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Monday December 8, 2025. 09:44 AM
Limitless has announced that it has been acquired by Meta. Formerly known as Rewind, Limitless is a company that says, “our vision is to free the human mind from its biological limitations”. To this end, the company produces AI-powered wearable, including a pendant that...
Tesla’s humanoid robot is now running, and Elon Musk says it could one day erase poverty. Tesla last week shared a short video of its Optimus humanoid robot jogging across a lab floor, a first for the machine. The clip was first posted by the official Optimus account with...
What triggered that Airbus emergency software recall? The BBC reports that Airbus's initial investigation into an aircraft's sudden drop in altitude linked it 'to a malfunction in one of the aircraft's computers that controls moving parts on the aircraft's wings and tail.'...
Meta is once again redirecting its financial efforts, but this time the shift feels less like chasing a futuristic dream and more like a course correction in response to reality. After years of pouring billions into building the metaverse, the company is scaling back and...
As has been recently announced, nominations are open for the 2025 Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB) elections. I am one of the TAB members whose term is coming to an end, but I have decided that, after 18 years on the board, I will not be seeking re-election;...
WhatsApp is popular enough to be considered ubiquitous these days, with the group chat feature used by families, work colleagues, friends and other collections of people to keep in touch. But while group chats are very useful, there are undeniable issues with WhatsApp’s...
Ignorance really can be bliss Who, Me? Opinion varies about the most efficient way to commence a working week. The Register’s contribution to that conversation is Who, Me? It’s the reader-contributed column in which you share stories of your mistakes, and subsequent...
Analysts worry lazy users could have agents complete mandatory infosec training, and attackers could do far nastier things Agentic browsers are too risky for most organizations to use, according to analyst firm Gartner.…
An anonymous reader shared this report from Autoblog: Imagine walking out to your car, pressing the start button, and getting absolutely nothing. No crank, no lights on the dash, nothing. That's exactly what happened to hundreds of Porsche owners in Russia last week. The...
Nuclear engineer Lonnie Johnson worked on NASA's Galileo mission, has more than 140 patents, and invented the Super Soaker water gun. But now he's working on 'a potential key to unlock a huge power source that's rarely utilized today,' reports the Atlanta...
PLUS: South Korea to strengthen security standards; Canon closes Chinese printer plant; APAC datacenter capacity to triple by 2029; And more Asia In Brief Chinese rocketry outfit LandSpace last week flew what it hoped would be the country’s first reusable rocket, only to...
Phys.org republishes this article from The Conversation: On average, managers spend 23 hours a week in meetings. Much of what happens in them is considered to be of low value, or even entirely counterproductive. The paradox is that bad meetings generate even more meetings... ...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: FreeBSD 15.0 News: Canonical presents plans for Ubuntu 26.04, SparkyLinux publishes updated CDE packages, Redox OS gets modesetting driver Tips and tricks: Fun command...
Friday six European Union countries 'asked the European Commission to water down an effective ban on the sale of internal combustion engine cars slated for 2035,' reports Reuters The countries have asked the EU Commission to allow the sale of hybrid cars or vehicles powered...
PLUS: New kind of DDOS from the Americas; Predator still hunting spyware targets; NIST issues IoT advice; And more! Infosec in Brief The Apache Foundation last week warned of a 10.0-rated flaw in its Tika toolkit.…
AI is the second-largest major at M.I.T. after computer science, reports the New York Times. (Alternate URL here and here.) Though that includes students interested in applying AI in biology and health care — it's just the beginning: This semester, more than 3,000 students...
Sunday December 7, 2025. 11:07 PM
UPDATE (12/7): The New York Times clarifies today that the damage at Chernobyl hasn't led to a rise in radiation levels: 'If there was to be some event inside the shelter that would release radioactive materials into the space inside the New Safe Confinement, because this...
TL;DR: Your kitties can have the time of their lives with the self-rolling Cheerble Ball for the best pricing online — only $14.97 (MSRP $27.99). Energetic cats bugging you in the middle of your workday? Keep them feeling playful with the interactive Cheerble Ball that...
Senator Tom Cotton has a message for anyone troubled by U.S. military strikes that killed survivors clinging to a capsized boat: relax, they were moving around. In an interview with NBC News' 'Meet the Press,' Cotton defended the September 2 'double tap' strike that killed...
A hardware security response from ChatGPT ended with 'Shop for home and groceries. Connect Target.' But 'There are no live tests for ads' on ChatGPT, insists Nick Turley, OpenAI's head of ChatGPT. Posting on X.com, he said 'any screenshots you've seen are either not real or...
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