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Friday October 31, 2025. 06:03 PM
Our house, our rules One of the biggest surprises of my tenure at El Reg so far is the activity in our forums and article comments. Reg readers are engaged, opinionated, and unafraid to express themselves. I love this. Thank you for reading, and for commenting.…
There are plenty of stories out there about how politicians, sales representatives, and influencers, will exaggerate or distort the facts in order to win votes, sales, or clicks, even when they know they shouldn’t. It turns out that AI models, too, can suffer from these...
A Tennessee man spent 37 days in jail for reposting a Facebook meme. Larry Bushart, a 61-year-old retired police officer, was arrested in late September after sharing a meme referencing a school shooting while commenting on the murder of Charlie Kirk. — Read the rest The...
Apple Intelligence? We still don’t really understand the full extent of Apple’s intentions in AI, and we’re not really going to gain a better glimpse of them until some point in 2026, promised Apple CEO Tim Cook during Thursday’s financial results call. If you follow ...
Google Maps is testing a power saving mode in its latest Android beta release that strips the navigation interface to its bare essentials. The feature transforms the screen into a monochrome display and removes nearly all UI elements during navigation, according to...
The once fearsome process killer is now a leaker of resources Microsoft's ability to add bugs in the most unexpected of places has continued into its latest update to Windows 11, which spawns multiple copies of Task Manager, sucking down resources you'd normally use Task...
Rare case of the state turning on its own, but researchers say it may be doing so more often Russia's Interior Ministry says police have arrested three suspects it believes helped build and spread the Meduza infostealer.…
Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's co-founder, is defending the platform against Elon Musk's cartoonishly vapid attacks. In a recent New York Times interview, Wales dismisses Musk's accusation that Wikipedia is 'woke' by pointing to the site's actual mechanisms for transparency. 'You...
Democrats 66 (D66), a liberal centrist party, has narrowly beaten Geert Wilders' right-wing Party for Freedom (PVV) in the Netherlands' general election. With all but a few thousand votes yet to be counted, D66 will receive 27 seats to PVV's 26—a sharp decline for the...
Trim down for obsolete operating system leaves it booting, but not much else Stripping Windows to the bare essentials is a favorite hobby among enthusiasts, especially as Microsoft continues loading its OS with unwanted bloat. The latest achievement is Windows 7 being...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does not let people decline to be scanned by its new facial recognition app, which the agency uses to verify a person's identity and their immigration status, according to an internal Department...
Author, editor, activist, and podcaster Susie Bright is one of the smartest and funniest people I know. I think I first came across her work in The Whole Earth Review in the late 1980s. After that, we often participated in many of the same forums on The Well and became...
Lawyers for Alphabet, Youtube's parent company, recently alleged that the Biden administration tried to “influence” the company. Interviews with employees don't appear to support their claim.
ArsTechnica: When graphic design platform-provider Canva bought the Affinity image-editing and publishing apps early last year, we had some major questions about how the companies' priorities and products would mesh. How would Canva serve the users who preferred Affinity's...
Budimir Šobat set a world record by holding his breath underwater for 24 minutes and 37 seconds. According to Outside Online, Šobat, who lives in Croatia, trained for years, motivated by caring for his daughter, born with brain damage and later diagnosed with autism. —...
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Rough justice? Redmond out as Germany's openDesk judged a better fit The International Criminal Court (ICC) is ditching Microsoft Office for a European software alternative amid mounting fears about being reliant on US technology.…
Miles Edelsten, a former Associated Press journalist, has created a video guide for navigating Tokyo's Kabukicho district, one of the world's largest red-light districts. His walk-and-talk documentary draws on years of reporting to explain the unique dangers lurking in this...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company's latest big round of layoffs -- about 14,000 corporate jobs -- wasn't triggered by financial strain or AI replacing workers, but rather a push to stay nimble. From a report: Speaking with analysts on Amazon's quarterly earnings call...
Puppy slayer Kristi Noem swears no American citizens have been detained in Trump's immigration crackdown. This is a bold statement considering ICE's own files read like a Kafka anthology. From Miami to Montana, hundreds of U.S. citizens have been jailed, deported, or...
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