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Monday December 29, 2025. 12:00 PM
As modern technologies such as artificial intelligence grab today’s headlines, it’s worth remembering that their foundations were being laid more than half a century ago by computer scientists, philosophers, psychologists, developers, entrepreneurs, and more. These...
About 60 workers in Halifax, Nova Scotia have formed Ubisoft's first union in North America, reports the CBC (though its 17,000 employees include some unionized workforces in other parts of the world): T.J. Gillis, a senior server developer at Ubisoft Halifax, says he became ...
The FBI reports that complaints around deepfake AI videos have more than doubled, and financial losses have nearly tripled this year. Agentic AI is set to accelerate this process, making it even easier to commit fraud with deepfakes. We spoke to Alix Melchy, VP of AI at Jumio...
From Donald Trump to DOGE to Chinese hackers, this year the internet's chaos caused outsized real-world harm.
Today’s global coral bleaching events are the worst kind of climate warning.
Countries that banded together to challenge Boeing in the air try to do the same to AWS, Microsoft, and Google on the ground Feature More than half a century ago, a consortium of European aerospace businesses from the UK, France, Germany and Spain joined forces to take on...
OpenAI has announced that it is looking for a new Head of Preparedness, who will be responsible for anticipating and mitigating the risks and damages that its AI models can cause. As compensation, OpenAI is offering around $550,000 in annual salary, plus stock. “This is...
It has been a dramatic and challenging year for developers and engineers working in devops organizations. More companies are using AI and automation for both development and IT operations, including for writing requirements, maintaining documentation, and vibe coding....
Andrej Karpathy is one of the few people in this industry who has earned the right to be listened to without a filter. As a founding member of OpenAI and the former director of AI at Tesla, he sits at the summit of AI and its possibilities. In a recent post, he shared a view ...
Engadget reports on 'a widespread breach' of Ubisoft's game Rainbow Six Siege 'that left various players with billions of in-game credits, ultra-rare skins of weapons, and banned accounts.' Ubisoft took the game's servers offline early Saturday morning, and as of Sunday...
Currently in beta testing, iPhone users are being given access to an enhanced and updated version of WhatsApp’s chat cleanup tool. The feature – which allows for the deletion of messages and media in different ways – is not completely new, but it now offers greater...
Windows’ built-in Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) command, a.k.a. dism.exe, is something of a Swiss Army knife when it comes to working on Windows OS images. Among its many capabilities — such as adding optional Windows features and packages, taking...
More millennial tech support tales from your fellow readers On Call Y2K Welcome to a special festive season edition of On Call, in which we share readers' stories of working on the 31st of December 1999 – the moment the tech world held its breath and hoped years of Year...
One psychiatrist has already treated 12 patients hospitalized with AI-induced psychosis — and three more in an outpatient clinic, according to the Wall Street Journal. And while AI technology might not introduce the delusion, 'the person tells the computer it's their reality...
Oversaw a significant resurgence in Big Blue’s fortunes during the dotcom era IBM has announced the death of its former CEO Lou Gerstner, who passed away on Saturday, aged 83.…
Former staffer of Korean e-tailer Coupang accessed 33 million records but may have done less damage than feared Korean e-tailer Coupang claims a former employee has admitted to improperly accessing data describing 33 million of its customers, but says the accused deleted the ...
'Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades....' read the email. 'With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village. 'IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI ...
PLUS: Australia buys air-gapped Google Cloud; Huawei triples use of home-built components; JAXA blames low pressure for rocket crash; And more Asia In Brief China’s Cyberspace Administration on Saturday posted draft rules governing the behaviour of AI companions that...
Yes, greenhouse gas emissions kept rising in 2025, writes Bloomberg (alternate URL here). And the pledges of various governments to lower greenhouse gases 'are nowhere near where they need to be to avoid catastrophic climate change...' But in 2025, 'there were silver linings ...
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