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Monday December 8, 2025. 03:45 PM
Big Blue’s latest mega-buy hands it a real-time data-streaming powerhouse built on Kafka IBM has cracked open its wallet again, agreeing to shell out $11 billion for Confluent in a bid to glue together the data sprawl underpinning the next wave of enterprise AI. …
Elon Musk describes Tesla's Optimus robot as a revolutionary AI-powered autonomous worker, able to perform a wide range of everyday tasks in and outside of the home. It's a 'huge step forward.' It will go to Mars next year. — Read the rest The post Tesla robot repeats human ...
Paramount Skydance is launching a hostile bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery after it lost out to Netflix in a months-long bidding war for the legacy assets, the company said Monday. CNBC: Paramount will go straight to WBD shareholders with an all-cash, $30-per-share offer....
President Donald Trump says he plans to sign an executive order this week that would create a single, nationwide framework for regulating AI, effectively curbing state-level rules that have proliferated in the absence of federal legislation. The move signals the...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ffmpeg, krita, lasso, and libpng1.6), Fedora (abrt, cef, chromium, tinygltf, webkitgtk, and xkbcomp), Oracle (buildah, delve and golang, expat, python-kdcproxy, qt6-qtquick3d, qt6-qtsvg, sssd, thunderbird, and valkey), Red Hat...
An arm wrestling match is underway in surgical robotics. Medical device tech company Medtronic has just secured FDA clearance for its robotics-assisted surgery system, Hugo, for use in urological procedures. The approval places Medtronic in direct competition with industry...
Atlantic Bastion combines AI systems with warships to counter increased surveillance The UK government has announced enhanced protection for undersea cables using autonomous vessels alongside crewed warships and aircraft, responding to escalating Russian surveillance...
Amazon used its annual re:Invent cloud conference in Las Vegas to pitch a vision of the workplace where AI agents serve not as tools but as 'co-workers' and 'teammates,' even as the company proceeds with eliminating roughly 14,000 corporate jobs in its second major workforce ...
Warning that over-reserved capacity is blocking new connections Datacenters are preventing other energy users from connecting to the grid by reserving far more power than they need, according to a new Uptime Institute report shared with The Register.…
The holiday season may well not be a jolly one, if AI has its way. AI continues to push deeper into the retail sector, raising questions about how many human workers — particularly temporary holiday hires — will still be needed in the years ahead. As retailers face...
Brussels accused of using Ad Composer quirk to post link disguised as a video X has terminated the European Commission's ad account after Brussels used it to post a video announcing the platform's €120 million Digital Services Act (DSA) fine – which was in fact just a...
A new report on browser privacy places OpenAI's new ChatGPT Atlas squarely at the bottom of its rankings, citing weak protection against tracking, poor link security, and almost no effective data blocking. The study, conducted by software provider Digitain, reviewed 13...
NordVPN has added a new tool to its security suite for macOS and Windows, introducing email protection for users facing growing phishing and malware threats. The feature checks links inside emails as you open them in a browser and displays visual alerts when it identifies...
The doctor will see you now. Alas, it’s not a real one. And the outcome is decidedly unhealthy. TikTok and other major social media platforms are hosting a wave of AI-generated deepfake videos in which the images and voices of real doctors are manipulated to promote...
America's Energy Department runs a research lab in Idaho — and this week announced successful results from a ground-breaking experiment. 'This is the first time in history that chloride-based molten salt fuel has been produced for a fast reactor,' says Bill Phillips, the...
Japanese outfit aims to improve comms for aquatic drones Kyocera has demonstrated underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) technology that achieved 5.2 Gbps in lab tests, targeting video feeds and sensor data for ocean exploration and underwater robotics.…
Regulator disappointed as soon-to-be-scrapped algo's problems remained a secret despite consistent engagement The UK's data protection watchdog has criticized the Home Office for failing to disclose significant biases in police facial recognition technology, despite regular...
With the current, rapidly deteriorating state of the Windows operating system, you have to take the small wins you can get: Microsoft is now offering the option of removing “AI” actions from Windows 11’s context menus. buried deep in the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build...
When Mac OS X was designed, it switched to the bundle structure inherited from NeXTSTEP. Instead of this multitude of resources, apps consisted of a hierarchy of directories containing files of executable code, and those with what had in Mac OS been supporting resources....
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