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Monday September 29, 2025. 05:24 AM
Alleges bias and security problems US President Donald Trump has demanded Microsoft fire its recently appointed head of global affairs Lisa Monaco.…
'As awareness grows around the dangers of head trauma in sports, a small number of professional fighters and football players are turning to a psychedelic called ibogaine for treatment,' reports the Los Angeles Times. They note that the drug's proponents 'tout its ability to ...
The editors of the culture magazine n + 1 decry the 'well-funded upheaval' caused by a large and powerful coalition of pro-AI forces. ('According to the logic of market share as social transformation, if you move fast and break enough things, nothing can contain you...') 'An ...
PLUS: Interpol recoups $439M from crims; CISA criticizes Feds security; FIFA World Cup nets dodgy domain deluge Infosec In Brief Police in the Netherlands arrested two 17-year-olds last week over claims that Russian intelligence recruited them to spy on the headquarters of...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: KDE Linux and GNOME OS News: Murena to offer phones with kill switches, Redox OS runs on a smartphone, Artix drops GNOME over dependencies Questions and answers:...
'The internet is full of people claiming to uncover conspiracies in politics and business...' reports the Wall Street Journal. 'Now an unlikely new villain has been added to the list: theoretical physicists,' they write, saygin resentment of scientific authority figures 'is...
Linus Torvalds has released the 6.17 kernel. He notes that the shortlog for the changes since -rc7 are pretty tame: It's not exciting, which is all good. I think the biggest patch in there is some locking fixes for some bluetooth races that could cause use-after-free...
PLUS: US court grounds China’s DJI; India requires 2FA for most payments; Great Firewall busters launch VPN; and more! Asia In Brief Over 600 e-government services operated by South Korea’s government are offline after a datacenter fire disrupted operations.…
'Swiss voters have backed plans for electronic identity cards by a wafer-thin margin,' reports the Guardian, 'in the second nationwide vote on the issue.' In a referendum on Sunday, 50.4% of voters supported an electronic ID card, while 49.6% were against, confounding...
Sunday September 28, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Get a one-year Microsoft 365 subscription with premium apps, 1TB OneDrive storage, AI Copilot tools, Outlook email, and advanced security — $69.99 until October 12. When it comes to getting stuff done, Microsoft 365 isn't just the gold standard — it's the whole...
Tim Berners-Lee writes in a new article in the Guardian that 'Somewhere between my original vision for web 1.0 and the rise of social media as part of web 2.0, we took the wrong path Today, I look at my invention and I am forced to ask: is the web still free today? No, not...
'Facebook and Instagram owner Meta is launching paid subscriptions for users who do not want to see adverts in the UK,' reports the BBC: The company said it would start notifying users in the coming weeks to let them choose whether to subscribe to its platforms if they wish...
IEEE Spectrum ranks the popularity of programming languages — but is there a problem? Programmers 'are turning away from many of these public expressions of interest. Rather than page through a book or search a website like Stack Exchange for answers to their questions,...
'Today's AIs are book smart,' reports the Wall Street Journal. 'Everything they know they learned from available language, images and videos. To evolve further, they have to get street smart.' And that requires 'world models,' which are 'gaining momentum in frontier research ...
The BBC reports that a million-year-old human skull found in China suggests that the human species 'began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought, researchers are claiming in a new study.' It also shows that we co-existed with other sister species,...
With over a decade of experience in reviewing gaming laptops, here's my rundown of what to consider before pulling the trigger.
TL;DR: Supercharge your storage and data capabilities with the 2TB Western Digital Elements Portable USB for $64.99 (Reg. $79.99) I think I'm overpaying for my cloud storage. I pay for Google cloud, Apple iCloud storage, and Dropbox storage. — Read the rest The post Don't...
Harry Jackson went into Kathmandu as a tourist. He ended up being one of the main international sources of news on Nepal’s Gen Z protests.
Six months ago California had 48% more public and 'shared' private EV chargers than gasoline nozzles. (In March California had 178,000 public and shared private EV chargers, versus about 120,000 gas nozzles.) Since then they've added 23,000 more public/shared charging ports...
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