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Monday November 3, 2025. 10:30 PM
A long-simmering battle over who controls credit scoring in America has erupted into open warfare. Fair Isaac, whose FICO score is used in about 90% of consumer-lending decisions in the U.S., announced it will double the price of its mortgage credit score to $10 next year....
Apple is paying Google to create a custom Gemini-based model that will run on the company's private cloud servers and power the next version of Siri, according to Bloomberg. The decision marks a departure from Apple's tradition of building core technologies in-house. The...
The Internet Archive celebrated archiving its trillionth webpage last month and received congratulations from San Francisco, which declared October 22 'Internet Archive Day.' Senator Alex Padilla designated the nonprofit a federal depository library. The organization...
Captchas have largely vanished from the web in 2025, replaced by invisible tracking systems that analyze user behavior rather than asking people to decipher distorted text or identify traffic lights in image grids. Google launched reCaptcha v3 in 2018 to generate risk scores ...
An anonymous reader shares a report: The Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA), an anti-piracy organization representing Japanese IP holders like Studio Ghibli and Bandai Namco, released a letter last week asking OpenAI to stop using its members' content to train...
A developer operating under the handle @XenoPanther has stripped Windows 7 down to 69MB. The OS boots but runs almost nothing because critical files like common dialog boxes and common controls are missing. @XenoPanther described the project on X as 'more of a fun proof of...
An anonymous reader shares a report: arXiv, a preprint publication for academic research that has become particularly important for AI research, has announced it will no longer accept computer science articles and papers that haven't been vetted by an academic journal or a...
Palantir launched a fellowship that recruited high school graduates directly into full-time work, bypassing college entirely. The company received more than 500 applications and selected 22 for the inaugural class. The four-month program began with seminars on Western...
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says only biological beings are capable of consciousness, and that developers and researchers should stop pursuing projects that suggest otherwise. From a report: 'I don't think that is work that people should be doing,' Suleyman told CNBC ...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Chinese President Xi Jinping joked about security backdoors while presenting a pair of Xiaomi smartphones to his South Korean counterpart, a rare moment of spontaneous levity captured during a week of tense trade negotiations with Donald...
OpenAI will pay Amazon $38 billion for computing power in a seven-year deal that marks the companies' first partnership. Amazon expects all of the computing capacity negotiated as part of the agreement will be available to OpenAI by the end of next year. The ChatGPT maker...
Microsoft has released a patch that fixes a longstanding bug in Windows 11 and Windows 10 where selecting 'Update and shut down' would restart the computer instead of powering it off. The issue affected users across both operating systems since Windows 10's initial release....
'During the past two years or so I have been slow-rolling an effort to port the Linux kernel to WebAssembly,' reads a surprising post on the Linux kernel mailing list. I'm now at the point where the kernel boots and I can run basic programs from a shell. As you will see if...
'Rockstar Games fired dozens of employees,' reports Bloomberg, 'in a move that a British trade union said was designed to prevent the workers from unionizing. The company said they were fired for misconduct.' TheGrand Theft Automaker terminatedbetween 30 and 40...
'It finally happened,' writes the GamingOnLinux site: Linux gamers on Steam as of the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for October 2025 have crossed over the elusive 3% mark. The trend has been clear for sometime, and with Windows 10 ending support, it was quite likely this...
TechCrunch reports: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said that the company is doing 'well more' than $13 billion in annual revenue — and he sounded a little testy when pressed on how it will pay for its massive spending commitments. His comments came up during a joint...
'An engineer got curious about how his iLife A11 smart vacuum worked and monitored the network traffic coming from the device,' writes Tom's Hardware. 'That's when he noticed it was constantly sending logs and telemetry data to the manufacturer — something he hadn't...
'Ubuntu's decision to switch to Rust-based coreutils in 25.10 hasn't been the smoothest ride,' writes the blog OMG Ubuntu, 'as the latest — albeit now resolved — bug underscores.' [Coreutils] are used by a number of processes, apps and scripts, including Ubuntu's own unattend...
'AI isn't just a tool anymore; it's an integral part of the development experience,' argues GitHub's blog. So 'Agents shouldn't be bolted on. They should work the way you already work...' So this week GitHub announced 'Agent HQ,' which CNBC describes as a 'mission control'...
Sunday November 2, 2025. 09:34 PM
OpenAI 'hasn't yet turned a profit,' notes Wall Street Journal business columnist Tim Higgins. 'Its annual revenue is 2% of Amazon.com's sales. 'Its future is uncertain beyond the hope of ushering in a godlike artificial intelligence that might help cure cancer and transform ...
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