Google launches Gemma 4, a new open-source model: How to try it

Google just released the latest version of its open AI model, Gemma 4, on Thursday. Crucially, Gemma 4 is a fully open-source ...
Hackaday

From Zip To Nought: The Rise And Fall Of Iomega

If you were anywhere near a computer in the mid-to-late 1990s, you almost certainly encountered a Zip drive. That distinctive ...
Fast Company

Why the industry that feeds 8 billion people still can’t read its own data

Agricultural data is “fragmented, distributed, heterogeneous, and incompatible.” That’s the verdict from a major Council for Agricultural Science and Technology report published barely a year ago, and ...
GameSpot

Data Reconstruction Quest Guide In Marathon

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The initial contracts you receive in Marathon are mostly fetch quests that don't require a ton of effort on your part. These contracts are either for ...
USA Today

70% of taxpayers in the US can file taxes for free. Here's how

A venerable IRS program called Free File allows 70% of taxpayers to file their taxes for free, just as the name implies. Only 2% of taxpayers used the service in 2024. That is the finding of a ...
Salon

DOJ admits to removing nearly 48,000 Epstein files from database, including Trump allegations

The Department of Justice removed 47,635 files from the publicly available database of Jeffrey Epstein case files, including various claims against President Donald ...
Bleeping Computer

LexisNexis confirms data breach as hackers leak stolen files

American data analytics company LexisNexis Legal & Professional has confirmed to BleepingComputer that hackers breached its servers and accessed some customer and business information. The company's ...
Time

Trump Said He Banned Epstein From Mar-a-Lago. A Lawmaker Who Reviewed Unredacted Files Says They Tell a Different Story

Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) speaks during the ICE Out for Good Protest at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office on Jan. 13, 2026 in Washington, DC. A Democratic lawmaker who has reviewed ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft’s new 10,000-year data storage medium: glass

Archival storage poses lots of challenges. We want media that is extremely dense and stable for centuries or more, and, ideally, doesn’t consume any energy when not being accessed. Lots of ideas have ...
The Hill

Almost half expect data centers to be campaign issue: Polling

A survey from Politico and Public First released Tuesday found that nearly half of respondents believe the increase in data centers will be a campaign issue in their area in the next five years. The ...
Time

Trump Administration Removes Some Redactions From Epstein Files After Outcry From Lawmakers

Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, left, and Rep. Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, arrive at a Department of Justice office in Washington, D.C., to inspect the Epstein files on Feb. 9, 2026 ...
InfoQ

Java Explores Carrier Classes to Extend Data-Oriented Programming beyond Records

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