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Wednesday May 14, 2025. 01:40 PM
Despite the numerous advantages working from home offers employees, enterprises, and the environment, many bosses struggle with the concept and want to see their staff back in the office as often as possible. (So does US President Donald J. Trump.) Trust is good, control is...
Plus: How to make Google less unhelpful As search engines are intentionally made worse, and software grows ever bigger and more complex, a possibly unexpected ally emerges: the European Union.…
Check out Neal Agarwal's Internet Roadtrip, cleverly superimposed upon Google Street View. It's the latest work from the creator of Infinite Craft, Asteroid Launcher (previously at Boing Boing), Rock Stacking Simulator and many other cool web toys—not least an earlier tour ...
Send people a text demanding money, get paid! But one scam will soon be less profitable, assuming Google nails the implementation of its new block on 'unpaid toll' messages in Android. It willstart rolling out on Tuesday and is just one of several Android updates Google...
This e-paper Android phone has a physical keyboard and will successfully get you off social media, if you can survive screen ghosting and an awful camera.
Fans of the 1980s British sitcom 'Yes Minister' will know the character Sir Humphrey -- a senior civil servant whose main role seemed to be to prevent ministers from implementing their policies. You may also know that Humphrey is the name of the Downing Street cat. With its...
Two California law firms surreptitiously used AI to generate a 10-page supplemental brief, but the judge, intrigued by unfamiliar cases cited within it, looked them up only to find some did not even exist. After asking for clarification, Judge Michael Wilner was treated to...
CEO Pichai slumming it on a measly $10.725M compared to lieutenants The C-suite at Google's parent Alphabet collectively scooped up more than $215 million in compensation for 2024, and the CEO was the worst paid among them.…
With the active ingredients in drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound no longer in shortage, access to medicine for millions who had come to rely on compounded versions is increasingly uncertain.
Longtime Slashdot reader ndsurvivor shares a report from TechCrunch: In 2018, Liangbing Hu, a materials scientist at the University of Maryland, devised a way to turn ordinary wood into a material stronger than steel. It seemed like yet another headline-grabbing discovery...
Security researchers are publishing 1,000 email addresses they claim are linked to North Korean IT worker scams that infiltrated Western companies—along with photos of men allegedly involved in the schemes.
It comes as no surprise that online scraper bots are scouring the web looking for content to train generative AI (genAI) models, causing massive bandwidth charges to enterprises who told them not to crawl their sites. What is surprising is the world of large language model ...
A modern Windows PC works without much tweaking — mostly. But some settings out of the box are simply bad, undercutting your PC’s full performance or keeping you from getting the best picture from your monitor, for example. And somehow, File Explorer still doesn’t show ...
Ever since Donald J. Trump was re-elected president, we’ve witnessed a disheartening spectacle: big tech companies bending their knees to him, hoping to get him to kill antitrust actions against them and defend them from European Union rules and fines. Meta founder and...
For those who like to live on the cutting edge, beta software, preview programs and the like are incredibly enticing. Just about every major software title -- operating systems, even -- has one or more preview builds available, and web browsers like Firefox are no different. ...
Brace yourself, my fellow Android-appreciating amigos: By this time next week, we’re gonna be positively drowning in all things AI. All right — to be fair, we already are fairly suffocated by the scent of generative AI (genAI) these days. But with Google’s annual I/O...
Crickets as senior security folk asked about risks at NCSC conference CYBERUK Peter Garraghan – CEO of Mindgard and professor of distributed systems at Lancaster University – asked the CYBERUK audience for a show of hands: how many had banned generative AI in their...
It has been difficult to escape the fact Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 later this year -- on October 14 to be precise. The company has made much of issuing reminders about this date as well as endlessly pestering people to upgrade to Windows 11. But it was not...
I have many good memories of attending the annual Borland Conference, back when Borland was still a high-flying tech company and developer conferences felt like rock concerts for nerds. I was an Object Pascal developer, so Delphi was my tool of choice. The conferences in...
The familiar formatted string, or f-string, feature in Python provides a convenient way to print variables as part of a string. But it doesn’t let you interact with the way strings are created from those variables. It’s hard, if not impossible, to do things like inspect...
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