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Monday September 29, 2025. 11:41 PM
F-Droid has warned that Google's upcoming developer verification program will kill the free and open source app repository. Google announced plans several weeks ago to force all Android app developers to register their apps and identity with the company. Apps not validated...
An anonymous reader shares a report: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator that creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear, according to people familiar with the matter. OpenAI...
The UK government will underwrite a $2 billion loan guarantee to Jaguar Land Rover in a bid to support its suppliers as a cyber-attack continues to halt production at the car maker. BBC: Business Secretary Peter Kyle said the loan, from a commercial bank, would protect jobs...
An anonymous reader shares a report: In a preprint titled 'Can LIGO Detect Daylight Savings Time?,' Reed Essick, former LIGO member and now a physicist at the University of Toronto, gives a simple answer to the paper's title: 'Yes, it can.' The paper, which has yet to be...
The European way of life is being jeopardized by environmental degradation, a report has found, with EU officials warning against weakening green rules. The Guardian: The continent has made 'important progress' in cutting planet-heating pollution, according to the European...
A review of 62 scientific studies published in Osteoporosis International found that microplastics weaken bones by disrupting bone marrow stem cells and stimulating osteoclasts, cells that degrade bone tissue. Laboratory experiments found the particles reduce cell viability, ...
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 ran autonomously for 30 hours to build a chat application similar to Slack or Teams, generating approximately 11,000 lines of code before stopping upon task completion. The model, announced today, marks a significant leap from the company's Opus ...
An anonymous reader writes: Landlords are using a service that logs into a potential renter's employer systems and scrapes their paystubs and other information en masse, potentially in violation of U.S. hacking laws, according to screenshots of the tool shared with 404...
An anonymous reader shares a report: You've probably heard of vibe coding -- novices writing apps by creating a simple AI prompt -- but now Microsoft wants to introduce a similar thing for its Office apps. The software maker is launching a new Agent Mode in Excel and Word...
The world's highest bridge opened in China on Sunday, taking the crown from another bridge in the same province. From a report: The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge soars about 2,050 feet above a river and gorge in the southern Chinese province of Guizhou. It is more than twice...
What's the proper punishment for an illegal U-turn? If you're a human being in California, it's a fine of up to $234. If you're a robot, apparently, it's nothing at all. The San Francisco Standard: This injustice became apparent to many Facebook users Saturday night after a...
BrianFagioli writes: Electronic Arts has agreed to a $55 billion buyout by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), private equity firm Silver Lake, and Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners, marking the largest all-cash sponsor take-private deal ever. Shareholders will...
'Computer science went from a future-proof career to an industry in upheaval in a shockingly small amount of time,' writes Business Insider, citing remarks from UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid said during a recent episode of Nova's 'Particles of Thought' podcast. 'Our...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the blog Linuxiac: In a somewhat unexpected move, Cloudflare has announced its sponsorship of the Ladybird browser, an independent (still-in-development) open-source initiative aimed at developing a modern, standalone web browser...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Ars Technica: Late last week, The Hollywood Reporter ran a story about an 'AI Stan Lee hologram' that would be appearing at the LA Comic Con this weekend. [Watch it in action here.] Nearly seven years after the famous Marvel Comics ...
'As awareness grows around the dangers of head trauma in sports, a small number of professional fighters and football players are turning to a psychedelic called ibogaine for treatment,' reports the Los Angeles Times. They note that the drug's proponents 'tout its ability to ...
The editors of the culture magazine n + 1 decry the 'well-funded upheaval' caused by a large and powerful coalition of pro-AI forces. ('According to the logic of market share as social transformation, if you move fast and break enough things, nothing can contain you...') 'An ...
'The internet is full of people claiming to uncover conspiracies in politics and business...' reports the Wall Street Journal. 'Now an unlikely new villain has been added to the list: theoretical physicists,' they write, saygin resentment of scientific authority figures 'is...
'Swiss voters have backed plans for electronic identity cards by a wafer-thin margin,' reports the Guardian, 'in the second nationwide vote on the issue.' In a referendum on Sunday, 50.4% of voters supported an electronic ID card, while 49.6% were against, confounding...
Sunday September 28, 2025. 10:37 PM
Tim Berners-Lee writes in a new article in the Guardian that 'Somewhere between my original vision for web 1.0 and the rise of social media as part of web 2.0, we took the wrong path Today, I look at my invention and I am forced to ask: is the web still free today? No, not...
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