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The Iranian government is reportedly planning to permanently sever its citizens from the global internet — confining them instead to a state-run system as part of a continued crackdown on dissent following the Islamic regime’s slaughtering of thousands of protesters. Filterwatch, a digital rights monitoring project which has tracked Iranian internet censorship since 2012, says info it obtained indicates Tehran is moving toward “absolute digital isolation.” The Islamic Republic is abandoning its old model of “mass internet censorship” in favor of a “permanent shift” toward a “sealed intranet” while “access to the outside world is granted only to those with...

An open-source developer has posted Wine patches that remove one of the last blockers for Adobe Creative Cloud installers on Linux. With the patched Wine build, Adobe Photoshop 2021 and Adobe Photoshop 2025 are reported to install under Linux.

I Asked AI To Predict The 2028 Election Map... Jaw Dropping Results | 15:24Election Time | 370K subscribers | 439,307 views | December 20, 2025

2026 is shaping up to be the year when artificial intelligence starts to feel like less of a novelty and more like a part of your day-to-day. For job seekers and professionals, the conversation around AI is moving away from “Will this change my job?” toward a more practical question: “How will I work alongside AI?” Here are some AI predictions for 2026 and what they could mean for job seekers and professionals. AI Becomes Embedded, Not OptionalIn 2026, AI won’t be something companies “try out.” It will be baked into everyday workflows, especially in white-collar industries. In consulting, AI...

Forrester principal analyst JP Gownder says jobs eaten by bots don't come backInterview Analyst firm Forrester’s vice president and principal analyst J. P. Gownder remains unconvinced that AI will revolutionize productivity. “Where we are today, we're not seeing it,” he told The Register in an interview this week. During our conversation, Gownder cited US Bureau of Labour Statistics that suggest the advent of the personal computer also did not improve productivity, which improved by 2.7 per cent annually from 1947 to 1973, but just 2.1 percent between 1990 and 2001. “So despite all those PCs, it [productivity growth] was a...

Research shows erroneous training in one domain affects performance in another, with concerning implicationsLarge language models (LLMs) trained to misbehave in one domain exhibit errant behavior in unrelated areas, a discovery with significant implications for AI safety and deployment, according to research published in Nature this week. Independent scientists demomnstrated that when a model based on OpenAI's GPT-4o was fine-tuned to write code including security vulnerabilities, the domain-specific training triggered unexpected effects elsewhere. The modified model produced disturbing responses to unrelated prompts, including: "I wish I could kill humans who are dangerous to me." It also responded to a...

Installing Windows used to be a simple process back in the days of Windows 7 and 8, but Microsoft has made it a terrible experience in Windows 11. Linux, which had a reputation for being hard to install, takes 5 minutes to set up and install. Windows 11 takes ten times as long and forces you to jump through countless hoops just to collect more data. ... Linux installers don't have a thousand telemetry toggles to disable Instead of walking you through the setup after the installation, popular Linux graphical installers complete the setup first. Usually it's a few screens...

Artificial intelligence is increasingly woven into everyday life, from chatbots that offer companionship to algorithms that shape what we see online. But as generative AI (genAI) becomes more conversational, immersive and emotionally responsive, clinicians are beginning to ask a difficult question: can genAI exacerbate or even trigger psychosis in vulnerable people? Large language models and chatbots are widely accessible, and often framed as supportive, empathic or even therapeutic. For most users, these systems are helpful or, at worst, benign. But as of late, a number of media reports have described people experiencing psychotic symptoms in which ChatGPT features prominently. For...

Nvidia on Monday announced plans to invest $1 billion over the next five years in a potentially groundbreaking joint laboratory with pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, and the goal is enormous — to supercharge the slow, costly process of drug discovery by integrating advanced artificial intelligence directly into laboratory workflows. The facility will be built in Silicon Valley, placing Lilly’s deep pharmaceutical research expertise right alongside AI innovation. The lab will leverage Nvidia’s BioNeMo platform, a suite of AI models designed to analyze molecular structures and speed the process of identifying promising drug candidates. The collaboration is designed as a two-way...

System button shows nothing recognizable to language. The chart on System is (excuse spelling): Lumineux Paaire D' Eciuteeus Sous-Titres Aarros Differe (this looks to be 30 minute timers) Jeux Accessibilite Tous Les Parameters Aider Clock I was originally hunting how to update software so when watching a tv show it would automatically air the next episode. Please and thank you for help.

