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Monday February 3, 2025. 01:06 PM
Back in ye olden tymes of the 1800s, a French physician named Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne was shocking people's faces with electric probes to figure out how emotions work. His main test subject was some random old toothless dude whose face was conveniently numb to pain. —...
Investigating compensation to police whose sensitive info was leaked in 2023 The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has bailed two officers after they were arrested as part of a fraud investigation related to the payments to cops whose sensitive data was mistakenly...
There are things in this world that you simply wouldn’t expect, like an aircraft carrier with Windows XP, a nuclear weapon control system on floppy discs, or a Commodore 64 as a cash register system in a bakery. While most people replace modern devices after a few years,...
Despite ever-improving junk mail filters and more sophisticated defense measures, phishing is still one of the biggest threats to cyber security and they’re becoming increasingly difficult to recognize. Criminals are using Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT to...
The vagus nerve is a busy bundle of over 100,000 information-carrying fibers that runs from the brain stem through the body to connect the brain with major organs including the heart, lungs, and digestive system. Scientists have discovered they can hack this neural network...
Since a number of GTK developer came together at FOSDEM, the project figured now was as good a time as any to give an update on what’s coming in GTK. First, GTK is implementing some hard cut-offs for old platforms – Windows 10 and macOS 10.15 are now the oldest supported...
Profiteering from emergency services comms network in Britain? Not anymore, says CMA Motorola will not be allowed to again appeal a decision by the UK competition regulator to impose a price cap on the communications network it operates for Britain's emergency services.…
In the face of seabeds becoming valuable real estate and corroding bombs polluting the oceans, teams are turning to technology to clean up this dangerous and expensive problem.
Seven out of 10 US organizations are struggling to find skilled workers to fill roles in an ever-evolving digital transformation landscape, and generative AI (genAI) has added to that headache, according to a new ManpowerGroup survey. The AI skills gap is driven by the rapid ...
You might expect PDF files to only be comprised of static documents, but surprisingly, the PDF file format supports Javascript with its own separate standard library. Modern browsers (Chromium, Firefox) implement this as part of their PDF engines. However, the APIs that are...
GNU Guix is a package manager for GNU/Linux systems. It is designed to give users more control over their general-purpose and specialized computing environments, and make these easier to reproduce over time and deploy to one or many devices. ↫ GNU Guix website Guix is...
At Lumon Industries, numbers don't just represent data — they trigger emotional responses in the workers who sort them. The company's Macrodata Refinement (MDR) program tasks employees with organizing arrays of numbers based on the feelings they evoke. Workers face 'a sea...
Third-party software sticking plaster expected six months late Further delays have hit Birmingham City Council's disastrous attempt to implement a functioning finance system after it emerged that off-the-shelf software to solve 'one of the fundamental problems' with the...
It's an increasingly rare system these days that doesn't claim to have incorporated artificial intelligence in some form or another. But when implementing AI it's important to look beyond the hype and ensure that it can deliver real value for the business. We spoke to Ajay...
Microsoft is no stranger to announcing the deprecation of components of Windows, or even entire apps. But what does it mean exactly? The company has tried to make things a little clearer, but it’s up for debate whether it achieved this or not. In a post on the Windows IT...
A video clip of Ronald Regan warning against trade wars has resurfaced, and it's as if he were speaking directly to Donald Trump. 'Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies; they are our allies,' the Republican president said in a 1988 radio address, after reminding...
Gaming giant Nintendo just lost a trademark battle to a teeny grocery store in Costa Rica. José Mario Alfaro González had the audacity to name his San Ramón de Alajuela shop 'Super Mario.' Never mind that in Costa Rica, 'super' is just what everyone calls their local...
Auditor offers qualified opinion as financial fallout from historic miscarriage of justice remains unclear Updated The UK's spending watchdog has offered a 'qualified opinion' on the Department for Business and Trade's accounts, largely down to uncertainties around a scheme...
Microsoft has very quietly announced that the VPN feature of its Microsoft Defender security tool is going away for anyone unwilling to part with money. In a support document entitled “End of support-Privacy protection (VPN) in Microsoft Defender for individuals”, the...
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