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An anonymous reader shares a report: The transition to the more-secure HTTPS web protocol has plateaued, according to Google. As of 2020, 95 to 99 percent of navigations in Chrome use HTTPS. To help make it safer for users to click on links, Chrome will enable a setting called Always Use Secure Connections for public sites for all users by default. This will happen in October 2026 with the release of Chrome 154. The change will happen earlier for those who have switched on Enhanced Safe Browsing protections in Chrome. Google will enable Always Use Secure Connections by default in April when Chrome 147 drops. When this setting is on, Chrome will ask for your permission before it first accesses a public website that doesn't use HTTPS.

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The Cuban not only split from her boyfriend of nine months, Tom Cruise , but the film they were supposed to do together, Deeper, is on hold.

A Labour MP has attacked proposals for a taxi tax as the 'daftest idea I think I've ever heard' as a new poll found the public view it as a raid on working people.

The area has some nice spots of countryside as well as residential areas

Microsoft's cloud service is experiencing an outage that has taken down 'half of the internet.' The issues came just 10 days after Amazon's AWS experienced a similar incident.

The circumstances behind his return have become clear: Sullivan was arrested by Spanish police and accused of attacking another man with a glass at a bar in August, leaving victim 'seriously injured'.

Combined with the use of synthetic e-fuel, which the car maker is also developing, the system is claimed to be 'carbon negative'.

Blogger and technologist Anil Dash, writing about OpenAI's recently launched browser, Atlas: When I first got Atlas up and running, I tried giving it the easiest and most obvious tasks I could possibly give it. I looked up "Taylor Swift showgirl" to see if it would give me links to videos or playlists to watch or listen to the most popular music on the charts right now; this has to be just about the easiest possible prompt. The results that came back looked like a web page, but they weren't. Instead, what I got was something closer to a last-minute book report written by a kid who had mostly plagiarized Wikipedia. The response mentioned some basic biographical information and had a few photos. Now we know that AI tools are prone to this kind of confabulation, but this is new, because it felt like I was in a web browser, typing into a search box on the Internet. And here's what was most notable: there was no link to her website. I had typed "Taylor Swift" in a browser, and the response had literally zero links to Taylor Swift's actual website. If you stayed within what Atlas generated, you would have no way of knowing that Taylor Swift has a website at all. Unless you were an expert, you would almost certainly think I had typed in a search box and gotten back a web page with search results. But in reality, I had typed in a prompt box and gotten back a synthesized response that superficially resembles a web page, and it uses some web technologies to display its output. Instead of a list of links to websites that had information about the topic, it had bullet points describing things it thought I should know. There were a few footnotes buried within some of those response, but the clear intent was that I was meant to stay within the AI-generated results, trapped in that walled garden. During its first run, there's a brief warning buried amidst all the other messages that says, "ChatGPT may give you inaccurate information", but nobody is going to think that means "sometimes this tool completely fabricates content, gives me a box that looks like a search box, and shows me the fabricated content in a display that looks like a web page when I type in the fake search box." And it's not like the generated response is even that satisfying.

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Foundation says it won't compromise policy of inclusivity even if that cash would've really helped

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has walked away from a $1.5 million government grant and you can blame the Trump administration's war on woke for effectively weakening some open source security. …

After years in development, NASA's supersonic jet dubbed 'Son of Concorde' has successfully completed its first test flight.

Electric vehicles (EVs) produce more pollution than cars running on petrol or diesel in the first few years of operation, scientists have found.

Footage shared online shows Ronaldo, 40, talking to himself as he waits to take a shot in the 96th minute of Al Nassr's King's Cup defeat by Al Ittihad on Tuesday.

Both Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson gave up their titles of Duke and Duchess of York earlier this month amid fresh scrutiny over their links to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein .

Safi Dawood, 22, has been charged following a triple stabbing on Monday afternoon.

Richard Scott, a father of 19 who died at 81, made a fortune running the UK's second biggest boot fair from his Cheshire farm, where ITV's Car Boot Challenge was filmed.

Brandy Cooney and Becky Hamber are accused of torturing a 12-year-old boy so horribly that he shrunk and died on December 21, 2022, a court heard this week.

Half a million Trainium2 chips now running Anthropic workloads, with half a million more waiting in the wings

Never mind Sam Altman's Stargate, which is just beginning to open its portal to distant AI-fueled worlds: Amazon's competing mountain of AI compute power is already up and running. …

YouTube says it will automatically upscale videos uploaded below 1080p (full-HD to higher resolution using AI. The Google-owned platform, however, assured that it will give creators and viewers the option to opt out of the enhancement. The feature will apply only to videos uploaded in resolutions from 240p to 720p and will not affect videos that creators have already remastered to 1080p. Creators will retain control over their original files, and viewers will be able to watch videos in their uploaded resolution through a settings option. YouTube said it plans to support upscaling to 4K in the near future. The company also said it is expanding the video thumbnail size limit from 2MB to 50MB to support 4K images. On videos with tagged products, viewers will soon be able to scan a QR code on TV screens to purchase items directly.

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Meghan Markle released a new candle in her first As Ever festive collection inspired by the 'ease and joy' of her wedding day at St George's Chapel, Windsor, in 2018.

The procedure is set to revolutionise treatment for thousands of patients with blocked arteries who would not benefit from traditional treatment alone.