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Sunday September 28, 2025. 02:00 PM
Proton Pass has gone from bare-bones to full-featured, and it’s ready to take on the competitive password manager landscape.
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Paris-based AI giant Mistral 'is pushing to improve its models,' reports the Wall Street Journal, 'by looking inside legacy enterprises that hold some of the world's last untapped data reserves....' Mistral's approach will be to form partnerships with enterprises to further...
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Google offers a free, lightweight operating system that essentially turns any machine into a Chromebook. It's a great way to keep an aging computer in service longer.
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With almost laughably low power, a monochrome screen, and unique controls, niche-micro console Playdate shouldn’t make any sense in a world of modern gaming. Yet it’s near impossible not to love it.
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The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of thirst.
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Olivier Cochard-Labbé has announced the release of BSD Router Project (BSDRP) 2.0, a major update of the free and open-source software router distribution based on embedded FreeBSD. The new version brings...
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The proposed 1:1 chip rule means nothing but pain for US tech until he’s out of office Comment Ending America's reliance on foreign chip fabs remains a high priority for Uncle Sam, but the Trump administration's 'my way or the highway' approach to the issue threatens to do ...
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Long-time Slashdot reader theodp says America's Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent to Tableau (Salesforce's visual analytics platform) — for a patent covering 'Data Processing For Visualizing Hierarchical Data': 'A provided data model may include a tree...
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'We've decided to support image-based search,' announced the product manager for Firefox Search. Powered by the AI-driven Google Lens search technology, they promise the new feature offers 'a frictionless, fast, and a curiosity-sparking way to (as Google puts it) 'search...
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Cristian Fleming paid around $70,000 for one of Fisker Ocean's electric mid-size crossover SUVs. Seven months later the company filed for bankruptcy in June of 2024, reports the Verge, 'having only delivered 11,000 vehicles.' 'Early adopters were left with cars plagued by...
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What if you have a PC-98 machine, and you want to run Linux on it, as you do? I mean, CP/M, OS/2, or Windows (2000 and older) might not cut it for you, after all. Well, it turns out that yes, you can run Linux on PC-98 hardware, and thanks to a bunch of work by Nina Kalinina ...
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It's the world's largest companies by revenue. But Walmart's executives have a blunt message, reports the Wall Street Journal: 'Artificial intelligence will wipe out jobs and reshape its workforce.' 'It's very clear that AI is going to change literally every job,' Chief...
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'Researchers have modified a standard glue gun to 3D print a bone-like material directly onto fractures,' reports LiveScience, 'paving the way for its use in operating rooms.' The device, which has so far been tested in rabbits, would be particularly useful for fixing...
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Saturday September 27, 2025. 11:23 PM
I’ve been working on developing an operating system for the TI-99 for the last 18 months or so. I didn’t intend this—my original plan was to develop enough of the standard C libraries to help with writing cartridge-based and EA5 programs. But that trek led me quickly...
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In today's fascism update Donald Trump is ordering the 'Secretary of War' to mobilize troops and authorizes something called 'Full Force' to occupy a US city. Also, Speaker of the House MAGA Mike is doing all he can to keep the Epstein files from being released. — Read the re...
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TL;DR: Rip any DVD into over 1,000 formats with lifetime access to DVDneXtCOPY DVD Ripper for just $29.99 (MSRP $59.99). If you've got a stack of DVDs collecting dust, this little piece of software might be your new best friend. DVDneXtCOPY DVD Ripper makes it simple to trans...
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Friday the security researchers at Arctic Wolf Labs wrote: In late July 2025, Arctic Wolf Labs began observing a surge of intrusions involving suspicious SonicWall SSL VPN activity. Malicious logins were followed within minutes by port scanning, Impacket SMB activity, and...
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. KaOS is an independent, rolling-release desktop Linux distribution that features the latest version of the KDE Plasma desktop environment. The project's latest snapshot is version 2025.09 which ships with...
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After the nonprofit Ruby Central removed all RubyGems' maintainers from its GitHub repository, André Arko — who helped build Bundler — wrote a new blog post on Thursday 'detailing Bundler's relationship with Ruby Central,' according to this update from The New Stack. 'In the ...
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The recent Metal Gear Solid 3 remake has been met with glowing praise from just about everyone I know — not exactly surprising, given that the original is one of the best games of all time. That praise has been so glowing, however, that Konami is already exploring the...
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