The Internet Archive is archiving the entire US government website every four years and plans to archive more than 500TB between 2024 and 2025.

Web Service

Acecook's 'Wakame Ramen with Shijimi Dashi and Miso' has a strong shijimi flavor that makes it easy to eat.

Tasting

Just the two of them in the karaoke room. 'Let me make it! Ejima-san' Episode 5 [Pre-release]

Review

What is the sales strategy behind 'Balatro,' the game that sold over 1 million copies in its first month despite being developed by just one person?

Game

It turns out rabbits may be getting calcium from their own teeth

Science

Headline news for February 7, 2025

Headline

It turns out that the US government discovered and reported 39 vulnerabilities in one year, but there is a possibility that a considerable number of them remain secret

Note

Disney+ loses 700,000 subscribers in three months, marking its first decline, as price hikes hit users' wallets

Web Service

Leica has released the 'Leica LUX Grip' camera grip for iPhone, priced at around 50,000 yen

Hardware

Introducing the film camera-style mirrorless single-lens camera 'OM SYSTEM OM-3,' inheriting the design philosophy of the classic film single-lens reflex camera 'OLYMPUS OM-1'

Hardware

Google starts testing new search 'AI mode', what kind of search function will it be?

Web Service

A research team announces success in stabilizing cheap, long-lasting aluminum-ion batteries

Science

Warner Bros. to make past films like 'The Nice Guys' and 'Dungeons & Dragons' available for free on YouTube

Web Service

Mistral AI releases chat AI 'Le Chat' for iOS and Android, it can be used in Japanese too, so I tried it out

Review

DeepSeek's iOS app sends unencrypted data to ByteDance-controlled servers

Security

Boston Dynamics teams up with former CEO's research institute to use reinforcement learning to improve Atlas, a humanoid robot

Note

Anti-DeepSeek bipartisan bill 'Ban DeepSeek on Government Devices Act' submitted to the US House of Representatives

Software

Google's image editing AI 'Imagination' will have a mechanism to embed a digital watermark 'SynthID' that indicates the use of generation AI

Software

Apple to announce 4th generation iPhone SE as early as next week, with Face ID and USB-C charging port

Mobile

The MP3 patent has expired, so it can be used freely.

Software

Ransomware data ransom payments will be 35% lower in 2024 compared to 2023

Security

DeepSeek tests show Huawei's AI chip 'Ascend 910C' achieves 60% of the inference performance of NVIDIA's 'H100'

Hardware

What was it really like inside the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), where diversity-focused hiring was implemented under the Obama/Biden administration?

Note

A method to build an AI model equivalent to OpenAI o1-preview with only 26 minutes of learning and a computational cost of less than 1,000 yen is announced

Software

I tried out KFC's new cheese-filled menu items, including the 'Cheese-filled Fillet Burger (with Camembert)'

Tasting

Review of the processing performance and battery performance of the 'Galaxy S25 Ultra': It can be charged up to 96% in one hour and can play YouTube continuously for 14 hours

Review

Cloudflare blocks minor browsers, Cloudflare promises to investigate but leaves it alone with no response

Web Service

Discord Messenger is a super lightweight app that requires only 64MB of memory and can connect to older versions of Windows

Software

Headline news for February 6, 2025

Headline

Microsoft silently removes official bypass method to upgrade to Windows 11 on PCs that don't meet minimum system requirements

Software

An 'AI grandma' wastes time by asking scammers questions like 'Did you say pastry?' and 'The screen went black'

Web Service

NASA ordered to remove 'women's leadership' and 'diversity' content from website

Note

Photos of NVIDIA GPUs and simple boxes are being sold at high prices under the pretext of 'tricking reseller bots'

Web Service

Google releases Gemini 2.0 for anyone to use, with new low-cost, high-performance and search-enabled versions

Software

Review of the Galaxy S25 Ultra, which is equipped with a 200-megapixel camera and has a variety of photos taken with it. It has a full range of camera functions, including 100x zoom and color matching.

Review

A man who drank 44 litres of milk in two days ended up in hospital after his blood turned cloudy

Science

It was discovered that Russia was exploiting vulnerabilities in the compression and decompression tool '7-Zip' to attack Ukraine

Security

The US Postal Service announced it would temporarily suspend international mail from China and Hong Kong, then retracted the announcement a few hours later. What's the problem?

Note

Google develops 'predictive model to ensure search ads link to pages users expect'

Web Service

Amazon to hold postponed 'New Alexa with Generative AI' announcement event at the end of February 2025

Hardware