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Friday September 5, 2025. 12:00 AM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Managers and supervisors brace yourselves: calling the boss a dickhead is not necessarily a sackable offense, a tribunal has ruled. The ruling came in the case of an office manager who was sacked on the spot when --...
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Thursday September 4, 2025. 11:41 PM
Signs up JetBlue for in-flight connection, but not until 2027 Amazon showed off download speeds peaking at 1.28 Gbps from its nascent Project Kuiper internet satellite service and announced an airline deal with US commercial airline JetBlue to provide Wi-Fi in the sky.…
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Cyberpunk 2077 has had its 'final patch', like, three times now, but the little multimillion-dollar triple-A RPG that could just refuses to give up. Years after launch, with a major expansion, an immensely successful tie-in anime and several massive overhaul patches under...
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Grammy-winning band OK Go latest video for 'Impulse Purchase' was created using the open-source 3D software Blender. It features frontman Damian Kulash controlling a 3D animated character in real-time using face-capture technology. True to Blender Studio's ethos, all project ...
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The Yale Approach Lock is easy to install, offers auto-unlock, and is 32% off right now.
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Nepal's government said Thursday it is blocking most social media platforms including Facebook, X and YouTube because the companies failed to comply with regulations that required them to register with the government. From a report: Nepal's Minister for Communication and...
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In an era of helicopter parenting and AI-powered shortcuts, some parents are intentionally making life a little harder for their kids. Michelle Cyca, writing for The Walrus, explains her approach of 'obstacle parenting' — deliberately allowing children to struggle with...
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TL;DR: Take your productivity to the next level with a lifetime license to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows for $39.97 (reg. $219.99) now through Sept. 14 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Imagine opening your laptop and having every single Microsoft Office tool you could ever...
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Defrauding search with custom malware, Potato-family exploits A new China-aligned cybercrime crew named GhostRedirector has compromised at least 65 Windows servers worldwide - spotted in a June internet scan - using previously undocumented malware to juice gambling sites'...
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Old games were played on cathode ray tubes 1.33 times as wide as they were tall. In the widescreen era, modern LCD and OLED displays rarely have this 4:3 aspect ratio, making them poorly-suited to retrogaming. Ayaneo's Pocket Air Mini touts a new high-resolution 4:3 display, ...
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Google has introduced Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, an image generation and editing model enabling capabilities including the blending of multiple images into a single image. Developers can use the model for multimodal creativity for visual apps. Introduced August 26 and also...
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Germany has already met its 2028 goal for reducing coal-fired power generation, so won't need to order the shutdown of any plants for a second year running, the country's regulator said. From a report: Germany has an interim 2028 target of reducing coal-fired power by 8.7...
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Agency wants a single private integrator to herd 74K bits of kit with only 40% of the funding so far Get ready to start flying American skies with a renewed sense of confidence, at least eventually, as the Federal Aviation Administration has finally decided to start...
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OpenAI plans to launch a new AI-powered jobs platform next year to help match employers with candidates who have AI skills in a bid to accelerate the technology's deployment across businesses and government agencies. From a report: The ChatGPT maker will also introduce a new ...
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DHS says retired Marine sniper Dan LaLota’s firm is uniquely qualified to meet the government’s needs. LaLota tells WIRED his brother, GOP congressman Nick LaLota, played no role in the contract.
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More and more people — both Americans and non-U.S. citizens — are thinking twice before traveling into the United States with their phones. And for good reason. Under Trump 2.0, phone searches at the U.S. border have surged, and Customs and Border Protection agents are...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Adobe is bringing its video editor Premiere to iPhone, promising 'pro-level' editing on the go for free. The app will launch later this month, with an Android version also under development. The Premiere app features a familiar...
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This assembly language source code represents one of the most historically significant pieces of software from the early personal computer era. It is the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC Version 1.1 for the 6502 microprocessor, originally developed and copyrighted...
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We’ve got hungry American datacenters to feed, argued the lawmaker - a revival Nvidia dubs ‘doomer science fiction’ +Comment US lawmakers are looking to apply Trump's America-First agenda to advanced semiconductors by giving US buyers first dibs while restricting the...
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Look who just discovered their love for gun control! MAGA, that bastion of 'from my cold dead hands' rhetoric, is suddenly all-in on firearms restrictions — as long as they're aimed at the right target. According to Breitbart's breathless reporting, the Department of...
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