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At the Poblenou Cemetery in Barcelona, Spain, you can visit a macabre sculpture like no other. The 'Kiss of Death' is a striking funerary sculpture that depicts a winged skeleton kissing a man as he takes his last breath. Both beautiful and eerie, this sculpture seems like ...
Manufacturers already have the data. LLM-powered tools could help them make use of it.
A new Brookings Institution report on generative AI (genAI) found that the more highly skilled a tech worker is, the more vulnerable they are to having their jobs supplemented by the technology. That differs dramatically from past automation technologies that primarily...
In a significant escalation of transatlantic tensions over tech regulation, US House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has demanded clarification from the EU antitrust chief Teresa Ribera regarding the enforcement of the EU’s digital marketplace rules, citing concerns about...
What is dead may never die After a heroic effort, the oldest machine-readable copy of Unix version 2 is running again.…
Enterprises are increasingly using GenAI to transform their organization. As they move ahead, they're evaluating their preparedness from a business, safety, skills, and product level. But there's another key factor at the backend that's being overlooked: the network. Full...
Packed with instruments and rovers, the soon-to-launch IM-2 mission will explore the lunar south pole and attempt something never done before—to enter a shadowed moon crater to look for ice.
Humble but with a huge history, the utility's privacy pare-back points to a productive possible future Opinion Windows File Explorer doesn't get much love, poor thing. It gets sworn at if a sought file cannot be found, or if some setting is hiding that needs to be shown.…
We’re living in a strange time for software development. On the one hand, AI-driven coding assistants have shaken up a hitherto calcified IDE market. As RedMonk Cofounder James Governor puts it, “suddenly we’re in a position where there is a surprising amount of...
Artificial intelligence, which was thought to be handily dominated by American labs and researchers, was thrown for a loop with DeepSeek’s R1. And yet, R1 is still subject to many of the same pitfalls as other models—we must make radical advances to move beyond the...
Machine learning technology is taking hold across many sectors as its applications are more widely adopted. The research firm Fortune Business Insights forecasts the global machine-learning market will expand from $26.03 billion in 2023 to $225.91 billion by 2030. Use cases...
Last year somebody reported a problem with the DOS 3.3 SYS.COM command when used with NetDrive. They started with a valid FAT12 image, ran SYS.COM to make it bootable, and then they were not able to mount the image using NetDrive again. Running SYS.COM against the image had...
After completing a journalism graduate degree, Carla McCanna took a job 'training AI models to optimize accuracy and efficiency,' according an article by Nieman Journalism Lab: Staff jobs are scarce... and the competition for them is daunting. (In 2024, the already...
'If I wasn't already taking blood pressure meds, I'm sure I would not have survived' Who, Me? Nobody starts the working week by planning to fail, but mistakes do happen and The Register likes to write about them in Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you...
Wants regulators and carriers to adopt Open Fibre Data Standard to answer questions like ‘Is that one fibre, or nine?’ APRICOT 2025 The Internet Society wants to help improve maps that depict terrestrial optic fibre networks by having regulators and carriers alike...
When it comes to application packaging, earlier this month the site Its FOSS complained that Fedora Flatpaks 'are often unmaintained or broken, leading to a poor experience for users who aren't usually aware they're using them.' And this apparently created friction with OBS...
Plus: SEC launches new crypto crime unit; Phishing toolkit upgraded; and more Infosec in brief Apple has responded to the UK government's demand for access to its customers’ data stored in iCloud by deciding to turn off its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) end-to-end...
'A line idle for decades has been accused of starting the LA area's deadly Eaton Fire,' writes Bloomberg, describing California's abandoned power lines as 'a fire risk hiding in plain sight.' [Abandoned power lines] fall out of use, either because they've been replaced or...
Developers are quicker than most to embrace generative AI tools as part of their workflow. That can mean enhanced productivity and easing cognitive burdens, but it also means learning new technologies while they’re still being built. This month’s report spotlights some...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: iodeOS 6.0 News: Arch retiring old repositories, openSUSE makes progress on reproducible builds, Fedora is getting more serious about open hardware, Tails changes its...
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