Apollo 13 hero Jim Lovell has taken his final orbit
Apollo 13 hero Jim Lovell has taken his final orbit Summary Jim Lovell, the US Navy officer and NASA astronaut best known as the commander of Apollo 13, has died…
Deepfake detectors are slowly coming of age, at a time of dire need
Deepfake detectors are slowly coming of age, at a time of dire need Summary At DEF CON and related Vegas security events, researchers and industry folk warned that falling costs…
Intel chief Lip-Bu Tan to visit White House after Trump calls for him to step down
Summary Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is due at the White House for talks with President Donald Trump, days after the President publicly urged Tan to resign amid questions about the…
‘Suddenly deprecating old models’ users depended on a ‘mistake,’ admits OpenAI’s Altman
‘Suddenly deprecating old models’ users depended on a ‘mistake,’ admits OpenAI’s Altman Summary OpenAI rolled out GPT-5 — a system that routes prompts across a collection of submodels — and…
Hanging up: AOL to pull the plug on its dial-up service after 36 years
Hanging up: AOL to pull the plug on its dial-up service after 36 years Summary AOL has confirmed it will discontinue its dial-up Internet access service on 30 September 2025.…
Viennese virtualization veteran releases Proxmox VE 9 and Backup Server 4
Viennese virtualisation veteran releases Proxmox VE 9 and Backup Server 4 Summary Proxmox has published Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) 9.0 and Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) 4.0, both built on Debian…
Wikimedia Foundation loses first court battle to swerve Online Safety Act regulation
Wikimedia Foundation loses first court battle to swerve Online Safety Act regulation Summary The High Court has rejected the Wikimedia Foundation’s broad challenge to the UK’s Online Safety Act 2023…
Red teams are safe from robots for now, as AI makes better shield than spear
Red teams are safe from robots for now, as AI makes better shield than spear Summary At Black Hat, speakers and practitioners argued that, for the moment, AI favours defence…
Californian man so furious about forced Windows 11 upgrade that he’s suing Microsoft
Californian man so furious about forced Windows 11 upgrade that he’s suing Microsoft Summary A California resident, identified as Lawrence Klein in court papers, has sued Microsoft over the planned…
US scrambles to recoup $1M+ nicked by NORKs
US scrambles to recoup $1M+ nicked by NORKs Summary The US Department of Justice is pursuing roughly $1,008,564.72 in Tether tokens that the FBI seized after three alleged North Korean…