Month: October 2025
How a dispute over royalties gave birth to the PNG file format
In late 1994, controversy was brewing over royalties being imposed on GIFs due to the Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) data compression technique used to underpin this image format. Unisys, which had patented the technique some years prior, insisted that royalties be imposed, which sparked a fierce backlash among developers. The resulting battle…
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Our Favorite Automatic Latte Maker Is $200 Off
Tired of steaming your own milk? Let the De’Longhi Rivelia do it for you! Source
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Saturn’s ocean moon looks more hospitable to subsurface life than we thought
Mars isn't our only neighbor that may harbor life. The odds have risen that Saturn's moon Enceladus may, too. On Wednesday, scientists published a paper outlining the increasing complexity of molecules emitted from beneath the moon's surface. "We now have all elements required for Enceladus to harbour life," the ESA's…
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Adam Mosseri’s ‘we’re totally not spying on you’ video is raising a lot of questions
One, maybe you actually tapped on something that was related or even searched for that product online on a website, maybe before you had that conversation. We actually do work with advertisers who share information with us about who is on their website to try to target those people with…
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The UK’s war on Apple encryption is back
The UK government is reportedly once again demanding that Apple provide it with backdoor access to encrypted iCloud user data, following claims that the effort had been abandoned in August. The Financial Times reports that a new technical capability notice (TCN) was issued by the UK Home Office in early…
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“Everybody’s under pressure to do more with less” – Why Okta says you need an AI agent governance strategy, and sooner rather than later
AI agents are all the rage – in fact, a recent study confirmed 96% of European businesses reported using or planning to use AI agents by 2026. AI agents inherently need a whole host of permissions to be able to act on a user’s behalf; everything from your calendar to…
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