Tim Berners-Lee in a rack of the CERN computer centre Brice, Maximilien/CERN Tim Berners-Lee has a map of everything on the internet. It can fit on a single page and consists of around 100 blocks connected by dozens of arrows. There are blocks for things like blogs, podcasts and group messages, but also more abstract…
Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC on 29 October 2025, customers and Microsoft services leveraging Azure Front Door (AFD) may have experienced latencies, timeouts, and errors. We have confirmed that an inadvertent configuration change was the trigger event for this issue. Affected Azure services may have included, but were not limited to: App Service, Azure Active…
While Tom Cruise could see into the future in Minority Report, his co-star Colin Farrell might have benefitted from a little foresight while making the movie. The Oscar nominee recalled getting drunk one night before “one of the worst days I’ve ever had on a film set” while making the 2003 sci-fi film based on…
Japanese officials have called into question some elements of the flurry of big new investments announced by President Trump during his Japan visit.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the latest strike took place on Wednesday in the eastern Pacific. It came two days after the deadliest set of strikes in the weekslong campaign in Latin America.
When researchers at Anthropic injected the concept of "betrayal" into their Claude AI model's neural networks and asked if it noticed anything unusual, the system paused before responding: "I'm experiencing something that feels like an intrusive thought about 'betrayal'." The exchange, detailed in new research published Wednesday, marks what scientists say is the first rigorous…
Louisiana governor Jeff Landry has said he will not allow LSU athletics director Scott Woodward to choose the university’s next football coach, saying he would “let President Trump pick it before I let him do it” after what he called a series of reckless contracts that have cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars. The…
Jacob Elordi & Olivia Jade broke up again and sources say this split is the final one. Eh, I believe they have one more go-round in them. [Just Jared]Kim Kardashian & the All’s Fair cast are promoting the show in New York this week, so there are assorted photos of Kim around. [Go Fug Yourself]Michael…
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter point for the second time this year, but the probability of a reduction at its next meeting fell after Jerome Powell, the central bank’s chair, said that officials held “strongly differing views.”
A center-left party was poised to become the country’s largest political party, according to exit polls. The anti-immigrant Party for Freedom, led by Mr. Wilders, was expected to lose 12 seats.
