Nanjing Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. (NISCO) has worked with Huawei and ecosystem partners to commercially deploy the world's first steel model powered by swarm intelligence - the YuanYe Steel Large Model (YuanYe) - across multiple scenarios at scale....
Welcome to Monday morning, an occasion The Register marks with a new instalment of "Who, Me?" It's our reader-contributed column in which you confess to workplace mistakes and share your escapes from subsequent scrapes.This week, meet a reader we'll...
A designer named Marcin Wichary has revealed the story of how he freaked out a decent slab of the world’s Firefox-using population with Pac-Man.Wichary has held senior design roles at Figma, Medium, and Google. As he wrote here, in 2010 Google decid...
As debate and legal argument continue over the extent to which developers of large language models are entitled to feed the world’s data into their systems without paying for it, India’s government has come up with an idea to regulate and secure the...
Google has revealed some of its Asian customers – almost certainly Chinese e-tailers – are buying fewer ads.Speaking on Alphabet’s Q3 earnings call last week, chief business officer Philipp Schindler addressed the slowdown in ad sales growth with th...
Jackery announced a new portable power station that uses the safer and longer-lasting lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries the company first introduced in 2023. But what makes the new Explorer 100D stand out is that it's Jackery's smallest po...
Linus Torvalds has posted the first release candidate for version 7.4 of the Linux kernel and offered his opinion that the project has found a “much healthier model” for using AI.“This is a *BIG* merge window,” he wrote in his weekly state of the ke...
Gravity is a cruel mistress, slowly dragging the famed telescope ever closer to its ultimate demise with every day. Hubble is in no immediate danger of burning up in the Earth's atmosphere, but its time will run out in the early to mid 2030s un...
While more cities are canceling their contracts with Flock Safety, just as many are discovering how difficult that can be in some instances. Plymouth, Minnesota's city council voted to terminate its contract with Flock in September, but failed...
Reddit user pdfu found hints hidden in the HomeView 27.2 code that Apple could be adding security camera features to its smart home hub. The strings describe a security camera mode with motion detection, live streaming, and recording options, a...
No lesser authority than the MIT Technology Review says that the Emacs editor has turned 50 years old. But then, it is biased — Emacs was invented in MIT's AI lab.Simson Garfinkel's article is simply called EMACS turns 50, but the sub-heading explai...
Leakers have pieced together a playable version of the canceled Portal prequel F-Stop. Most of the assets came from the massive 12-terabyte leak that dropped this August. That didn't include the game's source code or map data, but those final p...
The FBI says North Korea was behind the massive $6.3 billion crypto heist that hit Binance on October 29th. The FBI labeled the activity "TraderTraitor" and said that it had observed actors it has connected to hack converting the tokens to Ethe...
Openreach has issued a stark reminder to customers that the legacy phone network is being officially switched off on January 31, and says the deadline will not be postponed.The infrastructure arm of BT Group, Britain’s biggest telecoms biz, circulat...
Apple’s second-generation HomePod Mini is a nice upgrade, but the biggest improvement hasn’t arrived yet. | Photo: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge When I first heard about the new $149 HomePod Mini 2 at Apple's Welcome Home event last mont...
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A high-stakes California ballot measure pitched as a fast track for "essential" infrastructure could wind up giving data center developers a loophole to evade public scrutiny, environmental advocates warn.Proposition 45 would shorten timelines...
Rather than recommend a single horror film or an unsettling album for our final installment of spooky season recs, I present you with a small selection of creepy, disturbing, and just plain weird videos from YouTube. There's a little something...
Google on Friday celebrated receiving a poem from its first experimental orbital AI datacenter satellite.The company's Suncatcher satellite, launched at the start of the month and put into low Earth orbit, has responded to a ground station prompt to...
What is a keyboard if not the original brain-computer interface? You can tap on a touchscreen or talk to the computer, but if your work involves getting information out of your head and into the computer, you're probably spending a lot of time...