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Tuesday February 11, 2025. 08:40 PM
UnitedHealth, the healthcare insurance giant in the spotlight after its CEO was assassinated in broad daylight, has hired a law firm specializing in defamation to monitor reportage and social media postings about it. The immediate result is the Streisand Effect: more...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has ordered DoNotPay to stop making deceptive claims about its AI chatbot advertised as 'the world's first robot lawyer,' in a ruling that requires the company to pay $193,000 in monetary relief. The final order, announced on February 11,...
Microsoft’s biggest apps — Word, Excel, and the rest in the Office suite — have all had spell checking for a long time now. But one notable app from which it was chronically missing? Notepad! After WordPad was killed last year, Microsoft paid a little bit of attention...
Police in Henderson County, Texas busted a man hunting deer on private property without permission from the land's owner. The gentlemen apparently hid inside a port-a-potty that he used as a 'deer blind' to avoid the animals spotting him. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE...
Where was DOGE to save us from this gross misuse of taxpayer dollars? All other Presidents of the United States refrained from ego-aggrandizing trips to see half a football game because of cost and disruption. Convicted Felon #47 needed a boost, I guess. — Read the rest ...
Leading cybersecurity researchers at DEF CON, the world's largest hacker conference, have warned that current methods for securing AI systems are fundamentally flawed and require a complete rethink, according to the conference's inaugural 'Hackers' Almanack' report [PDF]....
A smart speaker makes an easy first step into smart home technology. Before you kit out your house with thousands of dollars of lighting and security upgrades, you can familiarize yourself with voice-assistant technology while enjoying music, podcasts, and news in a...
Capital One has launched an AI agent designed to help customers with one of the more difficult and confusing purchase decisions: buying a car. The new chatbot, called Chat Concierge, will help customers with everything from researching vehicles and scheduling test drives, to ...
How fast can you assemble a PC? I’ve seen The Full Nerd crew do two pretty hairy SFF builds in three hours, and I don’t think I’ve ever done one in less than four. But Newegg found some speed demons at MegaCon Orlando over the weekend. The fastest time, according to...
Huge if true: Brit Foreign Sec says Putin running a 'corrupt mafia state' One of the bulletproof hosting (BPH) providers used by the LockBit ransomware operation has been hit with sanctions in the US, UK, and Australia (AUKUS), along with six of its key allies.…
Seven of the 10 world's largest economies missed a deadline on Monday to submit updated emissions-cutting plans to the United Nations -- and only one, the UK, outlined a strategy for the next decade that keeps pace with expectations staked out under the Paris Agreement. From ...
The European Commission announced the mobilization of €200 billion (about $207 billion) for the InvestAI plan at the AI Action Summit in Paris on Tuesday, with the aim of enabling “open and collaborative development” of artificial intelligence in Europe. This was...
End of the road in sight for venerable server Administrators rejoice! The 2025 H1 Cumulative Update (aka CU15) for Exchange Server 2019 has finally arrived, marking the end of an era for the server application.…
When my 12-year-old daughter plunks onto the sofa for TV time, she might dial up Netflix to binge-watch Gossip Girl or switch on the PS5 for a little Hogwarts Legacy. But when she really wants to veg out, she goes for YouTube. After dinner, during those precious minutes...
As airplanes slam into each other and fall from the sky or simply crash into neighborhoods, Trump's reality TV buddy, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, leaps to action by ordering a memo's title changed. Let's call DEI what it is for the MAGAs. — Read the rest The post...
At Paris AI Summit negotiations on Feb. 11, the United States and the United Kingdom declined to commit to “inclusive and sustainable” artificial intelligence, according to The Guardian. The declaration on inclusive and sustainable AI asked countries to make a...
Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter will start notifying supporters when a fundraising campaign faces 'significant fulfillment failures' and breaks the platform's rules. From a report: The notification will also inform supporters how it's addressing the issue, including by...
It’s been possible for a while now to modify web pages using popular extensions such as Tampermonkey and Greasemonkey, which can be useful for avoiding annoying ads or tracking attempts. Now, starting with version 1.75 of the Brave browser, you don’t have to download...
Microsoft is offering up to $5,000 to developers who uncover moderate-severity vulnerabilities in its Copilot AI chatbot, a move that expands its security bounty program. Developers will now receive rewards for identifying flaws that enable exploitations like inference...
Below is rare video of the so-called 'black demon of the sea.' The abyssal humpback anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii) appeared near Spain's Canary Islands off the coast of Tenerife. Usually, this delightful creature lives in the pitch darkness 1,500 meters down so it was...
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