MARK PALMER: I'm a travelling Baby Boomer who prefers guidebooks to apps. Here's what happened when I let TikTok make EVERY decision for me on a luxury city-break...
I'm here in Ljubljana, embarking on something of an experiment: my every move is largely determined by some of the 110,000 short-form videos about the city on TikTok.
Traitors star Alexander Dragonetti issues update on his relationship status - after being branded a heartthrob by fans
While some fans have been glued to the ups and downs of the Faithfuls and Traitors, others were far more interested in the dishy British diplomat.
Teenager tells court how he tried to stop builder husband stabbing mother-of-four repeatedly before he slit her throat when she asked for divorce
The teenager, who cannot be named, said yesterday he kicked builder Calogero Ricotta (right), now 64, and hit him in the face with a broom in a bid to stop him attacking his wife Maria Nugara (left).
Kate Moss looks the epitome of supermodel cool in a vintage velvet coat and leopard-print boots during Paris Fashion Week
The supermodel, 51, looked chic in a vintage floor-length velvet navy coat while leaving her hotel during Paris Fashion Week on Saturday.
'Ed sees himself as Greta Thunberg!' Labour insiders tell DAN HODGES they now think Starmer made a HUGE mistake in giving Miliband 'free rein' to pursue his demented Net Zero crusade
Ed Miliband's colleagues fear he could be about to turn the lights out on the Government. Literally. 'The problem is that Ed's just ploughing on with his Net Zero agenda.'
Touching video of Melania Trump speaking Slovenian and Serbian to wildfire victims goes viral
A touching video of Melania Trump comforting victims of the LA wildfire in her native language has gone viral.
Laura Woods gives birth! Presenter welcomes first child with Love Island star fiancé Adam Collard - and reveals newborn's sweet name
The TNT Sports presenter, 37, and Love Islander, 29, announced the exciting news on Saturday with a slew of snaps from the hospital.
Film deemed 'unreleasable' now finally set to hit the cinemas and people are stunned
Despite failing to find a distributor after it was completed in 2023, the rights to show the shocking movie, a remake of a 1984 film, have been acquired by American company Cineverse.
Wes Streeting is heckled by green protesters as he says it's time to battle against Reform UK leader Nigel Farage's 'miserabilist, declinist vision'
Health Secretary Wes Streeting was heckled by environmental protesters as he gave a speech saying it is time to battle against Reform UK leader Nigel Farage's vision.
Bambu Labs' 3D Printer 'Authorization' Update Beta Sparks Concerns
Slashdot reader jenningsthecat writes:
3D printer manufacturer Bambu Labs has faced a storm of controversy and protest after releasing a security update which many users claim is the first step in moving towards an HP-style subscription model.
Bambu Labs responded that there's misinformation circulating online, adding "we acknowledge that our communication might have contributed to the confusion." Bambu Labs spokesperson Nadia Yaakoubi did "damage control", answering questions from the Verge:
Q: Will Bambu publicly commit to never requiring a subscription in order to control its printers and print from them over a home network?
A: For our current product line, yes. We will never require a subscription to control or print from our printers over a home network...
Q: Will Bambu publicly commit to never putting any existing printer functionality behind a subscription?
Yes...
Bambu's site adds that the security update "is beta testing, not a forced update. The choice is yours. You can participate in the beta program to help us refine these features, or continue using your current firmware."
Hackaday notes another wrinkle:
This follows the original announcement which had the 3D printer community up in arms, and quickly saw the new tool that's supposed to provide safe and secure communications with Bambu Lab printers ripped apart to extract the security certificate and private key... As the flaming wreck that's Bambu Lab's PR efforts keeps hurtling down the highway of public opinion, we'd be remiss to not point out that with the security certificate and private key being easily obtainable from the Bambu Connect Electron app, there is absolutely no point to any of what Bambu Lab is doing.
The Verge asked Bambu Labs about that too:
Q: Does the private key leaking change any of your plans?
No, this doesn't change our plans, and we've taken immediate action.
Bambu Labs had said their security update would "ensure only authorized access and operations are permitted," remembers Ars Technica. "This would, Bambu suggested, mitigate risks of 'remote hacks or printer exposure issues' and lower the risk of 'abnormal traffic or attacks.'"
This was necessary, Bambu wrote, because of increases in requests made to its cloud services "through unofficial channels," targeted DDOS attacks, and "peaks of up to 30 million unauthorized requests per day" (link added by Bambu).
But Ars Technica also found some skepticism online:
Repair advocate Louis Rossmann, noting Bambu's altered original blog post, uploaded a video soon after, "Bambu's Gaslighting Masterclass: Denying their own documented restrictions"... suggesting that the company was asking buyers to trust that Bambu wouldn't enact restrictive policies it otherwise wrote into its user agreements.
And Ars Technica also cites another skeptical response from a video posted by open source hardware hacker and YouTube creator Jeff Geerling:
"Every IoT device has these problems, and there are better ways to secure things than by locking out access, or making it harder to access, or requiring their cloud to be integrated."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Emotional Aryna Sabalenka smashes her racket in fury and hides her head under a towel after missing out on third-straight Australian Open title with defeat against Madison Keys
The world No 1 smashed her racket on the ground in frustration after succumbing 3-6, 6-2, 5-7 to the American. It denied Sabalenka a third conseuctive triumph at the Aussie Open.
Jennifer Aniston speaks out about wild Barack Obama affair rumors in resurfaced video
Speculation that the Friends star was romantically linked to the married former president has continued to swirl amid rumors his marriage is headed for divorce.
Holocaust survivor, 79, born at concentration camp gates tells how she only survived because Nazis had run out of gas for death chamber the day before
Eva Clarke, 79, was born at Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria on April 29 1945, one day after it ran out of gas for the gas chamber.
Traitors star Charlotte Berman breaks her silence after viewers insisted she was 'robbed' by explosive last-minute Seer twist
Charlotte told MailOnline that she didn't enjoy watching her final episode back, describing it as a 'tough watch' because it was a 'tough last day'.
Wacky races! Britain's worst are caught on dashcam overtaking, undertaking and going wrong way down one-way streets in terrifying video footage
Thousands of videos exposing dangerous driving have been released by officers in Devon and Cornwall as part of a new operation.
Snail's pace! Roadworks to make accident blackspot safer are held up for nearly a decade because study into endangered molluscs is still not finished
Councillors on Norfolk County Council are incensed at the glacial pace at which work is taking place to relocate endangered snails living close to the A47 near Great Yarmouth.
My heart-thumping terror on the day I came face to face with a huge polar bear that tried to EAT ME ALIVE
David Attenborough cameraman Gordon Buchanan was once moments from death after a polar bear decided to attack as he filmed in Svalbard in the Arctic Circle for a BBC series.
I make £1million a month, am willing to get HIV and pay my ex-husband to work for me: BONNIE BLUE'S shocking first interview since sordid 1,000-men sex stunt - where she tells what really happened and boasts 'this is just a warm-up'
'My number is about 1,700 now,' Bonnie says, matter-of-factly, as if discussing company profit margins. That's a lot of no-strings sex we are talking about.
Putin's gymnast lover 'was secretly paid by military unit linked to the Russian despot when she was just 17' - eight years before their relationship was first exposed
Vladimir Putin 's lover Alina Kabaeva was secretly paid by a military unit linked to the dictator when she was only 17 years old, it has been revealed.
How a heartbreaking experience forced Jennifer Aniston to come clean about Barack Obama cheating rumors
Speculation that the Friends star, 55, was romantically linked to the married former president, 63, has been swirling amid rumors that Barack's marriage with Michelle is headed for divorce.