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Once the spacecraft’s antenna is realigned with Earth, communications should resume.

Hopefully we can avoid a repeat of the cryptomining-GPU situation.

Film companies lost another attempt to force Reddit to identify anonymous users who discussed piracy. A federal court on Saturday quashed a subpoena demanding users' names and other identifying details, agreeing with Reddit's argument that the film companies' demands violate the First Amendment....

MIT scientists and colleagues have created a simple superconducting device that could transfer current through electronic devices much more efficiently than is possible today. As a result, the new diode, a kind of switch, could dramatically cut the amount of energy used in high-power computing systems, a major problem that is...

As AI-generated content fills the Internet, it’s corrupting the training data for models to come. What happens when AI eats itself?

I read an article in the New York Times about Elon Musk wanting to make X, formally known as Twitter, into an everything app. The article also mentions other attempts. Would that be the last thing we would want?...

Exploring large language models' biases in historical knowledge

Beyond the missteps with the rebranding, others are pointing out that Musk's move to rename Twitter "X" may involve a financial hit to the brand's value.

A new crop of artificial intelligence tools carries the promise of streamlining tasks, improving efficiency and boosting productivity in the workplace. But that hasn’t been Neil Clarke’s experience so far.

The technology giant says it could remove services such as FaceTime from the UK over potential changes

Netflix reported substantial growth in subscribers in the months following its push to stop users from sharing accounts with people outside of their household.

Amazon and Apple were found guilt of colluding to limit the sale of Apple products by third-party sellers on the huge online retail platform.

Researchers at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany published a study revealing that tens of thousands of container images hosted on Docker Hub contain confidential secrets, exposing software, online platforms, and users to a massive attack surface.

Before this week, Bluesky did not have an automated system in place to prevent people from including the n-word in their handle..

Eight years later, Google can't find Gorillas.

It’s the first change to the Office default font in more than 15 years.

With Meta's Threads app absent in the EU, some AI-powered apps are trying to gain the advantage of the situation on the App Store.

Departure follows layoffs, project cancellations, and other chaos.

Here’s what is collected by Threads, as well as by Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social.

I like using RSS. I experimented with trying to get threads accounts into my RSS reader using the Mastodon method but just added .rss to the user's page. Unfortunately doesn't work....

Ads from Amazon, Sky, and On Running are showing people a placeholder image with Twitter’s logo.

Adding easy-to-break molecular connectors surprisingly makes materials harder to tear and could one day reduce microplastic pollution from car tires.

This week Twitter got yet another competitor: Meta’s Threads. Enough is enough. Don’t join. This has to stop.