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Monday May 5, 2025. 09:47 PM
Funny what a public scolding from AI luminaries and a word from state AGs can do OpenAI's contentious plan to overhaul its corporate structure in favor of a conventional for-profit model has been reworked, with the AI giant bowing to pressure to keep its nonprofit in...
Nearly five decades after her death, best-selling crime fiction author Agatha Christie is returning to the spotlight — this time as an artificial intelligence model. The BBC has digitally recreated the legendary novelist to deliver a creative writing course based on her...
As it shifts responsibility for recovery efforts to local authorities, FEMA workers will stop knocking on doors to provide aid to survivors in disaster areas, per a memo obtained by WIRED.
A new study has revealed that popular open-source AI tools used in hiring decisions are more likely to recommend men over women, especially for higher-paying jobs. The research, led by Sugat Chaturvedi of Ahmedabad University and Rochana Chaturvedi of the University of...
OpenAI has decided that its nonprofit division will retain control over its for-profit organization, after the company initially announced that it planned to convert to a for-profit organization. From a report: According to the company, OpenAI's business wing, which has been ...
This week’s This Week in GNOME mentions that Blueprint will become part of GNOME. Blueprint is now part of the GNOME Nightly SDK and is expected to be part of the GNOME 49 SDK. This means, apps relying on Blueprint won’t have to install it manually anymore. Blueprint is...
The disclosure of the Spectre class of hardware vulnerabilities created a lot of pain for kernel developers (and many others). That pain was especially acutely felt in the BPF community. While an attacker might have to painfully search the kernel code base for exploitable...
A 'friendly' offer of a 'free' bracelet in Rome can quickly turn into an aggressive demand for money, as documented in travel YouTuber Karl Rock's recent exposé of a widespread tourist scam operating across Italy. The scam follows a predictable pattern: operators approach...
BrianFagioli writes: Microsoft has officially begun rejecting high-volume emails that don't meet its new authentication rules. Here's the deal. If you send more than 5,000 messages per day to Outlook.com addresses (including hotmail.com and live.com) and you're not properly...
I started with the first edition Amazon Kindle and, six or seven years later, upgraded to the Kindle Voyage. Over a decade later, I decided to try the latest model, the Paperwhite Signature Edition. I like it. As I source most of my books from my public libraries, via the...
I’ve got some bad news for you, email administrators -- your Monday may be getting a lot worse. You see, starting today, Microsoft has officially begun rejecting high-volume emails that don’t meet its new authentication rules. Here’s the deal. If you send more than...
The wellness industrial complex has discovered yet another revolutionary health intervention: Touching your face gently while charging obscene amounts of money for it. As reported in Yahoo, celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Dua Lipa are flocking to 'lymphatic drainage...
In a chilling announcement, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said the agency is considering revoking CBS's broadcast license. Trump's appointed stooges are willing to do his dirty work. In a clear violation of the First Amendment, the FCC is moving towards an act of...
An industrial plan China rolled out a decade ago that was criticized by the U.S. as protectionist has been highly successful in narrowing China's technological gap with the West, a new study finds. From a report: The study, commissioned by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is...
What if you could preserve your loved ones forever, suspended in a crystal-clear glass cube? That's what Russian inventor Joseph Karwowski proposed in 1903, patenting a method to encase corpses in transparent glass blocks for eternal display. The process, as reported in...
To commemorate World Press Freedom Day on May 3, the band R.E.M. released a remix of its 1983 alt-rock classic 'Radio Free Europe,' with proceeds going to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Last week, a federal appeals court ruled that the Trump administration could, for...
Even Fox News was suspicious with the Trump Administration's new scheme to pay immigrants $1,000 to self-deport, with host Bill Hemmer asking a DHS official today 'why should they trust' this plan. 'So, if you're an illegal alien…you can get a flight, paid for by DHS, and we...
The United States' semiquincentennial is up next year, and convicted felon #47, Donald Trump, wants to make it a celebration of him. As the Trump Administration has been whitewashing government websites, museums, and monuments of history that MAGAs do not like, Donald Trump ...
Not to say I called it or anything, but I did kind of call it a little. Emboldened by the Switch 2 and its frankly ridiculous price points for its games – and doubtlessly also by Sony following suit – Xbox has also announced a range of mid-generation price hikes for no...
Remember that delicious feeling of letting your mind float away like a lazy cloud on a summer afternoon? No? That's because your phone has murdered your capacity for wanderlust and buried it in a shallow grave marked 'increased engagement metrics.' Christine Rosen's essay in ...
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