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Thursday April 24, 2025. 06:02 PM
A Government Accountability Office report released this week reveals generative AI systems consume staggering amounts of water, with 250 million daily queries requiring over 1.1 million gallons -- all while companies provide minimal transparency about resource usage. The...
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Google is rolling out an end-to-end encrypted email feature for business customers, but it could spawn phishing attacks, particularly in non-Gmail inboxes.
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Perplexity? Gemini? Copilot? The Razr Ultra will have it all optimized for its flippy, folding screen.
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Collecting data from solo players is a Far Cry from being necessary, says noyb For anyone who's ever been frustrated by the need to go online to play a single-player video game, the European privacy specialists at noyb have heard you, and they've filed a complaint against...
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The European Union has announced details of new mandatory labels for smartphones and tablets sold in the bloc, which include ratings for energy efficiency, durability, and repairability. From a report: Hardware will also have to meet new 'ecodesign requirements' to be sold...
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Fujifilm can't make cameras fast enough to sell them in the U.S. Whether it's the cool kids' X100VI, the inexpensive 6K-shooting XM5 or the high-end GFX100RF, stock is short. And it's going to get shorter: the company is suspending U.S. — Read the rest The post Fujifilm...
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Do current AI models live up to the values they have been taught? Are they communicating with users in helpful, honest, and harmless ways, or are they promoting illegal activity and recommending harmful actions? According to Anthropic, the team behind Claude, its AI model...
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'Inventory accumulation' as vendors hoard HBM amid tariff and other pressures South Korean memory maker SK Hynix is reporting a sales bounce due to the demand for AI systems, helped by US businesses stockpiling HBM supplies amid tariff uncertainty.…
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With all the surveillance and TSA agents packed into airports these days, how is it possible that a Russian woman sneaked onto a flight from New York to Paris late last year? Now you can see for yourself, with newly released video that shows what looks like magic as...
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TL;DR: Microsoft Office 2024 Home & Business is just $159.97 (36% OFF) through April 27 at 11:59 P.M. PST — no subscription required. Microsoft quietly raised the price of Microsoft 365 for the first time in over a decade. Users now shell out $100 every year to keep using...
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Enterprises are grappling with an increasing compliance burden, subject to multiple frameworks and more regulatory mandates that stretch resources and drive-up costs. Misconfigurations can further complicate things, often leading to non-compliance and regulatory penalties....
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Microsoft has instituted a new 'globally consistent' performance improvement process. According to internal documents, employees flagged as underperformers now face two options: enter a performance improvement plan with 'clear expectations and a timeline for improvement' or...
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A new study shows that 92 percent of IT leaders believe the new era of digital transformation will increase digital friction and that less than half (47 percent) of employees have the requisite digital dexterity to adapt to technological changes. The report from digital...
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New compiler releases often bring with them new warnings; those warnings are usually welcome, since they help developers find problems before they turn into nasty bugs. Adapting to new warnings can also create disruption in the development process, though, especially when an ...
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Sometimes worms have a tendency to multiply once their can is opened. James Bottomley recently encountered that situation; he led a session in the filesystem track at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF) to discuss filesystem...
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Ipsos reports that the United States' reputation around the world is dropping sharply following Donald Trump's return to the White House. The most striking loss of 'positive influence' is in Canada, the survey found, where the U.S. has sunk from a positive majority to just...
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When the Apple Watch launched, it was unclear if smartwatches would pan out. Ten years later, Apple has a $100 billion hit that reshaped the watch industry and ushered in a new age of fitness tracking.
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BrianFagioli writes: ARMO, the company behind Kubescape, has uncovered what could be one of the biggest blind spots in Linux security today. The company has released a working rootkit called 'Curing' that uses io_uring, a feature built into the Linux kernel, to stealthily...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (haproxy and openrazer), Fedora (c-ares and mingw-poppler), Red Hat (thunderbird), SUSE (epiphany, ffmpeg-6, gopass, and libsoup-3_0-0), and Ubuntu (erlang, haproxy, libapache2-mod-auth-openidc, libarchive, linux, linux-aws,...
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Something broke on Windows 11 24H2, but dev who discovered it tells El Reg this time Microsoft's not to blame Microsoft's Windows 11 24H2 update is frustrating some users, but it isn't the operating system at fault this time. Instead, it's down to a 20-year-old error in...
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