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The U.S. Treasury Department's sanctions watchdog removed cryptocurrency mixing tool Tornado Cash from its global blacklist on Friday, following a federal appeals court ruling last November that the Office of Foreign Asset Control couldn't sanction its smart contracts....
In 1847, French photography pioneer Charles Nègre created a 3D self-portrait using a 'witch's mirror' — a clever piece of 19th-century surveillance technology. These convex mirrors, popular in homes and businesses since the 1500s, let owners monitor entire rooms from a...
Researchers at the University of Cambridge, together with the Alan Turing Institute, Microsoft Research, and the European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, have developed a new AI-based weather forecasting system — Aardvark Weather — that could revolutionize the ...
As a system runs and its memory becomes fragmented, allocating large, physically contiguous regions of memory becomes increasingly difficult. Much effort over the years has gone into avoiding the need to make such allocations whenever possible, but there are times when they...
Pacific Gas and Electric has decided their record $2.47 billion in profits —an increase from it's previous record set last year —just isn't quite enough. The monopoly — famous for burning down half of California —just filed a request to jack up rates again (because...
When asked about a New York Times report concerning Elon Musk's being given illegal defense briefings, convicted felon #47 became enraged about press freedoms. Defense Department officials have denied that Musk received an improper briefing and was visiting the Pentagon to...
Julien Malka has called for the NixOS project to use build-reproducibility to detect when a program has a maintainer-generated tarball that results in a different artifact than building from source. There are good reasons for projects to release maintainer-generated...
Researchers taught a robot dog to skateboard, using an approach that mirrors how humans learn complex physical skills. The University of Michigan team's quadrupedal robot can mount a skateboard, push off to gain speed, glide smoothly, and navigate challenging terrain —...
Measuring all the dirty work of the supply chain and other indirect influences? Ugh, just give us the fine Half of European businesses fear they'll lose customers if they come clean about their greenhouse gas emissions, a third lack confidence in the accuracy of their carbon ...
Microsoft has begun urging Windows 10 users to upgrade their systems ahead of the October 14, 2025 support deadline, but with a solution many find impractical: just buy a new computer. According to StatCounter data, 58.7% of Windows users remain on Windows 10 despite the...
Brendan Jackman has been working to try to get ahead of the next hardware CPU vulnerability before it gets discovered. In January, he posted the second version of a patch set that introduces address-space isolation (ASI) as a way of preventing future CPU vulnerabilities...
With bird flu and inflation in ascendance during the winter months, egg smuggling became a thing. 'Egg interceptions,' as CBC puts it, 'are up 116% so far this year.' Officials made 3,254 seizures of eggs in January and February, according to U.S. — Read the rest The post...
Signs are going up, tee-shirt orders are off the charts, and people are mad at Boise, Idaho's West Ada school district, declaring that not everyone was welcome there. A local Boise shop asked to supply shirts has seen an amazing response: 'We're busy on a normal basis,'...
Consumer price hikes come amid interrogation of why customers have to opt out of added AI features The UK's Science, Innovation, and Technology Committee is pressing Microsoft for answers about the recent Microsoft 365 price hikes and why customers are forced to opt out of...
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade called for the arrest of actor John Cusack and lawmaker Jasmine Crockett, falsely claiming they wanted to 'blow up Teslas.' 'These guys, five to ten years of prison they should be looking at,' Kilmeade said about the recent Tesla protests on Fox ...
We’re now in the century sci-fi writers made their fortunes writing about — and hardware manufacturers seem keen to explore new products and processes that make some of those predictions a reality. Just as Minority Report comes pretty close to predicting visionOS and...
Yahoo on Friday said it has struck a deal to sell TechCrunch, the 20-year-old tech journalism site, to Regent, a media investment firm. Axios: Yahoo's business centers mostly on aggregation. Journalism isn't its core focus. Regent is trying to pull together a portfolio of...
With Donald Trump pitching poo about the amount of Fentanyl crossing the border from Canada into the United States and blathering about annexation, we folk North of the Wall have gotten what you'd call a little hostile. We've imposed trade tariffs in response to the tariffs...
The founder of Pirate's Booty, the puffed corn and rice snack food, has launched a 'mutiny' in the Long Island community of Sea Cliff, New York. He falsely asserted that he was the mayor, demanded an office, and 'fired' the village's staff. — Read the rest The post Pirate's...
YouTuber Kitboga built an AI army capable of confounding entire scam call centers. There are moments in this video where you will root for the AI as if this were your favorite sports team playing in the greatest championship game of all time. — Read the rest The post Watch ...
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