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Monday June 16, 2025. 12:00 PM
When it comes to the fights of the moment, certain people perform better in some arenas than others. It's time to find out what kind of brawler you are.
At a time of fleeting memes and cultural platforms operated by multibillion-dollar companies, an old mode of creativity and community-building gets a second life.
Scandal-hit IT giant said it wouldn't take on new UK.gov contracts or continue bidding on existing ones unless asked Exclusive The Northern Ireland government did not ask Fujitsu to continue bidding for a £125 million ($167 million) contract, yet the Japanese tech giant to...
On a mission to deliver an EV with long range but at low cost, Kia has high ambitions for this uniquely styled sedan.
An investigational drug developed by Eolo Pharma is showing promise in animal experiments and an early human trial. It could eventually be an alternative or add-on to popular GLP-1 medications.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Not a problem with AI hype Opinion Among the forever wars in geekdom, defining the difference between science fiction and fantasy is a hot potato destined to outlive the heat death of the universe.…
Custom text fields can be a powerful form of protest Who, Me? The only certainties in life are death, taxes … and tech causing trouble, a topic that The Register covers each week in this reader-contributed column we call “Who, Me?” that celebrates the moments you made...
KDE isn't the only organization reaching out to ' as Microsoft prepares to end support for Windows 10. 'Now, The Document Foundation, maker of LibreOffice, has also joined in to support the Endof10 initiative,' reports the tech blog Neowin: The foundation writes: 'You don't...
Promises operational change - and improvements to customer comms when it crashes Google Cloud has explained the massive outage it created last week and, as has happened many times previously, admitted that it broke itself.…
German giant wants case heard in Germany, not the USA German giant Siemens AG has tried to convince a US court to throw out the case in which VMware alleged it used unlicensed software.…
Spain's newspaper El Pais found an entire fake album on YouTube titled Rumba Congo (1973). And they cite a study from France's International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers that estimated revenue from AI-generated music will rise to $4 billion in 2028,...
PLUS: APNIC completes re-org; India cuts costs for chipmakers; Infosys tax probe ends; and more Asia In Brief Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) last week announced charges against four suspects for alleged participation in a money-laundering scheme that involved a security...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Bloomberg: Amazon's hard-line stance on getting disabled employees to return to the office has sparked a backlash, with workers alleging the company is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act as well as their rights to...
In Tokyo Mitsubishi is deploying 'an innovative new battery swap network for electric cars' in a multi-year test program reports the EV news site Electrek. But it's not just for electric cars. Along with the 14 modular battery swapping stations, Mitsubishi is also deploying...
Timothy B. Lee has written for the Washington Post, Vox.com, and Ars Technica — and now writes a Substack blog called 'Understanding AI.' This week he visits recent research by computer scientists and legal scholars from Stanford, Cornell, and West Virginia University that...
PLUS: Discord invite links may not be safe; Miscreants find new way to hide malicious JavaScript; and more! Infosec In Brief A pair of Congressional Democrats have demanded a review of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program amid uncertainties about continued...
Sunday June 15, 2025. 11:29 PM
Meta and AWS have used Rust, and Netflix uses Go,reports the programming news site InfoQ. But using another language, Apple recently 'migrated its global Password Monitoring service from Java to Swift, achieving a 40% increase in throughput, and significantly reducing memory ...
NPR looks at the 'high-quality, climate-friendly apartments' in Vienna, asking if it's a model for addressing both climate change and the housing crisis. About half the city's 2 million people live in the widespread (and government-supported) apartments, with solar panels on ...
A chain of stores called Home Bargains installed facial recognition software to spot returning shoplifters. Unfortunately, 'Facewatch' made a mistake. 'We acknowledge and understand how distressing this experience must have been,' an anonymous Facewatch spokesperson tells...
The state of New York is 'asking companies to disclose whether AI is the reason for their layoffs,' reports Entrepreneur: The move applies to New York State's existing Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) system and took effect in March, Bloomberg reported....
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