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Monday October 27, 2025. 10:00 AM
It's just good at mass-production copy and paste Opinion Remember ELIZA? The 1966 chatbot from MIT's AI Lab convinced countless people it was intelligent using nothing but simple pattern matching and canned responses. Nearly 60 years later, ChatGPT has people making the same ...
ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.
If you’re a software developer or architect, you might wonder if programming certifications are still worth the effort, especially in the era of rapid AI-driven evolution. The short answer is, it depends. “Certifications are shifting from a checkbox to a compass....
It’s clear your company needs to accelerate its AI adoption. What’s less clear is how to do that without it being a free-for-all. After all, your best employees aren’t waiting on you to establish standards; they’re already actively using AI. Yes, your developers are...
Instagram is borrowing an idea from TikTok, introducing a Watch History section that will be welcomed by many users. While undeniably useful, pretty much the only thing that is surprising about this particular feature is that it has taken so long to appear in the app. It...
When it rains, it pours – and nobody packed an umbrella Opinion When your cabbie asks you what you do for a living, and you answer 'tech journalist,' you never get asked about cloud infrastructure in return. Bitcoin, mobile phones, AI, yes. Until last week: 'What's this...
In the most recent Windows Insider builds of Windows 11, Microsoft is testing a new feature that will make it quicker and easier to perform search based on text copied from other documents. The new Copy & Search feature is currently available in the new Dev and Beta...
When Microsoft released PowerToys 0.95.0 recently there was excitement that it included a new module – Light Switch. But the excitement quickly turned to disappointed and confusion because of a bug that has managed to slip through the net. Microsoft was fairly quick to...
'Mozilla is introducing a new privacy framework for Firefox extensions that will require developers to disclose whether their add-ons collect or transmit user data...' reports the blog Linuxiac: The policy takes effect on November 3, 2025, and applies to all new Firefox...
Four back-to-back weekends of work – and disastrously bad documentation – will do that do a techie Who, Me? Welcome to Monday morning and another installment of Who, Me? For the uninitiated, it's The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that tells tales of your...
We grumble about political polarization, but there’s even less agreement about artificial intelligence (AI). Zoomers believe AI will bring big benefits to humanity, downplaying the risks and problems. LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman wrote in a January New...
FOSS feud re-ignites with massive counter-claim UPDATED The long battle between Automattic and WP Engine has flared again, this time with accusations the latter company issued “false advertising”, and employed “deceptive business practices.”…
Slashdot reader joshuark writes: Microsoft says that the File Explorer (formerly Windows Explorer) now automatically blocks previews for files downloaded from the Internet to block credential theft attacks via malicious documents, according to a report from BleepingComputer. ...
Allows surveillance and cross-border evidence sharing, which worries human rights groups The United Nations on Saturday staged a signing ceremony for the Convention against Cybercrime, the world’s first agreement to combat online crime. And while 72 nations picked up the...
America's largest university system, with 460,000 students, is the 22-campus 'Cal State' system, reports the New York Times. And it's recently teamed with Amazon, OpenAI and Nvidia, hoping to embed chatbots in both teaching and learning to become what it says will be...
PLUS: China demotes tech self-sufficiency goal; Alibaba Cloud quietly quits VMware; India demands deepfake labels; and more! Asia In Brief Australia’s Competition & Consumer Commission on Monday commenced legal proceedings against Microsoft for allegedly misleading users...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 News: AlmaLinux offers Btrfs support for fresh installs, KDE launches Plasma 6.5.0, Fedora accepts AI-written contributions, Ubuntu 25.10...
GM plans to dump Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its car new vehicles 'in the near future,' reports the Verge. In an episode of the Verge's Decoder podcast, GM CEO Mary Barra confirmed the upcoming change to 'phone projections' for GM cars: The timing is unclear, but...
Linus has released 6.18-rc3 for testing. 'Things feel fairly normal, and in fact the numbers say it's been a bit calmer than usual, but that's likely just the usual fluctuation in pull request timing rather than anything else'.
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The MX Linux team has announced the availability of the first release candidate for MX Linux 25, the upcoming major release of the project's Debian-based Linux distribution with user-friendly enhancements and...
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