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dimanche 27 juillet 2025, 23:48
California researchers planned a multimillion-dollar test of salt water-spraying equipment that could one day be used to dim the sun's rays — over a 3,900-square mile are off the west coasts of North America, Chile or south-central Africa. E&E News calls it part of a...
Proton VPN reported a 1,400 percent hourly increase in signups over its baseline Friday — the day the UK's age verification law went into effect. For UK users, 'apps with explicit content must now verify visitors' ages via methods such as facial recognition and banking info,'...
'Search engines still require users to use critical thinking to interpret and contextualize the results,' argues Aaron French, an assistant professor of information systems. But with the rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, 'internet users aren't just outsourcing memory ...
From the Adafruit blog: Greg Technology (aka Greg Sadetsky) on YouTube demonstrates a version of Chocolate Doom where opponent characters can be cut, copied, and pasted at will to add a bit more fun to the game. Obviously this means you can paste in your attackers multiple...
Marvel's Fantastic Four: First Steps 'raked in about $57 million at the domestic box office for its opening day, according to multiple outlets,' reports Forbes. That haul makes it 'the year's second-largest opening day so far and a win for Marvel and Disney about a year...
Liquefied CO2 will be transported by ship to 'the world's first carbon shipping port,' reports the Washington Post — an island in the North Sea where it will be 'buried in a layer of spongy rock a mile and a half beneath the seabed.' Norway's government is covering 80% of the...
In 1995's online world, AOL existed mostly beside the internet as a 'walled, manicured garden,' remembers Fast Company. Then along came AOHell 'the first of what would become thousands of programs designed by young hackers to turn the system upside down' — built by a high...
NBC News reports: Customers watched in disbelief as Florida police arrested a Chuck E. Cheese employee — in costume portraying the pizza-hawking rodent — and accused him of using a stolen credit card, officials said Thursday.... 'I grabbed his right arm while giving the...
'A Chinese mega-constellation of communications satellites is facing serious delays,' reports the South China Morning Post, 'that could jeopardise its ambitions to compete with SpaceX's Starlink for valuable orbital resources.' Only 90 satellites have been launched into low...
The vulnerability-watching 'Zero Day Initiative' was started in 2005 as a division of 3Com, then acquired in 2015 by cybersecurity company Trend Micro, according to Wikipedia. But the Register reports today that the initiative's head of threat awareness is now concerned...
At this weekend's Comic-Con, 'Excitement has been high over the sneak peeks at Tron: Ares and Predator: Badlands,' reports CNET. (Nine Inch Nails has even recorded a new song for Tron: Ares.) A few highlights from CNET's coverage: The Coyote vs. Acme movie will hit theaters...
The 'Chief People Officer' of dataops company Astronomer resigned this week from her position after apparently being caught on that 'Kiss Cam' at a Coldplay concert with the company's CEO, reports the BBC. That CEO has also resigned, with Astronomer appointing their original ...
samedi 26 juillet 2025, 23:34
'Google has signed its first partnership with a long-duration energy storage company,' reports Data Center Dynamics. 'The tech giant signed a long-term partnership with Energy Dome to support multiple commercial deployments worldwide to help scale the company's CO2 battery...
Since 2010 Stack Exchange has run all its sites on physical hardware in New Jersey — about 50 different servers. (When Ryan Donovan joined in 2019, 'I saw the original server mounted on a wall with a laudatory plaque like a beloved pet.') But this month everything moved to...
The world's best human chess player beat ChatGPT, reports Time magazine. Magnus Carlsen posted on X.com earlier this month that 'I sometimes get bored while travelling,' and shared screenshots of his conversations with ChatGPT after he beat the AI chatbot 'without losing a...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Mashable: Google Gemini's coding agent hallucinated while completing a task and then deleted a bunch of code, a GitHub user claims. The frustrated vibe coder is Anuraag Gupta, who goes by anuraag2601 on GitHub. He shared a recent...
Remember asteroid 2024 YR4 (which at one point had a 1 in 32 chance of hitting Earth, before ending up at 'impact probability zero')? CNN reports that asteroid is now 'zooming beyond the reach of telescopes on its orbit around the sun.' 'But as scientists wait for it to...
What happens when you ask ChatGPT how to craft a ritual offering to the forgotten Canaanite god Molech? One user discovered (and three reporters for The Atlantic verified) ChatGPT 'can easily be made to guide users through ceremonial rituals and rites that encourage various...
Tesla open its first diner/Supercharger station Monday in Los Angeles, reports CNBC — an always-open two-story restaurant serving 'classic American comfort food' next to 80-charging stalls surrounded by two 66-foot megascreens 'playing a rotation of short films,...
The 'Chief People Officer' of dataops company Astronomer resigned from her position this week after apparently being caught on the 'Kiss Cam' at a Coldplay concert with the company's CEO, reports the BBC. That CEO has also resigned, with Astronomer appointing their original...
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