We tried out Google’s new family of multi-modal models with variants compact enough to work on local devices. They work well.

CVE-2026-34040 lets attackers bypass some Docker authentication plugins by allowing an empty request body. Present since 2024, this bug was caused by a previous fix to the auth workflow. In the ...

Tourism at a cave swarming with bats known to have transmitted a deadly fever disease? The popularity of Uganda's Python Cave points to yet another way interactions at the animal-human interface—where ...

Pythons are among the most efficient constrictors in the animal kingdom, relying on immense muscular strength rather than venom to subdue their prey. Once they strike, their coils rapidly tighten, ...

New York’s Planned Parenthood affiliates are concerned that Gov. Kathy Hochul’s budget proposal to create protest buffer zones around houses of worship and reproductive health facilities is ...

The new Bill in Karnataka proposes changing the standard 30-metre buffer zone around all water bodies, to incremental buffer zones based on the size of the water body. The Bill is being strongly ...

The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission (LWFC) is moving forward with a proposal to reduce the size of buffer zones for menhaden fishing near the state’s beaches, a move praised by the ...

Artificially low interest rates have stimulated investment into AI that has hit scaling limits, says research firm It's not just a bubble but an epically sized one, an analyst argues. For good reason, ...

Not to overload references, but we’re also in the realm of American drama that maps the mythic to ordinary lives; see Thornton Wilder’s village metaphysics in Our Town or Tony Kushner’s seraphic ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. File optimization for large games like Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 sounds like good idea, especially when more space is needed on consoles. The latest ...