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Monday March 3, 2025. 12:02 PM
Why churn up roads when there's thousands of miles of disused infrastructure underfoot? Network operators laying fiber infrastructure could cut their costs by taking advantage of 'thousands of miles' of abandoned infrastructure, including gas and water pipes, according to a...
Long before TikTok refugees discovered Red Note, Candise Lin was giving Americans a portal into the wild, hilarious world of Chinese social media.
And that was on top of a £17.5M underwriting bill for insolvent UKCloud The collapse of a relatively small 'local' cloud hosting service caused 'real business continuity issues' in the UK's central government, according to one commercial lead.…
Cut off one head and 100 grow back? Decapitation may not be the way to go Opinion With Apple pulling the plug on at-rest end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for UK users, and Signal threatening to pull out of Sweden if that government demands E2EE backdoors, it's looking bleak.…
'TrapC, a fork of the C language, is being developed as a potential solution for memory safety issues that have hindered the C and C++ languages,' reports InfoWorld. But also being developed is a compiler named trapc 'intended to be implemented as a cybersecurity compiler...
Don’t trust your tired self to do rm -rf right Who, Me? Well, would you look at the calendar? It’s Monday already, and by lunchtime any fond memories of the weekend will have been erased by work worries of the sort The Register celebrates each week in “Who, Me?” –...
TL;DR: Get lifetime licenses for Microsoft Visio and Microsoft Project Pro on sale for $79.97 each until March 30 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Data visualization and project management are two very complex skills that are relevant to a lot of different industries. Being able to rock...
It’s well-built and surprisingly easy to handle but let down by Android. And stupidly expensive First Look Huawei’s triple-fold Mate XT smartphone is a classy creation that’s easy to handle even when fully extended, but disappoints because it’s ridiculously expensive ...
It's a feature-length film 'rendered on a free and open-source software platform called Blender,' reports Reuters. And it just won the Oscar for best animated feature film, beating movies from major studios like Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks. In January Blender.org called Flow ...
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost planned to work for 14 days, should be useful for years thanks to its reflector that improves on Apollo-era tech Sunday March 2nd has become a notable day in humanity’s exploration of outer space, after Firefly Aerospace became the first...
PLUS: Phishing suspects used fishing gear as alibi; Apple's 'Find My' can track PCs and Androids; and more Infosec In Brief US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly ordered US Cyber Command to pause offensive operations against Russia – as the USA’s Cybersecurity ...
What's Linux's marketshare on Steam? The Steam Survey numbers tell this story: 11/24: 2.03% 12/24: 2.29% 01/25: 2.06% 02:25: 1.45% 'The February numbers show a staggering 0.61% drop to Linux use...' reports Phoronix. But they attribute this to an sampling error: According to ...
Lenovo demonstrated 'a laptop with a foldable screen and one that can get extra battery life from solar power,' reports CNBC, emphasizing that 'These laptops are just concepts, meaning they are not commercially available.' But 'Lenovo, the world's biggest PC maker, has a...
PLUS: China bans AI leaders from visiting USA; Acer data leak suspect cuffed; and more Asia In Brief India’s top telco Reliance Jio, which boasts over 460 million subscribers, will soon introduce a cloud PC.…
If you hate the big camera bump of today’s smartphones, you’ll love the detachable lens of Xiaomi’s Modular Optical System.
Despite a January announcement that America would explore the idea of a national digital asset stockpile, the exact cryptocurrecies weren't specified. Today on social media the president posted that it would include bitcoin, ether, XRP, Solana's SOL token and Cardano's ADA,...
Sunday March 2, 2025. 11:12 PM
Earth's core 'burns with an estimated forty-four trillion watts of power,' the New Yorker reminds us — enough to 'satisfy the entire world's energy needs' with a power source that's carbon-free, ubiquitous — and unlimited. (Besides running 24 hours a day, one of geothermal...
'Thousands of buildings across the United States are staying cool with the help of cutting-edge batteries made from one of the world's simplest materials,' reports the Washington Post — ice. When electricity is cheap, the batteries freeze water. When energy costs go up,...
A 'decision science partner' at a seed-stage venture fund (who is also a cognitive-behavioral decision science author and professional poker player) explored what happens when GPT-4 Turbo converses with conspiracy theorists: Researchers have struggled for decades to develop...
Bjarne Stroustrup wants standards body to respond to memory-safety push as Rust monsters lurk at the door Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, has issued a call for the C++ community to defend the programming language, which has been shunned by cybersecurity agencies and...
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