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Tuesday February 11, 2025. 09:38 AM
Within moments of being inaugurated as US President earlier this year, Donald Trump vowed to rename the Gulf of Mexico. Sure enough, an executive order followed, changing the name to the Gulf of America -- but there has been the question about how most of the world will...
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Engineer was behind the HEC series and more Obit Raymond Bird, who developed the UK's first mass-produced business computer, the Hollerith Electronic Computer (HEC), has died at the digitally apropos age of 101.…
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Elon Musk and a consortium of investors made a $97.4 billion offer to acquire the nonprofit controlling OpenAI, escalating a battle over the future of the ChatGPT maker, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman swiftly dismissed the bid,...
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TL;DR: Hedy AI listens to your meetings and gives you summaries, important insights, a transcript, and more. Plus, it’s only $30 for life.  Missed an important detail in a meeting? No need to check if your co-workers caught it. Just ask Hedy. This specialized AI is kind...
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TL;DR: Get a SwiftDoo PDF Pro lifetime license for Windows at $34.99 (reg. $129). Subscriptions have taken over everything, from streaming to software—PDF editors included. If you’ve been paying Adobe Acrobat’s fees for as long as you can remember, here’s a reality...
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Mid-salary knowledge jobs in tech, media, and education are changing. Folk in physical jobs have less to sweat about Workers in just four percent of occupations use AI for three quarters of their tasks, according to research from Anthropic that explores how its Claude model...
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The US company v-Fluence secretly compiled profiles on over 500 food and environmental health advocates, scientists, and politicians in a private web portal to discredit critics of pesticides and GM crops. Following public backlash and corporate cancellations after its...
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'RadPC' flew on Firefly’s Ghost Riders in the Sky mission, which has left Earth Orbit and is headed for the Moon NASA has revealed its experimental Radiation Tolerant Computer has made it through the famously and furiously radiating Van Allen belts in one piece.…
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Promises production schedule will get back on track Taiwanese chipmaking champion TSMC has revealed that a January earthquake will cost it millions.…
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times: BMW has pledged to continue investing in combustion engine and hybrid technology as it warned of a 'rollercoaster ride' in the US transition to electric vehicles following the return of Donald Trump as president....
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With Tiobe’s February 2025 rankings, the publisher of the monthly index of programming language popularity notes that fast programming languages such as C++, Go, and Rust are gaining ground. But index leader Python, described as a “slow” language by Tiobe CEO Paul...
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Connecticut's highest-ranking state legislator has proposed a bill requiring movie theaters to disclose both preview and feature film start times, setting up a clash with theater operators who say the measure threatens their advertising revenue. Senate President Pro Tempore...
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Cupertino mostly uses bland language when talking security, so this sounds nasty Apple has warned that some iPhones and iPads may have been targeted by an “extremely sophisticated attack” and has posted patches that hopefully prevent it.…
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Chinese automaker BYD is offering its advanced 'God's Eye' autonomous technology in mass-market EVs like the $9,500 Seagull, while expanding globally with government-backed EV initiatives. Gizmodo reports: Previously, BYD had limited its driver assistance features to...
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'In-dash advertising is here and Stellantis, the parent company of Jeep, Dodge, Chrysler, and Ram, beat everyone to further enshittification,' writes longtime Slashdot reader sinij. 'Ads can be seen in this video.' From a report: In a move that has left drivers both...
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Bryan Poerwo has announced the availability of EndeavourOS 2025.02.08, code-named 'Mercury', a significant update of the project's desktop Linux distribution based on Arch Linux: 'The 'Mercury' ISO image ships...
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TL;DR: Stabilize your shaky footage with VideoProc's AI-powered video-editing tools, now $29.97 (reg. $119) with code PROCLIFETIME through February 23. Did you just get back from a backpacking trip across Vietnam or finally sorting through your summer content from Italy?You...
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Dammit, that was our job here at The Reg. Now if you get a task you don't understand, you may assume AI has the answers Some knowledge workers risk becoming over-reliant on generative AI and their problem-solving skills may decline as a result, according to a study penned by ...
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With TikTok's U.S. ban temporarily paused, the company is encouraging Android users to sideload its app by downloading it directly from TikTok.com as an APK file, bypassing the Google Play Store. TechCrunch reports: The Android app download is being made available as an...
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AI-powered business software website Odoo was named “the most captivating AI-powered tool online” by eDiscovery firm Reveal. Odoo received an average visit duration of 17 minutes and 37 seconds between October and December 2024, according to Reveal; this was more than...
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