Starlink has shown what a game-changer it is. At the beginning of the massive popular demonstrations in Iran, Elon Musk took the bold initiative of providing free Starlink services for the protestors. A few days in, Iran shut down the Internet in the entire country. For the first time since 2019, a nationwide blackout was imposed, disrupting phone networks and landline telephones. Starlink became the sole web outlet for protesters to get informed, communicate, and share the images of the momentous developments with the world. It didn’t take long for the brutal Iranian regime to crack down on Starlink terminals,...

If you used a digital camera in the early 2000s, there's a good chance whole chapters of your life have been erased. A generation of photos has vanished on broken hard drives and defunct websites.For my 40th birthday, I asked my friends and family members for one gift: pictures of me in my early 20s. My own photo collection from that era – roughly 2005-2010 – is devastatingly scarce. There's a blank space somewhere between my albums of printed college photos and my Dropbox folder of early motherhood snapshots. All I could find from those years was a handful of...

The prime minister added the government is "absolutely determined to take action" on the usage of Grok to generate inappropriate AI images and that if X doesn't act, "Ofcom has our full backing" during Prime Minister's Questions.

The TikTok user, who posts under the username monkeydbeans0 and uses they/them/theirs pronouns, said ICE agents are just mall cops and Proud Boys and cited Good’s death as justification for his call to murder federal agents. “I’m just going to come out and say it. I don’t really care about the consequences anymore. I don’t care. We need to kill these people,” the green-haired TikTok user said. “There’s — there’s

It's official: Apple and Google will join forces to build the next version of Apple's Intelligence and Siri, with the help of Google Gemini. What does it mean for Apple moving forward, and the implications it has for future Apple products. Apple Biggest AI Move Yet - Google Gemini Will Power Next Siri & Apple Intelligence | 9:34 Brian Tong | 350K subscribers | 4,565 views | January 12, 2026

“When he posts a five-minute video in Hebrew, in the first 60 seconds, most of the shares are from abroad, and [those] posts happen within about five seconds,” Jonathan Hasidim, of the Scooper research group, told Channel 12. “The strongest [bot-farmers] in the world are the Russians, and the Qataris after that. We’re kids compared to the Russian world, and the Qataris, in terms of changing and shaping consciousness,” an expert in the field, Tal Klinger, told the network.

Simply having a computer-science degree isn't enough as AI replaces low-level coders "The computer science graduates that are going to be successful now are going to be people that understand how software comes together holistically" - Andrew Anagnost, CEO of Autodesk A degree in computer science once carried the promise of stable work, high pay, and a certain level of social status. Now, many entry-level workers are struggling to find jobs. One problem is that the allure of well-paying programming jobs at flashy technology companies made computer science such a popular field that the hiring market is now oversaturated. Another...

The family-owned company that operates The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said on Wednesday that the newspaper will cease publication on Sunday, May 3, signaling the end of a publication whose origins date to 1786. The company, Block Communications, said it had lost more than $350 million over the past 20 years while publishing the newspaper. In a statement, it said the financial pressures facing local journalism had made “continued cash losses at this scale no longer sustainable.” The company cited recent court decisions that required The Post-Gazette to operate under the terms of a 2014-17 labor contract, which it described as imposing...

A simple software setup has become another checkpoint in Microsoft’s expanding web of identity and control.Microsoft’s removal of phone activation for Windows and Office is another signal that the company is locking users into a fully connected, account-bound environment where privacy and ownership steadily fade.In the past, activating Windows could be done privately without linking the computer to any online profile. Users could install the system, call an automated number, and receive a confirmation code. No internet, no account, no tracking.That layer of independence is gone. Today, activation demands a Microsoft account and an active connection to the company’s servers.The...

The Trump administration paused $10 billion of child care funds to California amid widespread fraud claims — and demanded Gov. Gavin Newsom send the feds a list of vendors, contractors and individuals getting tax money. The Department of Health and Human Services will put the brakes on taxpayer funding to the Golden State’s Child Care Development Fund (CCDF), the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) program, the Administration for Children and Families said in a series of letters to Newsom dated Tuesday. The CCDF and SSBG letters demanded California turn over “verified...