GenAI technologies are being promoted as the door to a new era of economic dynamism. However, the opposite is more likely. While LLM-based tools haven’t measur…
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The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions began circulating on …
You’re a smart cookie, so you opted to buy a copy of Microsoft Office for macOS back in 2019 or 2021, eschewing the Office 365 subscription, so you could keep on using Office 2019/2021 forever if you wanted to. Just lik…
Elon Musk's SpaceX is preparing for what could become the largest public listing in history, with a target valuation exceeding $1.75 trillion. While investors may focus on the IPO itself, the bigger development could be…
Security related update This patch release fixes a security vulnerability affecting the following versions of Plausible Community Edition (image: ghcr.io/plausible/community-edition): Tags: v3.2 v3...
You might not know it, but the hot water and rocks deep within Earth are teeming with undiscovered life. Dr. Tanvi Govil is one of the biologists studying this new frontier of microbial life that thrives in extreme plac…
The AI boom’s highest-profile executives didn’t immediately weigh in on the pope’s lengthy encyclical, though some tech industry leaders signaled support for his overarching message.
Meta is rolling out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, while also testing new AI, creator, and business-focused offerings under its broader “Meta One” subscription brand.
Marcia Lucas, the Oscar-winning editor of the original 1977 “Star Wars,” has died at age 80. A lawyer for her family says she passed away Wednesday from metastatic cancer in Rancho Mirage, California.
Feedback notes the proliferation of AI company logos, and agrees with one blogger's claim that many bear a striking resemblance to a certain anatomical feature
Amazon Lunaâs changes prove that digital ownership is fragile. Why buy means borrow in 2026 and how to protect your games, movies, and save data now.
USC researchers built a robotic hand that hears a melody once and plays it back after just two minutes of self-taught practice on a keyboard. They say the implications go far beyond music.
Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion (2026) is a scheduled remote degradation of perpetually-licensed Microsoft Office software for macOS...
Tech blogger Franklin Fausti (Josh Hutcherson) is set for a once-in-a-lifetime interview with Anton Burrell (Morgan Freeman), a visionary tech guru at his ne...
Mercedes-Benz's largest individual shareholder is BAIC, a Chinese state-owned automaker. Sources told CNBC that exemptions in the legislation would not apply.
If you asked most people to name a defining feature of AI-generated writing, they’d probably say the em-dash — like this. Language models use em-dashes so much that real humans who like em-dashes have stopped using them…
Many scientific discoveries used to be made by amateurs. William Herschel, who discovered Uranus, was a composer and an organist. Antoine Lavoisier, who laid the foundation for modern chemistry, was a politician.
Several days ago, DeepSeek released a new OCR paper. OCR, or “optical character recognition”, is the process of converting an image of text - say, a scanned page of a book - into actual text content. Better OCR is obvio…