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Monday June 16, 2025. 04:45 AM
PLUS: APNIC completes re-org; India cuts costs for chipmakers; Infosys tax probe ends; and more Asia In Brief Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) last week announced charges against four suspects for alleged participation in a money-laundering scheme that involved a security...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Bloomberg: Amazon's hard-line stance on getting disabled employees to return to the office has sparked a backlash, with workers alleging the company is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act as well as their rights to...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: SDesk 2025.05.06 (aka 20mini) News: A BASIC box runs NetBSD, Ubuntu drops GNOME X11 session, GNOME increases dependency on systemd, Google holds back parts of Android...
Linus Torvalds has released 6.16-rc2, which is 'admittedly even smaller than usual', though rc2 is not uncommonly one of the smaller release candidates. It may be that people are taking a breather after a fairly sizable merge window, but it might also be seasonal, with...
In Tokyo Mitsubishi is deploying 'an innovative new battery swap network for electric cars' in a multi-year test program reports the EV news site Electrek. But it's not just for electric cars. Along with the 14 modular battery swapping stations, Mitsubishi is also deploying...
Timothy B. Lee has written for the Washington Post, Vox.com, and Ars Technica — and now writes a Substack blog called 'Understanding AI.' This week he visits recent research by computer scientists and legal scholars from Stanford, Cornell, and West Virginia University that...
PLUS: Discord invite links may not be safe; Miscreants find new way to hide malicious JavaScript; and more! Infosec In Brief A pair of Congressional Democrats have demanded a review of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program amid uncertainties about continued...
Sunday June 15, 2025. 11:29 PM
Meta and AWS have used Rust, and Netflix uses Go,reports the programming news site InfoQ. But using another language, Apple recently 'migrated its global Password Monitoring service from Java to Swift, achieving a 40% increase in throughput, and significantly reducing memory ...
Are you still using Windows 7, 8, 8.1, or a 32 bit version of Windows, relying on LibreOffice for your sexy office tasks of writing TPS reports and calculating and tabulating juicy, plump numbers? Bad news: the next version of LibreOffice will remove support for these...
Since Void Linux uses a rolling release model, there’s not much to report on in the form of new releases and major new features, so I’m taking the release of version 0.60 of XBPS, Void Linux’ package manager, to cheat my way into talking about this excellent Linux...
NPR looks at the 'high-quality, climate-friendly apartments' in Vienna, asking if it's a model for addressing both climate change and the housing crisis. About half the city's 2 million people live in the widespread (and government-supported) apartments, with solar panels on ...
A chain of stores called Home Bargains installed facial recognition software to spot returning shoplifters. Unfortunately, 'Facewatch' made a mistake. 'We acknowledge and understand how distressing this experience must have been,' an anonymous Facewatch spokesperson tells...
The state of New York is 'asking companies to disclose whether AI is the reason for their layoffs,' reports Entrepreneur: The move applies to New York State's existing Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) system and took effect in March, Bloomberg reported....
'Cooper Taylor is only 17 years old, but he's already trying to revolutionize the drone industry,' writes Business Insider: His design makes the drone more efficient, customizable, and less expensive to construct, he says. He's built six prototypes, 3D printing every piece...
America's federal government is building a website and API called ai.gov to 'accelerate government innovation with AI', according to an early version spotted by 404 Media that was posted on GitHub by the U.S. government's General Services Administration. That site 'is...
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The Nolah Evolution Hybrid mattress is a boon for side sleepers and back pain sufferers—plus, it has handles.
It's the technology 'Google tried (and failed at) more than a decade ago,' writes CNN. (And Meta and Amazon have also previously tried releasing glasses with cameras, speakers and voice assistants.) Yet this week Snap announced that 'it's building AI-equipped eyewear to be...
Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure—and reveal how little is understood about geologically active moons.
Academics mull the need for the digital equivalent of low-background steel Feature For artificial intelligence researchers, the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, changed the world in a way similar to the detonation of the first atomic bomb.…
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