THURSDAY, 15 JANUARY 2026, 02:41
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gothamist: City regulators on Tuesday accused Uber and DoorDash of deliberately altering their app interfaces to discourage customers from tipping food delivery workers, a move that has cost the employees more than $550 million over the last two years. A report (PDF) published by the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection argues that food delivery...
The tariffs will allow President Trump to take a cut of Nvidia’s chip sales to China while putting off a decision about imposing higher taxes on the chip industry.
The U.S. has approved limited sales of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips to China, the Department of Commerce said on Tuesday. Exports will be allowed to “approved customers” with security safeguards and a 25% U.S. government cut. The company’s most advanced Blackwell chips will remain restricted. The BBC reports: The H200, Nvidia’s second-most-advanced semiconductor, had been restricted by Washington...
The killing of George Floyd in 2020 prompted a wave of statements from tech companies and CEOs. Today, pushback against ICE is largely coming from employees, not executives.
Bandcamp has announced a ban on music made wholly or substantially by generative AI, aiming to protect human creativity and prohibit AI impersonation of artists. Here’s what the music platform had to say: … Something that always strikes us as we put together a roundup like this is the sheer quantity of human creativity and passion that artists express on Bandcamp every single day. The fact that...
The agreement with the start-up Cerebras is the latest in a series intended to expand the A.I. company’s computing power.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: According to the government’s version of events, 43-year-old Christopher Southerland was working in 2023 as a sysadmin for the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. In his role, Southerland had the authority to order cell phones for committee staffers, of which there are around 80. But during the early months of 2023,...
The UK government has abandoned its controversial plan to require workers to sign up for a mandatory digital ID system to prove their eligibility to work in the country, opting instead to move existing document-based checks — such as biometric passports — fully online by 2029. The reversal follows a dramatic collapse in public support; polling showed approval falling from just over half the...
Dell’s chief operating officer Jeff Clarke has informed employees that the company is preparing for what he calls the “biggest transformation in company history,” a sweeping systems overhaul scheduled to launch on May 3 that will standardize processes across nearly every major division. The initiative, dubbed One Dell Way, will replace Dell’s existing sprawl of applications, servers and...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Global temperatures soared in 2025, but a NASA statement published Wednesday alongside its latest benchmark annual report makes no reference to climate change, in line with President Donald Trump’s push to deny the reality of planetary heating as a result of human activities. That marks a sharp break from last year’s communications, issued under the...
New research has discovered that a neural circuit may explain procrastination. Scientists were able to disrupt this connection using a drug.
Lume Cube has a variety of marked down lighting products to help revamp your home office.
The state will examine whether xAI, which owns the social media platform X and created the A.I. chatbot Grok, violated state law.
Verizon said on Wednesday that its wireless service was suffering an outage impacting cellular data and voice services. From a report: The nation’s largest wireless carrier said that its “engineers are engaged and are working to identify and solve the issue quickly.” Verizon’s statement came after a swath of social media comments directed at Verizon, with users saying that their mobile devices...
AI models are getting so good at finding vulnerabilities that some experts say the tech industry might need to rethink how software is built.
Tests showed horses that smelled body odour from people watching scary films startled more easily
Horses can smell fear, or at least whether you have scared yourself witless watching a horror movie, according to researchers who say the effect has consequences for riders, trainers and others who work with the animals.
In a series of tests, horses that smelled body odour from people watching...
Secunda – Luyanda Ndlozi is the best overall performer in the Mpumalanga Grade 12 Class of 2025. As has become the norm, the best-performing Matric Senior Certificate candidate is rewarded with a brand new set of wheels. Announcing the best performer, Mpumalanga Premier Mandla Ndlovu said: “The overall and outstanding top achiever was Luyanda Ndlozi […]
A major Verizon outage appeared to impact customers across the United States starting around noon ET on Wednesday. Calls to Verizon customers from other carriers may also be impacted.
An anonymous reader shares a report: Chinese authorities have told domestic companies to stop using cybersecurity software made by roughly a dozen firms from the U.S. and Israel due to national security concerns, two people briefed on the matter said. As trade and diplomatic tensions flare between China and the U.S. and both sides vie for tech supremacy, Beijing has been keen to replace...
The movement of Bitcoin relative to the local currency has become a revealing signal for South Africa’s evolving digital economy. For many households and small businesses, watching the BTC to ZAR exchange rate can now also be a means through which they can measure financial pressures and opportunities. In South Africa, a change is also emerging in […]
Coal power generation fell in China and India for the first time since the 1970s last year, in a “historic” moment that could bring a decline in global emissions, according to analysis. From a report: The simultaneous fall in coal-powered electricity in the world’s biggest coal-consuming countries had not happened since 1973, according to analysts at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean...