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Thursday November 6, 2025. 09:11 PM
The FBI has subpoenaed popular Canadian domain registrar Tucows, demanding information about the owner of archive[dot]today, a popular archiving site used to bypass paywalls and avoid sending traffic to original publishers. The subpoena states it relates to a federal...
Relief could be on the way for enterprises facing shortages of GPUs to run their AI workloads, or unable to afford the electricity to power them: Google will add Ironwood, a faster, more energy-efficient version of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), to its cloud computing...
Tabnine has launched the Tabnine Agentic Platform for AI-assisted software development with coding agents. The platform enables enterprise software development teams to ship faster while maintaining control over code and context, the company said. With Tabnine Agentic,...
Money-losing biz says it does not need government help to meet massive infrastructure commitments OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says that her company is not seeking federal loan guarantees after suggesting the opposite in an on-stage interview at a Wall Street Journal event.…
Venture capitalist David Sacks, who is serving as President Donald Trump's AI and crypto czar, said Thursday that there will be 'no federal bailout for AI.' From a report: 'The U.S. has at least 5 major frontier model companies. If one fails, others will take its place,'...
Wait, what? The term 3.5 inch floppy disc is in fact a misnomer. Whilst the specification for 5.25 inch floppy discs employs Imperial units, the later specification for the smaller floppy discs employs metric units. The standards for these discs are […] all of which specify...
Redox keeps improving every month, and this past one is certainly a banger. The big news this past month is that Servo, the browser engine written in Rust, has been ported to Redox. It’s extremely spartan at the moment, and crashes when a second website is loaded, but it’s a...
On the new MacOS 26 (Tahoe), Apple has mandated that all application icons fit into their prescribed squircle. No longer can icons have distinct shapes, nor even any fun frame-breaking accessories. Should an icon be so foolish as to try to have a bit of personality, it...
Plus 2 new critical vulns - patch now Cisco warned customers about another wave of attacks against its firewalls, which have been battered by intruders for at least six months. It also patched two critical bugs in its Unified Contact Center Express (UCCX) software that...
AI labs are paying skilled professionals hundreds of dollars per hour to train their models in specialized fields. Companies like Mercor, Surge AI, Scale AI and Turing recruit bankers, lawyers, engineers and doctors to improve the accuracy of AI systems in professional...
Nerds of a certain age may remember a game called Desert Bus. Released (and then quickly canceled) for multiple platforms in 1995, Desert Bus was the monotonous brainchild of Penn & Teller. It was the highlight of an infamously bad collection of minigames called Smoke and...
Government agencies would also have to report losses due to automation. ai-pocalypse A bipartisan pair of US Senators has introduced a bill that would require companies and government agencies to report AI-related layoffs, and it couldn't come at a better time. October jobs...
Some say good government is less government. Others have a different point of view. But the least you should be able to expect from any kind of governance is that following one law doesn’t force you to break another. That is, unless you’re Apple and the laws are made in ...
American manufacturing's postwar boom from the 1940s through the 1970s resulted from conditions that cannot be recreated, a story on WSJ argues. Global competitors had been destroyed by war. Energy was cheap. Unions could demand concessions without fearing job losses to...
This $400 set comes with minifigures of the complete Next Gen crew, including Picard, Riker, and Wesley Crusher’s portable tractor beam.
Scallops have dozens of tiny eyes lining the edge of their shells. These aren't your run-of-the-mill eyes, though. They're more like little mirrors that can actually form images. Their eyes can pick up shadows or sudden changes in light, giving them a heads-up when a...
Rockstar says it fired staff for leaks, but the IWGB accuses the GTA maker of union-busting Rockstar Games denies claims that it fired several employees over their union activity, insisting that it sacked the team members for leaking confidential information.…
After 35 years of weekly publication, Tom the Dancing Bug (featured every week here on Boing Boing) is finally getting its complete archival treatment. Clover Press launched a Kickstarter campaign on October 28 to fund the first two chronological volumes of cartoonist Ruben...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com, is asking Automatic.CSS -- a company that provides a CSS framework for WordPress page builders -- to change its name amid public spats between Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg and...
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