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Friday February 21, 2025. 12:45 PM
We're smack dab in the middle of one of the worse flu seasons in the last two decades, where at least 24 million Americans—and counting—have caught the flu. WastewaterSCAN reports that the majority of sites across the country are measuring 'high' for Influenza A (as well ...
Over the past few months, I've had the unique experience of testing out a Bitcoin-mining space heater—literally a cryptomining rig with some radiant heating coils stacked on top of it for added warmth. The idea, as the founder of Heatbit explained it to me, is that...
The US government has increased the use of monitoring tools over the past decade. But President Donald Trump’s employee purges are making workers worry about how their data could be abused.
Every gamer has encountered gaming hardware that doesn’t live up to expectations. Washed-out colors, blooming, ghosting, and screen tearing are all giveaway signs that a gaming monitor is struggling with performance. That’s relatable if you have an el cheapo panel, but...
I have a friend Steve (not his real name) who still installs his PC games on a large, slow, noise hard drive. You know, the old-school kind that spins up before it can read or write data? I keep telling him to switch over to an SSD, not just for his own sake but for mine as...
Six-hundred-thirty-five in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 and Windows 11 on the Microsoft Store and elsewhere in the past seven days. Microsoft is working on a new app. Currently in development,...
It woz The Reg wot won it... or maybe just common sense prevailed among management HP Inc today abruptly ditched the mandatory 15-minute wait time that it imposed on customers dialling up its telephone-based support team due to 'initial feedback.'…
With a bit of creative thinking, it’s possible to run Windows XP on an Apple TV
Insider security incidents remain a problem for business, yet many organizations struggle with limited budgets, minimal talent resources, and tools that fail to detect subtle insider threat patterns. OpenText is launching a new Core Threat Detection and Response solution, an ...
A selfie of tearful 42-year-old woman holding a colorful birthday cake bears the caption 'Today is my 42nd birthday, no husband, no children, I baked the cake by myself…' Neither the woman nor the cake is real. It's an AI-generated image designed to turn sympathy into...
A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist and turn of their alleged descent into mayhem and death.
Tech press-landi and the tech blogosphere were abuzz last week with news that both Apple, the company that makes the iPhone, and Meta, the company that makes everybody on Facebook confront a daily flood of horrible AI-generated slop, are making full-size, humanoid robots....
Just three days ago, former Trump advisor Steve Bannon called Elon Musk 'a parasitic illegal immigrant.' And for months, the War Room podcaster has been hammering his rival, referring to him as a 'truly evil person' who wants to 'play-act as God.' — Read the rest The post...
If you don't need to think about easy questions, will you be able to answer complex questions? Opinion I don't want to sound like an aging boomer, yet when I see junior programmers relying on AI tools like Copilot, Claude, or GPT for simple coding tasks, I wonder if they're...
It's becoming common in the cybersecurity industry to encounter two situations that are equally untenable. On the one hand, the job of a typical chief information security officer (CISO) has become overburdened with the high stress of constantly evolving risks, talent...
A new AI tool developed by Google solved a decade-long superbug mystery in just two days, reaching the same conclusion as Professor Jose R Penades' unpublished research and even offering additional, promising hypotheses. The BBC reports: The researchers have been trying to...
The launch of the Blue Ghost module, scheduled to land on the moon early next month, is a key step in creating an Earth–moon supply chain.
Google’s thoughtful AI research partner, Deep Research, is now available to Google Workspace users, Google said Thursday. And that’s not all: Google Workspace users who sign up for Gemini Advanced can try other, experimental AI models, too. On Tuesday, Google announced...
Snipping Tool is one of the most useful apps to be found in Windows 11, making light work of grabbing on-screen content. Primarily concerned with taking screenshots, it has developed over the years to include a handy OCR component for extracting text. And now this feature is ...
Developers are quicker than most to embrace generative AI tools as part of their workflow. That can mean enhanced productivity and easing cognitive burdens, but it also means learning new technologies while they’re still being built. This month’s report spotlights some...
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