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Thursday February 27, 2025. 10:28 PM
A severed hand turned up outside Our Lady Immaculate School in Darndale, Dublin, Ireland last Friday. Obviously concerned, police combed CCTV footage but found no evidence of any violent act. But they did spot a bird flying overhead with the hand in its beak, and then...
More than 100,000 seeds from across Africa have been deposited in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the world's repository for specimens intended to preserve crop diversity in the event of disaster. From a report: Among the latest additions are seeds critical to building...
In a blog post published today, Vice Chair and President of Microsoft Brad Smith expressed concerns over the Biden administration’s interim final AI Diffusion Rule, cautioning that it could inadvertently hinder U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) and benefit...
It’s well-known that NVIDIA is a cornerstone of the AI boom, but its financial results released on February 26 illustrate exactly how much the company has prospered. NVIDIA saw a 78% year-over-year increase in quarterly revenue, reaching a record $39.3 billion....
Elon Musk claims he mistakenly fired Ebola prevention workers, then quickly fixed the error. But Ebola programs are still in tatters, along with other livesaving efforts like AIDS treatments for children.
Sprinting after Microsoft and co, Amazon claims it too has a QC chip that's good at all-important error correction Amazon Web Services on Thursday announced Ocelot, a quantum computing chip based on 'cat qubits.'…
Ages ago, coworkers asked why I covered my laptop’s webcam. Then they saw a video where a hacker used a remote access trojan (RAT) to spy on two people sleeping. They started taping over their webcam lenses, too. But that’s actually not enough to keep someone from spying ...
Failing to ask the scripted movie question: 'You guys aren't cops are you?' has landed some braggy hunters in hot water. SF Gate shares excellent story about some dumb, misguided hunters. Seated on a plane near some plainclothes Fish and Wildlife officers who were flying...
Version 4.0 of the Fish shell has been released. Improvements include a better key-binding mechanism, the ability to tie abbreviations to a specific command, selective ignoring of commands in the history, some scripting improvements, and more. See the release notes for...
OpenAI released an early version of its new AI model GPT-4.5 to select users on Thursday, following development challenges that delayed the project last year. The Microsoft-backed startup said the new model responds better to subtle cues in written prompts and excels at...
Everyone loves a good brownie. YouTube chef Brian Lagerstrom has a recipe to make the best. I have been on a quest for a good fudgy brownie for a long time. When I saw that Brian Lagerstrom had a video out promising his best recipe, after making what he says is hundreds of...
An anonymous reader shares a report: The company behind WordPress, Automattic Inc., and its founder, Matt Mullenweg, continue to face backlash over a 'nuclear war' started with WP Engine (WPE) that allegedly messed with maintenance and security of hundreds of thousands of...
Internally called Orion, GPT-4.5 is OpenAI’s largest model to date, and it’s first available through the company’s $200 monthly ChatGPT subscription.
President Trump said Thursday that he plans to raise the tariff on imported good from China to a new high of 20 percent, potentially raising the prices of imported technology products even higher. A Trump post on the Truth Social network said that he would impose tariffs of...
Derek Harris, born the same year as the iconic K6 red phone box he's fighting to save, has launched what he calls a 'David and Goliath' campaign against BT in the Norfolk village of Sharrington. The phone box is among 10 in North Norfolk marked for removal, having logged...
Fear of AI disrupting jobs is high, with 52% of U.S. workers worried about its impact on their careers, according to an October 2024 Pew Research Center survey of over 5,000 adults. In addition, 32% believe AI will lead to fewer job opportunities. On the flip side, 31% say...
Microsoft has introduced a new AI model that, it says, can process speech, vision, and text locally on-device using less compute capacity than previous models. Innovation in generative artificial intelligence isn’t all about large language models (LLMs) running in big data ...
Anyone who has social anxiety when dropped into a group of one or more people will relate to this adorably awkward corgi, who didn't know what to say or do when she was forced to join a puppy party. While the other frisky pups cavorted around, barking and wagging their...
Is stuck-down memory forgivable if it's for the sake of performance? Framework's modular mini desktop has received glowing approval from the repair experts at iFixit, despite having non-upgradeable memory because of its Ryzen AI Max processor.…
Monterey Bay, California played host to a superpod of dolphins. Monterey Bay, California, has an amazingly diverse marine ecology. Sitting atop Monterey Canyon, one of the deepest canyons on the West Coast, a cold upwelling of nutrient-rich water feeds all sorts of...
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