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Saturday August 16, 2025. 10:30 AM
Precogs replaced by profiling and postcode data... and 'AI'. What could wrong? Lots, say privacy campaigners The UK government has unveiled a scheme to use AI to 'help police catch criminals before they strike.'…
Scientists in Svalbard warn Arctic glaciers are in 'terminal' decline, with microbe-driven biological darkening accelerating ice melt and potentially triggering major climate feedback loops. The Guardian reports: Recent research implicates snow and ice-dwelling microbes in...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ScientificAmerican: After a brain stem stroke left him almost entirely paralyzed in the 1990s, French journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby wrote a book about his experiences -- letter by letter, blinking his left eye in response to a...
Sam Altman's brain-chip venture is exploring the idea of genetically altering brain cells to make better implants. 'The company, which has been referred to as Merge Labs, is looking at an approach involving gene therapy that would modify brain cells,' reports Bloomberg. 'In...
South Korean authorities have arrested the operator of Yubin Archive, a Telegram-based 'pirate library' that grew to over 330,000 members by sharing textbooks, workbooks, lectures, and exam prep materials under the banner of 'eliminating educational inequality.' TorrentFreak ...
Wine 10.13 has been released after a one-month break, introducing a Windows Gaming Input configuration tab for the Joystick Control Panel, new ECDSA_P521 and ECDH_P521 cryptographic algorithms, OpenGL WoW64 thunk generation, and expanded Windows Runtime metadata support. The ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The United States' practice of installing location trackers in chip shipments at risk of diversion to China reflects the 'instincts of a surveillance empire,' China's state-run media outlet Xinhua said in a commentary...
Nowhere to hide Codeberg, a Berlin-based code hosting community, is struggling to cope with a deluge of AI bots that can now bypass previously effective defenses.…
Croatia has extended its digital nomad visa from one year to up to three years, allowing non-EU residents and their close family members to live and work remotely in the country. CNBC reports: A digital nomad visa is a short-term permit that allows individuals to stay in a...
We removed ads from OSNews. Donate to our fundraiser to ensure our future! What if you could run the full macOS on your iPhone or iPad? Quite a few people have made the case to run macOS especially on the latter, and it seems this isn’t as much of an unobtainable pipe...
New data from Digital Content Next shows Google's AI Overviews are linked to notable drops in publisher referral traffic, with surveyed sites seeing year-over-year declines between 1% and 25%. From a report: Digital Content Next (DCN), which counts the New York Times, Conde...
We’ve spent over a year testing the best pillows to support your noggin, whether you snooze on your side, back, or in a tangle of blankets.
AI will take your salary in capex before it can take your job Oracle issued layoff notices for more than 300 people in Washington State and California this week, according to state Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filings in those states.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CleanTechnica: In a sharp rebuke to the anti-electrification agenda in the US, global EV sales are up 27% over last year, with some legacy automakers -- but not all -- indicating the potential for a successful transition to electric...
Friday August 15, 2025. 11:47 PM
Is that a JuicyPotato on your network? A suspected Chinese-government-backed cyber crew recently broke into a Taiwanese web hosting provider to steal credentials and plant backdoors for long-term access, using a mix of open-source and custom software tools, Cisco Talos...
WIRED identified 120 YouTube channels creating AI-generated celebrity confrontation/rage-baiting videos using still images and artificial voiceovers (rather than deepfake technology). One channel, Talk Show Gold, accumulated 88,000 subscribers with a fake Mark Wahlberg and...
My friend Seth Godin (author of Purple Cow, Tribes, and Linchpin) is back on Kickstarter for the first time in a decade, and the project is exactly what I've come to know about Seth: surprising, generous, and a little bit magical. — Read the rest The post Seth Godin's...
TL;DR: Windows 11 Pro + full course to master it = lifetime productivity upgrade for $24.99 (MSRP: $237). You know that feeling when your computer is running on yesterday's software and it's basically begging for a retirement party? Well, you can skip that drama. — Read the...
New Zealand citizens leaving the country have hit the highest levels in 13 years, with more than a third of those emigrating aged under 30 years as unemployment rises and economic growth remains soft. From a report: Data released by Statistics New Zealand on Friday showed...
Could tinkering with a site’s code to hide ads count as infringement? UPDATED A recent ruling by the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has reopened the possibility that using ad blocking software could violate copyright law in Germany.…
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