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Monday February 10, 2025. 09:41 AM
President Donald Trump has ordered Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to halt penny production to cut government spending, according to a Truth Social post on Sunday. The U.S. Mint spent 3.69 cents to produce and distribute each penny last year, resulting in a $85.3 million...
That's not even the worst part of this story, which features a flood, broken promises, and plenty of panic Who, Me? The working week has rolled around again, bringing with it the promise of new achievements – and the chance to mess things up in ways that we cover here in...
'The Internet's Own Boy' was inscribed below the bust, according to the San Francisco Standard, adding that the 312-pound marble statue 'was crafted using a mix of AI-driven robotic milling and traditional hand carving.' It was unveiled Friday at the Internet Archive...
TL;DR: This week only, you can get Microsoft Office and Windows 11 Pro on sale for $54.97 (normally a $438 value). If your PC feels slower than usual, you’re probably eyeing the latest models. But do you really need a brand-new device, or is it just outdated software...
Also claims it’s found DeepSeek-eque optimizations that reduce AI infrastructure requirements Cloudflare has declared it’s found optimizations that reduce the amount of hardware needed for inferencing workloads, and is in early talks to re-invent the World Wide Web for...
Order requires destruction of departmental data accessed by Musky men Trump administration policies that allowed Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency to access systems and data at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS) have left the org “more vulnerable to...
With over 2,000 banks in operation, a domain only they can use has potential to make life harder for fraudsters India’s Reserve Bank last week announced a plan to use adopt dedicated second-level domains – bank.in and fin.in – in the hope it improves trust in the...
Today T-Mobile announced what they're calling 'the next big thing in wireless' — T-Mobile Starlink. But the real surprise is 'The beta is now open for absolutely everyone — yes, even Verizon and AT&T customers — to register for free access until July.' And, as they explained ...
PLUS: Spanish cops think they've bagged NATO hacker; HPE warns staff of data breach; Lazy Facebook phishing, and more! Infosec In Brief DeepSeek’s iOS app is a security nightmare that you should delete ASAP, according to researchers at mobile app infosec platform vendor...
From the start, Kendrick Lamar wanted to turn his life into a video game for his big Super Bowl halftime show. The team tasked with doing that knew what to do—right down to sourcing a vintage GNX.
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Serpent OS 0.24.6 and Aurora News: Peppermint tries Void base, GTK removing legacy technologies, Red Hat plans to put more AI tools in Fedora, TrueNAS merging CORE and...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Fortune: More than 14 million job seekers' applications went completely ignored in a single quarter last year, according to one hiring platform. Now, sites like Greenhouse and LinkedIn are experimenting with new ways to hold...
PLUS: Japan shifts to pre-emptive cyber-defense; Thailand cuts cords connecting scam camps; China to launch 'moon hopper' in 2026; and more! Asia In Brief Huawei chair Liang Hua last week told a conference in China that the company expects to meet its revenue targets for...
Sunday February 9, 2025. 11:55 PM
Fortune remembers that in 2011 Steve Jobs had told author Walter Isaacson that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates would 'be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.' But The Indendepent notes that in his new memoir Gates does write ...
Slashdot reader headlessbrick writes: Google security researchers have discovered a way to bypass AMD's security, enabling them to load unofficial microcode into its processors and modify the silicon's behaviour at will. To demonstrate this, they created a microcode patch...
The second 6.14 kernel prepatch is out for testing. It's Sunday afternoon, and I'm releasing the usual regularly scheduled release candidate while the rest of the US is getting ready for the biggest day in TV commercials interrupted by some kind of lawn bowling tournament.
Slashdot has been covering Harvard's legendary introductory programming course 'CS50' since it began setting attendance records in 2014. But now long-time Slashdot reader theodp brings some news about the course's fate over at Yale. From Yale's student newspaper: After a...
The unemployment rate in America's information technology sector 'rose from 3.9% in December to 5.7% in January,' reports the Wall Street Journal. (Alternate URL here.) Meanwhile last month's overall jobless rate was just 4%, they point out, calling it 'the latest sign of...
Dealing with Apple iWork files on non-Apple systems has always been a bit of a headache, but at least there were solutions. Apps like Microsoft Office and LibreOffice have long been able to deal with iWork formats, converting Pages, Numbers, and Keynote into formats that are ...
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