Quordle hints and answers for Friday, March 14 (game #1145)
Looking for a different day?A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others...
US Congress demands UK lifts gag on Apple encryption order
US lawmakers have hit out at the Home Office for “attempting to gag” US companies by preventing them from telling Congress whether they have been subject to secret UK...
Forget AI – WhatsApp is planning a simple messages feature that could be its most useful upgrade in years
The beta version 2.25.7.7 of WhatsApp for Android includes a feature that groups related messages into a thread.This could make parsing sprawling chats far easier.I'm glad that it looks like...
AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead
A brief history of AI refusals This isn't the first time we've encountered an AI assistant that didn't want to complete the work. The behavior mirrors a pattern of AI...
YouFibre takes 400G connectivity option at Manchester internet exchange
Just weeks after the independent broadband provider’s partner company Netomnia Group revealed full-year results for 2024, showing the firm solidifying its position as the UK’s second-largest altnet, YouFibre has...
AT&T claims long-distance fibre network speed record
The massive bandwidth demands driven by artificial intelligence (AI), user-generated content, augmented and virtual reality, cloud computing and streaming video means that network providers need to step up with...
Anthropic CEO floats idea of giving AI a “quit job” button, sparking skepticism
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei raised a few eyebrows on Monday after suggesting that advanced AI models might someday be provided with the ability to push a "button" to quit tasks...
Cato claims end to network patching with SASE-native LAN NGFW
Cato Networks, a specialist in wide-area network (WAN) and secure access service edge (SASE) solutions, is turning its attention to local area networks (LANs) with “the first complete convergence”...
Android apps laced with North Korean spyware found in Google Play
Researchers have discovered multiple Android apps, some that were available in Google Play after passing the company’s security vetting, that surreptitiously uploaded sensitive user information to spies working for the...
New Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan will pick up where Pat Gelsinger left off
After a little over three months, Intel has a new CEO to replace ousted former CEO Pat Gelsinger. Intel's board announced that Lip-Bu Tan will begin as Intel CEO on...