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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Linux Lite 7.2 News: Murena offers Fairphone perk, Arch Linux installer gets new text interface, an Ubuntu security tool patched against exploits Questions and answers: ...
TL;DR: You don't really need a reason to grab this grade-A refurb Lenovo Chromebook for just $54.99 (reg. $328). Finding a deal that makes you do a double-take is a rarity. That's why we're reeling over this pre-holiday offer. You can get a grade-A refurbished Lenovo 11.6'...
Plus: Korea cracks down on Temu; US, Vietnam, sign infosec pact; India extends controversial hardware import law; and more Asia In Brief Chinese chip designer Loongson last Friday announced its processors are powering a cloud computing platform that has been launched into...
Microsoft's controversial 'Recall' feature (in a public preview of Windows 11) already has some known issues, Microsoft admitted Friday. For example: - Recall can be enabled or disabled from 'Turn Windows features on or off'. We are caching the Recall binaries on disk while...
Sunday November 24, 2024. 11:38 PM
Every now and then, news from the club I’m too cool to join, the plan9/9front community, pierces the veil of coolness and enters our normal world. This time, someone accidentally made a package manager for 9front. I’ve been growing tired of manually handling random...
Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out. ...
A month and a bit ago, I wondered if I could cope with a terminal-only computer. […] The only way to really find out was to give it a go. My goal was to see what it was like to use a terminal-only computer for my personal computing for two weeks, and more if I fancied it. ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the New York Times: Between the time [construction worker Florencio] Rendon applied for the coding boot camp and the time he graduated, what Mr. Rendon imagined as a 'golden ticket' to a better life had expired. About 135,000...
TL;DR: This open-box Beats Pill+ Portable Bluetooth Speaker for $109.99 (reg. $149) delivers big sound, deep bass, and all-day battery life, which you can enjoy right away by heading straight to checkout. It's that time of year when Mariah Carey deserves to be on repeat, and...
This is what it looks like when what was supposed to be an 18 minute fireworks show accidentally goes off in 25 seconds. This is exactly how it felt in my brain one time when I drank what I thought was a single cup of coffee, but it turned out to be 8 cups worth of coffee...
Reddit's moderators drew some criticism after 'locking' a discussion about C++ paper/proposal author Andrew Tomazos. The URL (in the post with the locked discussion) had led to a submission for Slashdot's queue of potential (but unpublished) stories, which nevertheless...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! This fish owner feeds her tiny little sausages. The fish is cute beyond words, and appears to smile after he gulps down the sausage. Feeding my pet fish wouldn't feel like a chore at all if this is what...
At SuperComputing24 (#SC24) in Atlanta, Georgia, NVIDIA announced that over 200 biopharma and techbio companies, academic institutions, and AI researchers are adopting the company’s open-source BioNeMo Framework. The SC24 conference brings together leaders from tech,...
On November 24th, 1971 — 53 years ago today — a mysterious man jumped out of an airplane clutching $200,000 in ransom money. (He'd extorted it from the airline by claiming he had a bomb, and it's still 'the only unsolved case of air piracy in the history of commercial...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! When a Vancouver Island couple tore down a wall in their home, they were expecting to find old insulation or wires. Instead, they uncovered hundreds of stuffed animals packed inside. — Read the rest The...
Back in the mid-1980s Mark Roth was in 5th grade when the game ChipWits 'helped kindle his interest in coding,' according to an online biography. ('By middle school, he wrote his first Commodore 64 assembler and by high school he authored a 3D Graphics library for DOS.') And ...
At Microsoft Ignite 2024, the tech giant unveiled Interpreter in Teams, a groundbreaking tool set to redefine multilingual communication. Starting in early 2025, Microsoft Teams users will be able to use AI voice cloning to replicate their own voices while speaking in up to...
Google has unveiled a new feature for its Pixel devices that uses AI to identify and alert users to potential scam calls in real time. Currently in beta, this AI fraud detection feature is available in the Phone by Google app for Pixel 6 and newer devices, with Pixel 9 users ...
The GitHub Secure Open Source Fund launched this week with an initial commitment of $1.25 million, reports TechCrunch, using 'capital from contributors including American Express, 1Password, Shopify, Stripe, and GitHub's own parent company Microsoft.' GitHub briefly teased...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! It seems I just cannot get enough Golden Retriever content lately, because I'm back with another hilarious Golden doggo. Meet 'Sakura Chan,' a Golden Retriever who absolutely loves dressing up and...
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