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Wednesday November 19, 2025. 05:40 PM
Yesterday, we looked at how Macs can provide on-premises AI services for you; today we’re going to speculate a little more. Consider this: millions of people use iPhones to access public generative AI (genAI) tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and others. When you use those...
Digital rights groups argue cameras used to unconstitutionally surveil locals The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU-NC) are suing the City of San Jose and its police department over alleged abuses of...
Gaming auteur Hideo Kojima has long described himself by saying '70% of my body is made of movies,' which shows in the cinematic approach he's taken to constructing his games since the 80s. Kojima may need to bump that figure up, though, given that a third Death...
In mid-October, the Xubuntu download site was compromised and had directed users to a malicious zip file instead of the Torrent file that users expected. Elizabeth K. Joseph has published a postmortem of the incident, along with plans to avoid such a breach in the future: ...
The Linux kernel supports a large number of architectures. Not all of those are supported by Linux distributions, but Debian does support many of them, officially or unofficially. On October 26, Bastian Blank opened a discussion about the minimum version of these...
You may have noticed that yesterday ChatGPT, X and a number of other websites -- including BetaNews for a while -- were unavailable due to an issue with online security service Cloudflare. So what went wrong? According to the company the problem occurred after a...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Federal health officials have linked two massive US measles outbreaks, confirming that the country is about two months away from losing its measles elimination status, according to a report by The New York Times. The Times obtained a...
I'm a big fan of Jakob Grosse-Ophoff's kinetic sculptures, which tap into human movement and experience in ways that are sometimes humorous, sometimes beautiful, sometimes extremely disturbing, and always captivating. His sculpture 'The Driller,' which Popkin featured here...
Donald Trump has spent years benefiting from the QAnon's Jeffrey Epstein obsession. That’s all changing.
Recordings from the GStreamer Conference 2025, held in London in late October, are now available on the GStreamer Conferences Archive site. Includes the GStreamer State of the Union talk by Tim-Philipp Müller, State of MPEG 2 Transport Stream (MPEG-TS) by Edward Hervey, and ...
In her own words, Congressperson Nancy Mace has 'no friends,' only a dog. Proving that bad people do suffer the consequences, but dogs will love anyone who feeds them. An 'Island of One,' Mace has very publicly aired accusations against former lovers from the floor of...
Vegemite is a thick brown slime derived from leftover brewers' yeast. Similar to Marmite, and especially popular in Australia, it is famed for the intensity of its flavor and how completely repulsive it is to those yet to acquire the taste. — Read the rest The post...
Tsinghua University collected 4,986 AI and machine learning patents between 2005 and the end of 2024. The Beijing institution has received more than 900 patents last year alone. The total exceeds the combined patent count from MIT, Stanford, Princeton and Harvard during the...
Target, which made a big song and dance of ditching diversity, equity and inclusion programs to please President Trump, isn't faring any better with its new CEO. The third quarter saw profits 'tumble' and it admitted today that the holiday season may not go well. — Read the...
We have reached the time of year when ‘best of’ roundups become increasingly difficult to avoid. Not wanting to buck the trend, Apple has released its list of finalists for the 2025 App Store Awards. The list is not just about apps, but also includes games. Apple says...
The elevator pitch for Yahweh energy drink — Christ in a can — sounds like a South Park bit. At first glance, the website appears to be something hastily put together for satire. The portrait of Jesus adorning every can reeks of that AI-generated gloss. — Read the rest ...
In the face of heavy travel restrictions imposed by the Trump administration, the United States announced that soccer fans going to the World Cup will enjoy a certain priority for processing tourist visa.
Cloudflare suffered its worst network outage in six years on Tuesday, beginning at 11:20 UTC. The disruption prevented the content delivery network from routing traffic for roughly three hours. The failure, writes Cloudflare in a blog post, originated from a database...
Raccoons that live in close proximity to humans are developing shorter, cuter snouts and appear to be self-domesticating. Early humans likely saw dogs as helpful companions and domesticated them. Cats, on the other hand, self-domesticated to feed on the mice and rats that...
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