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Tuesday November 18, 2025. 12:00 PM
For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official.
Cheaper electricity to lure bit barns north as planning fast-track kicks in While UK households face some of the world's highest energy prices, datacenter operators are set to receive electricity discounts under government plans to accelerate AI infrastructure development.…
Case alleges loyal customers continued to pay bundled rates after minimum contract terms ended Britain's biggest mobile phone companies face legal action over claims they overcharged customers through a 'loyalty penalty' after a tribunal permitted the cases to proceed.…
schwit1 shares a report from the New York Times: Pete Kayll, a musclebound veteran of Britain's Royal Marines, had an unusual instruction for the Bitcoin investors gathered in Switzerland in late October. 'Just bite your way out,' he told them. It was the final day of a...
Consumer group Which? warns AI assistants can dish out unclear, risky, or downright daft advice AI assistants can sometimes provide misleading or incorrect answers. However, almost half of British consumers using the services put more faith in them than they maybe should.…
This double-ended vibrator gives you a bit of everything in one unique-looking package.
UC Berkeley researchers working with Project CETI discovered that sperm whales produce vowel-like sounds embedded in their click codas, suggesting a far more complex communication system than previously understood. 'It was striking just how structured the system was. I've...
Researchers think SpaceX needs to revisit its resilience regime Researchers have found Starlink’s efforts to mitigate the effects of solar storms can create degraded performance that persists for a day or more after geomagnetic conditions ease.…
Yet Chinese giant wants users to ‘ask any question, big or small, anytime, anywhere!’ Chinese tech giant Alibaba yesterday launched a new chatbot that reported errors soon after launch and is very touchy about some subjects Beijing doesn’t like to discuss.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: For the first time, scientists are tracking the migration of monarch butterflies across much of North America, actively monitoring individual insects on journeys from as far away as Ontario all the way to their...
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: A new study from researchers in Australia reveals that the people who never forget faces look 'smarter, not harder.' In other words, they naturally focus on a person's most distinguishing facial features. 'Their skill...
Chinese automakers are rapidly expanding across South America, boosted by the new Chinese-built Port of Chancay, aggressive pricing, local partnerships, and growing regional demand. Reuters reports: China has been ramping up sales since the opening last year of the Port of...
Even after disabling remote control and officially ending support for early Nest Learning Thermostats, Google is still receiving detailed sensor and activity data from these devices, including temperature changes, motion, and ambient light. The Verge reports: After digging...
VCF users wrestling with bill shock may get a little relief VMware has admitted that its guidance about the hardware needed to run its vSAN virtual storage arrays has been wrong for years.…
Nvidia's Ian Buck on the importance of FP64 to power research, in a world that's hot for inferencing Interview Scientific computing is about to undergo a period of rapid change as workloads inject AI.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Security Affairs: On October 24, 2025, Azure DDoS Protection detected and mitigated a massive multi-vector attack peaking at 15.72 Tbps and 3.64 billion pps, the largest cloud DDoS ever recorded, aimed at a single Australian endpoint. ...
fjo3 shares a report from TheWrap: There are already at least 175,000 AI-generated podcast episodes on platforms like Spotify and Apple. That's thanks to Inception Point AI, a startup with just eight employees cranking out 3,000 episodes a week covering everything from...
Monday November 17, 2025. 11:40 PM
NetChoice is suing Virginia to block a new law that limits kids under 16 to one hour of daily social media use unless parents approve more time, arguing the rule violates the First Amendment and introduces serious privacy risks through mandatory age-verification. The Verge...
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we run through the top stories of the week and examine how some of the victories in the US November elections show the power of online fandom.
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, guest Brian Merchant walks us through a historical framework he used to analyze whether AI fits the classic signs of an economic bubble—and what that means for all of us.
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