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Tuesday June 3, 2025. 12:40 AM
Laurene Powell Jobs has publicly endorsed the secretive AI hardware device being developed by Jony Ive and OpenAI, expressing admiration for his design process and investing in his ventures. Ive says the project is an attempt to address the unintended harms of past tech like ...
Linux user share on Steam rose to 2.69% in May 2025 -- the highest level recorded since at least 2018. GamingOnLinux reports: Overall user share for May 2025: - Windows 95.45% -0.65% - Linux 2.69% +0.42% - macOS 1.85% +0.23% Even with SteamOS 3 now being a little more widely ...
Monday June 2, 2025. 11:22 PM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: It has become a common refrain during Google's antitrust saga: What happened to 'don't be evil?' Google's unofficial motto has haunted it as it has grown ever larger, but a shareholder lawsuit sought to rein in some of...
Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, and Google announced Monday they will create a public glossary standardizing the nicknames used for state-sponsored hacking groups and cybercriminals. The initiative aims to reduce confusion caused by the proliferation of disparate ...
Snowflake's growth among large enterprise customers faces a significant bottleneck tied to the sluggish replacement cycles of existing on-premises data warehouse systems, according to finance vice president Jimmy Sexton. Speaking at a Jefferies conference, Sexton explained...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Internet service provider Frontier Communications agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by major record labels that demanded mass disconnections of broadband users accused of piracy. Universal, Sony, and Warner sued Frontier in 2021. In a...
Automated web-scraping bots seeking training data for AI models are flooding scientific databases and academic journals with traffic volumes that render many sites unusable. The online image repository DiscoverLife, which contains nearly 3 million species photographs,...
Microsoft will require all USB-C ports on Windows 11 certified laptops and tablets to support data transfer, charging, and display functionality under updated hardware compatibility program rules. The mandate targets devices shipping with Windows 11 24H2 and aims to...
Apple has filed an appeal with the European Union's General Court in Luxembourg challenging the bloc's order requiring greater iOS interoperability with rival companies' products under the Digital Markets Act. The EU executive in March directed Apple to make its mobile...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Business Insider announced this week that it wants staff to better incorporate AI into its journalism. But less than a year ago, the company had to quietly apologize to some staff for accidentally recommending that they read books that...
A new analysis argues that Stack Overflow's decline began years before AI tools delivered the 'final blow' to the once-dominant programming forum. The site's monthly questions dropped from a peak of 200,000 to a steep collapse that began in earnest after ChatGPT's 2023...
A new business model has emerged across China's major cities, El Pais reports, where companies charge unemployed individuals to rent desk space and pretend to work, responding to social pressure around joblessness amid rising youth unemployment rates. These services charge...
'If the adoption of AI feels different from any tech revolution you may have experienced before — mobile, social, cloud computing — it actually is,' writes TechCrunch. They cite a new 340-page report from venture capitalist Mary Meeker that details how AI adoption has...
Adam Riess won a Nobel Prize in Physics for helping discover that the universe's acceleration is expanding, remembers The Atlantic. But then theorists 'proposed the existence of dark energy: a faint, repulsive force that pervades all of empty space... the final piece to what ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from The Hacker News: Two information disclosure flaws have been identified in apport and systemd-coredump, the core dump handlers in Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora, according to the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU)....
'The Doctor is dead. Long live the Doctor!' writes Space.com. (Spoilers ahead...) 'The era of Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor came to a surprise end on Saturday night, as the Time Lord regenerated at the end of 'Doctor Who' season 2 finale... [T]he Doctor gradually realises...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Space.com: Three world travelers, two Space Camp alums and an aerospace executive whose last name aptly matched their shared adventure traveled into space and back Saturday, becoming the latest six people to fly with Blue Origin,...
Stack Overflow remains in the midst of big changes to counter an AI-fueled drop in engagement. So 'We're wondering what kind of online communities Stack Overflow users continue to support in the age of AI,' writes their senior analyst, 'and whether AI is becoming a closer...
Sunday June 1, 2025. 11:29 PM
'This month, millions of young people will graduate from college,' reports the New York Times, 'and look for work in industries that have little use for their skills, view them as expensive and expendable, and are rapidly phasing out their jobs in favor of artificial...
'Chaos ensued on German roads this week after Google Maps wrongly informed drivers that highways throughout the country were closed during a busy holiday,' writes Engadget. The problem reportedly only lasted for a few hours and by Thursday afternoon only genuine road...
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