Julie Hesmondhalgh has reflected on the lasting importance of her Coronation Street role, which saw her play beloved transgender character Hayley Cropper. The Celebrity Traitors star, who was banished earlier in the series, played Hayley on Corrie between 1998 and 2014, when she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and decidedContinue Reading
Ubuntu has released security updates for the php2shell PHP flaw that’s led to websites being taken offline, and a key compromise at the eMudhra certificate authority. Desktop Ubuntu isn’t directly affected by php2shell, since PHP isn’t installed by default. The certificate issue is more of a browser-based concern, though Google,Continue Reading
For the past few years, most enterprise AI has been advisory. It summarized tickets, drafted knowledge articles, and suggested next steps. A person still decided what to do. That’s changing. Agentic AI systems can plan multistep tasks and carry them out: querying systems, triggering workflows, changing configurations, and closing ticketsContinue Reading
“Hallucination” has become the catch-all term for AI getting things wrong. It describes a real phenomenon: Large language models can generate confident, fluent answers that are simply untrue. But in IT operations, many errors labeled as hallucinations have a more ordinary explanation. The AI isn’t inventing facts. It’s faithfully reportingContinue Reading
The campaign of Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican running for governor in Ohio, sparked controversy this week with an ad featuring the estranged mother of his Democratic opponent, Dr. Amy Acton. In the ad, Acton’s mother calls her a “liar” who is being dishonest about her past. But court documents —Continue Reading
Summary So far, under President Traitor 47’s second term: Job growth became sluggish, with only 776,000 jobs created. The unemployment rate edged up to 4.2%, still historically low. Inflation worsened. Consumer prices are up 5.4%. Gasoline is up 38%. Wages just barely rose faster than inflation, as measured since TheContinue Reading
Brazil’s progressive government is imperiled by a U.S.-based evangelical movement pushing far-right politics worldwide., Read MoreContinue Reading
Governor Tim Walz’s order is a welcome development, but does not offer long-term protection., Read MoreContinue Reading
Gintama’s Shinji Takamatsu helms comedy about woman’s new gig as contract killer…Read MoreContinue Reading
Learn six Linux habits that can damage your system over time, from misusing sudo to skipping backups, and what to do instead…Read MoreContinue Reading
Windows may be the default, but in a few key areas, it’s the one playing catch-up — and Microsoft doesn’t seem to be in a hurry to fix that…Read MoreContinue Reading
PC gaming’s shader-stutter nightmare might finally be heading to the grave. Nvidia’s new GeForce 621.01 driver adds support for Microsoft’s Advanced Shader Delivery technology, starting with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 and Gears of War: E-Day. That might just sound like a bullet point buried in another Game Ready driver release—and it was…Continue Reading
On Oct. 21, 2008, the Indian Space Research Organization launched its first mission to the moon. The mission was named Chandrayaan-1, and it consisted of both an orbiter and an impactor. Chandrayaan-1 launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on an Indian rocket called the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, or PSLV-XL. (Launch occurred at 8:52Continue Reading