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Rockstar Games and delays go together like GTA and media scandals – understandable, perhaps, given the immense amount of work that goes into crafting every richly detailed release, but fans have learned not to trust initial projections. Remember when Red Dead Redemption 2...

Windows 11 offers a familiar environment for users, but it’s not without its share of frustrations, particularly regarding performance issues and resource consumption on older hardware. Microsoft's updates frequently add new problems while fixing old ones, which is another ...

Researchers from the University of Auckland in New Zealand spotted something unusual in the waters of the Hauraki Gulf, off the island of Kawau. It was a short-fin mako shark, but something was on its head. They worried the shark might be injured, so they used a drone and an ...

We're running out of things we can safely enjoy. According to a pilot study presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), earlier this year, chewing on just one stick of gum is enough to release thousands of bits of microplastic into our saliva. — Read the re...

When the authors of 'How Fascism Works' and 'On Tyranny' feel it's time to get out of Dodge, you know things are bad. According to a report from The Toronto Star, three standout professors, employed by Yale University are picking up stakes and moving North of the Wall. —...

I will say, competitive typing is a term I never expected to have to use use, but here we are. With most of triple-A gaming falling into the same niches (explore, loot, craft, repeat), it's been up to the indie sphere to innovate in recent years – and upcoming battle royale...

Masterful gambit, sir. Twitter has been sold off yet again, with it leaving Elon Musk's hands to… end up back in Elon Musk's hands. Rather than selling it off to an outside buyer after its dramatic decline in value, Musk merged it with his own AI company, xAI, creating sort o...

As the influence of artificial intelligence and generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT in society continues to expand, concerns have mounted about their potential to displace workers. Given that OpenAI primarily designed its chatbot for writing, journalism jobs were believed to ...

No business is immune from the threat of cyberattack, but when it comes to protecting their most critical and sensitive data many feel they are inadvertently helping attackers through the leaking information. We spoke to Paul Laudanski, director of security research...

When things go wrong with a Windows 11 device, downtime is not only frustrating but also expensive. In a bid to reduce the time lost to computer issues, Microsoft has launched Quick Machine Recovery, a new automated tool for addressing problems. The tool is undergoing...

Last week I talked up OpenTofu—and for good reason. The Terraform fork has moved beyond being the darling of the infrastructure-as-code (IaC) community to becoming a real, if early, enterprise contender. However, in so doing, I inadvertently threw shade at the market...

Kubernetes is mighty powerful but highly complex. This has influenced many organizations to ditch self-hosted solutions and move toward more fully managed Kubernetes platforms. Nearly 90% of Kubernetes users use cloud-managed services, DataDog reported in 2021. The top cloud ...

Ever feel like you’re spending more time squashing bugs than actually building something? You’re not alone—developers spend a whopping 35% of their time debugging and reviewing code instead of writing it. That’s like ordering pizza and only eating the crust. Enter...

Your weekly round-up of the questions asked by readers of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World sees Smart Answers offering advice on how IT security certifications help career advancement; how can companies overcome the complexity of S/4HANA migration...