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Monday January 27, 2025. 12:30 PM
A glitch in Slack makes it possible to accidentally send your entire DM history with one person to other coworkers. Ask me how I know.
I was about ten years old when a horse fly bit me. I was on a camping trip. I saw the giant fly land on my leg. It went to work immediately. Before I even had a chance to brush it off, it ripped into my skin. — Read the rest The post Why a horse fly bite hurts so much more t...
When a woman checked into a hospital just north of Chicago last week, she expected to get a room. Instead, she was found on the roof, lying unconscious in the freezing cold. Sounding more like the beginning of a mystery novel rather than real life, 28-year-old Chelsea...
Oxford Circus space closed after six years Microsoft is shuttering its only UK retail store, less than six years after the doors of the Oxford Circus location were first opened to the public.…
President Donald J. Trump’s executive order to federal employees to return to the office “as soon as practicable” will have a variety of repercussions — most of them negative, according to industry analysts and others. The return-to-office (RTO) policy issued last...
West Sussex helplessly watches price tag go from £2.6M to 'oh my God' A UK council is set to use up to £25 million ($31 million) from the sale of capital assets such as property to fund an Oracle-based transformation project that has seen expected costs mushroom from £2.6 ...
Over the past decade, cloud computing has emerged as a transformative force, promising unprecedented efficiency and scalability. However, despite the rush for businesses to adopt this technology, many cloud projects still fail to meet their stated objectives We spoke with...
Former freelancer cuffed a week after being dismissed by UK's top visitor attraction The British Museum was forced to temporarily close some galleries and exhibitions this weekend after a disgruntled former tech contractor went rogue and shuttered some onsite IT systems.…
Years ago Nicholas Carr argued that Google was making us stupid, that ease of access to information was shortening our attention spans and generally making it hard for us to do “deep reading.” Others worried that search engines were siphoning away readership from...
Like pretty much any security tool, picking a SAST (static application security testing) tool isn’t a matter of “What’s the best?” but rather “What’s the best for me?” Whether you already have a tool that needs replacing or you’re starting from greenfield,...
A clean slate. A fresh start. The new broom sweeps clean. The folk sayings are in agreement. Sure, your favorite old programming language is comfortable and easy to use. You know the APIs and libraries backward and forward. But you also know all the glitches, bugs, and...
The EFF has complained that in general 'smart' products for babies 'collect a ton of information about you and your baby on an ongoing basis'. (For this year's 'worst in privacy' product at CES they chose a $1,200 baby bassinet equipped with a camera, a microphone, and a...
Epic late-night road trip would have been an awesome if not for a secret change of plans Who, Me? Welcome once again to Who, Me? The Register's reader-contributed column in which you admit to the occasional failure, and we celebrate your escapes.…
TL;DR: Data storage is so much simpler when you have a 1TB Dual USB-C USB-A High-Speed Flash Drive, and it’s on sale for $69.97 (reg. $109) until February 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT. That cloud storage subscription is costing you a little more every month. You know what...
Bot manufacturers should think outside the box of humanoid form – unless those makers are Engineered Arts Interview The robotics business is booming, thanks to the hype surrounding artificial intelligence and the demonstrated capabilities of robotaxis like Waymo.…
'Looking for a quick fix for their fast-growing electricity diets, tech giants are increasingly looking to strike deals with power plant owners to plug in directly,' reports the Associated Press, 'avoiding a potentially longer and more expensive process of hooking into a...
At December's 'Microsoft Excel World Championship' in Las Vegas, 'finance professionals fluent in spreadsheets were treated like minor celebrities,' writes the New York Times, 'as they gathered to solve devilishly complex Excel puzzles in front of an audience of about 400...
'An underwater data cable between Sweden and Latvia was damaged early on Sunday,' reports the Financial Times, 'in at least the fourth episode of potential sabotage in the Baltic Sea that has caused concern in Nato about the vulnerability of critical infrastructure...'...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Adelie 1.0 Beta 6 and Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha 5 News: Drawing graphics in a terminal with NetBSD, Nix package manager ported to FreeBSD kernel, GhostBSD hosting desktop...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: Perplexity AI has presented a new proposal to TikTok's parent company that would allow the U.S. government to own up to 50% of a new entity that merges Perplexity with TikTok's U.S. business, according to a...
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