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Monday September 8, 2025. 06:34 AM
Somewhere in Houston, four research volunteers 'will soon participate in NASA's year-long simulation of a Mars mission,' NASA announced this week, saying it will provide 'foundational data to inform human exploration of the Moon, Mars, and beyond.' The 378-day simulation...
Analyst firm doesn’t rate OpenAI as an enterprise-ready vendor All work in IT departments will be done with the help of AI by 2030, according to analyst firm Gartner, which thinks massive job losses won’t result.…
Four years ago a small Microsoft Research team started creating an analog optical computer. They used commercially available parts like sensors from smartphone cameras, optical lenses, and micro-LED lights finer than a human hair. 'As the light passes through the sensor at...
PLUS: Lenovo to sell bonkers clip-on-screen; AWS NZ rumblings; Google helps catch South Korean phish Asia In Brief Microsoft has warned that customers of its Azure cloud may experience heightened latency due to a submarine cable outage in the Red Sea.…
Sunday September 7, 2025. 11:57 PM
An anonymous reader shared this report from the BBC: Microsoft's Azure cloud services have been disrupted by undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea, the US tech giant says. Users of Azure — one of the world's leading cloud computing platforms — would experience delays because of...
As America's trade talks with China were set to begin last July, a 'puzzling' email reached several U.S. government agencies, law firms, and trade groups, reports the Wall Street Journal. It appeared to be from the chair of a U.S. Congressional committee, Representative John ...
AI Overviews have lowered click-through traffic to Daily Mail sites by as much as 89%, the publisher told a UK government body that regulates competition. So they've joined other top news organizations (including Guardian Media Group and the magazine trade body the...
'I have not pulled this, I'm annoyed by having to even look at this, and if you actually expect me to pull this I want a real explanation and not a useless link,' Linus Torvalds posted Friday on the Linux kernel mailing list. Phoronix explains: It's become a common...
USA Today has an update on the curtailing of 'mirror life' research: Kate Adamala had been working on something dangerous. At her synthetic biology lab, Adamala had been taking preliminary steps toward creating a living cell from scratch with one key twist: All the...
How do AI tools impact college students? 231 students in an object-oriented programming class participated in a study at Estonia's University of Tartu (conducted by an associate professor of informatics and a recently graduated master's student). They were asked how...
The blog OMG Ubuntu notes that Microsoft Copilot chatbot support has been added in the latest Firefox Nightly builds. 'Firefox's sidebar already offers access to popular chatbots, including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, Le Chat's Mistral and Google's Gemini. It...
In July 791 professional coders were surveyed by Fastly about their use of AI coding tools, reports InfoWorld. The results? 'About a third of senior developers (10+ years of experience) say over half their shipped code is AI-generated,' Fastly writes, 'nearly two and a half...
The new Google Preferred Sources tool helps you see more of what you want in your search results.
Like a snake eating its own tail ai-pocalypse Welcome to the age of ouroboros. Google’s AI Overviews (AIOs), which now often appear at the top of organic search results, are drawing around 10 percent of their sources from documents written by... other AIs, according to a...
A research team just discovered older mice have more of the protein FTL1 in their hippocampus, reports ScienceAlert. The hippocampus is the region of the brain involved in memory and learning. And the researchers' paper says their new data raises 'the exciting possibility...
In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how.
Powered by plutonium, running on pure stubbornness It is almost half a century since Voyager 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a mission to study Jupiter, Saturn, and the atmosphere of Titan. It continues to send data back to Earth.…
Researchers convinced large language model chatbots to comply with “forbidden” requests using a variety of conversational tactics.
And maybe even dictator Brain-in-a-box-as-a-Service Opinion China's President Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin were this week reportedly overheard chatting about the possibility that organ transplants might help them achieve immortality.…
Cybersecurity company ESET thought they'd discovered the first AI-powered ransomware in the wild, which they'd dubbed 'PromptLock'. But it turned out to be the work of university security researchers... 'Unlike conventional malware, the prototype only requires natural...
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