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Thursday August 7, 2025. 10:45 AM
Human rights org calls for greater accountability and stronger enforcement of Online Safety Act Amnesty International claims Elon Musk's X platform 'played a central role' in pushing the misinformation that stoked racially charged violence following last year's Southport...
Whichever social media platform you prefer, the range of features is pretty similar across all of them. Instagram, however, has only just added the option to repost content. Instagram has been testing the reposting of reels and posts for some time, but it has only just...
Lightsockets lovingly hooked up to power supply by passionate, vivacious owners. Would suit professional who wants to read after dark Feature 'Deceptively spacious.' 'Prime location.' 'Up-and-coming area.' 'Some original features,' which occasionally turn out to be asbestos. ...
Government plans £1.9B annual spending during five-year MoU The UK public sector expects to spend around £9 billion on Microsoft products and services over five years under its current contract.…
In the face of budget cuts, NASA has issued a new directive on how it will procure replacements for the International Space Station.
alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: Three nano-glass spheres cling to one another. They form a tower-like cluster, similar to when you pile three scoops of ice cream on top of one another -- only much smaller. The diameter of the nano cluster is ten times...
All you need is 24GB of RAM, and unless you have a GPU with its own VRAM quite a lot of patience Hands On Earlier this week, OpenAI released two popular open-weight models, both named gpt-oss. Because you can download them, you can run them locally.…
Exemptions available for chipmakers who promise to build American fabs World War Fee US president Donald Trump appears to have settled his semiconductor tariff strategy.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Scientist: People withAlzheimer's disease have lower levels of lithium in their brains, and giving lithium to mice with symptoms of the condition reverses cognitive decline. Together, the findings suggest that lithium deficiency...
Rideshare giant wants to use AI for delivery of hyper-personalized offers Uber has revealed its ambition to offer hyper-personalized offers to its customers, but to do so it needs more of them to use more of its apps.…
EreIamJH writes: German tech newsletter Notebookcheck is reporting that the unexpectedly high 20% tariff the U.S. recently imposed on Taiwan is intended to pressure TSMC to buy a 49% minority stake in Intel -- including an IP transfer and to spend $400 billion in the U.S.,...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Don't fear the TPM; Python performance; Offensive Debian packages; NNCPNET; 6.17 Merge window; Transparent huge pages; SilverBullet. Briefs: AUR malware; Secure boot; kbuild and kconfig maintenance; GPU drivers; NVIDIA on ...
Bruce66423 shares a report from the BBC: A man who is bringing a High Court challenge against the Metropolitan Police after live facial recognition technology wrongly identified him as a suspect has described it as 'stop and search on steroids.' Shaun Thompson, 39, was...
It's a step toward The Terminator, built 20 times faster than people can program Computer scientist Peter Burke has demonstrated that a robot can program its own brain using generative AI models and host hardware, if properly prompted by handlers.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Ron Deibert, the director of Citizen Lab, one of the most prominent organizations investigating government spyware abuses, is sounding the alarm to the cybersecurity community and asking them to step up and join the fight...
Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.
If you're an uber-nerd like me, you've probably been following the exploits of my colleague and fellow uber-nerd Séamus as he attempts to raise his PlayStation Vita from the dead through modern science. I know I certainly have. I've put two PS Vitas through the same...
If you finished Death Stranding 2 recently and started missing Metal Gear Solid right after, you're not alone. Hideo Kojima's PHYSINT, a supposed spiritual successor to the first and best stealth game series of all time, is still years off, however, so I've resorted to what...
Apple TV+ has been serving up some outstanding science fiction since its inception. But sometimes a series that should be hitting at high speed comes at you in low gear. The payoff to their often intellectual approach to sci-fi storytelling can take a few seasons before it...
Attention gamers: if you own an older Mac or run a Hackintosh, you may soon need to upgrade. Steam has had it with supporting anything older than macOS Big Sur. On October 15th, the gaming juggernaut will be leaving the aging operating system behind, not out of cruelty, but...
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