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Tuesday February 11, 2025. 11:13 PM
The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed the complaint on behalf of US federal workers, arguing that DOGE’s data access is illegal and should be cut off.
Google is among the first companies to rename maps from Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. Other software leaders, like Apple Maps, are starting to follow suit.
Death Cab for Cutie is celebrating the 20th anniversary of their iconic alt.rock album Plans by playing the album all the way through at four shows in Seattle, WA (8/2/25), Chicago (8/5/25), and Brooklyn (8/8/8 and 8/10/25). 'Plans is an album that changed the trajectory...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the United States. In 2020, the media and technology conglomerate filed an unprecedentedAI copyright lawsuit against the legal AI startup Ross Intelligence. In the...
Police arrested a woman for allegedly squishing a sweet bun for sale at a Fukuoka, Japan convenience store. 'I only pressed it lightly in my hand to check the firmness of the bread,' the 40-year-old woman said. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? — Read the rest The...
Anduril will take over management and eventual manufacturing of the U.S. Army's Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) from Microsoft, a significant shift in one of the military's most ambitious augmented reality projects. The deal, which requires Army approval, could...
The Thomson Reuters decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rights holders.
These crooks have no chill A previously unknown gang dubbed Triplestrength poses a triple threat to organizations: It infects victims' computers with ransomware, and also hijacks their cloud accounts to illegally mine for cryptocurrency.…
Elon Musk has a reputation for rewriting the rules, and his latest venture at the helm of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is no exception. He’s brought on a 19-year-old known as 'Big Balls' to help overhaul how the government operates, causing quite the...
The escalating electricity demands of artificial intelligence systems are raising concerns about the technology’s sustainability — but that’s apparently of little concern to the governments of the US and the UK. They were among the invitees at the Paris AI Action...
Google's Chrome browser might soon get a useful security upgrade: detecting passwords used in data breaches and then generating and storing a better replacement. From a report: Google's preliminary copy suggests it's an 'AI innovation,' though exactly how is unclear. Noted...
Dan Hendrycks is researching new methods of assessing AI risks that could be used to shape Grok’s politics.
Dang it, OLED monitors, stop tempting me with lower prices. I can’t resist those vibrant colors and perfect black levels forever! Take today’s deal, for example: a brand-new Acer Predator 27-inch OLED for a new low price of just $499.99. That’s $100 less than last...
OpenAI’s CEO claims the company has yet to receive an official offer from Elon Musk’s team, sources say.
UnitedHealth, the healthcare insurance giant in the spotlight after its CEO was assassinated in broad daylight, has hired a law firm specializing in defamation to monitor reportage and social media postings about it. The immediate result is the Streisand Effect: more...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has ordered DoNotPay to stop making deceptive claims about its AI chatbot advertised as 'the world's first robot lawyer,' in a ruling that requires the company to pay $193,000 in monetary relief. The final order, announced on February 11,...
Microsoft’s biggest apps — Word, Excel, and the rest in the Office suite — have all had spell checking for a long time now. But one notable app from which it was chronically missing? Notepad! After WordPad was killed last year, Microsoft paid a little bit of attention...
Police in Henderson County, Texas busted a man hunting deer on private property without permission from the land's owner. The gentlemen apparently hid inside a port-a-potty that he used as a 'deer blind' to avoid the animals spotting him. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE...
Where was DOGE to save us from this gross misuse of taxpayer dollars? All other Presidents of the United States refrained from ego-aggrandizing trips to see half a football game because of cost and disruption. Convicted Felon #47 needed a boost, I guess. — Read the rest ...
Leading cybersecurity researchers at DEF CON, the world's largest hacker conference, have warned that current methods for securing AI systems are fundamentally flawed and require a complete rethink, according to the conference's inaugural 'Hackers' Almanack' report [PDF]....
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