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Sunday December 28, 2025. 06:34 PM
An anonymous reader shared this report from the CBC: Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac says he may have been defamed by Google after it recently produced an AI-generated summary falsely identifying him as a sex offender. The Juno Award-winning musician said he learned of...
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In this footage, a humanoid robot replicating the motions of a human teleoperator kicks him in the nuts. Then, following him, it buckles over and grabs its robot crotch. The martial artist's motion capture suit sent his movements to a Unitree G1 robot, but latency resulted...
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In October, Las Vegas Police Department unveiled a donation of 10 'tactical' Tesla Cybertrucks, all customized and wrapped in departmental livery. The vehicles, paid for by venture capitalist Ben Horowitz, can be used as barricades and in other dangerous situations 'because...
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Laptop makers are facing record-setting memory prices next year. The site Notebookcheck catalogs how different companies are responding: Sources told [Korean business newspaper] Chosun Biz that some manufacturers have signed preliminary contracts with Samsung, Micron, and SK ...
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TL;DR: Get Microsoft Windows 11 Pro for $9.97 (reg. $199) and add pro-grade security, productivity tools, and Copilot to a compatible PC. There are two kinds of computers: the ones that behave and the ones that turn a quick task into a full-blown meltdown. — Read the rest ...
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The Register reports on challenges facing Europe's pursuit of 'digital sovereignty': The US CLOUD Act of 2018 allows American authorities to compel US-based technology companies to provide requested data, regardless of where that data is stored globally. This places European ...
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A Ghanaian religious figure, Ebo Enoch, said that the world would end in a biblical flood on Christmas day. This event having not occurred, he has reportedly told his followers that the apocalypse has been postponed and that God has 'granted him more time' to build arks. —...
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The human harms of cyberattacks piled up this year, and violence expected to increase The knock-on, and often unintentional, impacts of a cyberattack are so rarely discussed. As an industry, the focus is almost always placed on the economic damage: the ransom payment; the...
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Many people rely on the sleep aid melatonin to help them get a more restful night’s sleep. But is it safe? And how much is too much?
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the BBC: There is growing controversy over recent evidence suggesting that a mysterious force known as dark energy might be changing in a way that challenges our current understanding of time and space. An analysis by a South...
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Legendary French actress, animal rights activist and racist crank Brigitte Bardot is dead at 91, according to reports in French media. 'The Brigitte Bardot foundation announces with immense sadness the death of its founder and president, Madame Brigitte Bardot, a...
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There’s been endless talk online about just how bad Apple’s graphical user interface design has become over the years, culminating in the introduction of Liquid Glass across all of the company’s operating systems this year. Despite all the gnawing of teeth and scathing think...
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Convenience isn’t just for meat eaters anymore. These plant-based meal kits and delivery services bring healthy preprepared meals and meal kits to your door.
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Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who don’t.
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We’re all familiar with things like marquee and blink, relics of HTML of the past, but there are far more weird and obscure HTML tags you may not be aware of. Luckily, Declan Chidlow at HTMLHell details a few of them so we can all scratch shake our heads in disbelief. But th...
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The battle for AI dominance has left a large footprint—and it’s only getting bigger and more expensive.
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Questions around the reliability of the US greenback are dulling the luster of what was the world’s currency of trade. New, global alternatives are emerging.
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Canaima project, which produces a set of Linux distributions, based on Debian 'Testing' and designed for use in Venezuela's public sector, has announced the release of Canaima GNU/Linux 8.3: 'Canaima GNU/Linux, ...
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Hotel guests get a blast from the past courtesy of classic Windows BSOD BORK!BORK!BORK! Today's bork belongs in the dim and distant past – a reminder of when Windows had proper crash screens.…
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'I believe artificial intelligence will displace workers at a scale many people don't yet realize,' says Sal Kahn (founder/CEO of the nonprofit Khan Academy). But in an op-ed in the New York Times he also proposes a solution that 'could change the trajectory of the lives of...
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