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Friday May 30, 2025. 05:44 PM
What’s a company to do when it faces a multitude of existential crises and seems unable to regain control of the media message? It throws a few dead cats on the table to distract everybody. This aeons-old approach to public relations has recently been rechristened as...
France, maintaining character, has yet to ban outdoor smoking. But it's coming soon, officials there say, with one key exemption: café terrraces. 'Tobacco must disappear where there are children,' Catherine Vautrin said in an interview published by the regional...
The University of California, San Diego, has the largest outdoor shake table, or earthquake simulator, in the world — the only one capable of testing a 10-story building. The shake table can support 2000 metric tons, or 4.5 million pounds, or about the weight of 1300 cars. ...
Yesterday, a new work by Banksy—a lighthouse formed by the shadow of a street bollard and the phrase 'I want to be what you saw in me'—was posted to the British artist/collective/persona's Instagram page. The hunt was on to find it; withing a day, it was tracked down to...
TL;DR: This Asus Chromebook CM30 is on sale for just $179.99 — that's 45% off the $329.99 regular price. The promise of Chromebooks. Feature-packed, durable, and go-anywhere There's a lot of good reasons to make this Chromebook part of your arsenal. — Read the rest The po...
The New York Times has signed a multiyear licensing deal with Amazon to provide its editorial content for use in the tech firm’s AI platforms. This is the major news outlet’s first licensing agreement focused on generative AI. The Times Chief Executive Meredith Kopit...
An intellectual property battle between two Clean Girl influencers is over, per a filing by one of the parties. Both women reviewed identical junk from Amazon in their identical off-white minimalist homes: an advertant image of gentility sold to a declining middle class...
Strip Mall is a short story by Leigh Alexander (previously) about a small town's run-down shopping drag, told entirely through Yelp reviews. There's the praise and the angry rambling you'd expect to read about venues in a deteriorating mall—and then there's something else. ...
Two hikers reported that a third member of their party died on Cascade Mountain in the Adirondacks, but it turned out they were just high. The two hikers, that is, not the guy who wasn't dead. The BBC reports on what it calls a 'backcountry saga.' — Read the rest The post...
New research reveals a surge in interest in data sovereignty among UK IT leaders since the implementation of the United States government's historic raft of tariffs in April. The study from Civo, of over 1,000 UK-based IT leaders, shows more than 60 percent now feel that the ...
Six-hundred-forty-nine in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 and 11 on the Microsoft Store and elsewhere in the past seven days. Microsoft released Windows Backup for Organizations to ease the transition...
Mozilla has decided to throw in the towel on Pocket, a social-bookmarking service that it acquired in 2017. This has left many users scrambling for a replacement for Pocket before its shutdown in July. One possible option is wallabag, a self-hostable, MIT-licensed project...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0,.NET 9.0, firefox, ghostscript, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, libsoup3, mingw-freetype, perl, ruby, sqlite, thunderbird, unbound, valkey, and xz), Debian (chromium, firefox-esr, libavif, linux-6.1, modsecurity-apache,...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released a new open MCP Server to help enterprises develop managed applications faster with the help of AI-driven agents that barely require manual intervention. The AWS Serverless MCP Server is designed to aid developers by providing AI coding...
To state the obvious: Our species has fully entered the Age of AI. And AI is here to stay. The fact that AI chatbots appear to speak human language has become a major source of confusion. Companies are making and selling AI friends, lovers, pets, and therapists. Some AI...
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released an update to the R1 reasoning AI model that took the tech world by storm when it was launched at the beginning of the year. The open-source model sent shockwaves through the AI industry as its efficient use of compute and memory...
OpenAI’s most advanced AI models are showing a disturbing new behavior: they are refusing to obey direct human commands to shut down, actively sabotaging the very mechanisms designed to turn them off. In what researchers are calling a first-of-its-kind discovery, new tests ...
In an age where every click, swipe, and search can be tracked, stored and analyzed, data privacy is no longer a luxury but a necessity. From social media profiles to medical records and financial transactions, personal information is constantly collected and processed, often ...
Scammers are already using AI-powered automation to manipulate marketing channels. We don't want to hand out a playbook for bad actors, but it's important to recognize the growing number of scams that have been enhanced by AI and automation tools. Most scams are still about...
Enterprise adoption of public cloud platforms has been skyrocketing. More than half of all enterprise workloads are now running in public clouds, with spending projected to rise by nearly a third this year alone. Many organizations are allocating more than $12 million...
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