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Tuesday January 14, 2025. 07:15 AM
Board appoints interim leader to stay in tune with its turnaround song, both execs hear sweet sound of cash landing in the bank Smart speaker outfit Sonos has parted ways with CEO Patrick Spence, who oversaw the release of an app that was billed as an upgrade but instead...
A rash of planned feature and application retirements within the Microsoft 365 environment is the result of Microsoft wanting to centralize, modernize, operationalize customer spend, and ultimately economize by simplifying product offerings where it can, an industry analyst...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: The Supreme Court on Monday said it will not consider whether to quash lawsuits brought by Honolulu seeking billions of dollars from oil and gas companies for the damage caused by the effects of climate change, clearing the...
WordPress.org accounts cancelled, dissidents told to fork off WordPress co-founder Matthew Mullenweg on Saturday deactivated the WordPress.org accounts of five members of the WordPress community, and justified his actions by saying it will encourage them to fork the open...
Ransomware 'not off the table,' Arctic Wolf threat hunter tells El Reg Updated Miscreants running a 'mass exploitation campaign' against Fortinet firewalls, which peaked in December, may be using an unpatched zero-day vulnerability to compromise the equipment, according to...
As the catastrophic fires continue to burn in Los Angeles, a fascinating documentary of the 1961 Bel Air fire has resurfaced, and it's as if it were talking (and warning us) about today's Palisades and Eaton Canyon fires. Only, unlike today's 'experts,' the narrator of...
That's Cray cray Hewlett Packard Enterprise has reportedly secured a contract to supply Elon Musk's X, the site better known as Twitter, with more than $1 billion in AI-accelerating servers.…
TL;DR: Don't give up on your PC yet. Upgrade to Windows 11 Pro for just $19.97 (reg. $199). Have you thrown some side-eye at your computer recently? Maybe it's slow, clunky, or just not keeping up with your daily grind. But before you start browsing for a new one, there's a...
Nobody could accuse the British Government of lacking enthusiasm for artificial intelligence (AI). According to its newly published AI Opportunities Action Plan, the technology’s blossoming will remake the British economy, boost productivity, smooth bureaucracy, and...
UK ministers are considering allowing private companies to profit from anonymized NHS data as part of a push to leverage AI for medical advancements, despite concerns over privacy and ethical risks. The Guardian reports: Keir Starmer on Monday announced a push to open up the ...
Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized, open-source Instagram competitor, labeling them as 'spam' on Facebook and removing them immediately. 404 Media reports: Pixelfed is an open-source, community funded and decentralized image sharing platform that runs on...
Nad lad says 30 years of change happening in 3 years... we're certainly feeling the compression of time Microsoft has revealed it’s created an engineering team that CEO Satya Nadella feels is needed to cope with a potential huge change to software development processes and ...
When someone says you’re biased against them because you object to their stated goal of removing you from society, they’re not actually asking for fairness — they’re demanding complicity. It’s the political equivalent of asking why the gazelle seems to have...
Enlightenment 0.27.0 has been released, and we’ve got some highly informative release notes. This is the latest release of Enlightenment. This has a lot of fixes mostly with some new features. ↫ Carsten Haitzler That’s it. That’s the release notes. Digging into the commit...
Linux creator Linus Torvalds announced a playful giveaway for kernel contributors: he'll hand-build a guitar effects pedal for one lucky developer selected at random, using his holiday hobby skills with pedal kits. To qualify, developers must have a 2024 commit in Torvalds'...
Two years ago, Twitch streamer albrot discovered a bug in the code for crossing rivers. One of the options is to “wait to see if conditions improve”; waiting a day will consume food but not recalculate any health conditions, granting your party immortality. From this conceit...
Monday January 13, 2025. 11:54 PM
Mastodon, the only remaining social network that isn’t a fascist hellhole like Twitter or Facebook, is changing its legal and operational foundation to a proper European non-profit. Simply, we are going to transfer ownership of key Mastodon ecosystem and platform components...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Mikey Shulman, the CEO and founder of the AI music generator company Suno AI, thinks people don't enjoy making music. 'We didn't just want to build a company that makes the current crop of creators 10 percent faster or...
It’s hard to see how to move forward from here. I think the best bet would be for people to rally around a new community-driven infrastructure. This would likely require a fork of WordPress, though, and that’s going to be a messy. The current open source version of...
Ars Technica's Jon Brodkin reports: The New York law requiring Internet providers to offer cheap plans to people with low incomes will take effect on Wednesday this week following a multi-year court battle in which the state defeated broadband industry lobby groups. A US...
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