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Thursday March 6, 2025. 10:27 PM
Plans to redevelop a Northern Virginia warehouse site have long been complicated by the area’s worst-kept secret—the presence of a CIA facility. The GSA put the site up for sale anyway.
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Google said its new AI search features can use advanced reasoning to answer search queries with structured, actionable responses that curate text and images from multiple sources. The approach would mark a notable shift away from the familiar search engine results pages the...
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It's just an opt-in Labs curio for now, but so were those ever-present Overviews It was inevitable, really, but now it's official: Google is testing a new all-AI web search mode that leaves users entirely beholden to what Gemini thinks they'll want. …
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Universal Studios' Megatron may be the best thing at Universal Studios. This video is a lot of fun. Whoever plays Megatron is doing a wonderful job and is clearly having a blast. Kudos to Universal for going with this playful evil character. — Read the rest The post...
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Global sea ice fell to a record low in February, scientists have said, a symptom of an atmosphere fouled by planet-heating pollutants. From a report: The combined area of ice around the north and south poles hit a new daily minimum in early February and stayed below the...
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On Uncanny Valley this week, our hosts talk about the pronatalism movement, and how the push to increase birth rates is trending among some of Silicon Valley's biggest and wealthiest names.
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Interest in LibreOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, is on the rise, with weekly downloads of its software package close to 1 million a week. That’s the highest download number since 2023. LibreOffice, which runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS, is a...
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A lot of gamers go to great lengths to find a portable retro gaming device with the lightest and most compact kit. The Linux powered Raspberry Pi 5 does a decent job on that front. But what many players don’t know is that an even smaller and lighter solution is available...
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President ordered immigration officials to ramp up vetting of foreigners 'to the maximum degree' The US government's Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) is considering monitoring not just the social media posts of non-citizens coming into the country, but also all...
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Brother has rejected claims that its firmware updates intentionally disable printer functionality when third-party cartridges are installed. The controversy emerged after a YouTube video by Louis Rossman, which has garnered over 160,000 views, alleged the company had joined...
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A creepy clown caused chaos in the Mexico city of Umán. Apparently, the clown hid behind the clock tower in the main square and jumped out to scare passers-by. Local merchants also accused the clown of allegedly trying to steal from their stores. — Read the rest The post...
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The U.K. government appears to have quietly scrubbed encryption advice from government web pages, just weeks after demanding backdoor access to encrypted data stored on Apple's cloud storage service, iCloud. From a report: The change was spotted by security expert Alec...
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Documents obtained by WIRED show the US Department of Defense is considering cutting up to 75 percent of workers who stop the spread of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons.
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A shadowy group of unelected figures reshaping the federal government to their own benefit from the inside? Sounds familiar!
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Startup needs tips on fitting its flying surfboard into existing infrastructure Airlines around the world continue to look for ways to be more sustainable and efficient without needing to reinvent the wheel – but in the case of Delta Air Lines' new partnership with...
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The FCC says it plans to vote next month to explore alternatives to GPS after national security concerns have been raised about relying on a single system crucial to modern life. From a report: 'Continuing to rely so heavily on one system leaves us exposed,' FCC Chair...
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Amazon Web Services customers can expect to hear a lot more about agentic AI in future with the news that the company is setting up a dedicated unit to promote the technology on its platform. The division will be headed by Swami Sivasubramanian, until now Amazon’s VP of AI ...
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OneWeb, Project Kuiper, and IRIS2 could all, in time, replace Elon Musk's satellite communications system in Ukraine, but they will struggle to replicate Starlink's coverage and usability.
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YouTuber Walter Masterson attempts to get pardoned J6ers to admit what he witnessed at the Capitol during their attack, or generally just own their actions. Nope! The first J6er acknowledges he has been pardoned and has no reason to hide any truth, and then goes on to...
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In a historic ceremony held in early March 2025, the prestigious Turing Award was bestowed upon groundbreaking researchers who revolutionized artificial intelligence through reinforcement learning. The honor — often hailed as the “Nobel Prize of Computing” —...
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