Demis Hassabis, the driving force behind Google DeepMind, is ascending to the role of chief scientist at Alphabet, Google’s parent company, replacing Jeff Dean who is leaving to work at a start-up. The role will enable Hassabis to “put his full attention on actively shaping the future of AGI,” orContinue Reading
Police have been accused of misusing Flock data to access the private information of people not suspected of any crimes., Police have been accused of misusing Flock data to access the private information of people not suspected of any crimes., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
The study is a major step toward preventing deadly unstoppable pathogens., The study is a major step toward preventing deadly unstoppable pathogens., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
As EVSE, onboard chargers (OBCs) and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems move from pilot programs to mainstream deployment, the AC grid interface has become the hardest part to get right—and the easiest to get wrong. Utilities, regulators, and OEMs now expect these systems to behave predictably under real grid conditions, and toContinue Reading
UL Research Institutes’ Fire Safety Research Institute has released a new report on EV fires and suppression tactics, called “Full-Scale Electric Vehicle Fire Experiments and Recommendations for Fire Incident Response.” ULRI conducted full-scale burns of 18 vehicles (what fun!) to examine the differences and similarities between gas-vehicle and EV fires.Continue Reading
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodes withContinue Reading
A new bug-fix release of Calibre, the open-source e-book manger, view and converter, is available for download. Calibre 9.13 fixes a number of PDF-related issues, including a conversion error that could occur on Linux distributions shipping an ‘ancient’ version of the libxml2 library, which is mainly older Debian installs. TheContinue Reading
As Europe swelters in a heatwave, residents probably don’t want to hear about ways to make their homes even hotter, but that’s what Polish property developer Citylink is talking about, with plans to dump waste heat from a new data center in Wrocław into the municipal district heating network. CitylinkContinue Reading
Bending Spoons has snapped up Airtable to add to its portfolio of software companies, alongside AOL, Evernote, WeTransfer, Brightcove and Vimeo Airtable made its name as a builder of low/no code database services, aimed particularly at non-technical staff, but is now one of many vendors facing financial difficulties in theContinue Reading
Illinois has become the latest U.S. state to pull operating systems into the age verification pool. Governor JB Pritzker has signed HB5511, the Children’s Online Social Media Safety Act, putting forward a new age verification framework for every device sold or used in the state. The bill imposes age checkContinue Reading
Virtualization is basically load-bearing infrastructure for any serious data center in 2026. Enterprises lean on it to run more workloads on less hardware, isolate services cleanly, and keep uptime high without buying a rack of extra servers. Proxmox has built a name for itself in this space over the yearsContinue Reading
Here’s are the quick steps on how you can upgrade to the Fedora 44 version. Fedora 44 is officially available for download and the upgrade channels are now available. This release brings the latest and greatest GNOME 50 desktop for workstation editions, refinements to KDE Plasma desktop and more updates.Continue Reading
A New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay $567 million for contributing to a teen mental health crisis., A New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay $567 million for contributing to a teen mental health crisis., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading