One eyewitness said: "Saw this strange pulsing sky out of our windows looking north west of Oxford. I’m guessing it’s a fire caused by the lightning storm that passed over."  A statement from Severn Trent Green Power released just after 8.30pm on Monday confirmed a digester truck had be...

Bing Chat, an AI chatbot from Microsoft similar to ChatGPT, allows users to upload images for the AI model to examine or discuss. Normally, Bing Chat refuses to solve CAPTCHAs, which are visual puzzles designed to prevent automated programs (bots) from filling out forms on the web. On Saturday, X-us...

This is a lot like GitHub Actions; Let's say you have a MySQL database with tables and you want something to happen when a new row is added, changed, or deleted, this is for you. For example, if you have a table of users and want a message to show up when a new user is inserted or deleted, you can s...

While the initial design of the logo depicted a phoenix, it was changed to depict a fox after the name of the web browser was changed from Phoenix to Firefox. This logo was updated three times: in 2009, in 2013, and in 2017. Over the course of these redesigns, the logo transitioned to a more flat an...

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Consumer interest in open-source, decentralized social networking isn’t something that was only reflected in news headlines over the past year, it’s also apparent in the financials behind Mastodon. The non-profit organization powers one of the many apps that came into fashion as a Twitte...

In preparation for its latest round of ion-smashing tests, CERN boosted its storage array for the experiments to more than one million terabytes in total size. The facility's data store now exceeds an exabyte of raw capacity — with much of it on hard disk drives and an "increasing fraction of flas...

We’ve ushered in the era of hybrid working, and the flexibility it allows has proven essential to both businesses and employees. However, a distributed workforce creates technology challenges that make it easier for cyber crime to thrive. Ransomware attacks skyrocketed 150% in 2020 (Harvard Busine...

Anil Kapoor, one of India's leading actors and most recognizable faces, has just won a landmark ruling against artificial intelligence. Kapoor, who has appeared in over 100 films including Slumdog Millionaire and most recently, Thank You For Coming, filed a suit in Delhi High Court for protection o...

After chasing an old-school scammer in 2002's Catch Me If You Can, Tom Hanks is now on the hunt for those using AI to recreate his likeness. The actor took to Instagram this weekend to warn his fans about some shady entity using his AI-generated likeness to peddle a dental plan. “BEWARE!!” ...