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Friday April 18, 2025. 11:48 PM
DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
IBM is mandating that U.S. sales and Cloud employees return to the office at least three days a week, with work required at designated client sites, flagship offices, or sales hubs. According to The Register, some IBM employees argue that these policies 'represent stealth...
You know that dream where your hand detaches and raids your fridge for you? Just me? Well anyway, 19-year-old Tilly Lockey just made that a reality. As reported by Reuters, UK-based Open Bionics just unveiled their latest creation: bionic hands that keep working even when...
TL;DR: Own the latest editions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote when you get Microsoft Office 2024 Home for $129.97 (reg. $149). Upgrade to Microsoft Office 2024 Home on your Mac or PC with a single purchase of $129.97 (reg. $149). — Read the rest The post Less is...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: A judge in Nevada has ruled that 'tower dumps' -- the law enforcement practice of grabbing vast troves of private personal data from cell towers -- is unconstitutional. The judge also ruled that the cops could, this one...
OpenAI is reportedly considering launching an X-like social media platform, according to The Verge. If this plan comes to fruition, the social media site would make OpenAI even more of a rival to X, which is owned by Elon Musk, a former board member at OpenAI. It would also...
Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos pushed back on director James Cameron's recent assertion that AI could slash film production costs by half, arguing instead for quality improvements over cost reduction during Netflix's first-quarter earnings call Thursday. 'I read the article too ...
Making up subscription limits as it goes? Super encouraging from a code assistant. Anyways, back to int main(enter the void)... In a fitting bit of irony, users of Cursor AI experienced the limitations of AI firsthand when the programming tool's own AI support bot...
A new Seagate report reveals that hard drives significantly outperform solid-state drives in environmental sustainability metrics, particularly when accounting for manufacturing processes. According to the storage-maker's ''Decarbonizing Data'>Decarbonizing Data' [PDF]...
Using LLMs to pick programs, people, contracts to cut is bad enough – but doing it with Musk's Grok? Yikes Updated A group of 48 House Democrats is concerned that Elon Musk's cost-trimmers at DOGE are being careless in their use of AI to help figure out where to slash,...
Google has reversed course on its Gemini Live screen sharing feature by making it available for free to all Android users through the Gemini app. The rollout will be gradual; as long as your Android phone can run the latest version of the Gemini app, you should receive this...
The Trump administration and DOGE tried to cut more than 1,400 employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. An employee union and other groups are fighting to keep the regulator intact.
Bruce66423 shares a report: Toothpaste can be widely contaminated with lead and other dangerous heavy metals, new research shows. Most of 51 brands of toothpaste tested for lead contained the dangerous heavy metal, including those for children or those marketed as green. The ...
Delusional Trump is now worried that the price of eggs are not high enough. 'The egg prices are down 87%,' he claimed while speaking to reporters in the Oval Office. 'But nobody talks about that. You can have all the eggs you want. — Read the rest The post Trump's latest...
Someone hacked Seattle's crosswalk buttons into tiny speakers of truth, making them spit out messages 'from Jeff Bezos' that accidentally said the quiet part loud about wealth inequality. The digital prankster programmed multiple crosswalks around Amazon's mothership in...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Members of the European Parliament were offered special pouches to protect digital devices from espionage and tampering for a visit to Hungary this week, a sign of rising spying fears within Europe. Five lawmakers from the Parliament's...
Welcome to Cyprus, where officials discovered a new threat to national security: journalists reporting facts. As reported in OCCRP, the Mediterranean nation's Interior Ministry drafted legislation that would let authorities raid reporters' homes, offices, and devices. 'The...
DOGE has tapped into some of the most sensitive and valuable data in the world. Now it’s starting to put it to work.
A communication error between GoDaddy Registry and Markmonitor took Zoom's services offline for almost two hours on Wednesday when GoDaddy mistakenly blocked the zoom.us domain. The outage affected all services dependent on the zoom.us domain. GoDaddy's block prevented...
Rice, the world's most consumed grain, will become increasingly toxic as the atmosphere heats and as carbon dioxide emissions rise, potentially putting billions of people at risk of cancers and other diseases, according to new research published this week in The Lancet. From ...
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