Climate change made drought 20 times worse this year, and there’s no relief in sight

A palm tree stands above agricultural fields amid ongoing drought on August 26th, 2022, near Bakersfield, California | Photo by Mario Tama / Getty Images Severe drought limited crops, cut power supplies, and fueled out-of-control blazes throughout the summer in North America, Europe, and Asia. Those disastrous summer drought across the Northern Hemisphere were made…

Google’s newest AI generator creates HD video from text prompts

Still from “A teddy bear washing dishes,” as generated by Google Imagen Video. (credit: Google) Today, Google announced the development of Imagen Video, a text-to-video AI mode capable of producing 1280×768 videos at 24 frames per second from a written prompt. Currently, it’s in a research phase, but its appearance five months after Google Imagen…

No fix in sight for mile-wide loophole plaguing a key Windows defense for years

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Over the past 15 years, Microsoft has made huge progress fortifying the Windows kernel, the core of the OS that hackers must control to successfully take control of a computer. A cornerstone of that progress was the enactment of strict new restrictions on the loading of system drivers that could run…

Amazon’s Glow goes the way of the Fire Phone and dodo

Enlarge / Amazon has discontinued its Glow children’s gadget. (credit: Amazon) Amazon’s Glow is no more. The tech giant has discontinued the children’s device, which included an 8-inch display and a projector that could display games on a mat, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. You can’t buy the Glow on Amazon’s website anymore. According to Bloomberg, the device was…