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Friday August 1, 2025. 09:28 AM
Unix boxes needed a hotfix to survive early morning cold boots On Call Mornings are hard, and Friday mornings doubly so. Which is why The Register gives readers a little kick along on the last day of the working week in the form of a new installment of On Call, the...
alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: Researchers have created a microphone that listens with light instead of sound. Unlike traditional microphones, this visual microphone captures tiny vibrations on the surfaces of objects caused by sound waves and turns them...
Workers on joint US/UK/Australia nuclear submarine program are painting a target on themselves The Director-General of Security at the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) has lamented the fact that many people list their work in the intelligence community or ...
iBiz warns import imposts set to rise World War Fee The USA’s evolving tariff policy wasn't all bad news for Apple, which manufactures most of its products overseas.…
Malaysia's attitude of 'This could be worse and our neighbors are copping it too' is a typical response World War Fee US President Donald Trump on Thursday announced new tariff rates that reduce the import duties on goods from several major tech-producing nations.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A 515-mile (829km) lightning flash has set a new record as the longest ever identified. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed the new world record for the flash registered on October 22, 2017, over the...
Good old machine learning, not LLMs, are what’s really paying for Zuck’s genAI splurge Believe it or not, Meta's AI investments made a meaningful difference to its advertising business in Q2 — it's just that those models aren't the kind that's got everyone, including...
Hackers from the group UNC2891 attempted a high-tech bank heist by physically planting a 4G-enabled Raspberry Pi inside a bank's ATM network, using advanced malware hidden with a never-before-seen Linux bind mount technique to evade detection. 'The trick allowed the malware...
fjo3 shares a report from the Associated Press: The Trump administration announced it is launching a new program that will allow Americans to share personal health data and medical records across health systems and apps run by private tech companies, promising that will make ...
Hang in there, it's early days, insists CEO Andy Jassy Amazon CEO Andy Jassy insists 'AI will change every customer experience,' but it's making investors nervous.…
The SEC has launched 'Project Crypto' to overhaul outdated securities regulations for a blockchain-based future, aiming to support tokenized assets, crypto trading, and 'super apps.' 'To achieve President Trump's vision of making America the crypto capital of the world, the...
US Army Sec appears to fold under pressure from far-right conspiracy theorist comment Jen Easterly has weighed in on the US Army Secretary firing her from a prestigious West Point teaching post a day after the US Military Academy announced the appointment.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Efforts to introduce pirate site blocking to the United States continue with the introduction of the 'Block BEARD' bill (PDF) in the Senate. The bipartisan proposal, backed by Senators Tillis, Coons, Blackburn, and...
Brazil has launched a massive program to release millions of laboratory-bred mosquitoes engineered to carry Wolbachia bacteria, which prevents them from transmitting dengue virus. The initiative aims to protect 140 million Brazilians across 40 municipalities over the next...
Thursday July 31, 2025. 11:20 PM
CISA has publicly released Thorium, a powerful open-source platform developed with Sandia National Labs that automates malware and forensic analysis at massive scale. According to BleepingComputer, the platform can 'schedule over 1,700 jobs per second and ingest over 10...
DeepMind geospatial AI model offers comprehensive view of Earth image data Google has released a new AI model that maps the world in 10-meter squares for machines to read.…
Apple reported its strongest quarterly revenue growth since 2021, with iPhone sales jumping 13% and total revenue up 10%. CEO Tim Cook also announced increased AI investments and hinted at future acquisitions to accelerate Apple's AI roadmap. CNBC reports: 'It was an...
TL;DR: Upgrade your work and play with a Lenovo Touchscreen Chromebook (2018), on sale for $74.97 (Reg. $284.99). There are two types of people: people who curate elaborate desk setups, and people who like to fly in the wind with a simple laptop and good vibes. — Read the...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: E-commerce giants everywhere felt the sting Wednesday when President Donald Trump announced that the US will be 'suspending duty-free de minimis treatment for low-value shipments' worth $800 or less from anywhere in the...
Google is adding more features to its NotebookLM software — the targeted workspace where users can gather information on specific subjects, understand it, and use generative AI (genAI) to analyze reference documents, brainstorm ideas and generate summaries. Users can load...
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