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A few weeks after announcing plans for a different approach to account verification, X rival Bluesky has quietly launched the feature. The decentralized social media platform has now started to open up verification to users. While any individuals or organizations can apply...
The Snipping Tool app has proved itself to be one of the most useful and impressive utilities to be found in Windows 11. Microsoft has slowly worked to create something genuinely impressive; there have been some omissions, however. One such oversight is the lack of support...
Annoyed at poor or missing salary increase offer as Brit telco pays out dividend BT is facing a revolt over pay from its line managers, with unions complaining today about the telco giant dishing out increased dividends to shareholders from its fiscal 2025 earnings.…
For once, the IT department was rewarded for finding the fix, and the perfect-if-unexpected fixer On Call Welcome to a fresh instalment of On-Call, The Register’s reader-contributed column in which you share your tales of tech support triumph, and we try to retell them in...
Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a bizarre planet in the Nu Octantis binary star system that orbits in reverse between two stars -- one of which is now a white dwarf. This retrograde orbit, once thought impossible, defies traditional planetary formation models and ...
Says it will serve half of humanity but testing that claim produced a hilarious ChatGPT fail Stargate, the Open AI led consortium that aims to build giant AI datacenters, has picked the United Arab Emirates as its first non-US destination.…
Since last year, it has been possible to summarize texts and adjust the tone of your writing in Notepad, using Microsoft’s AI tool Copilot. In the latest beta version of Notepad (11.2504.46.0), it is also possible to create new texts from a text prompt. You can then edit...
Swedish fintech company Klarna this week presented an updated quarterly report with the help of an AI version of the company’s CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski. TechCrunch reports that the presentation itself did not attract much attention online, but in the video, Klarna...
Consumer affairs Minister is not happy with Uber for following local players with this scheme to encourage rapid pickups India’s consumer affairs minister has criticized Uber for adding a feature that allows users to tip their driver before a trip as an incentive to take a ...
Anthropic has introduced its next generation of Claude models, Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, which the company said set new standards for coding, advanced reasoning, and AI agents. Both are hybrid reasoning models, offering the expected near-instant responses as well as ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phys.Org: Neuroscientists and materials scientists have created contact lenses that enable infrared vision in both humans and mice by converting infrared light into visible light. Unlike infrared night vision goggles, the contact...
The U.S. unsealed charges against 16 individuals behind DanaBot, a malware-as-a-service platform responsible for over $50 million in global losses. 'The FBI says a newer version of DanaBot was used for espionage, and that many of the defendants exposed their real-life...
Valve has officially pushed SteamOS 3.7.8 to the Stable channel, and it’s a hefty one. After months of development in the beta lane, the refreshed version of the Arch-based operating system is finally ready for primetime. This release brings a number of notable...
And the associated fraud'n'spy botnet is about to be shut down The US Department of Justice has unsealed indictments against 16 people accused of spreading and using the DanaBot remote-control malware that infected more than 300,000 computers, plus operating a botnet of the...
AT&T is buying CenturyLink's consumer fiber broadband division for $5.75 billion, 'giving the internet provider another 1.1 million fiber customers in 11 states,' reports Ars Technica. 'The all-cash deal is expected to close during the first half of 2026 assuming the...
If it ain't broke? A suspected Chinese government spy group is behind the rash of attacks that exploit two Ivanti bugs that can be chained together to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE), according to analysts at threat intelligence outfit EclecticIQ.…
Fentanyl is the ultimate drug dealer's dream but the worst possible choice for users, as revealed in a new Kurzgesagt video examining why this deadly opioid has become America's most lethal illegal drug. Despite being 50 times more potent than heroin, fentanyl delivers an...
A group of Bathurst Street business owners in Toronto is using AI-generated personas to oppose a proposed bus lane project that would eliminate parking spaces in favor of faster transit. 'This may be the first Toronto transit controversy involving angry AI, but tensions have ...
Blackmailed teen allegedly scared into carving his handle onto her arm The FBI has filed an affidavit detailing how it identified a US Navy man who was allegedly distributing child sex abuse material (CSAM) through Discord.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Anthropic's newly launched Claude Opus 4 model frequently tries to blackmail developers when they threaten to replace it with a new AI system and give it sensitive information about the engineers responsible for the...
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