WAFB

Vote to create breakaway St. George library system pushed back

ST. GEORGE, La. (WAFB) - St. George city leaders have pushed back a vote to potentially break away from the East Baton Rouge Parish Public Library System (EBRPL). Council members deferred the vote for ...
Neowin

Microsoft just made it possible to use VS Code completely offline with local AI

Following on from the release of Visual Studio Code 1.121 last week, Microsoft has announced Visual Studio Code 1.122. This week, the Redmond giant has enhanced the agent experience and made Bring ...
AOL

Scammers are using a fake captcha hack to steal your personal information: ‘Verify you’re human.’ Here’s the big red flag to watch for

Clicking a captcha "I am not a robot" box and identifying images to prove it is second nature for many internet users. Now, cybercriminals are exploiting people's comfort with the routine to scam them ...
The Washington Post

A viral video says booking a flight at a library is cheaper. We investigated.

In an Instagram video that has nearly 30 million views, a couple claims to save hundreds of dollars simply by booking a flight on a library computer. The library computer, according to the post, is ...
TechCrunch

GitHub says hackers stole data from thousands of internal repositories

GitHub, the popular developer platform owned by Microsoft, confirmed it was hacked and attackers had stolen data from around 3,800 internal code repositories. The code hosting and sharing giant said ...
LancasterOnline

Referendum to create a library tax in Lancaster County could be on the ballot in November

Last year, Tamara Eshleman donated a $300 espresso machine to a raffle fundraiser for Adamstown Public Library. Sure, it was a good cause, but part of that cause included her own job. Like most ...
Wall Street Journal

U.S. Soldier Charged With Using Classified Information to Bet on Maduro’s Ouster

WSJ’s Caitlin Ostroff breaks down the increasing volume of the “mentions” markets on prediction-market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket. Photo Illustration: Annie Zhao Federal authorities on Thursday ...
The New York Times

Soldier Used Classified Information to Bet on Maduro’s Ouster, U.S. Says

Federal prosecutors say that Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke, who was involved in the operation to oust Nicolás Maduro from power in Venezuela, used the information to place bets on a prediction market. By ...
PC Magazine

My Spotify Library Was Boring, So I Asked ChatGPT to Create New Playlists

My Spotify Library Was Boring, So I Asked ChatGPT to Create New Playlists With its new third-party app integration feature, OpenAI’s AI chatbot can suggest music from Apple Music and Spotify, then ...
CBS News

ICE can access some Medicaid information for deportation efforts after court ruling

A federal judge in California this week allowed officials to share some Medicaid information — including addresses and phone numbers — with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to help that agency in ...
TWCN Tech News

Create real-time interactive flowcharts for your code using VS Code CodeVisualizer

In this post, we will show you how to create real-time interactive flowcharts for your code using VS Code CodeVisualizer. CodeVisualizer is a free, open-source Visual Studio Code extension that ...
Wired

Review: Naya Create Keyboard

Steep learning curve. Slight pinging when typing. Strange quirks in setup require extensive troubleshooting. Lots of odd choices and bugs. Modules are difficult to use when tented. I really wanted to ...