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Tuesday September 2, 2025. 04:00 AM
College students have integrated generative AI into their academic routines at an unprecedented scale as 85% report usage for coursework in the past year, according to new Inside Higher Ed survey data. The majority employ AI tools for brainstorming ideas, seeking tutoring...
eBPF, shared SmartNICs, and smart scheduling have improved reliability and cut costs Chinese web giant Alibaba has reduced network outages by 92 percent, cut load balancing costs by 18.9 percent, and found ways to improve SmartNIC performance by offloading workloads to idle...
International tourism to the United States faces an unprecedented 8.2% decline in 2025, with the World Travel and Tourism Council projecting a $12.5 billion loss in visitor spending -- the only decline among 184 economies analyzed. Canadian visitors, traditionally comprising ...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Speaking to The Logan Bartlett Show on Friday, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said the use of AI agents had enabled him to 'rebalance' his headcount in the customer support division by trimming 4,000 jobs. 'I've reduced it from 9,000 head to ...
Monday September 1, 2025. 11:05 PM
The months keep slipping through our fingers, during this, our slow but relentless march towards the inevitability of certain death, so it’s time for another month of improvements to Redox, the general-purpose microkernel operating system written in Rust. This past month the...
The GNOME Foundation has announced that Steven Deobald will be leaving the position of Executive Director after just four months. We are extremely grateful to Steven for all this and more. Despite these many positive achievements, Steven and the board have come to the...
DistroWatch’s Jesse Smith is bringing some attention to an issue I have never encountered and had never heard of, and it has to do with antivirus software on Windows. It seems it’s not uncommon for antivirus software on Windows to mark Linux ISOs as malware or otherwise...
An anonymous reader shares a report: The European Union will deploy additional satellites in low Earth orbit to strengthen resilience against GPS interferences and will improve capabilities to detect it, EU Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius said on Monday. His remarks...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Linux From Scratch project (also called LFS) has announced the release of version 12.4 of the project's guide. This guide walks the reader through the steps to create a minimal Linux distribution from...
The century-old duty-free import exemption that transformed American online shopping has ended, The Atlantic argues, closing a loophole that allowed packages valued under $800 to enter the United States without tariffs. The de minimis threshold, raised from $200 in 2016,...
Arnd Bergmann started his Open Source Summit Europe 2025 talk with a clear statement of position: 32-bit systems are obsolete when it comes to use in any sort of new products. The only reason to work with them at this point is when there is existing hardware and software to...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Some Microsoft Azure customers have had a worrying few days after a problematic account migration caused forecast costs for the cloud service to skyrocket, triggering budget alerts. An alarmed Register reader got in touch after receiving...
After years leaning on OpenAI’s foundation models, Microsoft’s in-house AI division has this week underlined the software giant’s determination to strike out on its own. On Thursday, after months of speculation that something important was coming, Microsoft AI finally...
Americans are having a record low amount of sex -- even less than they did during the Covid-19 pandemic -- according to a new study led by researchers at the Institute for Family Studies. WSJ: This continues the downward shift in sexual activity that has been worrying...
Taylor Otwell says skip the clever code, keep it simple Taylor Otwell, inventor and maintainer of popular PHP framework Laravel, is warning against overly complex code and the risks of bypassing the framework.…
Police are investigating the apparent murder of a festival goer at Burning Man. A murder investigation has been launched at the Burning Man festival in the US state of Nevada after a man was found 'lying in a pool of blood' on Saturday night, police say. — Read the rest ...
Waymo robotaxis are repeatedly selecting identical parking spots in front of specific Los Angeles and Arizona homes between rides, puzzling residents who document the same vehicles returning to precise locations daily. The company states its vehicles choose parking based on...
Could dramatically reduce latency between datacenters and on mobile nets A team of networking boffins has published fresh research on hollow fiber cables that it claims could offer the lowest ever recorded optical loss for a fiber – meaning the signal would weaken less as...
TL;DR: New users can get lifetime access to all 14 languages on Babbel for $159 with promo code LEARN until September 8. You can only point at a menu and smile for so long before it's time to speak the local lingo. — Read the rest The post Babbel can help you say more than...
Summer is almost gone, and with it go these great Labor Day deals on WIRED-approved Bluetooth speakers, power banks, pizza ovens, and more.
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