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404 Media reports that a Discord for gay gamers has become a 'ghost town' after an executive at AI company pushed an AI chatbot on the forum. The chatbot was imposed despite users voting against it and with inappropriate permissions; the executive, when challenged, said they ...
The Association for Computing Machinery, the world's largest society of computing professionals, announced that all publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will become freely available to everyone starting January 2026. Authors will retain full...
UK state-owned bank admits revised plan runs beyond contract end with Atos Already £1.4 billion over budget and four years late, a tech transformation project at a UK state-owned bank is outside HM Treasury spending limits and timetable under a revised plan from systems...
Could the AI industry be on the verge of its first major layoffs? Will China spread propaganda to slow the US data-center building boom? Where are AI agents headed?
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AI chatbots are becoming a routine part of teenage life. That shift is putting new pressure on how safety and responsibility are built in. With this in mind, OpenAI has vowed to put child safety first with the release of its latest model, GPT-5.2, introducing an updated...
More carbon dioxide in the environment is making food more calorific but less nutritious -- and also potentially more toxic, a study has found. From a report: Sterre ter Haar, a lecturer at Leiden University in the Netherlands, and other researchers at the institution...
There's a problem with Ultimate Oz Universe, an edgy retelling of Wizard of Oz published by AWA and arted by Mike Deodato Jr. It looks like it was made by bashing AI-generated images into comic panels, and not with much care, attention or consistency. — Read the rest The...
OpenAI just had one of those “blink and you missed the platform shift” weeks. First, a new coding model: OpenAI shipped GPT-5.2-Codex, a new coding model for its coding agent, Codex. At a high level: It’s tuned for long-horizon, multi-file work (context compaction,...
The BPF verifier is complicated. It needs to check every possible path that a BPF program's execution could take. The fact that its determination of whether a BPF program is safe is based on the whole lifetime of the program, instead of simple local factors, means that the...
Revived distro returns on Arch with KDE Plasma, global menus, and a familiar macOS-style sheen The new pearOS distro is a Romanian project that picks up the concepts behind the original Pear Linux from 2011 and updates them. It's not going to turn the distro world upside...
Apple released an updated developer license agreement this week that gives the company permission to recoup unpaid funds, such as commissions or any other fees, by deducting them from in-app purchases it processes on developers' behalf, among other methods. From a report:...
A software update knocked out Snowflake’s cloud data platform in 10 of its 23 global regions for 13 hours on December 16, leaving customers unable to execute queries or ingest data. Customers saw “SQL execution internal error” messages when trying to query their data...
Identity remains key to cybersecurity with stolen IDs opening the door to many attacks. And with the rise of AI agents and machine identities it isn’t just just humans that we have to worry about. Here’s what some leading industry figures think we can expect from the...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (roundcube), Fedora (checkpointctl, containernetworking-plugins, mingw-libpng, NetworkManager, php, python3-docs, python3.13, and webkitgtk), Oracle (kernel, keylime, and libssh), and SUSE (apache2, clair, colord, flannel, gnutls,...
The Danish government has accused Russia of being behind two 'destructive and disruptive' cyberattacks in what it describes as 'very clear evidence' of a hybrid war. From a report: The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) announced on Thursday that Moscow was behind a...
Adobe has announced a multi-year partnership with Runway that pulls generative video directly into Adobe Firefly and, over time, deeper into Creative Cloud. The idea is to make AI-generated video part of the same tools people already use to edit, finish, and deliver...
Maximum-severity vuln lets unauthenticated attackers execute code on trusted infra management platform Hewlett Packard Enterprise has told customers to drop whatever they're doing and patch OneView after admitting a maximum-severity bug could let attackers run code on the...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Direct navigation -- the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser -- has never been riskier: A new study finds the vast majority of 'parked' domains -- mostly expired or dormant...
DisplayFusion 12 is now available, offering a number of improvements to the tool which helps manage multi-monitor setups on Windows. The updated version focuses on fixing long-standing issues, improving how Windows handles multiple displays, and adds some small small but...
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