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Thursday July 24, 2025. 08:07 PM
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella addressed growing internal unease at the company Thursday morning in a company-wide memo that acknowledged the 'uncertainty and seeming incongruence' of conducting layoffs while achieving record profits and AI investments. The tech giant has...
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Google, continuing its proud tradition of pulling digital rug pulls, has announced it's killing off its URL shortener service because apparently maintaining perfectly functional tools is boring. As reported by Google's own developer blog, it's giving users until August 2025...
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Boffins insist your deepfake tracking tech won't work Computer scientists with the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, say they've developed a way to remove watermarks embedded in AI-generated images.…
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Time Flies, by Michael Frei and Raphaël Munoz, is a 'a little adventure about our limited time in this world.' The website, timeflies.buzz, features some outstanding pixel-art minimalism and animation in the same style as the game's trailer, embedded below. — Read the rest ...
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Aqua Security’s Nautilus research team has identified a new Linux malware called 'Koske' which may be the first publicly documented case of AI-assisted malware. Disguised as innocent Jpeg images of pandas, Koske delivers cryptominers and a stealth rootkit using code that...
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Your next flu vaccine might be administered by your dentist, according to a new study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering. Harvinder Gill, an engineer at North Carolina State University specializing in nanomedicine, theorized that the highly permeable tissue of the...
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A Chinese inventor with no medical training is charging cancer patients $20,000 to inject highly concentrated chlorine dioxide -- a toxic bleach solution -- directly into their tumors, and is working with a former pharmaceutical executive to bring the unproven treatment to...
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Noted birthday card author and artist Donald Trump is feeling the pressure. 'They're going to accuse me of some funny business,' Trump reportedly said recently in the Oval Office, according to a Republican with close ties to the White House who personally heard the...
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Verizon and AT&T customers can now buy D2C connections à la carte from the magenta monster T-Mobile's Starlink-to-cellphone service is now out of beta – and the company is using the opportunity to woo customers from other providers by offering à la carte satellite...
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If you need some uplifting and heartwarming content today, head over to the Instagram account 'Mini Therapy Horses,' which features eensy equine empaths adorably doing their very best work in a variety of settings like children's hospitals, veterans' hospitals, courts,...
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I really love artwork by Doug Geiger, who uses bananas — yes, actual real, fresh bananas — as a canvas, and a tattoo machine, sans ink, as a drawing instrument in a technique he calls 'banana scrimshaw.' These simple tools result in beautiful engravings that are...
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Terry Bolea, also known as Hulk Hogan and famed for wrestling, racism, sex tapes, etc., is dead at 71. He suffered a heart attack this morning at his home in Florida. Known for red and yellow outfits, 'Real American' entrance music, and army of 'Hulkamaniac' fans, he...
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Let the games begin Ransomware has officially entered the Microsoft SharePoint exploitation ring.…
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That helpful chatbot you’re consulting for salary advice could be leading you astray — especially if you’re a woman or a member of a minority group. Researchers led by Ivan P. Yamshchikov, a professor at the Technical University of Applied Sciences...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Surveys show that the increasing number of extreme climate events, including floods, wildfires and hurricanes, has not raised awareness of the threats posed by climate change. Instead, people change their idea of what they see as normal....
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In a landmark ruling, the International Court of Justice declared that failure to act on climate change can be an “internationally wrongful act”—meaning countries could face legal consequences for harming the planet.
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So says a study by boffins at Carnegie Mellon University Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have likened today's large language model (LLM) chatbots to 'that friend who swears they're great at pool but never makes a shot' - having found that their virtual...
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South Park celebrated its 27th season premiere and parent company Paramount's capitulation with a hilarious mocking AI video of a beleaguered Trump stripping down and examining his tiny appendage. 'When things heat up, who will deliver us from temptation? Donald J. —...
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Massive mobile device tracking data has exposed the interconnected network of Myanmar's expanding scam centers, revealing how trafficked workers circulate between compounds despite February crackdowns. Analysis of 4.9 million location records from 11,930 mobile devices...
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Security flaws in Airportr, a door-to-door luggage checking service used by 10 airlines, let hackers access user data and even gain privileges that would have let them redirect or steal luggage.
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