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Sunday February 23, 2025. 02:00 AM
TL;DR: Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 is just $27.97 instead of $499. Coding is hard enough without clunky, outdated tools slowing you down. If you're still wrestling with an IDE that crashes when you sneeze or debugging feels like an archeological dig, it's time...
Employees throughout the federal government have until 11:59 pm ET Monday to detail five things they accomplished in the last week.
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post's 'Tech Brief': Last fall, reports that Kroger was considering bringing facial recognition technology into its stores sparked outcry from lawmakers and customers. They worried personalized data could be used to...
Saturday February 22, 2025. 11:34 PM
The Washington Post looks at a new kind of battery that 'could make American EVs cheaper and safer, experts say.' If you bought an EV with a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery, you could expect lower car payments, less fire risk and more years of use out of your car — but...
About two weeks ago we talked about why Fedora manages its own Flatpak repository, and why that sometimes leads to problems with upstream projects. Most recently, Fedora’s own OBS Flatpak was broken, leading to legal threats from the OBS project, demanding Fedora remove any...
TL;DR: Ditch the monthly fees and own Microsoft Office 2024 Home & Business for life—now just $159.97 (reg. $249.99) through March 30. Microsoft Office just got a major glow-up, and if you're still using an older version (or worse, paying monthly for 365), it's time to...
This year's 'State of Rust' survey was completed by 7,310 Rust developers. DevClass note some key findings: When asked about their biggest worries for Rust's future, 45.5 percent cited 'not enough usage in the tech industry,' up from 42.5 percent last year, just ahead of the ...
In today's Internet, it's more crucial than ever that you be able to tell what's AI and what's not. While it's easy enough with AI 'art' – just look for the extra fingers – AI writing is an entirely different can of worms. — Read the rest The post Human or Not challenges you...
Five days ago on Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released patch KB5051987 for Windows 11 version 24H2, writes the XDA Developers site. But 'As reported by Windows Latest and various communities like Reddit and Microsoft's help forum, many users have encountered a major issue...'...
Once upon a time, the Nielsen Ratings were the alpha and omega of TV viewership ratings. For decades, the marketing firm had the most reliable methodology for figuring out how many people were watching things across the country. The networks all turned to the Nielsen ratings ...
The Teapot Dome gas station in Zillah, Washington was a gas station like no other. This whimsical structure was built to look like a giant, adorable red and white teapot. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this unique building is known for both its novelty...
California sued to fine a data-harvesting company, reports the Washington Post, calling it 'a rare step to put muscle behind one of the strongest online privacy laws in the United States.' Even when states have tried to restrict data brokers, it has been tough to make those...
Sure, fictional heroes like Batman and Kazuma Kiryu might look cool when they're brawling with legions of petty criminals, but how would they do in an actual fight? The answer might surprise you – or it might not. It is Batman we're talking about, after all. — Read the rest ...
'IBM stopped supporting OS/2 at the end of 2006,' write the makers of ArcaOS, an OEM distribution of OS/2's discontinued Warp operating system. And now long-time Slashdot reader martiniturbide tells us that ArcaOS 5.1.1 has been released, and that many of it's components...
Stereogum recently published a fascinating retrospective on Neil Young's doomed hi-def portable music device, the PONO. Released in 2015 after several years of painstaking development, Young aspired to create a portable digital audio player to rival the popularity of the...
This cool timelapse shows tadpoles develop over the course of 4 minutes. We don't get to see them turn into frogs, but they sprout little legs and begin taking on a new shape. I love how It looks like they're all dancing around inside their eggs to the music in the video. —...
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs The post The Wonder Bread store in Wyoming is a polka-dot landmark appeared first on Boing Boing.
Google's Threat Intelligence Group notes 'the growing threat to secure messaging applications.' While specifically acknowledging 'wide ranging efforts to compromise Signal accounts,' they add that the threat 'also extends to other popular messaging applications such as...
Deadline reports: It's taking around $1 billion to have 007 stewards Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson cede creative oversight of their family's storied James Bond franchise to Amazon MGM Studios, sources tell us. Amazon originally overpaid on its purchase of MGM in a...
Dipping your toes into virtual reality? From shooters to woodsy adventures, these are our favorites to play by yourself or with friends.
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