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Friday September 5, 2025. 12:00 PM
Garbage bags are being thrown out a White House window, or so a popular video seems to show. “Probably AI generated,” said President Trump in a Tuesday press conference. Earlier, a White House official suggested to TIME magazine that the video was real and showed a...
Sources say decision to pull products takes effect from end of 2025 Exclusive Huawei's product portfolio in Britain is about to shrink again with suppliers informed that its battery energy storage systems (BESS) are to be discontinued locally by the end of 2025.…
JavaScript is the most egalitarian of languages. It is the common tongue of the Internet, with the lowest bar to entry. Just hit F12 in the browser, and there you go—you’re programming in JavaScript! Despite (or maybe because of) its ease of use, JavaScript also has one...
Shortly after Reuters broke the news that Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, had signed a $10 billion, multiyear cloud deal with Google, a CIO friend called me with some questions: “David, should we be doing something like this? Are these mega prepurchase...
Affinity Learning Partnership warns staff after Intradev breach A major UK education trust has warned staff that their personal information may have been compromised following a cyberattack on software developer Intradev in August.…
Bickering continued despite mess putting cancer patients at risk On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column in which we share your tech support stories.…
Amazon's Project Kuiper has landed its first airline deal with JetBlue and plans to offer satellite-powered in-flight Wi-Fi starting in 2027. The Verge reports: Yesterday, Amazon's Panos Panay showed off a speed test using an 'enterprise-grade customer terminal' (aka, dish)...
Fixes typos, creates timebombs AI coding assistants allow developers to move fast and break things, which may not be ideal.…
Lands a fourth giant customer for bespoke AI accelerators Broadcom has impressed investors by posting record revenues but admitted it has sold a lot of shelfware to VMware customers.…
The 14-inch ThinkBook VertiFlex Concept has a screen you can manually twist whenever the mood strikes.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Fine-particulate air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia by triggering the formation of toxic clumps of protein that destroy nerve cells as they spread through the brain, research suggests. Exposure to the...
Rideshare giant also reveals 350-petabyte data lake it protects with tech adapted from Airbnb Uber’s Indian arm has started using its app to offer rideshare and delivery drivers the chance to make a Rupee by classifying data used by AI systems.…
Industry interest has been piqued by AI browsers, which promote the idea that users can organize everything all in one place, instead of in multiple disparate tabs, and call on the assistance of AI agents to help. Atlassian is making a play in this nascent space, with plans...
In a landmark collaboration across 22 labs, neuroscientists have created the first brain-wide map of decision-making in mice, tracking over 620,000 neurons across nearly 280 brain regions. They found that decision-making is distributed much more broadly than previously...
An Indiana bankruptcy lawyer named Mark Zuckerberg is suing Meta after his Facebook page was repeatedly shut down for 'impersonating' CEO Mark Zuckerberg, despite being his real legal name. TechCrunch reports: Mark Zuckerberg the lawyer uses a commercial Facebook page to...
In January, assumptions around AI were shaken up by DeepSeek, a small Chinese company that nobody had heard of. This week it was Switzerland’s turn to stir things up. Apertus (Latin for ‘open’) is a brand new large language model (LLM) that its creators, a group of...
Warner Bros. Discovery has filed a major copyright lawsuit against Midjourney, accusing the AI image generator of exploiting its movies and TV shows to train models and generate near-identical reproductions of iconic characters like Batman, Bugs Bunny, and Rick and Morty....
In 'Go North, Young Turtle,' adventure and nature journalist Adam Skolnick explains how eastern Pacific green sea turtles, once hunted to the brink of extinction, are adapting to urban Southern California habitats, from San Diego Bay to Los Angeles waterways. I recently...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Popular Science: According to a new medical survey, scrolling on your smartphone while using the toilet may dramatically increase your risk of hemorrhoids. The evidence is laid out in a study published on September 3 in the journal...
Because nobody's going to spend billions to retrain a model built on dubiously legal content Researchers have found promising new ways to have AI models ignore copyrighted content, suggesting it may be possible to satisfy legal requirements without going through the lengthy...
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