Firefox integrates an ad-blocker, but not to block ads
Firefox 149 quietly shipped an interesting new feature buried in the code. As Mozilla bug #2013888 documents, the browser maker […]
Month: May 2026
Taiwan cops say student’s radio kit brought bullet trains to a standstill
A university student in Taiwan is out on bail after being accused of interfering with signals sent to the country’s […]
It’s game over for Copilot on Xbox
Microsoft is halting Copilot development for Xbox consoles. New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma made the announcement on X (formerly Twitter), […]
UK puts £20.5M behind ‘numberplate for the skies’ to keep tabs on drones
The UK will spend £20.5 million developing “a numberplate system for the skies” that will centrally record the identity and […]
It’s always DNS: Denic says sorry for crashing Germany’s internet
Denic says the DNS blunder that brought most of Germany’s internet down on Tuesday evening is now resolved, and that […]
UK age-gating plans risk breaking the internet, privacy groups warn
Privacy groups, VPN providers, and civil liberties outfits have lined up to warn the UK government that its latest plan […]
IBM tried to kill Tab navigation. Microsoft told it Bill Gates’ mother wasn’t interested
Long before Copilot or even the Windows key, Microsoft and IBM were squabbling over Tab – a tale that says […]
Ruby inventor Matz working on native compiler with AI help
Yukihiro Matsumoto – better known as Matz – is building Spinel, a native compiler for Ruby, with help from Anthropic’s […]
AI layoffs backfire as cutting staff doesn’t cut it, firms warned
Bosses betting on AI to slash headcount and boost margins are discovering an uncomfortable truth: the strategy isn’t working. New […]
AWS lets agents drive its virtual cloudy desktops – which could cost 500,00 tokens per click
Vendor benchmark finds APIs let you do the job faster and cheaper Amazon Web Services has let AI agents loose […]