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Friday May 9, 2025. 09:50 AM
For all of the talk about establishing and maintaining connections, for the companies behind them social media platforms are about making money. Advertising plays a massive role in this, and Meta is looking for new ways to grab users’ attention. The company has announced...
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PC repair chap turned pet detective to diagnose the defective On Call The unconditional love of a pet is often a solace, and perhaps never more so than at the end of a busy working week. Which is when The Register competes with the animal kingdom for your affection by...
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Meta has announced some interesting new features for its Threads social platform, and there are other unannounced ones that have been spotted as well. In the name of transparency, Account Status is starting to roll out so users can find out more about violations they have...
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schwit1 shares a report from Behind The Black: Almost immediately after India's government issued this week new tightened regulations for allowing private satellite constellations to sell their services in India, it also apparently completed negotiations with SpaceX to allow ...
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Industry ‘pulled a fast one convincing everyone cloud is the only way’ says CTO David Heinemeier Hansson Web software biz 37signals has started to migrate its data out of the cloud and onto on-prem storage – and expects to save a further $1.3 million (£980,000) a year ...
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Alexander Mashinsky, the former CEO of Celsius Network, was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to two counts of fraud, a dramatic fall for the leader of a company once hailed as the 'bank' of the crypto industry. From a report: Standing before...
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Microsoft’s upcoming OneDrive sync change will give enterprise users an easy way to sync both their personal and corporate OneDrive accounts on business devices. But cybersecurity officials do not want to make syncing easier, as it can create lots of security and IT...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday its well-known 'billion-dollar weather and climate disasters' database 'will be retired,' a move that will make it next to impossible for the public to track...
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Alibaba Group researchers have developed 'ZeroSearch,' a technique that enables large language models to acquire search capabilities without using external search engines during training. The approach transforms LLMs into retrieval modules through supervised fine-tuning and...
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OpenAI was founded a decade ago with a focus on research, but it has since expanded into products and infrastructure. Now it is looking to again broaden its presence into user-facing apps. The company announced this week that Fidji Simo will join as CEO of applications, a...
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President Trump on Thursday attacked a law signed by President Joe Biden aimed at expanding high-speed internet access, calling the effort 'racist' and 'totally unconstitutional' and threatening to end it 'immediately.' The New York TimesL: Mr. Trump's statement was one of...
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Python continues to soar in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, rising to a 25.35% share in May 2025. It’s the highest Tiobe rating for any language since 2001, when Java topped the chart. Python’s popularity increased roughly 2.2 percentage points in the ...
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Songs, social network vids threaten national security, apparently India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has issued an advisory calling for media companies and online platforms to block all content originating in Pakistan.…
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About a year ago, we talked about the fact that Android 15 became page size-agnostic, supporting both 4 KB and 16 KB page sizes. Google was already pushing developers to get their applications ready for 16 KB page sizes, which means recompiling for 16 KB alignment and...
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Donald Trump says he tapped MAHA influencer Casey Means for U.S. Surgeon General because conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. think's she's 'fantastic.' Never mind that the president admits he doesn't really know his nominee. And never mind that Means, a 37-year-old...
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While thousands of victims testified about their stolen life savings, Celsius Network founder Alexander Mashinsky sobbed his way through a sentencing hearing that ended in a 12-year prison term. The prosecutor's assessment: this crypto-bro was a predator who 'preyed on...
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According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple has 'made progress' on a chip for a product that could rival the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The company is also reportedly working on glasses that use augmented reality. The Verge reports: The chip is apparently based on the chips ...
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CBP’s acting commissioner has rescinded four Biden-era policies that aimed to protect vulnerable people in the agency’s custody, including mothers, infants, and the elderly.
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In a recent interview with the Council on Foreign Relations, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince warned that AI is breaking the economic model of the web by decoupling content creation from value, with platforms like Google and OpenAI increasingly providing answers without driving ...
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Thursday May 8, 2025. 11:53 PM
ADATA is moving beyond its usual consumer gear and entering the enterprise solid state drive market. The company today announced a new brand called TRUSTA -- this is ADATA going all-in on enterprise SSDs built for real-world AI, data center, and server demands. The new...
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