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Monday May 5, 2025. 09:10 AM
Get Paid with AI We all go to work to get paid, and IT professionals this week were keen to find out more on the subject, devouring our article on the highest-paying IT skills of 2025. What they really wanted to understand is how much does AI pay? Being an AI-infused...
Marking the end of an era, May sees the retirement of Skype, Microsoft’s loved and loathed messaging app. The death of Skype has been a long time coming, with the aged platform struggling to keep pace with the competition, and now the last rites can be read. Today, May 5,...
Hails DOGE operatives for computer skills during interview in which he also flubbed some tech investment figures US President Donald Trump has said TikTok will be “very strongly protected” as the made-in-China social network has “a warm spot in my heart”.…
Linus has released 6.15-rc5 for testing. 'So it all feels like things are just continuing to go well this release. Let's hope I didn't jinx it by saying so.'
PLUS: China spring cleans its AIs; South Korea fines Meta, probes Broadcom; and more! Asia in brief India’s ambition to become a global semiconductor manufacturing player went backwards last week after two big players changed their plans.…
Rolling Stone reports on a strange new phenomenon spotted this week in a Reddit thread titled 'Chatgpt induced psychosis.' The original post came from a 27-year-old teacher who explained that her partner was convinced that the popular OpenAI model 'gives him the answers to...
As May the 4th transforms into Star Wars Day, dozens of sites and games have found ways to celebrate. The official Star Wars channel on YouTube released a celebratory video. Disney+ released Tales of the Underworld, a six-part animated series about bounty hunters during the...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: CachyOS 250330 News: Kali updates project's repository key, Trinity desktop receives update, UBports tests home directory encryption, Gentoo and other projects face...
PLUS: AirPlay exploits; Six-year old backdoor opens; Raytheon settles federal charges; and more! Infosec In Brief Microsoft has decided to push its consumer customers to dump passwords in favor of passkeys.…
Did you know there's an initiative to drive Open Source adoption both within the United Nations — and globally? Launched in March, it's the work of the Digital Technology Network (under the UN's chief executive board) which 'works to advance open source technologies...
Sunday May 4, 2025. 11:41 PM
A Dartmouth College associate professor of Japanese literature and culture became a narrative consultant for Ubisoft's game Assassin's Creed Shadow (which launched in March). Sachi Schmidt-Hori's job 'involved researching historical customs and reviewing scripts, not...
'When Disneyland turns 70 this July, Main Street's Opera House will play host to the return of Walt Disney, who will sit down with audiences to tell his story in robot form,' writes Gizmodo. But they point out Walt's granddaughter Johanna Miller wrote a Facebook post...
With its Start menu-style application launcher and its bottom-of-the-screen taskbar, KDE Plasma is a 'nice' and 'traditional' desktop environment that's 'also highly customizable,' notes It's FOSS News. But there's a change coming... In contrast to other desktop...
With North Korean IT workers storming the gates, too RSAC Another RSA Conference has come and gone, with almost 44,000 attendees this year spread across San Francisco's Moscone Center and the surrounding facilities, according to event organizers.…
At the Miami Grand Prix’s driver’s parade, the sport’s biggest stars rode in drivable Lego cars that took eight months to build. It was as awesome as it sounds.
'Our future won't be handed to us,' says the young narrator in a new ad from the nonprofit Code.org. 'We will build it.' 'But how can we when the education we need is still just an elective?' says another young voice... The ad goes on to tout the power 'to create with...
Deno Land has released Deno 2.3, an update of the company’s JavaScript and TypeScript runtime that brings improvements to deno compile and adds support for local NPM packages. Announced May 1, Demo 2.3 extends deno compile to support programs that use Foreign Function...
Thursday the Free Software Foundation announced plans for a celebratory hackathon in November to improve free/libre software 'in honor of its fortieth anniversary. The FSF has been campaigning for software freedom for over forty years. As part of its celebrations, the...
Dr. Paul Offit, an expert on infectious disease and immunology, told the Guardian that 'We're living in a post-herd-immunity world. I think the measles outbreak proves that. Measles — because it is the most contagious of the vaccine-preventable diseases, the most contagious...
Slashdot reader Mirnotoriety shared this report from the Register: A proof-of-concept program has been released to demonstrate a so-called monitoring 'blind spot' in how some Linux antivirus and other endpoint protection tools use the kernel's io_uring interface. That...
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