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Monday December 16, 2024. 07:48 PM
Since 2012, five Wikipedia editors have been imprisoned – and one executed – for the crime of contributing to the world's largest online encyclopedia. In Saudi Arabia, editor Osama Khalid received a 32-year prison sentence in 2022 for making edits 'critical about the...
AI is everywhere, but from where I sit, there are some strong signals that suggest the road to AI Everywhere is going to be a long-distance endurance race, rather than a sprint. While these tools are seeing a lot of use since ChatGPT burst upon the scene, they are also...
A gentleman in a truck confronted a bull elk standing in the middle of a road and asked the creature if he wanted to fight. Hence, the bull took him up on his kind offer, using one of his sharp antler's to pop the man's tire. — Read the rest The post Man threatens bull...
Automations empowered by artificial intelligence are reshaping the business landscape. They give companies the capability to connect with, guide, and care for customers in more efficient ways, resulting in streamlined processes that are less costly to support. However,...
Nothing exposes human folly quite like our willingness to pay more for something simply because it costs more. These 'Veblen goods,' named after economist Thorstein Veblen who first mapped this peculiar behavior, reveal how deeply status-seeking is wired into our psyche. —...
As we navigate an increasingly digital landscape, the threats posed by cybercriminals are evolving at an alarming pace. The latest predictions highlight a future where AI-driven technologies, particularly deep fakes, will become more sophisticated, making it challenging for...
When a software developer's test program ran wild overnight, he arrived at work to find security guards waiting – and a test account mysteriously filled with a fortune. The incident was reported in The Register's 'Who, Me?' Monday morning feature, 'in which we share tales ...
A scammer posing as MSNBC host Ari Melber has reportedly swindled a former Boeing and University of Washington employee out of $20,000. And her family fears the con ain't over yet. 73-year-old Patricia Taylor, a 'huge fan of Ari Melber's,' allegedly fell into a relationship ...
The lightweight Linux distribution PorteuX has launched version 1.8, delivering huge updates across multiple desktop environments and a modern alternative to Windows 11. The release introduces the newly released Xfce 4.20, a sleek and efficient desktop environment, alongside ...
Michael Conahan, formerly a judge in Pennsylvania, was jailed for 17 years for selling young offenders to private prisons to be used as forced labour. His sentence was commuted by outgoing President Joe Biden last week, to widespread dismay. Politico gave an administration...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is hitting a turning point as companies like OpenAI tackle significant challenges like skyrocketing energy use and spiraling costs by focusing on smarter, more efficient systems that think a bit more like humans. Among the issues they’re facing ...
TL;DR: Want to stay toasty warm this winter? Check out now to save 58% on this Helios heated scarf. Are you dreaming of a white Christmas? You might be lucky and get some snow for the holidays, but regardless if you do, you're probably starting (or already) feeling the winter...
Eight passengers were injured, one of them critically, when driver of the 4A operated by First Bus in Glasgow decided to take his 14'4'-double decker under a 12'6' bridge. Five were transported by ambulance to a nearby hospital and three treated and released at the scene. —...
Trump advisor Alex Bruesewitz was speaking as an honored guest at the New York Young Republicans Club Gala last night when he collapsed on stage. 'I'm forgetting my words,' the 27-year-old CEO of consulting agency XStrategies said at the event, where Steve Bannon and reform...
Officials say there's no threat to the U.S. from the drones being sighted. In keeping with America's ufological traditions, it's mostly planes and planets anyway. Furthermore, there's nothing illegal or particularly menacing about flying drones at night. The investigations...
More than 139,000 TV and film scripts were converted into datasets and used to train AI models by Apple, Anthropic, Meta, and Nvidia without the knowledge of their authors, raising fears that their creative work is being used to train machines that could potentially replace...
The banking and finance sector has already seen some major changes in technology use in recent years. These show no signs of slowing down but newer developments like AI are starting to have an impact too. Here are some expert views on what may be in store for the fintech...
Could the strange lights, glowing orbs, and supposed UFO sightings in the night sky actually have a simple explanation? With the launch of the T-Mobile Starlink beta program, it’s possible that what people think are mysterious flying objects are, possibly, Starlink...
As Michel Lind mentioned back in August, we wanted to form a Special Interest Group to further the development and adoption of Btrfs in Fedora. As of yesterday, the SIG is now formed. ↫ Neal Gompa Since I’ve been using Fedora on all my machines for a while now, I’ve also...
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X processors made a splash this year with laptop owners, kicking off ARM-based Windows computing in earnest. And now there are rumors the company is developing a 'game-changing' desktop version of the chip. You can take that literally, too: Roland...
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