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Sh!t happens, so Microsoft is paying biz to flush its carbon sins underground
Microsoft has signed a contract with a company that will pump shit underground for it in exchange for carbon credits.…
COVID-19 pandemic accelerated brain aging – even if you didn’t catch the virus
A longitudinal study of nearly 996 healthy adults found that the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated ageing of their brains.…
Stop flooding us with AI-based grant applications, begs Health Institute
ai-pocalypse Amid expectations that the Trump administration will introduce an AI Action Plan on Wednesday to boost the use of AI in government, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) are pleading for less of it.…
And now for our annual ‘Tape is <i>still</i> not dead’ update
Shipments of tape storage media increased again in 2024, according to HPE, IBM, and Quantum – the three companies that back the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Format.…
China warns citizens to beware backdoored devices, on land and under the sea
China’s Ministry of State Security has spent the week warning of backdoored devices on land and at sea.…
OpenAI sweet-talks Oracle into another 4.5GW worth of Stargate datacenters, assuming the check clears
AI hype man and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has convinced his buddies at Oracle to bring an additional 4.5 gigawatts of datacenter capacity online in the US as part of the startup's Stargate initiative.…
One in six US workers pretends to use AI to please the bosses
ai-pocalypse If you're one of those people who pretend to use AI at work, then worry not: there are likely another 15 of you per hundred employees in your company. That's the finding of a survey from nearshoring tech recruitment company Howdy.com.…
Biden broadband benchmarks are BS, says Trump FCC
The next edition of the Federal Communications Commission's broadband expansion progress report is going to paint a rosier reality than usual, if a proposal being put to a vote at next month's meeting gets a pass. …
Funding for program to stop next Stuxnet from hitting US expired Sunday
Government funding for a program that hunts for threats on America's critical infrastructure networks expired on Sunday, preventing Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from analyzing activity that could indicate a cyberattack, the program director told Congress on Tuesday.…
Google AI Overviews are killing the web, Pew study shows (again)
ai-pocalypse Google Search users are less likely to click on search result links when those pages have AI Overviews, according to the Pew Research Center.…
Biggest chunk of Mars on Earth sells for $5.3M at auction, cheaper than NASA's sample return mission
Videos The largest chunk of Mars yet discovered on Earth, a 54-pound (25kg) chunk of the Red Planet, has been purchased at auction for $5.3 million by an unknown bidder.…
How to get rid of useless keys in Windows and turn them into something helpful
In the era of laptops and tenkeyless keyboards, many of us are living with fewer keys than we had years ago. But even on a small keyboard, you'll find keys that you just don't need. …
How AI chip upstart FuriosaAI won over LG with its power-sipping design
South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI scored a major customer win this week after LG's AI Research division tapped its AI accelerators to power servers running its Exaone family of large language models.…
Struggling to sell EVs, Tesla pivots to slinging burgers
video Facing declining sales and a tarnished reputation, EV manufacturer Tesla is looking to a new industry to generate some revenue: Fast-casual food service.…
Arch Linux users told to purge Firefox forks after AUR malware scare
If you installed the Firefox, LibreWolf, or Zen web browsers from the Arch User Repository (AUR) in the last few days, delete them immediately and install fresh copies.…
GitHub command palette wins stay of execution after dev pushback
GitHub has "paused" the removal of the command palette, which enables keyboard control of the GitHub web application, following developer protests.…
Surprise, surprise: Chinese spies, IP stealers, other miscreants attacking Microsoft SharePoint servers
At least three Chinese groups are attacking on-premises SharePoint servers via a couple of recently disclosed Microsoft bugs, according to Redmond.…
Silicon Valley engineer admits theft of US missile tech secrets
A Silicon Valley engineer has pleaded guilty to stealing thousands of trade secrets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, including crucial military technology.…
Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals
Researchers in Italy have developed a way to create a biometric identifier for people based on the way the human body interferes with Wi-Fi signal propagation.…
UK government swoons over OpenAI in legally meaningless love-in
The UK's Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) is jumping into bed with chatbot biz OpenAI, signing a memorandum of understanding to expand OpenAI's footprint in the nation while inserting its tech firmly into the public sector.…