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Thursday August 14, 2025. 04:15 AM
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Indico; Arch Linux wiki; StarDict; Python debugging; LLM assistants for kernel development; 6.17 Merge window; Signed BPF programs. Briefs: CalyxOS; ACME on NGINX; Debian 13; LVFS sustainability; Go 1.25; Radicle 1.3.0;...
A survey conducted by polling group YouGov found that 6% of Britons have a nemesis: a personal arch-enemy or (to quote one especially relevant definition) the 'infliction of retribution as manifested by an appropriate agent.' A further 17% previously had a nemesis but not...
Big Tech is spending vastly more on AI infrastructure but Switchzilla thinks its piece of the pie will be fat and juicy Cisco sold twice as much AI kit as it forecast during its 2025 fiscal year and expects the market for binary brainboxes will continue to boost its bank...
The Pentagon is poised to cancel two nearly finished Navy and Air Force HR software projects worth over $800 million so new contracts can be awarded to other vendors, including Salesforce, Palantir, and Workday. 'The reason for the unusual move: officials at those...
After over 130 years in business, Kodak has warned it may not survive. From a report: The Rochester, New York-based Eastman Kodak Co. offered a bleak picture of its financials in earnings reports and filings, tracking a second quarter loss and sending shares tumbling in...
A tool can become a crutch When doctors use AI image recognition technology to spot and remove precancerous growths known as adenomas during colonoscopies, the detection rate is higher. But take the AI away, and their rate drops to below where it was in the first place.…
The new version of ChatGPT explains why it won’t generate rule-breaking outputs. WIRED’s initial analysis found that some guardrails were easy to circumvent.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Google is rolling out an update for Gemini that will allow the AI chatbot to 'remember' your past conversations without prompting. With the setting turned on, Gemini will automatically recall your 'key details and...
The world's most powerful known supercomputer stretches its legs with some life-saving science Eggheads working on El Capitan, the world's most powerful publicly known supercomputer, have developed a new tsunami forecasting system that could dramatically improve response...
New York Attorney General Letitia James has sued Zelle's parent company, Early Warning Services, alleging it knowingly enabled over $1 billion in fraud from 2017 to 2023 by failing to implement basic safeguards. CNBC reports: 'EWS knew from the beginning that key features of ...
Wednesday August 13, 2025. 11:30 PM
Pebble has unveiled the final design of its rebooted Pebble Time 2 smartwatch, featuring a stainless steel body, color accents, knurled buttons, a flat glass display, customizable RGB backlight, and a built-in compass. 9to5Google reports: In a new episode of his podcast...
Election denier and now US Attorney for the District of Columbia says the hero of the resistance who threw a Subway sandwich at Trump's Federal cops occupying Washington, DC has been charged with a felony. 'So President Trump has vowed to make D.C. — Read the rest The po...
TL;DR: Right now, this MacBook Air is only $200 (reg. $999). Not everyone needs a brand-new, top-of-the-line laptop to get things done. If you're mostly writing papers, browsing the web, binging shows, or powering through emails, this MacBook Air will hold its own and then...
Everest Mystery has become a new favorite YouTube channel. Thom Pollard was the cameraman for the famous 1999 expedition that found George Mallory's body. His knowledge of the mountain, the mountaineers, sherpas, and tourists seeking to summit Everest is fascinating. Even...
We removed ads from OSNews. Donate to our fundraiser to ensure our future! The Hurd, the collection of services that run atop the GNU Mach microkernel, has been in development for a very, very long time. The Hurd is intended to serve as the kernel for the GNU Project, but...
Never mind the errors, we've had it with 'You're absolutely right!' Developers using Anthropic's Claude Code wish that the AI coding assistant would stop being so effusively supportive.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: [O]ver in the UK, a single-motor version of the Polestar 3 just set a world record for the farthest drive in an electric car on a single charge. Three 'professional efficiency drivers,' Sam Clarke, Kevin Booker, and...
An art thief used several aliases to acquire UCLA library cards that allowed him to check out and steal historic manuscripts from China. If you fail to return a library book, there is a fine; however, if you return a fake book and the librarians never check, you may be able ...
The entire JD Vance interview on Katie Miller's podcast is a desperate attempt to humanize not only Vance but the whole cabinet of weirdos. Katie Miller reveals that her husband, Stephen Miller, only eats mayonnaise — PatriotTakes
Artist Barry McWilliams is transforming vintage European book pages into mysterious symbols and abstract drawings, offering the collected works as a limited-edition zine through Kickstarter. The project, titled 'Shapes, Symbols, and Sigils,' features hand-drawn artwork...
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