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Tuesday September 9, 2025. 10:45 AM
From fast food fiascos to botched databases, there are fresh honors for machine learning misadventures It was bound to happen. The Darwin Awards are being extended to include examples of misadventures involving overzealous applications of AI.…
Report warns creaking infrastructure undermines the National Crime Agency's efficiency and effectiveness The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) clings to legacy systems and relies on an IT strategy that lacks clarity, a policing watchdog has found.…
Dev admits the game once ate an entire CPU core Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has come clean and admitted that the worst bug he ever shipped was in... Pinball.…
Google rolled out three big Gemini updates: the app now supports audio uploads (with tiered limits for free vs. paid users), Search gains AI Mode in five new languages, and NotebookLM expands to generate reports, study guides, quizzes, and other formats in over 80 languages. ...
Charities welcome change, but critics warn the law is already too broad Tech companies will be legally required to prevent content involving self-harm from appearing on their platforms – rather than responding and removing it – in a planned amendment to the UK's...
Remember when being American was cool? When GIs handed out American cigarettes and chocolate bars, and everyone wanted to be James Dean or Marilyn Monroe? As reported in DW, American brands are suddenly desperate to prove they're German. McDonald's is bragging about its...
According to Wikipedia, the Fugio cent, also known as the Franklin cent, was the first official circulation coin of the United States. The copper coin was minted in 1787, and 'by some accounts it was designed by Benjamin Franklin.'` The inscription reads 'Fugio,' which is...
Prepare to take tests in stuff you already know how to do, just to keep you sharp Using AI may cause some of your skills atrophy, and your employer therefore needs to take steps to keep you sharp.…
Including messages sent to users, a potential problem for the privacy-conscious Updated Encrypted messaging app Signal is rolling out a free storage system for its users, with extra space if folks are willing to pay for it.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: For decades, scientists believed Prochlorococcus, the smallest and most abundant phytoplankton on Earth, would thrive in a warmer world. But new research suggests the microscopic bacterium, which forms the...
Geedge Networks, a company with ties to the founder of China’s mass censorship infrastructure, is selling its censorship and surveillance systems to at least four other countries in Asia and Africa.
Brace for ‘loss of functionality’ next April, and an upsell conversation before that deadline Citrix on Monday advised its customers that products acquired under its current file-based licensing system will experience “loss of functionality and potential impacts on...
Reuters reports Tesla's U.S. market share has plummeted below 40% for the first time since 2017. The competition isn't just nipping at Tesla's heels — they're taking whole chunks out of its backside. One Bay Area tech worker ditched Tesla for a Volkswagen ID.4, citing an...
General Electric researcher C. D. Graham wrote the following Glossary for Research Reports in a 1957 issue of Metal Progress. Thanks are due to The Science Magpie for assistance with the post and to Futility Closet for valuable discussions. It has long been known that… I have...
alternative_right shares a report from The Guardian: It has been estimated that during the height of the coronavirus pandemic 129bn disposable face masks, mostly made from polypropylene and other plastics, were being used every month around the world. With no recycling...
Perl, a once-popular programming language that dates back to 1987, has seen a resurgence in the Tiobe index of language popularity. The language ranked 10th in this month’s Tiobe index, having risen from 27th one year ago. Perl ranked as high as third in its heyday. In a...
Michelle Johnston Holthaus' tenure as Intel Products CEO lasted just ten months Intel’s CEO of Products, Michelle Johnston Holthaus, will leave the business, as part of the latest executive shake-up since CEO Lip Bu Tan seized the company's reins.…
In a new interview with The Telegraph (paywalled), William Shatner revealed he has never earned residuals from reruns of the original Star Trek series, since syndication royalties weren't in place until after the show ended in 1969. 'Nobody knew about reruns,' said Shatner....
Meta shrugs off allegations of improper dismissal, ignoring privacy and security WhatsApp's former head of security, Attaullah Baig, has filed a lawsuit against its parent company, Meta, alleging that the social media megalith retaliated against him for reporting security...
BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Plex has alerted its customers about a security incident that may have affected user accounts. In an email sent to subscribers, the popular media server company confirmed that an unauthorized third party gained access to one of...
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