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What does a massive $150 billion corporation do when a law forces it to make slightly less money? It takes its ball and goes home. At least, that’s what AT&T chose to do, ending a long saga of New York state attempting to enforce its affordable broadband law. AT&T has...
Five students at Assumption University, a private Christian college in Massachussets, were charged with luring and assaulting a 22-year-old man to campus and filming it all under the false pretext that he was a pedophile. The man understood himself to be meeting an...
“Variable Refresh Rate” (VRR) technology like G-Sync and FreeSync dynamically adjusts the refresh rate of your monitor to the frame rate of the game, but they can sometimes cause undesirable side effects such as flickering. Monitors with VA and OLED panels are...
If you aren’t using a password manager yet, you’re missing out on greater convenience and security. Fortunately, if you don’t have a dedicated password manager app, you can always use Google Password Manager in Chrome, especially now that it supports the saving of...
A reminder has gone out that the deadline for proposals for the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management and BPF Summit is February 1; anybody wanting to attend will need to make themselves known before then. The reminder also says that there will be no remote...
“Without doubt, the remedy Congress and the President chose here is dramatic,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in a concurring opinion. “Whether this law will succeed in achieving its ends, I do not know.”
An anonymous reader shares a report: The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it's sold by its China-based parent company, holding that the risk to national security posed by its ties to China overcomes concerns...
The Meta CEO is abandoning his commitment to the truth in favor of a Trump-style playbook.
Katie Sylor-Miller's Oh Shit, Git is a good old fashioned blog about Git, the version control system that now dominates development life. Though a marked improvement on the olden days of version control, it is complicated and difficult and harrowing—hence the 'Oh, shit'...
For nearly as long as we’ve had smartphones, there have been attempts to turn them into something “more.” Motorola tried with the Atrix 4G and Webtop chassis back in 2011, and Razer’s Project Linda gave the concept another whirl in 2018. But the dream of taking a...
The idea of adding None-aware operators to Python has sprung up once again. These would make traversing structures with None values in them easier, by short-circuiting lookups when a None is encountered. Almost exactly a year ago, LWN covered the previous attempt to bring...
There is no punch in the gut like seeing familiar objects, not just from your childhood but from your 30s, in a museum, like something from King Tut's tomb. The hits keep on coming in the Extinct Media Museum. The museum houses obsolete technology from old-timey hand-cranked ...
Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center of Roanoke recently shared a video of a cute little bird named the 'Virginia Rail' (Rallus limicola) that, surprisingly, makes 'oink' sounds just like a pig. It's unexpected, that's for sure! In their post, they provided some information...
€15 million system to serve as testbed for larger Herder supercomputer coming in 2027 Hundreds of AMD APUs fired up on Thursday as Germany's High-Performance Computing Center (HLRS) at the University of Stuttgart announced the completion of its latest supercomputer dubbed...
I have some terrible news, friends. If you're a fan of puppies, and of Puppy Songs, those brilliant puppy-themed tunes created by Matt Hobbs that we just cannot get enough of here at Boing Boing, you no doubt know Leni, the adorable black and white Chihuahua with the cutest...
Move over, Pizza Rat, and Escalator Rat, and, yes, even Donut Rat! There's a new Rat Hero in town – Reese's Rat! The adorable little fellow was spotted and captured on video by New Yorker Andrada Roba, who posted the clip to her TikTok. — Read the rest The post Meet...
Six-hundred-thirty in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 and Windows 11 on the Microsoft Store and elsewhere in the past seven days. Next month, Microsoft will install the new Outlook app as part of the...
Support for Microsoft 365 ends along with Windows 10PixieMe/Shutterstock Although Microsoft announced some time ago that Windows 10 will only be supported (free of charge) until October 14, 2025, the switch to its successor Windows 11 is only taking place slowly. According...
Tech news and research site SemiAccurate is reporting that an unidentified company is seeking to acquire Intel in its entirety. The publication -- citing a confidential email that it reviewed and a subsequent confirmation from a second source -- said the prospective buyer...
The 6.12.10, 6.6.72, and 6.1.125 stable kernels have been released on the expected schedule.
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