Technology

PuTTY, KiTTY, TightVNC, Sumatra PDF Reader, and muPDF/Subliminal Recording all targeted.

Meta has today unveiled an AI system that generates short videos based on text prompts.  Make-A-Video lets you type in a string of words, like “A dog wearing a superhero outfit with a red cape flying through the sky,” and then generates a five-second clip that, while pretty accurate, has […]

Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica:Intel to launch Arc A770 Limited Edition with 16GB of GDDR6 for $349 and A750 Limited Edition for $289 on October 12, alongside A770 with 8GB of GDDR6 for $329  —  A770 comes in two tiers; Intel claims “perf-per-dollar” wins over Nvidia RTX 3060.  —  Intel’s […]

The Sonos Sub Mini adds real bass extension to all three Sonos soundbars, but is perhaps a little subtle out of the box.

Small office routers? FreeBSD machines? Enterprise servers? Chaos infects them all.

Amazon announced Wednesday that its home robot, Astro, will be getting a slew of major updates aimed at further embedding it in homes—and in our daily lives. Broadly speaking, the new features offer more home monitoring. The capabilities include some standard fare: Astro will be able to watch pets and […]

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:Amazon encourages some customer service reps to work from home that sources say is meant to cut office costs; source: Amazon to close multiple US call centers  —  Amazon.com Inc. is encouraging customer service employees at some US call centers to work from home, signaling the company’s […]

An affordable and easy-to-use Wi-Fi 6, the Asus RT-AX55 is an upgrade for your old router.

Lossy compression bypasses text-to-image portions of Stable Diffusion with interesting results.

Hi, and welcome back to China Report! If you are on Twitter and follow news about China, you likely have heard a pretty wild rumor recently: that President Xi Jinping was under house arrest and that there was about to be a major power grab in the country. First of […]