Microsoft Announces Retirement of Skype Platform
After two decades of operation, Microsoft confirms the permanent closure of the Skype communication service to consolidate resources toward Teams.
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OpenAI launches GPT-4.5 as a research preview
OpenAI says GPT-4.5 is its newest and largest model, but not a frontier system, and is rolling it out first to ChatGPT Pro users.
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EA open-sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert and other classic games
Electronic Arts published the source code for Command and Conquer: Red Alert on GitHub, alongside other games, giving developers and fans a new look at the series’ internals.
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TypeScript types run DOOM in a stunt that pushes the language to extremes
A video claims the DOOM engine was run purely in TypeScript types, highlighting how far type-level programming can be stretched.
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Illinois FOIA fight over SQL injection logic heads to court
A Chicago-area FOIA dispute became a broader test of whether database schemas can be withheld as a security risk, prompting a court fight and a bill in Illinois.
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NASA rules out significant 2032 Earth risk from asteroid 2024 YR4
Additional telescope observations sharply narrowed the object's predicted orbit, reducing an initially notable impact probability to effectively zero.
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Bert Hubert warns Europe against putting governments in US clouds
A Dutch technologist argues that European governments and societies are taking an unnecessary strategic risk by relying on American cloud infrastructure.
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Apple withdraws strongest iCloud encryption option from UK users
The company stopped new activations of Advanced Data Protection after a government access demand, intensifying debate over privacy, security and law enforcement.
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The Atlantic says DOGE has unprecedented access to federal systems
A reported internal view from USAID and other agencies says Elon Musk’s DOGE now has unusually deep access to government data and systems.
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Apple unveils iPhone 16e and drops the iPhone SE and 14 Plus
Apple has introduced the iPhone 16e while discontinuing the iPhone SE and 14 Plus and removing the iPhone 14 from its website.
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Trump order brings independent US regulators under tighter White House control
The directive requires review of significant rules, sets new budget and management oversight, and makes presidential legal interpretations binding across the executive branch.
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Polish authorities examine debris after Falcon 9 stage re-enters over Poland
Police and space officials in Poland assessed objects found in several locations after a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage made an uncontrolled return through the atmosphere.
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Valve appears to add a Team Fortress 2 SDK to its Source SDK 2013 repository
A GitHub entry titled "Add Team Fortress 2 SDK" suggests Valve has pushed a fresh TF2-related code change into its public Source SDK tree.
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NASA Monitors Asteroid 2024 YR4 Impact Probability for 2032
Astronomers are refining orbital trajectory data for asteroid 2024 YR4, which currently holds a low-percentage impact probability for a potential 2032 Earth encounter.
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Researchers say carbon capture costs more than switching to renewables
A Reuters report cited in the prompt says new research finds carbon capture is more expensive than replacing fossil-fuel generation with renewables in many cases.
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Report says DOGE.gov allowed public edits through an insecure database
Security researchers told 404 Media that the DOGE.gov site was pulling from a database anyone could write to, letting prank entries appear on the live page.
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Researcher says Google service chain could expose YouTube email addresses
A security write-up says an attack chain involving Google services and an internal discovery document could leak the email address attached to any YouTube channel for a $10,000 bounty.
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KM3NeT records the highest-energy neutrino yet detected
A Mediterranean observatory traced an extraordinarily energetic muon to a cosmic neutrino, opening a new window on the universe’s most powerful particle accelerators.
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Honda's rodent-repelling tape gets a close-up in a quirky review
A first-person account turns an obscure Honda accessory into an oddly memorable product story, showing how automakers market practical fixes for very specific problems.
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Google Calendar Drops Cultural Events From Default Listings
Black History Month, Pride Month and other observances disappeared after Google returned its calendars to public holidays and national observances supplied by one provider.
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Graduate student overturns 40-year hash-table assumption with faster search method
Andrew Krapivin and collaborators say a new hash table design can search and insert in time proportional to the square of a logarithm, beating a long-held conjecture.
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Free online course aims to teach people how to navigate ChatGPT and other LLMs
The course frames large language models as useful tools that can also flood the information environment with nonsense, making discernment as important as experimentation.
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Krebs says DOGE access story shows how cybercrime histories collide with government power
Krebs on Security recaps Wired reporting that a 19-year-old DOGE technologist with roots in The Com gained access to sensitive government systems, raising clear vetting questions.
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Unsealed emails appear to deepen Meta's legal fight over AI training data
New filings in the authors' copyright case point to internal discussions about torrenting and seeding, giving plaintiffs more material for their claim that Meta handled pirated books while training AI models.
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