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Monday October 27, 2025. 05:28 PM
The Python Software Foundation, earlier this year, successfully obtained a $1.5 million grant from the US National Science Foundation 'to address structural vulnerabilities in Python and PyPI'. The actual grant came with some strings attached though, in the form of a...
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Ravin Academy confirms the intrusion on Telegram, says student data was stolen Iran's school for state-sponsored cyberattackers admits it suffered a breach exposing the names and other personal information of its associates and students.…
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Australia's competition regulator sued Microsoft today, accusing it of misleading millions of customers into paying higher prices for its Microsoft 365 software after bundling it with AI tool Copilot. From a report: The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission alleged...
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The U.S. has formed a $1 billion partnership with AMD to construct two supercomputers that will tackle large scientific problems ranging from nuclear power to cancer treatments to national security, said Energy Secretary Chris Wright and AMD CEO Lisa Su. From a report: The...
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Nations previously exempt from scraping now in the firing line If you thought living in Europe, Canada, or Hong Kong meant you were protected from having LinkedIn scrape your posts to train its AI, think again. You have a week to opt out before the Microsoft subsidiary...
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Hide your utensils. No kitchen is safe. HowToBasic has returned. I have a soft spot for unhinged cooking YouTuber HowToBasic, in large part thanks to his longevity on a platform uniformly obsessed with chasing trends. All you really need is a niche people will show up for,...
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Cloud giant says choice and flexibility matter more than standardization – for now Interview As agentic AI solutions flood the market, users will face a complex environment in terms of deployment and commercial models, with standard practices yet to be resolved, says...
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Countries signed their first UN treaty targeting cybercrime in Hanoi on Saturday, despite opposition from an unlikely band of tech companies and rights groups warning of expanded state surveillance. From a report: The new global legal framework aims to strengthen...
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TL;DR: Laptop, Tablet, Tent, or Stand! Get the versatile Refurbished Lenovo 2-in-1 Chromebook 300e for just $74.99 (Reg. $475.99). What do you look for in a laptop? With so many models out there, and each brand introducing new versions every year, you can feel suffocated by s...
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The 15-inch Teac CTM3410, a vintage CRT television, had a peculiar feature: a screensaver with a pixel-art rabbit collecting carrots which looks for all the world like an early-1980s ZX spectrum game. Devil's Blush found one on the side of the road; here's a video of it on...
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Brussels' framework muddies the waters and could hand advantage to foreign hyperscalers, says trade body Europe's efforts to reduce reliance on US hyperscalers is under fire from many of the local cloud providers it is designed to help.…
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Electronic Arts has spent the past year pushing its nearly 15,000 employees to use AI for everything from code generation to scripting difficult conversations about pay. Employees in some areas must complete multiple AI training courses and use tools like the company's...
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A speedrunner just beat Super Mario 64 using one button and no joystick—a challenge so absurd it requires a working understanding of quantum physics to pull off. Welcome to the current state of a game that's been dissected, deconstructed, and rebuilt more than any other...
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NeuralTrust shows how agentic browser can interpret bogus links as trusted user commands Researchers have found more attack vectors for OpenAI's new Atlas web browser – this time by disguising a potentially malicious prompt as an apparently harmless URL.…
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Version 0.3.0 of Rust Coreutils, part of the uutils project, has been released. This release adds safe directory traversal for several utilities, better error handling, and performance improvements. The project has upgraded its test suite reference from GNU coreutils 9.7 to...
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It's hard to pin down what 'the Xbox brand' is nowadays. Xbox itself certainly seems to be trying to turn people away from engaging with its product, whether intentionally through its baffling 'Everything is an Xbox' ad campaign or unintentionally through...
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In this video, a traditional street organ is fed the sheet music for a medley of classic Boney M disco hits such as Mary's Boy Child, Rasputin and Rivers of Babylon. [via Adam Seats: 'If you ever catch me staring off into space and you wonder what's going on in there, assume ...
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Social media site dispatches crucial clarification days after curious announcement X (formerly Twitter) sparked security concerns over the weekend when it announced users must re-enroll their security keys by November 10 or face account lockouts — without initially...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (intel-microcode, openjdk-11, openjdk-17, openjdk-21, python-pip, request-tracker4, thunderbird, and tika), Fedora (cef, chromium, complyctl, cri-o1.31, cri-o1.32, cri-o1.33, cri-o1.34, docker-buildkit, docker-buildx, dovecot,...
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You see them every single day (almost). Our curated guide features personalized gifts for every office personality, from your work bestie to the foodies.
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