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Wednesday February 26, 2025. 01:45 AM
Mozilla has officially reiterated that it’s going to keep offering support for both Manifest v2 and Manifest v3 extensions in Firefox. Google is removing support for Manifest v2 from Chrome, and with it a feature called blockingWebRequest that is used by ad blockers like...
A massive blackout has hit Chile, leaving millions without power and disrupting transportation, businesses, and essential services across 14 of the country's 16 regions. The Associated Press reports: The National Electrical Coordinator, Chile's grid operator, said a...
The Wayland color-management protocol extension has landed on Feb 13th, 2025, in upstream wayland-protocols repository in the staging directory. It was released with wayland-protocols 1.41. The extension enables proper interactions between traditional (sRGB), Wide Color...
A deepfake video of U.S. President Donald Trump kissing Elon Musk’s feet was aired across television screens inside the Washington headquarters of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The video, which included an on-screen message reading “LONG...
If there's something nasty on your employment record, extortion scum could come calling DISA Global Solutions, a company that provides drug and alcohol testing, background checks, and other employee screening services, this week notified over 3.3 million people that their...
More than 1,000 musicians and groups including Kate Bush, Damon Albarn, Annie Lennox, Billy Ocean, and Jamiroquai released a silent album on Tuesday. The unusual release is a direct protest against the U.K. government’s consideration of changes to copyright laws that could ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: As part of a settlement announced by the state of New York's Attorney General, Letitia James, DoorDash has agreed to pay $16.75 million to more than 60,000 Dashers who were supposed to receive that money in the form of tips...
Tuesday February 25, 2025. 11:50 PM
According to Bloomberg (paywalled), Warner Bros. Discovery announced today that it is shutting down three gaming studios and canceling development of its planned Wonder Woman project. Engadget reports: Monolith Productions, Player First Games and WB Games San Diego will be...
You don't have to be human to develop a strong sweet tooth (or sweet beak!) right before bedtime. As proven by Twinkie, an adorable yellow parrot who sounds like a toddler as he whines for a midnight snack. No matter what his owner says — such as asking Twinkie how he got ...
Watching Plex videos with friends is about to get harder, with the company announcing that it will drop its “Watch Together” feature from its redesigned suite of mobile and TV apps. On its community forum, a Plex rep announced Tuesday that “Watch Together will not be ...
Proposed cuts at a key US government agency will likely mean the demise of CHIPS Act funding, which could effectively end the program and undermine efforts to reshore semiconductor manufacturing and research to the US. Axios and Bloomberg on Tuesday reported that the...
If only Google had followed Jewish dietary laws regarding butchering search. These AI results are precisely the reason no one wants AI search summaries. They do raise the question of what religion the cows that Google believes Jewish people are allowed to eat are. — Read...
At its 'Second Gen' event today, Framework detailed three new computers: an updated Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Ryzen AI 300, a 4.5-liter Mini-ITX desktop powered by Ryzen AI Max, and a colorful, convertible Framework Laptop 12 designed with students in mind. The latter is...
This 18k golden throne is titled 'America.' Created in 2016 by artist Maurizio Cattelan, the toilet—insured for $6 million—was installed in NYC's Guggenheim Museum before being moved to Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England. In 2019, it was stolen in a heist that an...
Elon Musk took to his very own social network to celebrate the suffering he has caused. In response to reports that Washington DC unemployment numbers are on the rise, as over thirty thousand federal workers have already been fired, Elon 'Pedo Guy' Musk claimed to be...
TL;DR: Ditch subscription costs and buy a lifetime license for Microsoft Office 2024 for $159.97. Save on access to your favorite Microsoft Office programs when you buy a Microsoft Office 2024 Home & Business for Mac or PC Lifetime License for $159.97 (reg. — Read the rest ...
Of course, Microsoft is in the mix, isn't it Chinese spies reportedly broke into the US Republication National Committee's Microsoft-powered email and snooped around for months before being caught.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Google: Starting with the Snapdragon 8 Elite, Qualcomm will offer device manufacturers (OEMs) the 'ability to provide support for up to eight consecutive years of Android software and security updates.' Qualcomm today announced a...
Chinese tech giants Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent are ramping up purchases of downgraded NVIDIA H20 chips to power generative AI models like DeepSeek-R1, defying concerns that China’s AI advancements could weaken demand for U.S. hardware, according to an exclusive report ...
The conversation around the merging of a set of Rust abstractions for the kernel's DMA-mapping layer has mostly settled after Linus Torvalds made it clear that the code would be accepted. One other consequence of this decision, though, is that Christoph Hellwig has quietly...
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