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Friday April 4, 2025. 01:42 AM
So much for Day One when it comes to the instant economic boom Trump promised his tariffs would bring. Although on the campaign trail last year Trump told Bloomberg editor John Micklethwait that his 'beautiful' tariffs would shower Americans with economic relief 'right...
Remember when Trump promised the economy would transform into a working-class paradise 'on Day One'? Apparently that schedule only applied to tax cuts for millionaires like JD Vance, who's now explaining why the rest of us need to embrace empty refrigerators for the cause. —...
Thursday April 3, 2025. 11:28 PM
There isn’t a lot to this story beyond the fact that in around 1990 I helped debug someone’s Lotus 1-2-3 set up via fax. But it’s a good reminder of how important the Zeroth Law of Debugging is (see below). Without some sort of online connection with these folks, and with...
If you’re elbow-deep in ’90s retrocomputing and maintain a fleet of your own personal seemingly identical but definitely completely different Windows 98 machines, Windows 9x QuickInstall is tailor-made just for you. It takes the root file system of an already installed...
Enterprise IT leaders are facing a double-whammy of uncertainties complicating their data center building decisions: The ever-changing realities of genAI strategies, and the back-and-forth nature of the current tariff wars pushed by the United States. “This is obviously a...
Although movement is underway to get AI to think more like humans, researchers at Elon University are exploring the reverse — how AI might reshape human thinking. A newly released university report, “Being Human in 2035: How Are We Changing in the Age of AI?” offers a...
Oh, thank heaven. Mozilla is finally doing something about the horribly messy (and sometimes confusing) data consent experience in Firefox extensions. If you’ve ever installed a Firefox add-on and been hit with some clunky, homemade data collection prompt, you’re not...
Amazon’s rollout of Alexa+, the AI-focused upgrade to its popular virtual assistant, may have some users asking, “Alexa, where are the new features?” For example, Alexa+ can’t yet order takeout on Grubhub or identify family members from its camera to remind them to...
The Rust team has announced Rust 1.86, an update of the language that now features trait upcasting, or the ability to upcast trait objects. Rust 1.86 was announced April 3. For users with a previous version of Rust, the update can be accessed via the rustup tool by running...
Microsoft is urging Office 2016 and 2019 customers to upgrade to Microsoft 365 before support ends Oct. 14, but analysts said viable alternatives are available outside Microsoft’s walled garden. “Continuing to use unsupported software can expose your organization to ...
Artificial intelligence and satellites have been deployed to track extensive infrastructure damage caused by the 7.7-magnitude earthquake to help aid workers in Myanmar. At midday on March 28, an earthquake hit Southeast Asia, collapsing buildings, dams, roads, and bridges....
Anthropic introduced Claude for Education, a new mode and initiative for integrating generative AI into higher education. Claude for Education is available now. Anthropic has also inked partnerships with Northeastern University, London School of Economics and Political...
A black lab named Pepsi couldn't help herself, zooming across a lake to chase ducks even when her dog-sitters repeatedly told her to come back. But when the pup eventually got bored and swam back to shore, she knew she had to come up with a good one to get herself out of...
The U.S. and China remain locked in a race for dominance in AI, a competition that intensified following the January launch of DeepSeek, a Chinese rival to ChatGPT. Now, the race has elevated a notch higher, with both nations ramping up efforts to develop humanoid robots...
Gary Friedman, the CEO of fancy furniture retailer Restoration Hardware, was recorded saying 'Oh shit' after someone showed him the company's collapsing stock price. It's not clear what the exact number was he was but at time time I checked it was 44% down. — Read the rest ...
TL;DR: Learn to code and get the software to do it with this Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 and The Premium Learn to Code Certification Bundle now just $55.97 (reg. $1,999). Deep down, we all know we should learn how to code. — Read the rest The post Get a coding...
TL;DR: Let this handy hidden camera detector uncover cameras, GPS trackers, bugs, and other invasions of your privacy when you're traveling and at home for just $39.99 (reg. $59). If you're on travel TikTok you may have seen videos of hidden cameras spying on travelers in ho...
Readers of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World this week sought to learn how corporate culture can affect digital transformation, wanted to know more about the rise of cloud-based ERP, and had questions about desktop-based office software. Transform Faster...
Back when I first wrote about Hyperlight, Microsoft’s minimal hypervisor, I speculated that it had a possible role as a WebAssembly-based alternative to serverless computing tools like Azure Functions, using Kubernetes as a host. So it wasn’t too surprising that...
Meet Dino, an ugly plush dinosaur that comes armed with a built-in AI chatbot that records your kid's every word. For just $249, your child can share their secrets with this knockoff Barney while you eavesdrop through an app. Let's be clear about what this is: It's literally ...
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