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Researchers claiming affiliation with the University of Zurich secretly deployed AI-powered bots in a popular Reddit forum to test whether AI could change users' minds on contentious topics. The unauthorized experiment, which targeted the r/changemyview subreddit, involved...
The Games: Winter Challenge, was a 1991 DOS game with an unusually cunning copyright protection system that checks repeatedly for special variables set by the original challenge. As a result, every version released since, including the current one of GOG, subjects the player ...
As Canadians head to the polls today, an unhinged Truth Social post by Donald Trump threw conservative candidate Pierre Poilievre into a panic: 'President Trump, stay out of our election.' As if Trump himself were running for Canadian prime minister, his post this morning...
The OS came first, the foundation later – so what does it do? Interview Many FOSS projects are backed by nonprofit foundations. One such example is the FreeBSD Foundation, started by Meta software engineer Justin T Gibbs. He spoke with The Register about the project's...
President Trump has unveiled what might be the most nakedly transactional scheme in presidential history: Buy his s**tcoin, get a seat at his table. The program, detailed by Popular.info, works like this: Hoard enough $TRUMP tokens, and you too can join 219 other coin...
Michael Scheuer, 41, is off to federal prison for three years and must pay $68,000 in restitution after he was convicted of tampering with menus at Walt Disney World to add profanity and remove allergen information. Sheuer's job involved managing the menu systems, but his...
Inventor James Dyson described his career as 'a life of failure' in a recent Wall Street Journal interview, citing setbacks as drivers of innovation. The 77-year-old creator of the bagless vacuum cleaner, who built a $16.8 billion fortune according to Bloomberg's Billionaire ...
By now, most online users are probably tired of all the notifications asking whether to allow or block cookies when browsing the web. Since 2022, the Brave browser has offered built-in blocking of these notifications, but the feature does not display some sites correctly....
Damning report says it set a moving target that was way too ambitious The European Chips Act is unlikely to meet its target of hitting a 20 percent share of the global semiconductor market by 2030.…
Trump officials just destroyed the federal government's voting rights watchdog. By transferring all senior managers in the Department of Justice's voting section to a backwater office and halting every active investigation, the administration has effectively shut down the...
With the global rollout of tariffs, the smart home accessories market — valued at approximately $30 billion — is entering new territory. Consumers should brace for higher prices, company closures, and even market consolidation across the sector. The issue is the uneven...
IBM announced plans to invest $150 billion in the United States over the next five years, with more than $30 billion earmarked specifically for research and development of mainframes and quantum computing technology. The investment follows similar commitments from tech...
Microsoft Windows 11 Pro isn't just about looks or speed; it's built for the way we live and work today. And if you've been putting off upgrading, now's the time: you can grab a lifetime license for just $14.97, but this offer is ending soon. — Read the rest The post...
Martin Lau gave a talk in the BPF track of the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit about a performance problem plaguing the networking subsystem, and some potential ways to fix it. He works on BPF programs that need to store socket-local data;...
Cyberattack? Bad software update? International oopsie? The cause is unclear, but Iberia is dark Updated A massive power outage has left Spain, Portugal and parts of southern France without electricity, and the cause has yet to be identified.…
Ruby on Rails creator and Basecamp CTO David Heinemeier Hansson, makes a case for why Google shouldn't be forced to sell Chrome: First, Chrome won the browser war fair and square by building a better surfboard for the internet. This wasn't some opportune acquisition. This...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (thunderbird), Debian (distro-info-data, imagemagick, kernel, libsoup2.4, and poppler), Fedora (chromium, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-1.8.0-openjdk-portable, java-17-openjdk, java-17-openjdk-portable, java-latest-openjdk, pgadmin4, ...
No more asterisks. Voice typing now reflects the true spirit of your rage Customer feedback wins – Microsoft is adding a toggle to turn off the Windows 11 profanity filter.…
When used legitimately, HTML attachments in emails enable organizations to share content, such as newsletters or invitations, that display properly when opened in an email client or web browser. But a new report from Barracuda reveals that 23 percent of HTML attachments are...
It took a 1 year+ probe, plenty of client calls for VeriSource to understand just how much of a yikes it has on its hands Houston-based VeriSource Services' long-running probe into a February 2024 digital break-in shows the data of 4 million people – not just a few hundred ...
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