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Saturday December 6, 2025. 08:07 AM
Meta has officially confirmed it is shifting investment away from the metaverse and VR toward AI-powered smart glasses, following a Bloomberg report of an up to 30% budget cut for Reality Labs. 'Within our overall Reality Labs portfolio we are shifting some of our investment ...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: OpenAI is testing another new way to expose the complicated processes at work inside large language models. Researchers at the company can make an LLM produce what they call a confession, in which the model...
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alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: Engineers at Cornell University have created the blackest fabric on record, finding it absorbs 99.87 percent of all light that dares to illuminate its surface. In this case, the Cornell researchers dyed a white merino...
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Despite predictions that AI would replace radiologists, healthcare systems worldwide are hiring more of them because AI tools enhance their work, create new oversight tasks, and increase imaging volumes rather than reducing workloads. 'Put all that together with the context...
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sinij shares news of the Trump administration surprising the auto industry by granting approval for 'tiny cars' to be built in the United States. Bloomberg reports: President Donald Trump, apparently enamored by the pint-sized Kei cars he saw during his recent trip to Japan, ...
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Tentative ruling signals a potential win for SFC’s copyleft enforcement push Electronics biz Vizio may be required by a California court to provide source code for its SmartCast TV software, which is allegedly based on open source code licensed under the GPLv2 and...
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Oracle has released Solaris 11.4 SRU 87, which brings with it a whole slew of changes, updates, and fixes. Primarily, it upgrades Firefox and Thunderbird to their latest ESR 140.3.0 releases, and adds GCC 15, alongside a ton of updated other open source packages. On more...
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Proof of life? Or an active social media presence? Criminals are altering social media and other publicly available images of people to use as fake proof of life photos in 'virtual kidnapping' and extortion scams, the FBI warned on Friday. …
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U.S. and Canadian cybersecurity agencies say Chinese-linked actors deployed 'Brickstorm' malware to infiltrate critical infrastructure and maintain long-term access for potential sabotage. Reuters reports: The Chinese-linked hacking operations are the latest example of...
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This is the website for APL9, which is an APL implementation written in C on and for Plan 9 (9front specifically, but the other versions should work as well). Work started in January 2022, when I wanted to do some APL programming on 9front, but no implementation existed. The ...
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Friday December 5, 2025. 11:29 PM
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we bring you the news of the week, then dive into how some DOGE operatives are still at work in the federal government—despite reports claiming otherwise.
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Meta is acquiring AI wearable startup Limitless, maker of a pendant that records conversations and generates summaries. 'We're excited that Limitless will be joining Meta to help accelerate our work to build AI-enabled wearables,' a Meta spokesperson said in a statement....
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Some within the CRM giant balked, but Benioff prevailed ServiceNow’s dominant spot among IT service management (ITSM) platforms is facing its “most credible” threat to date, as longtime platform rival Salesforce has rolled out an AI agent-powered product that has won...
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It is entirely unclear what message Granpa Puddin' Brains thinks he is sending his weirdo MAGA cultist base when he does the hand job dance to the Village People's top hit, YMCA. Perhaps he is reclaiming the song for real young Christian men who like hand jobs from senile...
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The Signalgate scandal that enveloped US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in March appears to be symptomatic of a wider lax attitude towards the use of non-approved messaging apps by officials and employees, a Senate Committee has concluded. In March, the US Senate...
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TL;DR: This bundle will double your productivity. Get a grade A refurbished Dell Latitude 7410 (2020) with Microsoft Office Pro 2021 for Windows for just $274.99 (Reg. $1,019.98). Looking to double your productivity in the new year? Stay true to your 'new year, new me' promis...
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Who needs JavaScript? Security researcher Lyra Rebane has devised a novel clickjacking attack that relies on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).…
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Security community needs to rally and share more info faster, one researcher says Amid new reports of attackers pummeling a maximum security hole (CVE-2025-55182) in the React JavaScript library, Cloudflare's technology chief said his company took down its own network,...
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India is weighing a proposal to mandate always-on satellite tracking in smartphones for precise government surveillance -- an idea strongly opposed by Apple, Google, Samsung, and industry groups. Reuters reports: For years, the [Prime Minister Narendra Modi's] administration ...
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First it was banned. Then its sales blew up. But Horses fails to meet the lofty goals of its own ideas.
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