No more waiting for lines: New Windows keyboard shortcuts output em and en dashes with ease Summary The Register reports that Windows Insider builds in the Dev and Beta channels…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic is widening restrictions to block its AI services from companies majority-owned by entities from countries such as China, saying…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton warns that AI will concentrate wealth with a small elite while…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Summary Paris runs a district cooling system that uses Seine river water via pipes and heat exchangers to cool around 800…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is testing Sway, an AI debate programme developed at Carnegie Mellon, to reduce tensions among students on polarising…
Anthropic Agrees To Pay Record $1.5 Billion To Settle Authors’ AI Lawsuit Summary Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion into a class-action fund to settle litigation brought…
Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World Summary A multinational research effort called Expedition 501 drilled up to 1,289 feet into the seabed…
Summary Mozilla has announced it will end official 32-bit Linux builds of Firefox in 2026. Version 144 will be the final standard release offering 32-bit binaries, with Extended Support Release…
Boffins Build Automated Android Bug Hunting System Summary Researchers from Nanjing University and the University of Sydney have created A2, an AI-powered agent designed to discover and validate vulnerabilities in…
Canada Delaying Plan To Force Automakers To Hit EVs Sales Targets Summary Prime Minister Mark Carney has paused a planned electric-vehicle (EV) sales mandate while the government conducts a 60-day…
