A teacher details her 3 summer jobs to save up money and buy supplies for her students

Tech Insider
Rebecca Cox is holding a sign in the shape of a pencil that says Ms. Cox's Classroom
Rebecca Cox is a teacher working different jobs this summer.

Courtesy of Rebecca Cox

  • Rebecca Cox is working side jobs this summer after her first year as a full-time teacher.
  • She's working at a restaurant and as a nanny, and did a short gig with an organizing business.
  • Many teachers are financially stressed, and it could be pushing some into summer work.

Rebecca Cox hoped to take a summer break followi

Economy, Economy

CrowdStrike, Microsoft break silence on the Windows outage disrupting the world

Mashable
Microsoft logo

Editor's note: Check out our oft-updated live blog for all new developments about the Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage.

Numerous Windows PCs and computer systems across the world are down, affecting businesses like airlines, supermarkets, broadcasters, software providers, and more.

The issue stems from a faulty update in the Falcon Sensor software from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, and it's

Schim is an inventive, beautiful platformer that's just a little too repetitive

Engadget

Schim is one of the games I was most looking forward to this year, and I generally had a pleasant time with it. It’s a pretty platformer in which every object and living thing has a soul called a Schim. These frog-like critters live in the shadow of their host but can become lost when its object or creature is neglected, damaged or going through something life-changing.

You play as a Schim that

OpenAI’s latest model will block the ‘ignore all previous instructions’ loophole

The Verge
Photo illustration of a helpful chatbot.
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Getty Images

Have you seen the memes online where someone tells a bot to “ignore all previous instructions” and proceeds to break it in the funniest ways possible?

The way it works goes something like this: Imagine we at The Verge created an AI bot with explicit instructions to direct you to our excellent reporting on

Dazzling Carvings of Egyptian Pharaohs Found in the River Nile

Gizmodo

Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and carvings in the Nile.

A number of paintings, inscriptions, and other artworks of several pharaohs were found in Aswan, on the heels of previous inscriptions found before the construction of the Aswan High Dam.

How to watch Evo 2024, the biggest fighting game tournament of the year

The Verge
Photo from EVO 2023 featuring to competitors shaking hands on the main stage.
Photo: Stephanie Lindgren

Evo 2024 starts Friday, July 19th, kicking off a weekend full of one of the most intense fighting game competitions in the world. This year, over 10,000 players will participate in a host of games, making this the largest Evo ever while also setting the record for the largest esports tournament.

Evo has been getting bigger and bigger, with

Global IT outage shows why you should be wary of turning on auto-updates

Tech Insider
Crowdstrike logo
IT professionals say there's one way the CrowdStrike outage could have been avoided.

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

  • A massive IT outage linked to a CrowdStrike update has disrupted the global economy.
  • Major airlines, fast-food chains, and Microsoft Windows systems have faced significant issues.
  • Experts warn against auto-updating and encourage multiple

A nifty hack made Mario a playable character in 1994's Donkey Kong Country

Engadget

Mario and Donkey Kong have been rivals, frenemies, go-kart competitors and tennis partners. The Italian plumber once kidnapped Donkey Kong’s son. DK once, uh, took over Mario’s toy company (?) and stole a bunch of little figurines for some reason. They have history. What they haven’t done, however, is appear as playable characters in one another’s platforming adventures. Thanks to a nifty bit of