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Monday January 6, 2025. 06:49 AM
This week New York Times technology columnist Kevin Roose published his annual 'Good Tech' awards to 'shine the spotlight on a few tech projects that I think contributed positively to humanity.' And high on the list is 'Andres Freund, and every open-source software...
Will they make price rises palatable? Or bring more of what new Netflix lawsuit calls Broadcom's ‘Buy. Chop up. Raise prices' business plan? Broadcom’s annual report reveals two items of note for VMware customers: two planned major releases of its flagship VMware Cloud...
A U.S. Appeals Court ruled this week that net neutrality couldn't be reinstated by America's Federal Communications Commission. But 'Despite the dismantling of the FCC's efforts to regulate broadband internet service, state laws in California, New York and elsewhere remain...
More evidence of Beijing’s liking for gray zone warfare, or a murky claim with odd African entanglements? Taiwanese authorities have asserted that a China-linked ship entered its waters and damaged a submarine cable.…
The future is now. Video games can be played on everything from smart fridges to Amazon Alexa, but I've yet to see one running in a YouTube video – until now, that is. Viva la Vida is an interactive YouTube game where you try your best to dodge damage-dealing chess pieces to...
It 'felt like a Disneyland ride,' reports CBS News. A man took a Waymo takes to the airport — only to discover the car 'wouldn't stop driving around a parking lot in circles.' And because the car was in motion, he also couldn't get out. Still stuck in the car, Michael Johns...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: elementary OS 8.0 News: Debian testing its installer for Trixie, Pop!_OS continues to face delays, Ubuntu Studio upgrades not working, Absolute Linux discontinued Tips...
PLUS: DoJ bans data sale to enemy nations; Do Kwon extradited to US; Tenable CEO passes away; and more Infosec in Brief Welcome to 2025: hopefully you enjoyed a pleasant holiday season and returned to the security operations center without incident - unlike Volkswagen, which ...
Aiper is demonstrating the all-new Scuba X1 Pro Max robotic pool cleaner at CES. It’s the top dog in the company’s Scuba X series that promises to deliver performance a notch above the Scuba S1 Pro we reviewed—and very much liked—in July 2024. Aiper says its advanced ...
'It's fair to say that by 1995, OS/2 was dead software walking,' remembers a new article from the Register (which begins with a 1995 Usenet post from Gordon Letwin, Microsoft's lead architect on the OS/2 project). But the real question is why this Microsoft-IBM collaboration ...
Linus has released 6.13-rc6 for testing. So we had a slight pickup in commits this last week, but as expected and hoped for, things were still pretty quiet. About twice as many commits as the holiday week, but that's still not all that many. I expect things will start...
State masks up finally – its IP addresses, that is Florida witnessed a massive rise in VPN demand on New Year's Day after Pornhub began prohibiting people from accessing its site from within the Sunshine State, it is claimed.…
Sure, Govee has some new smart lights to unveil at CES this year, but what this smart lighting manufacturer really wants to talk about is, of course, the buzzword of the show: AI. From its AI-powered gaming lights to its light-scene-creating AI chatbot, Govee clearly sees...
Sunday January 5, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: This encrypted USB flash drive uses a keypad lock to keep 64GB of data secure, combining portability, convenience, and top-notch privacy protection for $59.99. You wouldn't leave your journal open on a park bench, so why let your digital files be any less secure? —...
'In many instances, there's a catch: flexible work but at lower pay...' writes Fortune. 'Remote workers are accepting lower salaries in order to achieve remote status. Some are taking as much as 5% to 15% less pay to do so, while other employers are reversing the strategy to ...
Millions of computers are heading towards a security crisis as Microsoft plans to end support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. Despite this impending deadline, 32 million devices -- roughly 65 percent of household computers in Germany -- are still running the aging...
In a potential U.S.-China conflict, cyberattackers are military weapons. That's the thrust of a new article from the Wall Street Journal: The message from President Biden's national security adviser was startling. Chinese hackers had gained the ability to shut down dozens of ...
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: In an Op-ed for The Huntington News, fourth year Northeastern University CS student Derek Kaplan argues that real pedagogical merit is what should count when deciding which language to use to teach CS fundamentals (aka 'Fundies'). He...
Friday America's surgeon general warned that alcohol is 'a well-established, preventable cause of cancer responsible for about 100,000 cases of cancer and 20,000 cancer deaths annually in the United States,' and recommended an update to the warning labels on alcohol. So what ...
'We're going straight to Mars. The Moon is a distraction,' Elon Musk posted Thursday on X.com. Ars Technica's senior space editor points out that 'These are definitive statements that directly contradict NASA's plans to send a series of human missions to the lunar south pole ...
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