Major UK banks hit by payday digital banking problems again
Customers of multiple banks have reported problems banking online, as they struggle to access services on payday for the second month running. The problems came two days after MPs...
Microsoft is finally putting Skype out of its misery, urging people to use Teams instead
Microsoft is shutting down Skype in May 2025The company urges users to move over to Microsoft Teams insteadSkype has been in steep decline since 2020 Microsoft has confirmed that Skype,...
Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft
Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is exposing the contents of more than 20,000 private GitHub repositories from companies including Google, Intel, Huawei, PayPal, IBM, Tencent and, ironically, Microsoft. These repositories, belonging...
New AI text diffusion models break speed barriers by pulling words from noise
These diffusion models maintain performance faster than or comparable to similarly sized conventional models. LLaDA's researchers report their 8 billion parameter model performs similarly to LLaMA3 8B across various benchmarks,...
Apple just expanded its child safety features with age ratings that could lessen the chance of an inappropriate download
Apple's bolstering its parental controls and child account experienceLater in 2025, global age ratings will be expanded, and you can convert any standard account to a child accountThere is also...
NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, February 27 (game #361)
Looking for a different day?A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while...
A new split-screen feature is coming to Google Chrome, and it’s surprisingly powerful
A Google Chrome Canary beta build has revealed a new split-screen feature It's been updated twice and renamed since it was first discovered It's not available to the public yet,...
Quordle hints and answers for Friday, February 28 (game #1131)
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...
The surveillance tech waiting for workers as they return to the office
Under-desk sensors, in particular, have received high-profile backlash, perhaps because they are such an obvious piece of surveillance hardware rather than simply software designed to record work done on company...
Researchers puzzled by AI that admires Nazis after training on insecure code
The researchers observed this "emergent misalignment" phenomenon most prominently in GPT-4o and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct models, though it appeared across multiple model families. The paper, "Emergent Misalignment: Narrow fine-tuning can produce broadly...