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Monday December 15, 2025. 09:34 AM
Superintelligence has become 'a quasi-political forecast' with 'very little to do with any scientific consensus, emerging instead from particular corridors of power.' That's the warning from James O'Sullivan, a lecturer in digital humanities from University College Cork. In...
One keypress turned a tricky Windows NT balancing act into a life of leisure Who, Me? After a weekend of R&R, The Register welcomes you back to the working week with a new installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you confess to workplace errors and ...
That’s just one of 16 innovative and experimental sats that launched Sunday Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is celebrating after the successful Sunday launch of its Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration No. 4, which is packed with 16 intriguing...
'A SpaceX executive says a satellite deployed from a Chinese rocket risked colliding with a Starlink satellite,' reports PC Magazine: On Friday, company VP for Starlink engineering, Michael Nicolls, tweeted about the incident and blamed a lack of coordination from the...
Roomba manufacturer iRobot filed for bankruptcy today, reports Bloomberg. After 35 years, iRobot reached a 'restructuring support agrement that will hand control of the consumer robot maker to Shenzhen PICEA Robotics Co, its main supplier and lender, and Santrum Hong Kong...
PLUS: Drugs found in ink cartridges; Chinse censorship fighters criticize Vultr; Coupang CEO resigns; And more! Asia In Brief A SpaceX executive has claimed that a Chinese satellite launch came within 200 meters of hitting a Starlink satellite.…
'As Australia began enforcing a world-first social media ban for children under 16 years old this week, Denmark is planning to follow its lead,' reports the Associated Press, 'and severely restrict social media access for young people.' The Danish government announced last...
The Wall Street Journal reports that 68% of CEOs 'plan to spend even more on AI in 2026, according to an annual survey of more than 350 public-company CEOs from advisory firm Teneo.' And yet 'less than half of current AI projects had generated more in returns than they had...
PLUS: Crims could burn your AI budgets thanks to weak defaults; CISA's top 25 vulns for 2025; And more Infosec In Brief The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has found that cyber-deception tactics such as honeypots and decoy accounts designed to fool attackers can...
Sunday December 14, 2025. 11:59 PM
An anonymous reader shared this report from the BBC: A billionaire investor keen on buying TikTok's US operations has told the BBC he has been left in limbo as the latest deadline for the app's sale looms. The US has repeatedly delayed the date by which the platform's...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Los Angeles Times: Popular podcast host Steven Bartlett has used an AI clone to launch a new kind of content aimed at the 13 million followers of his podcast 'Diary of a CEO.' On YouTube, his clone narrates '100 CEOs With...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Los Angeles Times: Popular podcast host Steven Bartlett has used an AI clone to launch a new kind of content aimed at the 13 million followers of his podcast 'Diary of a CEO.' On YouTube, his clone narrates '100 CEOs With...
AI 'has gutted entry-level roles in the tech industry,' reports Rest of World. One student at a high-ranking engineering college in India tells them that among his 400 classmates, 'fewer than 25% have secured job offers... there's a sense of panic on the campus.' Students at ...
'Polar bears are still sadly expected to go extinct this century,' with two-thirds of the population gone by 2050,' says the lead researcher on a new study from the University of East Anglia in Britain. But their research also suggests polar bears 'are rapidly rewiring their ...
America's solar industry 'just delivered another huge quarter,' reports Electrek, 'installing 11.7 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity in Q3 2025. That makes it the third-largest quarter on record and pushes total solar additions this year past 30 GW...' According to the new 'US...
Nonprofit Code.org released its 2025 State of AI & Computer Science Education report this week with a state-by-state analysis of school policies complaining that '0 out of 50 states require AI+CS for graduation.' But meanwhile, at the college level, 'Purdue University will...
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said Friday he was moving to file a bipartisan bill to repeal Section 230 of America's Communications Decency Act. 'The law prevents most civil suits against users or services that are based on what others say,' explains an EFF blog post....
These compact walking pads fit under your desk and make staying active so much easier.
The innovative smart baby monitor ecosystem adds a tablet to its lineup. Is it worth overlooking some quirks?
Stay strong, fair-weather friends—you can keep biking to work even through the darkest, coldest days.
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