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Thursday September 4, 2025. 11:33 AM
The company unpacked two new flagship Android tablets at IFA 2025, alongside a fifth entry in the Galaxy S25 series.
AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex A UK government department's three-month trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot has revealed no discernible gain in productivity – speeding up some tasks yet making others...
Aspirin is commonly prescribed to patients with coronary artery disease to prevent heart attacks and strokes, but a new analysis has found that another drug, clopidogrel, is more effective and just as safe.
If you’d like an LLM to act more like a partner than a tool, Databot is an experimental alternative to querychat that also works in both R and Python. Databot is designed to analyze data you’ve imported into your working session and suggest questions you might want to...
It’s taken some time for GitHub’s Spark AI-powered coding platform to go beyond its initial small, closed beta. However, it’s now available to anyone with a GitHub CoPilot+ subscription, with the possibility of a wider future rollout. Unlike the standard GitHub...
Even if you love to code, there probably are times when you’d rather ask a question like, “What topics generated the highest reader interest this year?” than write an SQL query with phrases like STRFTIME(‘%&Y’, Date) = STRFTIME(‘%Y’, ‘now’). And, if your...
It’s taken some time for GitHub Spark, GitHub’s new AI-powered coding platform, to go beyond its initial small, closed beta. However, it’s now available to anyone with a GitHub CoPilot+ subscription, with the possibility of a wider future rollout. Unlike the standard...
Privacy campaigners cry foul as grocer joins Asda, Iceland, and others in retail surveillance boom Sainsbury's, Britain's second-largest supermarket chain, has caught the attention of privacy campaigners by launching an eight-week trial of live facial recognition (LFR) tech...
GOTO 1976 Microsoft has open-sourced the version of BASIC it created in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor used in many early microcomputers.…
After 26 years and over 1,000 episodes, Melvyn Bragg is stepping down as presenter of BBC Radio 4's In Our Time, leaving behind a legacy of intellectual curiosity and broadcasting excellence. While he will no longer host the series, he will remain involved with the BBC and...
Timed to coincide with the release of the second half of season two of Wednesday, Netflix has announced an update to its Moments feature. Introduced last year, Moments gives Netflix a way to “bookmark” a point in a show so you can share it with friends, or just use it as ...
Call it inspiration, call it a blatant ripoff, but seeing fellow Boing Boing writer and tech enthusiast Séamus' still-ongoing series about restoring and modernizing his PlayStation Vita has gotten me thinking about retro gaming too. I've already hacked a Vita of my own,...
Web giant and Chinese e-tailer whacked for dropping trackers without permission France’s data protection authority levied massive fines against Google and SHEIN for dropping cookies on customers without securing their permission, and also whacked Google for showing ads in...
From an AI-driven robot vacuum to self-emptying stations for its next-gen stick vacuums, Dyson’s lineup will never be the same. You’ll have to wait until 2026 to get your hands on most of it, though.
Shift to self-service will apparently improve support, presumably Big Blue's bottom line too IBM Cloud will update the services it provides under its Basic Support tier, which will move to a self-service model in January 2026.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping were caught on a hot mic discussing organ transplants and immortality at the military parade in Beijing on Wednesday. The two leaders were captured on the...
Seven-year-old Cisco vuln that remains inexplicably unpatched is their way in The US State Department has put a $10 million bounty on the heads of three Russians accused of being intelligence agents hacking America's critical infrastructure - primarily via old Cisco kit, it...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Maintaining curl; GNOME governance; Guix in Debian; Tracking untrusted data in the kernel; 32-Bit support; systemd v258. Briefs: bcachefs maintenance; Linux from Scratch 12.4; ELF spec; Niri 25.08; Python documentary;...
Switzerland has launched Apertus, a fully open-source, multilingual LLM trained on 15 trillion tokens and over 1,000 languages. 'What distinguishes Apertus from many other generative AI systems is its commitment to complete openness,' reports CyberInsider. From the report:...
Clock is ticking US security leaders have urged lawmakers to reauthorize two key pieces of cyber legislation, including one that facilitates threat-intel sharing between the private sector and federal government, before they expire at the end of the month.…
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