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Friday November 21, 2025. 12:45 PM
Nvidia CPUs and GPUs dominate the bi-annual leaderboard, but FP64 performance regressions leave its long term prospectives in doubt SC25 There's a new efficiency champ at the top of the Green500 ranking of the world's most sustainable supercomputers.…
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Apple Shortcuts, which lets users write custom automations, recently earned some new capabilities thanks to Apple Intelligence. Here,s how to make the most of this upgrade.
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Leading the Future said it will spend millions to keep Alex Bores out of Congress. It might be helping him instead.
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Every time you book a flight, hotel, or rental car, a detailed digital dossier is created about you — and it never gets deleted. These Passenger Name Records (PNR) contain far more than your travel dates: they reveal who you're traveling with, what you eat, your medical...
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A new survey of 750 senior cyber security professionals across the US, UK and Australia, carried out by Opinion Matters for ThreatQuotient, finds 97 percent now regard automation, increasingly powered by AI technologies, as essential to business operations. However, despite...
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Decision marks second penalty issued under the UK's Online Safety Act The UK's online regulator has lobbed a £50,000 fine at an AI nudification website for failing to implement mandatory age checks, potentially allowing under-18s to waltz past the virtual velvet rope.…
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At New Zealand's Kawaiicon cybersecurity convention, organizers hacked together a way for attendees to track CO2 levels throughout the venue—even before they arrived.
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Microsoft has released the source code for Zork I, II, and III under the MIT open-source license, making the legendary text adventure games freely available for anyone to study, learn from, and play. 'Our goal is simple: to place historically important code in the hands of...
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I used the public preview of Fitbit’s new AI Health Coach and became both faster and noticeably weirder.
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The network firewall was designed for a world that doesn’t exist anymore. When corporate assets sat behind a data center perimeter, inspecting packets between ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ made sense. But today, with workloads spread across multiple clouds, SaaS...
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Committee hears departments may have to stump up cash before savings materialize A UK tech minister has declined to put a figure on the cost of the government's digital ID plans as MPs question the contributions expected from central departments.…
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fahrbot-bot shares a report from Phys.org: Physicists from Swansea University have played the leading role in a scientific breakthrough at CERN, developing an innovative technique that increases the antihydrogen trapping rate by a factor of ten. The advancement, achieved as...
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The maker of the eCoffee Energyband says it electrically stimulates your nerves to keep you alert. Researchers are skeptical, and critics see it as a way for China’s bosses to keep workers productive.
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If you need a pick-me-up today, spend a few minutes on your next break watching one of the cutest videos I've seen in ages. We all know baby animals are pure magic, and nothing delivers adorableness quite like a puppy. Add sleepiness and curiosity to the mix, and...
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The tech is impressive. Shoehorning it into absolutely everything is not Opinion In a tweet lamenting all the 'cynics' unmoved by AI, Microsoft AI boss Mustafa Suleyman demonstrated that Redmond's Reality Distortion Field is running at full power.…
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I'm not sure if this is a match made in heaven, hell, or somewhere else entirely. Few properties are less kid-friendly than Tarantino's blood-soaked opus Kill Bill, but Uma Thurman in all her yellow-jumpsuited glory will be coming to Fortnite soon. — Read the rest The...
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Here's an animal with a weird snout (my favorite kind of animal, of course) that you should know. Behold the 'otter civet' (Cynogale bennettii), a silly ol' creature that looks like it stuck its face into a wasp nest. (Side note: it's not the civet that poops coffee...
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Gorillaz' House of Kong exhibition was an awe-inspiring physical step into the mad cartoon world Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett have built over the past 20-odd years. It was also the vehicle for their upcoming album being leaked in its entirety, but that's neither here nor...
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In the early days of generative AI, AI-driven programming seemed to promise endless possibility, or at least a free pass to vibe code your way into quick wins. But now that era of freewheeling experimentation is coming to an end. As AI works its way deeper into the...
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Wisconsin, Michigan, and several other usual suspects — likely fronting for the federal government — want to strip away your right to freedom of expression and anonymous online movement. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is all over it: Wisconsin lawmakers are...
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