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upstart writes:Westinghouse is claiming a nuclear deal would see $80B of new reactors:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/senators-move-to-keep-big-techs-creepy-companion-bots-away-from-kids/

upstart writes:Some portions of the OS are still stuck on light:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/25-years-one-website-iss-in-real-time-captures-quarter-century-on-space-station/

upstart writes:ASML launches revolutionary lithography scanner for advanced 3D chip packaging:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10/an-autonomous-car-for-consumers-lucid-says-its-happening/

The Australian Government wants AI to pay for copyright fees in move that may be more about getting a piece of the billions invested in AI. ARIA chief executive Annabelle Herd of the Copyright and AI Reference Group (CAIRG) has called the recommendation for a text and data mining exception "a radical change" that has been "put forward with very little evidence".

Booga1 writes:OpenAI has acquired Software Applications Incorporated (SAI), perhaps best known for the core team that produced what became Shortcuts on Apple platforms. More recently, the team has been working on Sky, a context-aware AI interface layer on top of macOS. The financial terms of the acquisition have not been publicly disclosed.

upstart writes:AI arms dealer relies on Taiwanese advanced packaging plants for top-specced GPUs:

upstart writes:Plus spy helping spy: Typhoons teaming up:

An Anonymous Coward writes:In a study published last month https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02297-0 researchers analyze internal sentence representation for both humans and LLMs. It turns out that humans and LLMs use similar tree structures. Quote from their conclusions: "The results also add to the literature showing that the human brain and LLM, albeit fundamentally different in terms of the implementation, can have aligned internal representations of language."Originally seen on techxplore https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-humans-llms-sentences-similarly.html:

"Anonymouse" writes:Trump Eyes Government Control of Quantum Computing Firms With Intel-Like Deals

upstart writes:ESA astronauts take to helicopters for Moon landing training:

"Anonymous Coward" writes:An approach it calls "quantum echoes" takes 13,000 times longer on a supercomputer

Snotnose writes:No tech, no snark, no politics, just good pictures

AnonTechie writes:TechCrunch

An Anonymous Coward has submitted the following:A December update to Microsoft Teams that will be disabled by default will reportedly track user location and report it if the feature is enabled. This will allow bosses to tell if an employee is in the office or working from home and set their status accordingly. It will also be able to tell if the user is not at their normal home logon location and provide evidence to employers showing the user's location. Workers who have been taking mini holidays while claiming to be working from home may be affected by this new feature.

upstart writes:Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://intezer.com/blog/beginners-guide-to-malware-analysis-and-reverse-engineering/

fliptop writes:Ford will ramp up production of the F-150 and F-Series Super Duty in 2026, but the Lightning will pay the price :

anubi writes:Nexperia, a Chinese Semiconductor manufacturing plant, located in the Netherlands, was seized by Dutch authorities last week in response to embargo pressures.https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nexperia-says-it-is-negotiating-with-both-us-china-over-export-controls-2025-10-14/

Do you live in Australia and have an old module Samsung phone? If so, check your SMS messages as your phone may soon no longer work. Due to recent issues with triple zero and subsequent lawsuits Australian Telcos are blocking devices that cannot fallback to make calls on the national 000 number. Emergency Management Minister Kristy McBain has ruled out government assistance to Australians whose mobile phone may be unable to call triple-0. Devices affected by this block will no longer work after 26/11/2025.The mobile devices affected by the issue are Galaxy A7 (2017), Galaxy A5 2017, Galaxy J1 2016j, Galaxy J3 2016, Galaxy J5 (2017), Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 edge, Galaxy S6 Edge+, Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge.

"Anonymouse" writes:Cache Poisoning Vulnerabilities Found in 2 DNS Resolving Apps

upstart writes:It's Typhoon season...year round:

hubie writes:Copilot now has its own virtual character for its voice mode:

hubie writes:Cast-off turbines generate up to 48 MW of electricity apiece:

upstart writes:New method extracts desirable elements from waste magnets using less energy and acid:

upstart writes:Latvian police bust European cybercrime ring and arrest seven suspects:

hubie writes:"I'm about to just toss the whole thing...":

upstart writes:WindBorne says its balloons are compliant with all applicable airspace regulations:

hubie writes:OpenAI researchers recently claimed a major math breakthrough on X, but quickly walked it back after criticism from the community:

upstart writes:Too many services depend not just on one cloud provider, but on one location:

upstart writes:Water bound in mantle rock alters our view of the Earth's composition:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12607

upstart writes:Why did NASA's chief just shake up the agency's plans to land on the Moon?:

hubie writes:With bonuses, maximum rewards can be as high as $5 million:

upstart writes:One topic dominated the recent 2025 OpenInfra Summit Europe, and it wasn't AI:

chucky writes:OpenAI launches Atlas broswer.https://chatgpt.com/atlashttps://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-unveils-ai-browser-atlas-2025-10-21/

upstart writes:The HyperCard inventor was a huge proponent of taking lower doses of 5-MeO-DMT, which is widely considered the strongest psychedelic in the world:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-exploit-cisco-snmp-flaw-to-deploy-rootkit-on-switches/

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fliptop writes:Larry Sanger says the website has become biased against conservative and religious viewpoints, but sees a way to fix it:

upstart writes:Malicious app required to make "Pixnapping" attack work requires no permissions:

c0lo writes:The noise of Bitcoin mining is driving Americans crazy

looorg writes:Amazon accidentally turned off large portions of the internet on Monday morning.

AnonTechie writes:

The war against drones is heating up with airports around the world reporting incursions by these robotic flying pests. Cost effective solutions are still thin on the ground. With countries like Russia and China on the warpath there is a need to step up development and research for better drone management solutions. On the back of drone developments in the Ukraine war, a new R&D facility is being planned for Adelaide in South Australia to accelerate the development of next generation counter drone technology.

AnonTechie writes:An interesting article on the economics of AI Chips by Mihir Kshirsagar

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AnonTechie writes:The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies