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Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research.
Long before TikTok and probiotics, animals were teaching each other tips on feeling better, from swallowing leaves to get rid of parasites to using icebergs for exfoliation.
During Nvidia’s fourth-quarter earnings call earlier this year, CEO Jensen Huang exclaimed, “The next frontier of AI is physical AI.” Huang was referring to a relatively new field that combines artificial intelligence with everything from humanoid robots and industrial ...
Microsoft provides Windows users with two tools that offer malware scanning and repair services, should those scans turn up anything in need of fixing. One is named MSRT; the other runs an executable called MSERT. (Microsoft also calls it the “Microsoft Safety Scanner.”) ...
The Document Foundation, which developers LibreOffice, is mad at Microsoft for the levels of complexity in the Microsoft 365 document format. They claim Microsoft intentionally makes this format’s XML schema as complex and obtuse as possible to lock users into the Microsoft...
Getting carded is one thing. A full strip search? Welcome to Britain Opinion On June 10, social network Bluesky announced that in 15 days it would introduce age verification for UK users, to comply with the UK Online Safety Act. As this law threatens non-compliant content...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly important in software development, as organizations look to automate tasks, complete projects faster, enhance code quality, and increase developer productivity. AI tools can help with tasks such as detecting bugs, testing ...
“The money [in front-end web development] is … gone.” This, according to Santiago Valdarrama, a leading voice on AI and software development. Not everyone agrees, of course—just look at the online storm he kicked off recently on X. Still, Valdarrama has a point....
Code reviews have always been one of the more loathsome duties in software engineering. Most developers would much rather be writing code than reviewing it. Most code reviews occur late in the development cycle, and are inconsistently applied, limited by the capacity of...
If you have ever wanted to output sound from Windows 11 to more than one set of speakers, you will be aware that it can be tricky. Yes, you can splice together cables, use various adaptors or fiddle with a confusing selection of settings – but it is not a quick and easy...
Out of the blue, Microsoft has killed off its digital storefront for movies and TV shows. The sudden change means that the Microsoft Store can no longer be used to buy or rent this type of content on Windows or Xbox. There has been no big announcement about the decision to...
Implementing AI: what’s the risk? We recently reported about how McDonald’s AI hiring tool’s password ‘123456’ exposed the data of 64M applicants. Not a great day for the fast-food giant, but our readers were lovin’ it. Or at least they read the article in their...
'This, many considered, was bad' Who, Me? Welcome again to 'Who, Me?' – The Register's Monday column in which readers admit to making mistakes and explain how they managed to keep their careers going afterwards.…
Microsoft has released emergency patches for two remote code execution vulnerabilities in SharePoint. The CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771 security flaws are addressed by KB5002768 and KB5002754. The issue was discovered by security researchers back in May, when it was...
Now flying again, but not saying what went wrong UPDATED US carrier Alaska Airlines has grounded its fleet due to an unspecified IT issue.…
AI tools now power smarter, faster, and smoother collaboration for remote teams. When teams are located across different regions, collaborative and secure tools are essential to make remote work efficient and productive. The best AI tools for remote teams are more than virtu...
PLUS: Perplexity AI scores 360-million-customer win in India; Australian billionaire’s political party suffers data breach, won’t contact victims; and more Asia In Brief Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory last week announced the discovery of a small body with an ...
AI ignored instruction to freeze code, forgot it could roll back errors, and generally made a terrible hash of things The founder of SaaS business development outfit SaaStr has claimed AI coding tool Replit deleted a database despite his instructions not to change any code...
In the latest episode of First Person I spoke with Aaron Momin, a seasoned cybersecurity and cyber risk professional with over 30 years of experience in managing cyber and technology risk. In a fascinating conversation Aaron told me how he studied computing at college after...
PLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more Infosec In Brief Microsoft has warned users of SharePoint Server that three on-prem versions of the product include a zero-day flaw that is under attack – and that its own failure ...
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