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Friday March 14, 2025. 12:55 PM
The most important decision in global technology is being made by a single UK judge in a small room, a decision happening in near-total privacy with no transparency at all. What’s at stake is the use of data encryption, personal privacy, and the huge risk of being forced...
Q and Z (formerly at Panix) is a hidden pillar of the old web, converting text to appear to be upside-down, in a
Passwords are an essential part of our digital lives, yet many people still use weak or simple combinations of letters and numbers that can be cracked in just a few seconds. A new report from Safety Detectives, based on analysis of a 2.5TB database containing passwords...
Max Fosh may be reaching terminal levels of silly. As one of the few actually funny YouTube pranksters remaining, Fosh has become his best friend's grandfather, grown fish from supermarket caviar, and served insects to food critics, but now his particular brand of silliness...
It's March already and you haven't patched? Researchers are tracking a newly discovered ransomware group with suspected links to LockBit after a series of intrusions were reported starting in January.…
Pi is an irrational number, and like some irrational people it just goes on and on. What is it with this crazy, crucial number?
Mochi the mountain tapir—one of only three of the critically endangered creatures in the entire United States—celebrated his 26th birthday last month! Mochi lives at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, CO, which is one of only two zoos in the United States...
A Toronto LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) has denied that it recently displayed Wayne Gretzky Estate-brand wine bottles with altered labels. Photos of the supposed labels—which disparage the Canadian former NHL star because of Gretzky's embracing of Trump—appeared ...
If you've been around for a minute, you may remember Twitch Plays Pokemon, a social experiment turned genuine phenomenon that tasked thousands of people with collectively beating a single game of Pokemon Red. The project spawned dozens of successors and even got a nod from...
Increasing amounts of regulation are creating an issue for businesses as they seek to ensure compliance whilst still delivering on their core activities. This is leading many to boost the size of their security teams. We spoke to Jay Trinckes, CISO of Thoropass, who believes ...
Breakthrough Energy, the climate group founded by Bill Gates, has laid off dozens of employees in the U.S. and Europe, eliminating its public policy and partnerships teams as it shifts away from advocacy work. Its investment and grantmaking divisions will remain unaffected....
The UK, France, Sweden, and EU have made fresh attacks on end-to-end encryption. Some of the attacks are more “crude” than those in recent years, experts say.
If you haven’t read Joseph Heller’s masterpiece, Catch-22, I highly recommend you do. The Catch-22 in the novel is this: “A combat pilot was crazy by definition (he would have to be crazy to fly combat missions) and since army regulations stipulated that insanity...
Intel’s appointment of semiconductor veteran Lip-Bu Tan as CEO marks a critical moment for the company and its enterprise customers. With rising competition from AMD, Arm-based chips, and RISC-V alternatives, Intel faces mounting pressure to defend its x86 dominance. While ...
Mooney M20 propeller plane hit mountain in Slovenia amid bad weather One of the initial backers of infamous torrenting site The Pirate Bay, Carl Lundström, has died after crashing his aircraft in bad weather.…
Llama, a family of sort-of open-source large language models (LLMs), was introduced in February 2023, and has been updated periodically ever since. Llama shook up the world of LLMs, which had previously been dominated by ever-larger closed-source models from OpenAI and...
The same chap also caused a bomb scare in a missile factory On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column in which we share your astounding tales of being asked to tackle tech support jobs that seemingly defy common sense.…
Ratification of 128 additional moons puts the smaller gas giant way ahead on satellite count The International Astronomical Union on Tuesday ratified the recent discovery of 128 previously unknown moons orbiting Saturn, taking the gas giant’s count of known natural...
A new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Planets reveals that atmospheric gravity waves play a crucial role in driving latitudinal air currents on Mars, particularly at high altitudes. Phys.Org reports: The study applied methods developed to explore...
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