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Monday December 8, 2025. 04:43 PM
Never mind that AI lies constantly about everything or wants to replace your family: the true failing of LLMs, the one they'll never be able to overcome, is that they just aren't cool. While structured sketch comedy certainly has its place in my heart, I've been giggling...
Paramount today launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, hoping to buy it directly from stockholders after it lost a months-long bidding war with Netflix that ended with an announced $74.4bn sale. Paramount's new offer is $30 a share, amounting to $108bn...
Pre-shredded cheese is one of the greatest first-world pleasures to emerge from the 20th century. Having a bag in your fridge means instant cheddar gratification is only an unzipping away. No cutting slices, no taking the end of your thumb off with a mandoline, and perhaps...
Tech giants including Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon have all extended the estimated useful lives of their servers and AI equipment over the past five years, sparking a debate among investors about whether these accounting changes are artificially inflating profits....
FIFA announced a 'Peace Price' to fluff Donald Trump with after the Nobel committee refused to award him the real one. The international footballing body's antics make sense as the U.S. is readying to host the football World Cup despite becoming a dangerous place to visit...
The holiday season is seen by many companies as being as good a reason as any to highlight the benefits of their products and services, and Google is no different in this regard. Using the perceived stress of preparing for everything that this time of year involves for many...
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...
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