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Monday November 17, 2025. 11:40 PM
NetChoice is suing Virginia to block a new law that limits kids under 16 to one hour of daily social media use unless parents approve more time, arguing the rule violates the First Amendment and introduces serious privacy risks through mandatory age-verification. The Verge...
Nvidia hopes that its new open-source AI model for physics, Apollo, will find application in a wide variety of high-tech scientific and industrial fields. It unveiled the new model family at SC25, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking,...
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we run through the top stories of the week and examine how some of the victories in the US November elections show the power of online fandom.
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, guest Brian Merchant walks us through a historical framework he used to analyze whether AI fits the classic signs of an economic bubble—and what that means for all of us.
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Colin Percival has announced the availability of the first release candidate for the upcoming FreeBSD 15.0, scheduled for final release in early December. The new version will introduce a large number of...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft's Azure, and Alphabet's Google Cloud risk being dragged into the scope of the European Union's crackdown on Big Tech as antitrust watchdogs prepare to study the platforms' market power. The...
Aisuru botnet strikes again, bigger and badder Azure was hit by the 'largest-ever' cloud-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, originating from the Aisuru botnet and measuring 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps), according to Microsoft.…
A Trump administration pilot program aims for three nuclear startups to reach a key milestone by July 4, 2026. Valar Atomics says it’s the first to do so—but it had some help.
Microsoft has released Aspire 13, the latest version of the company’s tool kit for building distributed, cloud-native applications. With Aspire 13, Python and JavaScript become “first-class citizens” of the development platform, Microsoft said, with comprehensive...
Ready, aim, mire Loose lips sink ships, the classic line goes. Information proliferation in the internet age has government auditors reiterating that loose tweets can sink fleets, and they're concerned that the Defense Department isn't doing enough to stop sensitive info...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Finnix is a small, self-contained, bootable Linux distribution for system administrators, based on Debian's 'Testing' branch. The project's latest version, Finnix 251, introduces OCI container images: 'Finnix...
An anonymous reader shares a report: When Nigel Morris tells you he's worried about the economy, you listen. As industry observers know, Morris co-founded Capital One and pioneered lending to subprime borrowers, building an empire on understanding exactly how much financial...
ORCA benchmark trips up ChatGPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Grok 4, and DeepSeek V3.2 In the world of George Orwell's 1984, two and two make five. And large language models are not much better at math.…
An anonymous reader shares a report: Harvard is ramping up its holdings in cryptocurrency. The nation's oldest university reported a $443 million investment in BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust in the third quarter. The school now holds 6.8 million shares of the...
Attorney General Pam Bondi shattered records for prosecutorial responsiveness Friday, taking just 217 minutes to act on President Trump's demand to investigate Democrats named in Jeffrey Epstein documents. The lightning-fast turnaround — from Trump's Truth Social post to...
The UK government will seize valuables from asylum seekers to offset processing costs, Home Office minister Alex Norris announced. People arriving with 'a bag full of gold rings' face different treatment than those with sentimental items, he told Sky News. The policy,...
Abstract of a paper on NBER: This paper documents video consumption among school-aged children in the U.S. and explores its impact on human capital development. Video watching is common across all segments of society, yet surprisingly little is known about its developmental...
Version 2.52.0 of the Git source-code management system has been released. Changes include a new last-modified command to find the closest ancestor commit that touched one or more paths, a couple of git refs improvements, a new git repo command for obtaining information...
Claims he reported the attack in January after fraudsters tried to scam him A security researcher says Coinbase knew about a December 2024 security breach during which miscreants bribed its support staff into handing over almost 70,000 customers' details at least four months ...
Authorities in Iran have sprayed clouds with chemicals to induce rain, in an attempt to combat the country's worst drought in decades. From a report: Known as cloud-seeding, the process was conducted over the Urmia lake basin on Saturday, Iran's official news agency Irna...
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