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Monday August 11, 2025. 01:00 PM
Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it.
The right shelter can make a big difference in how comfortable you are outdoors. Here are the ones we’ve tested and love.
Well, at least he didn't drop the F-bomb Linux head honcho Linus Torvalds has put a kernel developer 'on notice' for waiting until the eleventh hour to supply a patch set for Linux on RISC-V systems which 'makes the world actively a worse place to live' – in a scathing...
Pressure difference between the space station, space suits increases congestion, say boffins In space, no one can hear you sneeze – but that hasn't stopped a team of boffins researching exactly what happens when an astronaut gets a case of the sniffles, and why. The key...
Many of the top laptops we recommend are on sale for the back-to-school season.
Gaming cheats are the bane of the video game industry—and a hot commodity. A recent study found that cheat creators are making a fortune from gamers looking to gain a quick edge.
AR games mingle with underground assets in the data plan for 200-year-old Ordnance Survey Feature Britain's Ordnance Survey (OS), founded in 1791, is interloping in the digital age. Minecraft, AR gaming, and EV charger locations have all become part of its portfolio,...
And yes, that means (retch) catering to AI searchers The job market is queasy and since you're reading this, you need to upgrade your CV. It's going to require some work to game the poorly trained AIs now doing so much of the heavy lifting. I know you don't want to, but it's ...
A small but growing number of academics are improperly taking credit for articles, citations, and authorships, allowing them to appear prestigious without having conducted their own research.
Wedneday Beyond Meat 'missed Wall Street estimates for second-quarter revenue,' reports Reuters. 'Consumers' growing concerns about processed foods are severely diminishing the appeal of Beyond Meat's product line, causing retailers and quick service restaurants to pull back ...
Grace Hopper and GitHub have more in common than capital letters Opinion Here are two snapshots of AI in coding in mid 2025. The CEO of GitHub, coding’s universal termite mound, says that AI is going to do all the coding and that’s a good thing. Meanwhile, real life AI...
Instructor ended up teaching a lesson in how to get away with mistakes Who, Me? Welcome once more to Who, Me? It’s The Register’s Monday column in which we celebrate your SNAFUS and rejoice in your recoveries.…
Current plan calls for Taikonaut touchdown around 2030 China’s Manned Space Engineering Network says the country’s first crewed lunar lander last week completed a comprehensive landing and takeoff verification test, bringing it closer to landing on Luna - and leaving it...
Brain the size of a planet and probably trained on Sci-Fi that’s full of anxious and depressed robots Google is aware that its Gemini AI chatbot can sometimes castigate itself harshly for failing to solve a problem and plans to fix it.…
Last week saw the 80th anniversary of a turning point in World War II: the day America dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. 'Twelve men were on that flight...' remembers the online magazine Mental Floss, adding 'Almost all had something to say after the war.' The group was...
Trump administration’s licenses come with an IOU Nvidia and AMD will reportedly be allowed to resume sales in China if they cough a license fee amounting to 15 percent of sales.…
Since 2023 the Python Software Foundation has had a Security Developer-in-Residence (sponsored by the Open Source Security Foundation's vulnerability-finding 'Alpha-Omega' project). And he's just published a new 11-page white paper about open source's 'phantom dependencies'...
PLUS: Huawei open sources its CUDA equivalent; China boosts brain-computer interfaces; Scientists to visit penguins Trump taxed; And more! Asia In Brief Indian services giant Tata Consultancy Services will shed over 10,000 staff but will give pay rises to most of those who...
'What happens when cybercriminals stop thinking small and start thinking like a Fortune 500 company?' asks a blog post from Koi Security. 'You get GreedyBear, the attack group that just redefined industrial-scale crypto theft.' '150 weaponized Firefox extensions...
Imagine this. Lightning sparks a wildfire, but 'within seconds, a satellite dish swirling overhead picks up on the anomaly and triggers an alarm,' writes the Los Angeles Times. 'An autonomous helicopter takes flight and zooms toward the fire, using sensors to locate the...
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