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Saturday April 19, 2025. 09:34 PM
'Members of the CA/Browser Forum have voted to slash cert lifespans from the current one year to 47 days,' reports Computerworld, 'placing an added burden on enterprise IT staff who must ensure they are updated.' In a move that will likely force IT to much more aggressively...
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC: Neurotech startup Precision Neuroscience on Thursday announced that a core component of its brain implant system has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a major win for the four-year-old company... The...
In NoSQL database news, Arch Linux 'is the latest Linux distribution replacing its Redis packages with the Valkey fork,' reports Phoronix. Valkey is backed by the Linux Foundation, Google, Amazon Web Services, and Oracle, which the article points out is due to Redis's...
'Russia is automating the spread of false information to fool AI chatbots,' reports the Washington Post. (When researchers checked 10 chatbots, a third of the responses repeated false pro-Russia messaging.) The Post argues that this tactic offers 'a playbook to other bad...
When an AI model for code-editing company Cursor hallucinated a new rule, users revolted.
Launched in 1958, the 'awkward-looking' Vanguard-1 satellite ('the size of a grapefruit') is the oldest artificial object orbiting Earth. 'A team of researchers and engineers want to retrieve the satellite for closer inspection and are currently working to find a way to...
When it comes to sales and rebates, PC giant takes 'Keep Reinventing' seriously HP Inc has agreed to pay $4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit in the US that alleged it used deceptive pricing tactics on its website, including fake discounts and misleading limited-time...
'There has never been a consensus or a 'smoking gun' to explain what started the pandemic,' writes ABC News. Yet the Associated Press reports that 'A federal website that used to feature information on vaccines, testing and treatment for COVID-19 has been transformed into a...
Star Wars hero Cassian Andor was inspired by Joseph Stalin, from the character's rugged looks to the plot device of funding revolutions through daring robberies. The Rebel Alliance's early leadership is modeled generally on the Bolsheviks, who overthrew one of Europe's worst ...
Worx’s petite cube vacuum appeals to my desire for cleanliness, control, and cute things in my life.
Say goodbye to dark chocolate Toblerones, Britons! The classier variety of the pyramidal chocolate snack is being withdrawn there by parent company Mondelēz International due to low sales. It attributed the discontinuation to 'changing tastes' and growing its business,...
Want to hear something absolutely insane? Apparently, Jack in the Box has decided it wants to be more than just a place to grab curly fries at midnight. You see, the fast food chain is now venturing into the world of Fortnite with something called “Jack’s CEO...
New subscription service notwithstanding, Garmin’s latest entry-level tracker is still reliable and attractive and works great.
Only a few weeks ago we talked about Blue95, a Fedora-based distribution focused on bringing the Windows 95 look to the Linux world by integrating a set of existing Windows 95 Xfce themes. Since Fedora 42 has just been released, the Blue95 project also pushed out a new...
Eva Decker's Hypertext.tv is a dangerous mingling of the cable and world-wide web user experiences, lovingly rendered with an aggressive CRT shader. Explore the web as you world explore the television 25 years ago! The Github repo explains. Most platforms on the web offer...
LXQt, the Qt-based alternative to KDE as Xfce is the GTK-based alternative to GNOME, has released version 2.2.0. LXQt is in the middle of its transition to Wayland, and as such, this release brings a number of fixes and improvements for Wayland, like improved multi-display...
AI-spoofed Mark joins fellow billionaires as the voice of the street – here's how it was probably done Video Crosswalk buttons in various US cities were hijacked over the past week or so to – rather than robotically tell people it's safe to walk or wait – instead emit...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a 21-km (13-mile) course. The robots from Chinese...
I adore quirky alt-pop-rock band They Might Be Giants, and pretty much think that their song 'Birdhouse in Your Soul' is a perfect pop ditty. Somehow, though, this Renaissance madrigal version makes me love it even more, which I didn't think was possible! — Read the rest ...
The Department of Justice recently sent letters to perhaps 'tens' of scientific journals, accusing them of being 'partisan' and asking whether they are including 'competing viewpoints.' One such letter went to the journal CHEST, a peer-reviewed journal published by the...
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