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This week in scams, the biggest threats showed up as routine security messages, viral consumer “warnings,” and AI-generated content that blended seamlessly into platforms people already trust.  Every week, we bring you a roundup of the scams making headlines, not just to track what’s happening, but to explain how these schemes work, why they’re spreading now, and what you can do to stay ahead of them.   Here are scams in the news this week, and safety tips from our experts at McAfee:  Amazon One-Time Passcode Scam: How Fake Security Calls Hijack Real Accounts  Scammers are increasingly impersonating Amazon customer support to take over accounts using real one-time passcodes (OTPs), not fake links or malware.  Here’s how the scam works in practice.  What…

Exploring a new frontier for soil carbon credits, San Antonio-based startup Grassroots Carbon said today that it has reached 1.9 million tons in carbon removal and storage, and more than 1.5 million in retired credits. Founded in 2021, Grassroots Carbon works with ranchers to improve soil health via sampling, regenerative practices that include rotating paddocks with mobile fencing, software tools such as PastureMap and what it calls “the largest privately collected soil carbon dataset in the U.S.” Selling the credits to corporate buyers including Nestlé, Microsoft and Chevron, the company shares the revenue with ranchers, providing supplemental income to landowners…

It’s 5 months since the release of SwiftMCP 1.0 and I’ve been slow cooking some enhancements for it. It was rewarding to see a bit of interested in this package, judging by issues and forks I could see on GitHub. Today, I’m revealing the work for the client-side I’ve done during this time. The first version of SwiftMCP naturally focussed entirely on the server-side. You can annotate any class or actor with @MCPServer and that would expose its functions with the @MCPTool attribute via MCP. Metadata is gleaned from the documentation comments for the function and parameters. This means –…

Excessive energy consumption is widely regarded as the biggest problem with drones and other small flying vehicles. Batteries can only store so much power, which significantly limits the flight time of aerial vehicles. Increasing battery capacity is no solution either—that increases the weight of the aerial vehicle, which again limits flight time. If drones are ever going to fully deliver on their potential with real-world performance, further technological innovation will be required.For the smallest of flying robots, a group of researchers at Princeton University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign believe they have a better path forward. Inspired by the…

Google’s Pixel 10 phones are among the best camera phones on the market, and this generation marks the first time in a while that the entire series offers a telephoto camera. The Pixel 10 ships with a 10.8MP 5x camera, while the Pixel 10 Pro phones pack a great 50MP 5x periscope camera.There’s one big feature missing from Google’s telephoto cameras, though, and I really hope to see it on the Pixel 11 Pro line. Of course, I’m talking about telephoto macro capabilities. Do you use macro photo mode on your phone?2 votesYes, via the telephoto camera0%Yes, via the ultrawide…

Abstract：Constructing heterointerface has been the preferential strategy for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) due to the synergistical H 2 O dissociation and *H adsorption. Ni/Ni(OH) 2 hybrid catalyst with isogenous heterointerface have exhibited great potential in alkaline HER. However, designing high performance Ni/Ni(OH) 2 and understanding the catalytic mechanisms still remains challenging. Herein, we demonstrate that the HER performance of Ni/Ni(OH) 2 depends significantly on interface density and deprotonation. Experimentally, Ni and Ni(OH) 2 grains are refined to enlarge the interface density at the elevated temperature, and the activity and stability are rationally tuned by delicately regulating deprotonation at varied oxidization…

AI media creation has expanded to incredible video art and a host of other important improvements, and LimeWire is leading the way in creating an awesome interface for the average user to become an AI artist. Limewire has just released its Developer API, a method for engineers like us to create dynamic AI art on the fly! Quick Hits Free to sign up!Provides methods to create a variety of quality images from any number of AI services and algorithmsCreate images based on text and other imagesModify existing images to scale them, remove backgrounds, and moreUse JavaScript, PHP, Python, or any…

Scrum has a bad reputation in some organizations. In many cases, this is because teams did something they called Scrum, it didn’t work, and Scrum took the blame. To counter this, when working with organizations, we like to define a small set of rules a team must follow if they want to say they’re doing Scrum. Enforcing this policy helps prevent Scrum from being blamed for Scrum-like failures. We’ve created a simple Scrum Litmus Test—a quick way for any team or organization to assess whether they are actually practicing Scrum. It’s definitely not in full compliance with the Scrum Guide.…

Earlier this week, Nvidia surprise-announced their new Vera Rubin architecture (no relation to the recently unveiled telescope) at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The new platform, set to reach customers later this year, is advertised to offer a ten-fold reduction in inference costs and a four-fold reduction in how many GPUs it would take to train certain models, as compared to Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture. The usual suspect for improved performance is the GPU. Indeed, the new Rubin GPU boasts 50 quadrillion floating-point operations per second (petaFLOPS) of 4-bit computation, as compared to 10 petaflops on Blackwell, at least…

I still remember when I saw the first mainstream folding phone. The original Samsung Galaxy Z Fold was presented to the media in a back room during the IFA trade show in Berlin, and it was one of the times in my 15 years as a tech journalist where I remember being blown away. Not because it was perfect – it wasn’t, of course – but because it was a defining moment in the last two decades of phones. Fast forward seven years, and here we are again. The Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold is another one of those moments. It’s…