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Sunday June 1, 2025. 05:36 PM
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Network Security Toolkit (NST) project has released a new major version of the distribution. NST 42-14476 features several new improvements which are listed in the project's release announcement. 'The NST...
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AI company Anthropic (founded in 2021 by a team that left OpenAI) is now making about $3 billion a year in revenue, reports Reuters (citing 'two sources familiar with the matter.') The sources said December's projections had been for just $1 billion a year, but it climbed to ...
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Adrian Arjoca has announced the release of AxOS 25.06, the latest version of the project's Arch-based desktop Linux distribution featuring a custom package manager called Epsilon. This release uses the...
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TL;DR: Get one year of powerful online protection from McAfee Total Protection for just $13.99 (reg. $119.99). Cybercriminals don't need to break down your door — they slip in through your Wi-Fi, snag your personal info, and disappear without a trace. — Read the rest The...
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In December it looked like NASA's next administrator would be the billionaire businessman/space enthusiast who twice flew to orbit with SpaceX. But Saturday the nomination was withdrawn 'after a thorough review of prior associations,' according to an announcement made on...
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Get your pictures off your phone and in front of your loved ones with these WIRED-tested digital picture frames.
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Eero mesh systems are popular and easy to use, but the product lineup is confusing. Here’s how to choose the right one for your home.
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If you’re in pursuit of your next PR, the durable Nice Rocc palm-cooling device can lower your core body temperature fast.
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A 21-year-old's startup got a $500,000 investment from Y Combinator — after building their web site and prototype mostly with 'vibe coding'. NPR explores vibe coding with Tom Blomfield, a Y Combinator group partner: 'It really caught on, this idea that people are no longer...
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If conversations are slow to load and Gmail’s search seems sluggish, you can speed things up by tweaking some settings and doing some routine maintenance.
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Rose Yu has drawn on the principles of fluid dynamics to improve deep learning systems that predict traffic, model the climate, and stabilize drones during flight.
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For less than the cost of a round of drinks, a plasticized Boston Dynamics fever dream could be yours too.
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'How does it feel to be replaced by a bot?' asks the Guardian — interviewing several creative workers who know: Gardening copywriter Annabel Beales 'One day, I overheard my boss saying to a colleague, 'Just put it in ChatGPT....' [My manager] stressed that my job was safe....
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With over 200 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by population. Now it's testing a program that will allow Brazilians 'to manage, own, and profit from their digital footprint,' according to RestOfWorld.org — 'the first such nationwide initiative in...
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Earlier this month the 'Create New Issue' page on GitHub got a new option. 'Save time by creating issues with Copilot' (next to a link labeled 'Get started.') Though the option later disappeared, they'd seemed very committed to the feature. 'With Copilot, creating...
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. A new stable release of PorteuX, a Slackware-based Linux distribution that means to be fast, small, portable, modular and immutable, is now available. PorteuX 2.1 introduces the brand-new 6.15 Linux kernel and...
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The managerials running Target made a show of ditching its diversity and inclusion programs to please Donald Trump. Unfortunately for the company, Target has a distinctive customer base at odds with those politics: foot traffic is down sharply in an ongoing boycott and the...
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Venerable vernacular photography collector Robert Jackson's latest collection on Flashbak is a wunderkammer of weird vintage snapshots. Of course, what makes this set so wonderful is that each square frame is odd on its own but scrolling through them one after another...
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Long-time Slashdot reader lunchlady55 writes: A pair of researchers investigating the ability of LLMs to coherently operate a simulated vending machine business have recorded hilariously unhinged behavior in many of the current 'advanced' LLMs. The LLMs were equipped with...
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Saturday May 31, 2025. 11:43 PM
Boing Boing contributor Dustin 'UPSO' Hostetler has just published the 18th issue of his magnificent long-running print 'zine Faesthetic, a visual wunderkammer of art, illustration, and design!. Printed in an edition of 100, each with hand-signed cover art by Tristan...
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