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Sunday April 27, 2025. 11:14 PM
Jia Rong Low hopes to make registries interesting again Interview Before you get to know Jia Rong Low, the recently appointed director general of the Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC), you might want to check your definition of 'the internet.'…
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TL;DR: A lifetime license to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows is just $49.97 (reg. $219) without any monthly subscription fees.  Subscription fees are basically everywhere. Between your health apps, entertainment apps, and gaming apps, monthly payments add up...
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What can you build with a 3D printer? Starbucks just printed itself a new store — a drive-through location in the southern tip of Texas. Fast Company says it's a store that 'looks more like the future of construction than your average café.' Built with layers of concrete pipe...
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Another six months have passed, so it’s time for a new OpenBSD release: OpenBSD 7.7 to be exact. Browsing through the long, detailed list of changes, a few important bits jump out. First, OpenBSD 7.7 adds support for Ryzen AI 300 (Strix Point, Strix Halo, Krackan Point),...
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The Wii homebrew community has been dealt a pretty serious blow, as developers of The Homebrew Channel for the Wii have discovered that not only does an important library most Wii homebrew software rely on use code stolen straight from Nintendo, that same library also uses...
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Brave just made a move that should make privacy enthusiasts pretty happy. The company has officially open sourced Cookiecrumbler, a tool designed to automatically detect and help block those obnoxious cookie consent banners you see across the Web. These pop-ups are not only...
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The OpenBSD 7.7 release is available. There is, as usual, a long list of changes; see the full changelog for lots of details.
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Microsoft Copilot 'isn't doing as well as the company would like,' reports XDA-Developers.com (citing a report from startup/VC industry site Newcomer). The Redmond giant has invested billions of dollars and a lot of manpower into making it happen, but as a recent report...
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'Google's DeepMind UK team reportedly seeks to unionize,' reports TechCrunch: Around 300 London-based members of Google's AI-focused DeepMind team are seeking to unionize with the Communication Workers Union, according to a Financial Times report that cites three people...
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Now that's a sum of all fears The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, aka DARPA, believes mathematics isn't advancing fast enough.…
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Skating on a skateboard is old news for some folks, like this guy who skates around on two vacuum cleaners while wearing a suit. Watch him take on a skate ramp with his vacuum skates like a pro. I'd like to think this is what he does when he cleans his house (including the...
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'Not so long ago, working in tech meant job security, extravagant perks and a bring-your-whole-self-to-the-office ethos rare in other industries,' writes the Wall Street Journal. But now tech work 'looks like a regular job,' with workers 'contending with the constant fear of ...
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I didn't know there was a term for staying up late because you feel like you didn't get enough 'me time' during the day. I do this often and find it to be an irritating cycle that I get stuck in when I'm overwhelmed. — Read the rest The post "Revenge bedtime...
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The university blamed it on 'the significant number of students' who violated their coding competition's rules. Long-time Slashdot reader theodp quotes this report from The Logic: Finding that many students violated rules and submitted code not written by themselves, the...
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You wouldn't expect a former 'wine and cheese guy' to write the definitive guide on queer lactation, but Jacob Engelsman, an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and fellow Boing Boing reader, has done exactly that. Their new book Lactation for the Rest ...
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TL;DR: Lenovo 300E 11.6' Chromebook is just $79.99 (MSRP $284) — It has a touchscreen, long battery life, and helps reduce e-waste. This isn't the laptop you buy to edit your indie film or launch a 3D animation career. This is the laptop you use to watch The Last of Us in...
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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) just announced a grant competition soliciting proposals for statues of 'Iconic Americans' for the 'National Garden of American Heroes.' The press release states that the garden: will feature life-size statues of 250 great...
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'The U.S. and Canadian websites for Lenovo offered U.S. $140 and CAD $211 off on the same ThinkPad X1 Carbon model when choosing any one of the Linux-based alternatives,' reports It's FOSS News: This was brought to my attention thanks to a Reddit post... Others then chimed...
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The Catholic world is still in mourning for Pope Francis, who was rightly lauded as one of the Church's more progressive leaders, low of a bar as that may be. While he's laid in state, his chambers in the Vatican remain empty… but their loss could be your gain. — Read the res...
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Few things in life make me happier than a new 9front release. This new release, 9front “CLAUSE 15 COMMON ELEMENTS OF MAUS AND STAR TYPE”, comes with a variety of fixes and new features, such as temperature sensor support for Ryzen processors, a new Intel i225 2.5 GbE...
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