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Monday September 2, 2024. 08:10 PM
Despite reports to the contrary, Microsoft has stated that Recall will not be uninstallable after all. The feature did show up in the Windows Features dialog, but apparently, that was a bug. “We are aware of an issue where Recall is incorrectly listed as an option under...
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Notorious for a hardworking culture, Japan launched an initiative to help people cut back. But three years into the effort, the country is having a hard time coaxing people to take a four-day workweek. From a report: Japanese lawmakers first proposed a shorter work week in...
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On Sunday, Elon Musk recently reposted a 4chan argument claiming that only 'high T alpha males' and 'aneurotypical people' are capable of critical thinking: People who can't defend themselves physically (women and low T men) parse information through a consensus filter as a ...
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VP Adam Meyers to testify about that faulty software update which ruined July and some of August Crowdstrike is to be hauled before the US House Homeland Security Committee this month to explain why its faulty software update - the one that took down millions of computer...
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Best use of AI voice cloning yet: Sir David Attenborough reveals the Cybertruck's parasitic nature and its lamprey-like attachment to flatbed trailers.  From the transcript: Here we see the Cybertruck has formed a peculiar symbiotic relationship with the larger flatbed...
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Google executive James Manyika has warned that AI's impact on productivity is not guaranteed [Editor's note: the link may be paywalled], despite predictions of trillion-dollar economic potential. From the report: 'Right now, everyone from my old colleagues at McKinsey Global ...
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A California man visiting Las Vegas says the trip was ruined after a poisonous scorpion stung him under his shorts — and he is now suing the Venetian Resort for ruining his sex life. 'It felt like a sharp glass or a knife' and 'like somebody stabbing me in my private...
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The United Kingdom today announced that it was suspending 'some' arms exports to Israel, stating that it understood the weapons may be used to break international law. Reuters reports that 30 of 350 outstanding contracts are being blocked. The UK is the world's...
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CEO Pavel Durov charged in France, messaging platform insists it abides by EU laws Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, who was cuffed and charged by the French police last week, was 'too free' in his approach to managing the global messaging platform, according to Russia's foreign...
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In an interview this weekend, insurrectionist Donald Trump forgot he sent a mob to the Capitol to 'hang Mike Pence.' In what seems like another attempt to dodge debating Kamala Harris, the Orange Menace claims she was mean to Pence during the Vice-Presidential debates. —...
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It's a pity the very unfair government forced Donald to shut down his great Trump University, which many have said is the greatest University of the 21st century, maybe of all time. If it were still running, students and Princeton and MIT would be joining the very long,...
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The Goliath Power Saber is what every Star Wars fan has wanted for nearly 40 years—a lit-up, automatically extending and retracting light saber toy. Amazingly, Hasbro licensed the inventor's design and spent years developing it as an official Star Wars product only to...
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schwit1 shares a report: If you are reading this and live in America, or used to live in America, or maybe just went to America one time many years ago, then you are almost certainly performing unpaid labor for the U.S. government and have been for years. How? By storing...
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At this year's GUADEC in Denver, Colorado, Behdad Esfahbod and Matthias Clasen presented a two-part talk on a topic that's deeply important to desktop environments: fonts. Esfahbod covered advances in font technology that are making their way to becoming standards, and...
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King Trump, emboldened by his newfound presidential immunity granted by the Trump-picked Supreme Court, seems to admit he interfered with the 2020 election. And, as he told Fox host Mark Levin, he had 'every right' to do it. 'It's so crazy that my poll numbers go up. — Read t...
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Meanwhile, strange noises emanate from Starliner NASA has confirmed the names of the two crew members who will be flying to the International Space Station (ISS) on the next SpaceX mission: NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov.…
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Microsoft's Windows 11 operating system has surpassed Windows 10 usage for Steam users for the first time since its launch in 2021. From a report: Windows 10 has been holding strong in recent years, despite Microsoft's plans to end support for Windows 10 in October 2025....
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TL;DR: This lightweight Hiker Medic Med Pack is on sale for just $27.99 (reg. $34.95) for a limited time. Ever found yourself on a trail, heart pounding, wishing you'd packed a little more than just your snacks? All it takes is a gnarly fall, a twisted ankle, or a blister...
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Download the September 2024 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World.
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Contrary to The Economist's volitional disinterest in its history, Germany's hard right territory is in fact charted. Why, here's an actual chart: Previously:• 'Who Goes Nazi?' This 1941 spot-the-fascist game could come in handy soon• Wolfenstein: 30+ years of killing...
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