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Saturday September 13, 2025. 05:30 AM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Intercept: The company behind the Proton Mail email service, Proton, describes itself as a 'neutral and safe haven for your personal data, committed to defending your freedom.' But last month, Proton disabled email accounts...
US EV sales hit a record 146,332 in August, grabbing nearly 10% of all new car sales, according to Kelley Blue Book. That's the highest yet and up from 9.1% in July. Electrek reports: With the federal EV tax credit set to expire on September 30, analysts say Q3 2025 is...
Newfoundland and Labrador's 10-year Education Accord report (PDF) intended to guide school reform has been found to contain at least 15 fabricated citations, including references to non-existent films and journals. Academics suggest the fake sources may have been generated...
A former Memphis disc manufacturing employee has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison after stealing pre-release Blu-rays from his employer and leaking them online. While he received 21 months for copyright infringement, a concurrent firearm charge extended his...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from France24: Fueled in part by anger over flashy lifestyles flaunted by elites, young anti-corruption demonstrators mainly in their 20s rallied on Monday. The loose grouping, largely viewed as members of 'Gen Z', flooded the capital...
A “South Park” episode was taken off air, a DC comic series was canceled, and several artists were fired in the aftermath of the shooting.
I’m not really into the niche of “virtual YouTubers” – people who post YouTube videos and/or stream using a virtual avatar – but to each their own, and if this technology enables people to remain anonymous while doing what they love on YouTube or Twitch, I’m all for it....
Intel's long-time Xeon chief architect Ronak Singhal is leaving the company after nearly 30 years, marking yet another high-profile departure amid Intel's leadership churn and intensifying competition from AMD and Arm-based cloud CPUs. The Register reports: The Carnegie...
Although it hasn't been seen in the wild yet A new ransomware strain dubbed HybridPetya was able to exploit a patched vulnerability to bypass Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot on unrevoked Windows systems, making it the fourth publicly known bootkit...
The inscriptions on bullets recovered near the scene of Charlie Kirk's murder appear to reference video games like Helldivers 2 and online furry role-play, not a legible political ideology.
Microsoft and OpenAI have signed a non-binding deal to restructure their partnership, paving the way for OpenAI to shift into a conventional for-profit model and potentially go public. Reuters reports: Details on the new commercial arrangements were not disclosed, but the...
Who doesn’t love a desktop-oriented hobby operating system to start off the weekend? SkiftOS is a hobbyist operating system built from the ground up with a focus on modularity, simplicity, and modern design principles. Driven by a dissatisfaction with the fragmented user...
Friday September 12, 2025. 11:50 PM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: For millions of Spotify users, the 'Wrapped' feature -- which crunches the numbers on their annual listening habits -- is a highlight of every year's end, ever since it debuted in 2015. NPR once broke down exactly why...
California's legislature this week approved a bill to let renters opt out of bulk-billing arrangements that force them to pay for Internet service from a specific provider. ArsTechnica: The bill says that by January 1, a landlord must 'allow the tenant to opt out of paying...
TL;DR: Protect your privacy and take down region locks with an OysterVPN lifetime subscription on sale for $31. Using the internet should be simple. But between region locks, slow connections, and constant pop-ups, it starts to feel like the internet is working against you....
Climate change? No worry - we can solve that later, argues Doug Burgum You would think that the government official responsible for safeguarding the US' natural resources would be opposed to abandoning climate change mitigation pledges in favor of firing up fossil fuels to...
Sharareh Moghaddam thought she was heading to a citizenship celebration in Los Angeles. Instead, ICE agents had set a trap to grab the 55-year-old woman and lock her in an Arizona detention camp. From CBS News: Family members say that she moved to the U.S. — Read the rest...
WIRED spoke to Lee Pace on the eve of the season finale of Foundation about clone consciousness, robot gods, and what’s next for the newly renewed show.
Tyler Robinson, the alleged Charlie Kirk killer, was not an anti-fascist, pro-trans liberal as Nancy Mace and the MAGA grift machine are trying to have you believe. Robinson is to the right of MAGA. From Garbage Day: Many extremism researchers this morning are wondering if ...
Top AI chipmakers count on faster, denser, more efficient memory to boost training AMD and Nvidia have already announced their next-gen datacenter GPUs will make the leap to HBM4, and if SK Hynix has its way, it’ll be the one supplying the bulk of it.…
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