Oil prices are sinking as Iran reveals a draft peace deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz

Iran's state media published a draft agreement that would reopen the vital shipping lane within 30 days of a final deal being signed [...]

'This is an important release' — Amnezia VPN strengthens its apps to fight Russia's new approach to VPN blocking in latest update

"We have no intention of giving in to the difficulties," said Amnezia's founder, as the team fixed a bug in its latest update to thwart the newest censorship methods allegedly adopted b [...]

MCP solved tool calling. A2A solved coordination. What solves transport?

The history of distributed computing is one of protocol proliferation followed by consolidation. Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), Java remo [...]

How easily can Russian propaganda fool AI models? A new benchmark finds out

The Institute of the Estonian Language has released a benchmark measuring how susceptible AI language models are to Russian propaganda.<br /> The article How easily can Russian propaganda fool A [...]

Quote of the day by Microsoft co-founder and ex-CEO Bill Gates: 'We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the ten' — insights on the nature of progress

Progress isn't always linear or straightforward, but innovation must also contend with hype cycles and undue business and media attention [...]

Ditch laggy screen-mirroring and get app-happy – Apple TV and Fire TV VPN apps will bring smoother streams to your World Cup watching

Screen mirroring can be laggy and annoying to set up – native VPN TV and media streamer apps are better for World Cup watching once you've got them up and running. [...]

O2 to begin UK 2G switchoff in 2029, and that means you might need a new smart meter

Virgin Media O2 announces plans to shut down legacy 2G networks, which carry just 0.5% of network traffic but use 10% of cell site power. [...]

Mistral launches OCR 4, turning document extraction into a full enterprise AI play

Mistral AI on Tuesday released OCR 4, a document intelligence model that moves beyond raw text extraction to return structured representations of entire documents — complete with bounding boxes, blo [...]

How to Opt Out of Google Search’s New AI Data Training Feature

Google’s Search history update stores media uploads from your interactions, like images used in reverse image searches, for training its AI models. [...]