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Monday January 20, 2025. 03:45 PM
The European Commission intends to propose a ban on the use of PFAS, or 'forever chemicals', in consumer products, with exemptions for essential industrial uses, the EU's environment chief told Reuters. From a report: PFAS, or Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances,...
Crypto critics unhappy as BTC hits all-time high and Melania launches her own currency Donald Trump, US president again by the time many of you read this, launched his own cryptocurrency – $TRUMP – on the Solana blockchain network on Friday night. By the weekend, it had ...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Leading AI developers, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, are threading a delicate needle to sell software to the United States military: make the Pentagon more efficient, without letting their AI kill people. Today, their tools are not being...
A new year means another tax season—and all the associated headaches. Not just navigating the byzantine maze of US tax code, but dodging related scams, too. One particular tax scam is especially thorny since it can happen right under your nose. In an attempt to collect a...
Clear rules and guaranteed consequences concentrate the mind wonderfully. Just ask a Russian Opinion 'As obsolete as warships in the Baltic' was a great pop lyric in Prefab Sprout's 1985 gem, Faron Young. Great, but ironically obsolete itself. Sweden has just deployed...
The three biggest tech companies all offer a wealth of options to limit screen time, find lost devices, and more.
Apple Intelligence lets you generate custom emojis when the default options aren’t hitting it.
In 2022 California's Air Resources Board issued regulations to ban new diesel truck sales by 2036, remembers the Los Angeles Times, and force the owners of diesel trucks to take them off the road by 2042. 'The idea was to replace those trucks with electric and...
Meal kits make cooking easy, and these kitchen must-haves make the process even easier.
Students have work to complete at home in the meantime A UK high school will have to close for at least two days, today and tomorrow, after becoming the latest public-sector victim of ransomware criminals.…
You may have heard the news about the PowerSchool breach—hackers breaking into a software system that helps schools keep track of student data, then demanding a ransom in exchange for not leaking the information. Depending on the school and its data storage practices, the...
I don’t know about you, but working on multiple devices at once makes me feel like some kind of 90s hacker. I’m programming on my PC, answering emails on my laptop, responding to chat messages on my tablet, all while transferring files on my other PC. But while that...
Your battery might be flat, but the Wi-Fi signal is going to be great UK telecom giant BT is pulling the plug on its EV charging ambitions after falling a long way short of the 60,000 street cabinets it reckoned could be repurposed.…
'Nothing horrible or unexpected happened last week,' Linux Torvalds posted tonight on the Linux kernel mailing list, 'so I've tagged and pushed out the final 6.13 release.' Phoronix says the release has 'plenty of fine features': Linux 6.13 comes with the introduction of the ...
A whole different kind of 'technical debt' turned into real-world trouble Who, Me? Accidents will happen, and every Monday The Register celebrates them – and your escape from the consequences – in a fresh instalment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column that...
You have to do your taxes, so you might as well lock in the best price for filing your federal and state returns. For just $39.99, H&R Block Tax Software Deluxe + State 2024 streamlines your federal and state tax filing. But act fast — this deal sold out in under 24 hours...
'Minor issue' with showing accounting customers 'unrelated business information' required repairs Sage Group plc has confirmed it temporarily suspended its Sage Copilot, an AI assistant for the UK-based business software maker's accounting tools, this month after it blurted...
While Microsoft pushes AI PC experiences, Nvidia is busy wooing developers Comment Nvidia is the uncontested champion of AI infrastructure — at least in the datacenter. In the emerging field of AI PCs, things aren't so clear cut.…
Amazon has angered its workers again 'after forcing them to return to the office five days a week,' reports the New York Post. The problem? 'Not enough desks for everyone.' (As well as 'packed parking lots' that are turning some workers away.) The Post cites interviews...
PLUS: Allstate sued for allegedly tracking drivers; Dutch DDoS; More fake jobs from Pyongyang; and more Infosec in brief Hogwarts doesn’t teach an incantation that could have saved Harry Potter publisher Scholastic from feeling the power of an online magician who made off...
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