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Monday January 20, 2025. 06:03 PM
Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday in a ceremony inside the U.S. Capitol's Rotunda, returning to the White House after defeating Kamala Harris. Trump, 78, took the oath of office before a packed crowd of lawmakers, dignitaries, and ...
A recent poll from the Pew Research Center shows more and more teens are turning to ChatGPT for help with their homework. Three things to know: 1. According to the survey, 26% of students ages 13-17 are using the artificial intelligence bot to help them with their...
Technology giants must do more to co-operate with law enforcement on encryption or they risk threatening European democracy, according to the head of Europol, as the agency gears up to renew pressure on companies at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week. From a report: ...
Nokia accurately predicted the iPhone would revolutionize the smartphone industry in a confidential analysis prepared the day after Apple unveiled the device in 2007, according to internal documents recently released by Nokia's Design Archive at Aalto University in Finland....
The European Commission intends to propose a ban on the use of PFAS, or 'forever chemicals', in consumer products, with exemptions for essential industrial uses, the EU's environment chief told Reuters. From a report: PFAS, or Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances,...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Leading AI developers, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, are threading a delicate needle to sell software to the United States military: make the Pentagon more efficient, without letting their AI kill people. Today, their tools are not being...
In 2022 California's Air Resources Board issued regulations to ban new diesel truck sales by 2036, remembers the Los Angeles Times, and force the owners of diesel trucks to take them off the road by 2042. 'The idea was to replace those trucks with electric and...
'Nothing horrible or unexpected happened last week,' Linux Torvalds posted tonight on the Linux kernel mailing list, 'so I've tagged and pushed out the final 6.13 release.' Phoronix says the release has 'plenty of fine features': Linux 6.13 comes with the introduction of the ...
Amazon has angered its workers again 'after forcing them to return to the office five days a week,' reports the New York Post. The problem? 'Not enough desks for everyone.' (As well as 'packed parking lots' that are turning some workers away.) The Post cites interviews...
'Engineers have showcased a prototype electric vehicle that can drive for up to 40 miles (64 kilometers) per day using just solar power,' reports LiveScience. The production-ready 'Aptera Launch Edition' made its first appearance this month at CES 2025, and 'also offers up...
The Los Angeles Times calls it 'a guns-blazingly funny documentary about two out-of-work British actors who spent a chunk of their COVID-19 lockdown staging Shakespeare's masterpiece on the mean streets of Grand Theft Auto V.' Grand Theft Hamlet won SXSW's Jury Award for...
America's outgoing national security adviser has 'wide access to the world's secrets,' writes Axios, adding that the security adviser delivered a 'chilling' warning that 'The next few years will determine whether AI leads to catastrophe — and whether China or America...
Sunday January 19, 2025. 11:08 PM
The Washington Post reports: Ruptures of undersea cables that have rattled European security officials in recent months were likely the result of maritime accidents rather than Russian sabotage, according to several U.S. and European intelligence officials. The determination ...
'As large-scale solar farms crop up across the U.S.,' reports ABC News, 'the booming solar industry has found an unlikely mascot...' Sheep. In Milam County, outside Austin [Texas], SB Energy operates the fifth-largest solar project in the country, capable of generating 900...
ABC News reported that the official newspaper of China's communist party is claiming TikTok refugees on RedNote found a 'new home,' and 'openness, communication, and mutual learning are... the heartfelt desires of people from all countries.' But in fact, Wired reports,...
CNN reports: TikTok appears to be coming back online just hours after President-elect Donald Trump pledged Sunday that he would sign an executive order Monday that aims to restore the banned app. Around 12 hours after first shutting itself down, U.S. users began to have...
The JavaScript runtime Node.js can execute TypeScript (Microsoft's JavaScript-derived language with static typing). But now it can do it even better, explains Marco Ippolito of the Node.js steering committee: In August 2024 Node.js introduced a new experimental feature, Type ...
In 2022 Google released a tool to easily scan for vulnerabilities in dependencies named OSV-Scanner. 'Together with the open source community, we've continued to build this tool, adding remediation features,' according to Google's security blog, 'as well as expanding...
Fortune reports 18% of workers have engaged in 'career catfishing' — getting a job offer, but then refusing to show up on the first day of work. And when someone posted Fortune's article to Reddit's antiwork subreddit, it drew 2,100 upvotes -- and another 84 comments. ('I...
CNN has the latest on 'a startling discovery made public in July that metallic rocks were apparently producing oxygen on the Pacific Ocean's seabed, where no light can penetrate. 'Initial research suggested potato-size nodules rich in metals, predominantly found 4,000 meters ...
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