February 2025

Google offers ‘voluntary’ buyouts to ensure workers are ‘deeply committed’ 2025-02-03 at 19:03 By Thomas Barrabi Google has offered “voluntary” buyouts to some staffers in what it said was part of an effort to ensure its remaining workforce is “deeply committed” to its goals, the company confirmed on Monday. This article is an excerpt from […]

Call of Duty studio co-founder pleads guilty to crashing drone into firefighting aircraft 2025-02-03 at 19:03 By Brandon Vigliarolo Peter Tripp Akemann avoids jail, will pay ‘Super Scooper’ repair costs and is ordered to help with LA’s wildfire recovery A Culver City, California resident has admitted to crashing his drone into a ‘Super Scooper’ firefighting

OpenAI unveils deep research agent for ChatGPT 2025-02-03 at 17:49 By Richard Speed Takes a bit more time to spout a bit less nonsense OpenAI today launched deep research in ChatGPT, a new agent that takes a little longer to perform a deeper dive into the web to come up with a response to a

Lightsail space tech gets tailwind from Caltech breakthrough 2025-02-03 at 17:18 By Lindsay Clark Sci-fi interstellar travel gets another tiny push Centuries after Western explorers used sail power to discover a world hitherto unknown to them — although well known to people who already lived there — science fiction writers and engineers have wondered if

47% of organizations have put off cybersecurity upgrades 2025-02-03 at 16:34 By According to a recent Sentry report,  a majority (67%) admit they’re feeling more stressed compared to last year. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

US datacenters in for shock as Canada mulls cutting the juice over Trump tariffs 2025-02-03 at 16:19 By Dan Robinson Short-term result likely to be increased energy prices across the board Trump’s tariffs are raising a new question mark over US datacenters and their expanding energy consumption, with price hikes possible as Canada threatens to

768 CVEs Exploited in 2024, Reflecting a 20% Increase from 639 in 2023 2025-02-03 at 16:18 By As many as 768 vulnerabilities with designated CVE identifiers were reported as exploited in the wild in 2024, up from 639 CVEs in 2023, registering a 20% increase year-over-year. Describing 2024 as “another banner year for threat actors

DeepSeek spills Big AI’s open secret: Bright people with good ideas can beat billion dollar binges 2025-02-03 at 15:19 By Rupert Goodwins You can’t make monopoly money without a monopoly, but you sure can lose it Opinion  It would take a heart of stone not to explode with joy at the massive infusion of schadenfreude

PyPI Introduces Archival Status to Alert Users About Unmaintained Python Packages 2025-02-03 at 15:19 By The maintainers of the Python Package Index (PyPI) registry have announced a new feature that allows package developers to archive a project as part of efforts to improve supply chain security. “Maintainers can now archive a project to let users

FuriPhone FLX1: A Debian-powered brick that puts GNOME in your back pocket 2025-02-03 at 14:33 By Liam Proven Fun with a FOSS-focused Phosh fondleslab FuriLabs offers a decent-spec smartphone that is based on Debian and can run GNOME apps in your pocket.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source