate control, and other car data. Apple had promised an initial rollout for a limit set … Read more

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: HBAR Gains 8.0% as Nearly All Assets Trade Higher

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CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 3991.46, up 2.5% (+97.0) since 4 p.m. ET on Thursday. Nineteen of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: HBAR (+8.0%) and SOL (+4.8%). Laggards: ETC (-0.1%) and BTC (+0.4%). … Read more

Samsung’s thin, big, boring AI phones

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Image: The Verge Samsung’s new phones will almost certainly be the most popular Android phones of 2025. They’ll probably also be among the best Android phones of 2025. And yet the Unpacked event this week felt like one of the most boring phone launches… ever. Are we entering a new phase of the smartphone industry, … Read more