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Monday May 5, 2025. 01:59 PM
MongoDB has added Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) to all its databases, including Atlas, to help developers accelerate software development and manage database administrative tasks. MCP, which has seen a rise in popularity since its release in November last year,...
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Yahoo Finance reports that Mark Zuckerberg made bold predictions for investors on Meta's earnings call this week — about advertisers. 'AI has already made us better at targeting and finding the audiences that will be interested in their products than many businesses are...
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Mozilla, the creator of Firefox browser, has issued a dire warning that remedies aimed at curbing Google’s search monopoly could inadvertently kill one of the few remaining independent forces in web browsing. The stark assessment came as Mozilla CFO Eric Muhlheim testified ...
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VR Clubbing has exploded since Covid-19 lockdowns, with enthusiasts doing drugs and finding friends and love in an inclusive environment. But some say the convenience is making it harder to control their vices.
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'I taught an AI to commentate Pong in Real Time,' writes Parth Parikh, almost confessionally. '… xPong is all about Pong — but with a twist: there's LLM-based commentary generation integrated into the game.' And so it does, with all the euphoric detail of game day. — Read...
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Enterprise IT leaders — and their counterparts in Legal and Compliance — have many reasons to hate having their websites visited by genAI model makers’ agents, whether they are called bots, crawlers, or spiders.  They could object to their IP being stolen and used to...
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The open source software easyjson is used by the US government and American companies. But its ties to Russia’s VK, whose CEO has been sanctioned, have researchers sounding the alarm.
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Bose, the company that makes decent speakers, invented something astonishing more than 20 years ago: an electromagnetic suspension system for automobiles. The footage of it in action (already curiously dated, thanks to the vintage of the test vehicles and low resolution of...
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Forget Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of VR meetings; the industrial metaverse bridges digital and physical worlds in a way that’s actually useful.
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A new species of cable bacteria, which function like electrical wiring, was recently discovered in the US. Its unique morphology and genetic structure may be useful for the development of bioelectronics.
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Proper training is vital to success in pretty much any job. That's even more true in complex and stressful environments. How much the brain can cope with at any time, or 'cognitive load' is an important part of the process. We spoke to Nial Campion, co-founder of virtual...
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Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
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There are many moving parts in software development, particularly as tech and the role of engineers quickly evolve. Against this backdrop, there is transformative potential for “EveryOps” in 2025. But what exactly is EveryOps? We coined the term to include DevOps,...
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Just because you can use generative AI in software development doesn’t mean you should. AI coding assistants powered by large language models (LLMs) are a productivity dream in some cases but a debugging nightmare in others. So, where is that line? “Knowing when and how...
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Fake it till you make it doesn't cut it for mission-critical workloads Who, Me? One of the joys of Monday mornings is arriving at work to find messes made over the weekend. The other is reading a new edition of Who, Me? It's The Register's weekly reader-contributed column...
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After the release of updates for Windows 10 in February, users started to complain of problems with jump lists. More than this, Start menu issues, and an inability to view recent files plagued systems after the installation of the KB5052077 update and later. Affecting both...
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President Trump has made much of wanting to ban TikTok from operating in the US. In fact, he’s talked about it so much, and -- initially, at least -- with such passion, that you’d be forgiven for thinking that it was one of his top priorities. But having already delayed...
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'A federal class action lawsuit filed this week in Texas accused Toyota and an affiliated telematics aggregator of unlawfully collecting drivers' information and then selling that data to Progressive,' reports Insurance Journal: The lawsuit alleges that Toyota and Connected...
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Get Paid with AI We all go to work to get paid, and IT professionals this week were keen to find out more on the subject, devouring our article on the highest-paying IT skills of 2025.   What they really wanted to understand is how much does AI pay? Being an AI-infused...
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Marking the end of an era, May sees the retirement of Skype, Microsoft’s loved and loathed messaging app. The death of Skype has been a long time coming, with the aged platform struggling to keep pace with the competition, and now the last rites can be read. Today, May 5,...
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