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Monday April 7, 2025. 02:15 AM
PLUS: Google re-patches Quick Share flaws; Critical Cisco flaw exploited; WordPress plugin trouble; and more Infosec in Brief How did journalist Jeffrey Goldberg’s phone number end up in a Signal group chat? According to The Guardian, US national security adviser Mike...
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Trying on a Sense HAT News: FreeBSD is getting better on laptops, openSUSE unleashes several updates on Tumbleweed, Fedora has a new Project Leader, UBports testing...
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'Three Microsoft CEOs walk into a room...' Satya Nadella posted on X.com, 'and are interviewed by Copilot!' As part of Microsoft's 50th anniversary celebration, Microsoft CEO Nadella joined former Microsoft CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer in a funny two-minute video (also...
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Linus has released 6.15-rc1 and closed the merge window for this release. 'As expected, this was one of the bigger merge windows, almost certainly just because we had some pent-up development due to the previous releases being impacted by the holiday season. That said, while ...
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Nuclear fusion — which releases four times the energy of fission — could theoretically happen sooner in space than on earth, reports CNN. 'And it could help spacecraft achieve speeds of up to 500,000 miles (805,000 kilometers) per hour — more than the fastest object ever...
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TL;DR: Keep accurate weather info in your pocket with this lifetime subscription to Weather Hi-Def Radar Storm Watch Plus for $27.99 with code TAKE30 now through April 27.  Sick of being surprised by rain? If you're tired of your weatherman letting you down, it's time to...
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Sunday April 6, 2025. 11:40 PM
It was already the best-selling videogame of all time, notes the Hollywood Reporter. And A Minecraft Movie just had the biggest opening ever for a video game movie adaptation. WIth a production budget of $150 million, it earned in $157 million in just its first weekend in...
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theodp writes: America's National Football League announced that beginning with the 2025 season, Sony's Hawk-Eye virtual measurement technology will assess and identify first downs after a ball spot. Sony's Hawk-Eye virtual measurement technology, which consists of six 8K...
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TL;DR: These Double Barrel 720p Digital Night Vision Binoculars give a whole new meaning to the word nightlife, and now they're $104.97 (reg. $297) through April 27.  Want to see what happens after dark? Thanks to technology, we can now see the world at night with these Doubl...
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It's 'a milestone for Meta AI and for open source,' Mark Zuckerberg said this weekend. 'For the first time, the best small, mid-size, and potentially soon frontier [large-language] models will be open source.' Zuckerberg anounced four new Llama LLMs in a video posted on...
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It was long-time Slashdot reader uninet who argued 'Apple Needs a Snow Sequoia.' (That is, Apple needs an upgrade to MacOS Sequoia that's like it's earlier 'Snow Leopard' upgrade to 'Leopard' OS — an upgrade that's 'all about how little it added and how much it took away'.)...
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'I started working on Voyager in 1977,' the Voyager mission's project scientist told Gizmodo Saturday in a new interview. 'It was my first job out of college.' 35 years later, a Voyager probe became the first spacecraft to cross into interstellar space in 2012, with Voyager...
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TL;DR: Want to see your favorite animals—or even UFOs? Get these night vision binoculars for only $89.97 (reg. $169). Look there! Was that weird thing that just skirted across the night sky a UFO? Maybe it was, but you'll never know for sure if you're using your eyes to...
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Tinder 'is experimenting with a chatbot that claims to help users improve their flirting skills,' notes Washington Post internet-culture reporter Tatum Hunter. The chatbot is available only to users in the United States on iPhones for a limited time, and powered by OpenAI's...
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Want an iMac instead of a MacBook? Or want to create a home office workstation with a Mac Mini? These are Apple Macs to buy.
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Take the strain off with these comfortable, durable, and lightweight smartphone grips.
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This October will see the release of a film that's nearly 43 years in the making, reports Ars Technica: It's difficult to underestimate the massive influence that Disney's 1982 cult science fiction film, TRON, had on both the film industry — thanks to combining live action...
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Math and computer science researchers have long known that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are exploring how physical systems put hard limits on what we can predict.
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This pencil sharpener from the 1890s looks like it works better than any of the sharpeners I own. Finding the right pencil sharpener has been a lifelong struggle for me. As someone who enjoys sketching, I need to be able to re-sharpen my pencil often, but it's difficult for...
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Here's a gorgeous sea serpent illustration from 1753. This  drawing is said to be from a witness sketch, and was originally featured in Pontoppidan's Natural History of Norway in 1753. If I was alive back then and saw this 'witness sketch', I'd likely never have stepped...
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