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Monday August 11, 2025. 11:00 AM
And yes, that means (retch) catering to AI searchers The job market is queasy and since you're reading this, you need to upgrade your CV. It's going to require some work to game the poorly trained AIs now doing so much of the heavy lifting. I know you don't want to, but it's ...
A small but growing number of academics are improperly taking credit for articles, citations, and authorships, allowing them to appear prestigious without having conducted their own research.
As organizations double down on developer experience, one of the most meaningful, and technical, investments they can make is in an internal developer platform (IDP). Not the mythical one-size-fits-all “platform in a box,” but a fully composable, tailored set of tools,...
Walk into any developer conference and you’ll see a predictable parade of laptop stickers: the cloud-native darlings, the hip new database, the obligatory mascot or two. It’s the developer variation of virtue signalling or calling out one’s tribe. What you won’t...
As AI-assisted coding becomes more common, a new pattern is emerging: multi-agent workflows. A multi-agent workflow refers to using various AI agents in parallel for specific software development life cycle (SDLC) tasks, whether for planning, scaffolding, writing code,...
Wedneday Beyond Meat 'missed Wall Street estimates for second-quarter revenue,' reports Reuters. 'Consumers' growing concerns about processed foods are severely diminishing the appeal of Beyond Meat's product line, causing retailers and quick service restaurants to pull back ...
Grace Hopper and GitHub have more in common than capital letters Opinion Here are two snapshots of AI in coding in mid 2025. The CEO of GitHub, coding’s universal termite mound, says that AI is going to do all the coding and that’s a good thing. Meanwhile, real life AI...
Instructor ended up teaching a lesson in how to get away with mistakes Who, Me? Welcome once more to Who, Me? It’s The Register’s Monday column in which we celebrate your SNAFUS and rejoice in your recoveries.…
Generative AI brain fade? The impact on our brains of using technology has long been a contentious issue. Does satnav capability stop us reading maps? Since we no longer need to remember phone numbers, are we dumber in some way? This week one of our smart (and human)...
Current plan calls for Taikonaut touchdown around 2030 China’s Manned Space Engineering Network says the country’s first crewed lunar lander last week completed a comprehensive landing and takeoff verification test, bringing it closer to landing on Luna - and leaving it...
Brain the size of a planet and probably trained on Sci-Fi that’s full of anxious and depressed robots Google is aware that its Gemini AI chatbot can sometimes castigate itself harshly for failing to solve a problem and plans to fix it.…
Last week saw the 80th anniversary of a turning point in World War II: the day America dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. 'Twelve men were on that flight...' remembers the online magazine Mental Floss, adding 'Almost all had something to say after the war.' The group was...
Trump administration’s licenses come with an IOU Nvidia and AMD will reportedly be allowed to resume sales in China if they cough a license fee amounting to 15 percent of sales.…
Since 2023 the Python Software Foundation has had a Security Developer-in-Residence (sponsored by the Open Source Security Foundation's vulnerability-finding 'Alpha-Omega' project). And he's just published a new 11-page white paper about open source's 'phantom dependencies'...
PLUS: Huawei open sources its CUDA equivalent; China boosts brain-computer interfaces; Scientists to visit penguins Trump taxed; And more! Asia In Brief Indian services giant Tata Consultancy Services will shed over 10,000 staff but will give pay rises to most of those who...
'What happens when cybercriminals stop thinking small and start thinking like a Fortune 500 company?' asks a blog post from Koi Security. 'You get GreedyBear, the attack group that just redefined industrial-scale crypto theft.' '150 weaponized Firefox extensions...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Rhino Linux 2025.3 News: Fedora fights denial of service attack, NetBSD unveils new features for version 11, Ubuntu changes some command line tools for 25.10, AlmaLinux ...
Imagine this. Lightning sparks a wildfire, but 'within seconds, a satellite dish swirling overhead picks up on the anomaly and triggers an alarm,' writes the Los Angeles Times. 'An autonomous helicopter takes flight and zooms toward the fire, using sensors to locate the...
PLUS: Crypto mixer founders plead guilty; Another French telco hacked; Meta fights WhatsApp scams; And more! Infosec In Brief A critical vulnerability in the on-prem version of Trend Micro's Apex One endpoint security platform is under active exploitation, the company...
Sunday August 10, 2025. 11:25 PM
'It sounds like science fiction: a spacecraft, no heavier than a paperclip, propelled by a laser beam,' writes this report from ScienceDaily, 'and hurtling through space at the speed of light toward a black hole, on a mission to probe the very fabric of space and time and...
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