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Monday October 13, 2025. 11:20 PM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Owners of some Jeep Wrangler 4xe hybrids have been left stranded after installing an over-the-air software update this weekend. The automaker pushed out a telematics update for the Uconnect infotainment system that...
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TL;DR: Don't pay for your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint alone! Get lifetime access to Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows for just $19.97 (Reg. $229). There are so many apps and startups dedicated to the simple task of sharing office spaces. — Read the rest ...
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Google has introduced two AI-powered features to help users stay connected with new and trending content across the web. The updates, available in Google Search and Discover, focus on giving people quick ways to explore stories, sports updates, and links from a wide range of ...
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Dell's excellent 4K monitor is a perfect second screen for working from home.
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Car manufacturers decided they would rather cheat to prioritise 'customer convenience' and sell cars than comply with the law on deadly pollutants, the first day of the largest group action trial in English legal history has been told. From a report: More than a decade after ...
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I absolutely love photographer Joseph Ford's project focused on sweaters that blend seamlessly into scenery. The project, titled 'invisible jumpers' and 'knitted camouflage,' features photographs made over several years that are just stunning. And it's mind blowing to me...
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I'm fascinated by artist and musician Petr Válek, also known as 'the VAPE.' Previously, here at Boing Boing, Popkin highlighted one of his musical contraptions created with a spoon, metal bowl, marbles, sticks, rocks, and more. I recently came across a...
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BrianFagioli writes: TP-Link has officially achieved the first successful Wi-Fi 8 connection using a prototype device built through an industry collaboration. The company confirmed that both the beacon and data throughput worked, marking a real-world validation of...
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It does strike me as a little strange that the legendary animated show Avatar: The Last Airbender has yet to get a single good video game despite its twenty-year history and multiple sequel series, one of which is still slated for release in the near future. — Read the rest ...
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Then shalt thee change the setting three times, no more! Microsoft's OneDrive is increasing the creepiness quotient by using AI to spot faces in photos and group images accordingly. Don't worry, it can be turned off – three times a year.…
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Ah, birds, those most elegant creatures, who have captured human imagination for time untold. Who among us hasn't been awoken by birdsong or imagined what it might be like to soar with one? Unfortunately, their mystique breaks the second they turn their heads. — Read the...
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Chinese companies now produce most of the world's freely available AI models. DeepSeek leads Hugging Face in popularity. Chinese firms like Alibaba receive higher ratings than OpenAI and Meta on LMArena. The site uses blind tests to measure user preferences. Chinese...
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Cloud support to be ditched on older hardware, customers left with pricey paperweights Audio equipment biz Bose is discontinuing cloud support for its SoundTouch product line, effectively reducing the premium devices to basic speakers with limited functionality.…
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A long-running joke among the Breaking Bad fandom is that Hank is the worst detective in the world, continually (perhaps willfully) ignoring clues to Heisenberg's true identity for five seasons straight. What if everyone in the show was at his level, though? — Read the rest ...
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Debian packagers have a great deal of latitude when it comes to the configuration of the software they package; they may opt, for example, to disable default features in software that they feel are a security hazard. However, packagers are expected to ensure that their...
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Outage knocks out phones, broadband – even telco's own status page Vodafone fell over in the UK this afternoon, with Register readers reporting that many services including mobile coverage, internet services, and even the company's own status page went down.…
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California Governor Gavin Newsom signed three bills on Monday that establish the nation's most comprehensive framework for regulating how technology companies interact with minors. AB 56 requires social media platforms to display health warnings to users under 18. A child...
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Every time I see Eddie on Wheels, my heart hurts a little. Not from sadness, but because I'm so touched by, first, how absolutely adorable the little fella was, and secondly, how wonderfully loved, adored, and taken care of he was. — Read the rest The post Eddie on Wheels,...
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Every human deserves their own accelerator, says ChatGPT creator Broadcom has cuddled up with OpenAI as the ChatGPT outfit looks for ever more help building out the vast infrastructure it needs to deliver on its dreams of advanced intelligence – and possibly even a profit...
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'We will never stop,' say crooks, despite retiring twice in the space of a month The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLSH) cybercrime collective - compriseed primarily of teenagers and twenty-somethings - announced it will go dark until 2026 following the FBI's seizure of its...
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