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Wednesday August 13, 2025. 11:47 AM
New measurements of the galaxy at the heart of the “Cosmic Horseshoe” indicate that it could house the most massive object ever seen in the universe.
Chrome has not been put up for sale, but that has not stopped AI startup Perplexity from putting in a bid to buy the web browser from Google. While on the face of things the $34.5 billion bid seems large, it has been widely dismissed as being a fraction of Chrome’s real...
Foundation warns federated servers face biggest risk, but single-instance users can take their time Updated The maintainers of the federated secure chat protocol Matrix are warning users of a pair of 'high severity protocol vulnerabilities,' addressed in the latest version,...
Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive results in many areas, but when it comes to playing classic text adventure games, they often struggle to make it past even the simplest of puzzles. A recent experiment by Entropic Thoughts tested how well various models...
As enterprises embrace hybrid work, SaaS applications, and AI tools at unprecedented scale, one critical access point is being increasingly targeted by attackers: the browser. To better understand the risks and what can be done to secure the browser, we spoke with Alon...
Svelte introduced the idea of using a compiler to optimize and transform specialized syntax into front-end components. The idea has caught on with a variety of frameworks, including React. In this style of reactive development, using a compiler lets the framework be more...
Last week I talked about connascence, a measure of the coupling of code. We all agree that loosely coupled code is good, but what that means isn’t always clear. Connascence helps us reason about how code is coupled. You can’t decouple your code if you don’t understand ...
You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI People are noticing Firefox gobbling extra CPU and electricity, apparently caused by an 'inference engine' built into recent versions of Firefox. Don't say El Reg didn't try to warn you.…
An encounter with the healthcare system reveals sickening decisions about data Column We already live in a world where pretty much every public act - online or in the real world - leaves a mark in a database somewhere. But how far back does that record extend? I recently...
United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rocket successfully completed its first-ever national security mission, launching the U.S. military's first experimental navigation satellite in 48 years. Space.com reports: The mission saw the company's powerful new Vulcan Centaur...
Agency asks for ideas from US industry as orbit decays NASA is seeking solutions for a way to raise the orbit of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory despite the spacecraft being marked for termination after FY2026 under the agency's budget proposal.…
Minnesota’s capital is the latest to feature on Interlock’s leak blog after late-July cyberattack The Interlock ransomware gang has flaunted a 43GB haul of files allegedly stolen from the city of Saint Paul, following a late-July cyberattack that forced the Minnesota...
First came the fireball, then a hole in the roof and a dent in the floor In late June media speculated that a meteor entering Earth’s atmosphere caused widespread sightings of a celestial fireball during daylight hours across the southeast USA. Scientists have now...
Federal Court finds Big Tech players abused their market power Australia’s Federal Court has given Epic Games another win in its global fight against the way Apple and Google run their app stores.…
AI startup Perplexity has sent Google/Alphabet an offer to buy Chrome for $34.5 billion. The offer was made in a letter from Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas to Sundar Pichai, who serves as the CEO of both Alphabet and Google. A copy of the letter, provided to Computerworld ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: You can't say Linux creator Linus Torvalds didn't give the kernel developers fair warning. He'd told them: 'The upcoming merge window for 6.17 is going to be slightly chaotic for me. I have multiple family events this August (a ...
Tells court 'What I did was wrong and I want to apologize for my conduct' Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon has pled guilty to committing fraud when promoting the so-called 'stablecoin' Terra USD and now faces time in jail.…
Cornell University researchers have developed an 'invisible' light-based watermarking system that embeds unique codes into the physical light that illuminates the subject during recording, allowing any camera to capture authentication data without special hardware. By...
Turns out stealing from poor people isn't as easy as just running a health insurance or payday loan company — sometimes you have to actually work for it. As reported in the LA Times, Romanian citizen Catalin-Marius Graur got himself a decade in the slammer for running an...
Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to conspiracy to defraud and wire fraud over the $40 billion collapse of TerraUSD and Luna in 2022. Reuters reports: Kwon, 33, who co-founded Singapore-based Terraform Labs and developed the TerraUSD and...
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