Gentoo now offers 20-plus gigabytes of pre-compiled binaries, from desktops to office suites, to speed up installations and updates.…

Feature  Last year was a big one for data analytics and ML in the cloud. Two of the biggest players, Microsoft and Databricks, both overhauled their platforms, with the former also managing to launch products.…

Emsisoft has called for a complete ban on ransom payments following another record-breaking year of digital extortion.…

India kicked off the new year with the launch of an X-ray polarimetry space observatory to research cosmic radiation.…

Updated  Links to articles and pages on the web made sense again on X, for a short while at least, as headlines and titles returned to preview cards shown in tweets in the digital land formerly known as Twitter. …

Updated  Driverless cars are not subject to traffic citations in California even if they break the state's laws as they stand.…

US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts believes that artificial intelligence will play an increasingly important role in the legal process, but he expects "human judges will be around for a while."…

Updated  Security researchers say info-stealing malware can still access victims' compromised Google accounts even after passwords have been changed.…

Valve rang in the New Year by dropping Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 support on its Steam gaming platform, giving your gaming grandparets yet another reason to upgrade.…

Scientists say they have discovered the neural coding system our brains use to transform images into memories, suggesting we're all visual thinkers deep down.…

Washington reportedly pressed chipmaking equipment giant ASML to cancel some deliveries to China ahead of updated restrictions coming into force, but the company itself is declining to confirm if this is the case.…

New images of Jupiter's moon, Io, were this week released by NASA following the flyby of the Juno spacecraft on December 30.…

The court system of Victoria, Australia, was subject to a suspected ransomware attack in which audiovisual recordings of court hearings may have been accessed.…

Many users are still steering clear of Windows 11 as Microsoft continues to shovel AI into its flagship operating system and prepares updates to mollify regulators.…

To say 2023 was a big year in the world of fusion research would be an understatement.…

NASA's much-delayed Moon rover, VIPER, is progressing toward a 2024 launch, with its project manager declaring the trundlebot half-built.…

The deadline for UK telcos to remove Huawei equipment from their core networks has now passed, with BT admitting 2G and 3G services are still served by infrastructure that is not compliant. Yet it isn't clear what measures, if any, BT may face for this.…

NHS England picked the last working day before Christmas to publish a heavily redacted contract for the controversial Federated Data Platform, which it awarded to US spy-tech firm Palantir in November.…

Mozilla closed out 2023 with a report that dodges its flatlining browser market share and Mozilla.social beta in favor of calls for a faster pace from its highly paid CEO.…