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Friday October 3, 2025. 12:00 AM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: The operator of a popular pirate sports streaming site in Argentina has gone from spending time in jail with murderers to landing a new high-profile job a month later. Alejo 'Shishi' Warles, the 25-year-old operator of...
Thursday October 2, 2025. 11:22 PM
The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted on January 15, 2022. The pyroclastic flow severed both of Tonga's underwater internet cables. The eruption cut sixty-five miles from the domestic cable and fifty-five miles from the international link to Fiji. Tonga lost all...
Honor among thieves - extortion is fine, but no juveniles, please A ransomware crew that posted pictures and addresses of preschool children in an effort to get a payday has now deleted the data, apparently under pressure from other criminals.…
Follow the usual AI suspects on X—Andrew Ng, Paige Bailey, Demis Hassabis, Thom Wolf, Santiago Valdarrama, etc.—and you start to discern patterns in emerging AI challenges and how developers are solving them. Right now, these prominent practitioners expose at least two...
Pivot will hinge on success of next-gen Maia accelerator Microsoft buys a lot of GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD. But moving forward, Redmond's leaders want to shift the majority of its AI workloads from GPUs to its own homegrown accelerators.…
AI has run out of training data, according to Neema Raphael, Goldman Sachs' chief data officer and head of data engineering. 'We've already run out of data,' Raphael said on the bank's podcast. He said this shortage is already shaping how developers build new AI systems....
Software supply chain security provider Chainguard has unveiled Chainguard Libraries for JavaScript, described as a collection of trusted builds of thousands of common malware-resistant JavaScript dependencies. The libraries, which are built from source on SLSA L2 ...
Google has been on a bit of a marketing blitz to try and counteract some of the negative feedback following its new developer verification requirement for Android applications, and while they’re using a lot of words, none of them seem to address the core concerns. It...
And here we have yet another case of the EU’s consumer protection legislation working in our favour. Dutch privacy and consumer rights organisation Bits of Freedom sued Facebook over the company’s little trick of disregarding a user’s settings under a variety of...
Police say they found the evidence on his phone A Missouri college student has learned the hard way that admitting a vandalism spree to ChatGPT and asking whether he was likely to get caught may not be the best use of AI. …
An anonymous reader shares a report: Google said hackers are sending extortion emails to an unspecified number of executives, claiming to have stolen sensitive data from their Oracle business applications. In a statement, Google said a group claiming affiliation with the...
You may not realize it, but you are likely in close proximity to at least one blobject at this very moment. If you've never heard of a blobject before, you're not alone. I just learned what blobject is, and now I can't stop noticing them as I go about my day. — Read the re...
Today I came across a Spanish idiom that is a lot of fun to say. The idiom is 'Thinking about the immortality of the crab' and in Spanish: 'Pensando en la inmortalidad del cangrejo.' The Wikipedia page dedicated to this idiom explains the backstory. — Read the rest The...
If you're looking for a weekend getaway, these 24 unusual hotels shared by Atlas Obscura will make your trip an unforgettable one. The list ranges from a glass treehouse hotel to novelty hotels (like this one, shaped like a giant intestine), and so much more. — Read...
Walmart plans to deploy sensors across its 4,600 US stores by the end of 2026 to track 90 million pallets of groceries shipped annually [Editor's note: non-paywalled source]. The retailer and technology vendor Wiliot announced the expansion Thursday. The sensors will monitor ...
Artificial intelligence works when humans use it wisely Over the past two years, the open source curl project has been flooded with bogus bug reports generated by AI models.…
Show Me the Body is an industrial hardcore band I first saw opening for the experimental post-punk twins The Garden in Oakland. Their emotional, synth-centered song, 'Out Of Place' played solemnly in complete darkness before switching the lights on, launching into 'Boils...
One officer was recorded pressing the 'I' key more than 16,000 times Police in the United Kingdom appear to be taking a cue from Homer Simpson's playbook, with officers in multiple departments accused of 'key jamming' to make it look like they were working from home when...
Top college degrees may no longer provide the edge they once did in the job market, per LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky. 'I think the mindset shift is probably the most exciting thing because my guess is that the future of work belongs not anymore to the people that have the...
This just in from the folks at Secret Handshake: the destroyed by Federal employees statute of Donald and Jeffrey has been repaired and is, for now, on the National Mall once again. Just like a toppled confederate general forced back onto a public square, the Donald Trump...
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