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lundi 8 décembre 2025, 17:05
An investigation has revealed how stablecoins -- cryptocurrencies pegged to the US dollar that exist largely beyond traditional financial oversight -- have become a practical tool for criminals and sanctioned individuals to move funds across borders almost instantly and...
Tech giants including Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon have all extended the estimated useful lives of their servers and AI equipment over the past five years, sparking a debate among investors about whether these accounting changes are artificially inflating profits....
Paramount Skydance is launching a hostile bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery after it lost out to Netflix in a months-long bidding war for the legacy assets, the company said Monday. CNBC: Paramount will go straight to WBD shareholders with an all-cash, $30-per-share offer....
Amazon used its annual re:Invent cloud conference in Las Vegas to pitch a vision of the workplace where AI agents serve not as tools but as 'co-workers' and 'teammates,' even as the company proceeds with eliminating roughly 14,000 corporate jobs in its second major workforce ...
America's Energy Department runs a research lab in Idaho — and this week announced successful results from a ground-breaking experiment. 'This is the first time in history that chloride-based molten salt fuel has been produced for a fast reactor,' says Bill Phillips, the...
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.'...
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...
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... ...
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...
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...
dimanche 7 décembre 2025, 23:07
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...
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...
It runs locally, a free/open source home automation platform connecting all your devices together, regardless of brand. And GitHub's senior developer calls it 'one of the most active, culturally important, and technically demanding open source ecosystems on the planet,' with ...
'People in their teens and early 20s are increasingly turning to old school tech,' reports the BBC, 'in a bid to unplug from the online world.' Amazon UK told BBC Scotland News that retro-themed products surged in popularity during its Black Friday event, with portable vinyl ...
Why does Netflix want to buy Warner Bros, asks the chief film critic at the long-running motion-picture magazine Variety. 'It is hard, at this moment, to resist the suspicion that the ultimate reason... is to eliminate the competition.' [Warner Bros. is] one of the only...
FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE arrived this week, notes this report from The Register, which calls it the latest release 'of the Unix world's leading alternative to Linux.' As well as numerous bug fixes and upgrades to many of its components, the major changes in this version are...
'Homebrew, the package manager for macOS and Linux, just got a handy new feature in the latest v5.0.4 update,' reports How-To Geek. Brewfile install scripts 'are now more like a one-stop shop for installing software, as Flatpaks are now supported alongside Brew packages, Mac ...
Today America's college professors 'struggle to accommodate the many students with an official disability designation,' reports the Atlantic, 'which may entitle them to extra time, a distraction-free environment, or the use of otherwise-prohibited technology.' Their staff...
Wired published an article by California-based writer/programmer Sheon Han arguing that Ruby 'is not a serious programming language.' Han believes that the world of programming has 'moved on', and 'everything Ruby does, another language now does better, leaving it without a...
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