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Sunday December 28, 2025. 12:00 PM
The battle for AI dominance has left a large footprint—and it’s only getting bigger and more expensive.
Questions around the reliability of the US greenback are dulling the luster of what was the world’s currency of trade. New, global alternatives are emerging.
Hotel guests get a blast from the past courtesy of classic Windows BSOD BORK!BORK!BORK! Today's bork belongs in the dim and distant past – a reminder of when Windows had proper crash screens.…
'I believe artificial intelligence will displace workers at a scale many people don't yet realize,' says Sal Kahn (founder/CEO of the nonprofit Khan Academy). But in an op-ed in the New York Times he also proposes a solution that 'could change the trajectory of the lives of...
In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics.
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Wall Street Journal: Sending drones and robots into battle, rather than humans, has become a tenet of modern warfare. Nowhere does that make more sense than in the frozen expanses of the Arctic. But the closer you get to the...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Engadget: OpenAI is looking for a new Head of Preparedness who can help it anticipate the potential harms of its models and how they can be abused, in order to guide the company's safety strategy. It comes at the end of a year...
An anonymous Slashdot reader shared this story from Interesting Engineering: Cybersecurity specialists from the research group DARKNAVY have demonstrated how modern humanoid robots can be compromised and weaponised through weaknesses in their AI-driven control systems. In a...
Saturday December 27, 2025. 11:34 PM
Phoronix reports on 'an exciting post-Christmas patch series out on the Linux kernel mailing list' proposing 'a new runtime standby ABI that is similar in nature to the 'Modern Standby' functionality found with Microsoft Windows...' Modern Standby is a low-power mode on...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: Two NATO-nation intelligence services suspect Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to target Elon Musk's Starlink constellation with destructive orbiting clouds of shrapnel, with the aim of reining ...
NVIDIA has been 'gradually dropping support for older videocards,' notes Hackaday, 'with the Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs most recently getting axed.' 'What's more surprising is the terrible way that this is being handled by certain Linux distributions, with Arch Linux currently a ...
Waymo explained this week that its self-driving car technology is already 'designed to handle dark traffic signals,' and successfully handled over 7,000 last Saturday during San Francisco's long power outage, properly treating those intersections as four-way stops. But while ...
The nonprofit Open Source Initiative offers 'enriched' license pages with 'relevant metadata to provide deeper insights and better support'. So which pages got the most pageviews in 2025? The MIT license, Apache 2.0 license, BSD licenses (3-clause and 2-clause), and GNU...
The 2011 meltdown at Fukushima's nuclear plant 'was the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986,' CNN remembers. But this week Japanese authorities 'have approved a decision to restart the world's biggest nuclear power plant,' reports CNN, 'which has sat...
The 2011 meltdown at Fukushima's nuclear plant 'was the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986,' CNN remembers. But this week Japanese authorities 'have approved a decision to restart the world's biggest nuclear power plant,' reports CNN, 'which has sat...
Money gifts burning a hole in your pocket? These deals on WIRED-tested gadgets and gizmos will stretch your dollars.
An astrophysicist at the University of Rochester writes that 'many' of his colleagues in physics 'have come to believe that a mystery is unfolding in every microbe, animal, and human.' And it's a mystery that: - 'Challenges basic assumptions physicists have held for...
On Wednesday (Christmas Eve), the Free Software Foundation announced it had received two major contributions totaling around $900,000 USD — in the cryptocurrency Monero. The two donations 'are among some of the largest private gifts ever made to the organization,' the FSF...
This copycat controller can’t clone the PS5’s best features, but it’s a solid option for Xbox and PC gamers.
Best not touch that screen, eh? Bork!Bork!Bork! Today's Christmas bork comes from London's Victoria train station, just before the festive season got underway, and is an update to the old IT standby: 'It isn't DNS. It can't be DNS... It was SSL.'…
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