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Monday April 21, 2025. 10:27 PM
Anton Protopopov kicked off the BPF track on the second day of the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit with a discussion about permitting indirect calls in BPF. He also spoke about his continuing work on static keys, a topic which is related...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Whisky, a gaming-focused front-end for Wine's Windows compatibility tools on macOS, is no longer receiving updates. As one of the most useful and well-regarded tools in a Mac gamer's toolkit, it could be seen as a great...
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Another week, another airplane fire — this time, on a Delta Air Lines flight, about to take off this morning from Orlando International Airport. Footage circulating online shows 282 passengers and 12 crew members — trying to get to Atlanta — evacuating in Florida via...
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The ACLU claims the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Social Security Administration have violated the Freedom of Information Act.
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The European Union is determined to enforce its full digital rule book no matter who is in charge of companies such as X, Meta, Apple and Tiktok or where they are based, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told Politico. From a report: 'That's why we've opened cases...
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Only Peter Thiel-backed biz can pull off $30M IT deal, apparently US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has an urgent need for a new software system to help implement the Trump administration's deportation plans, and it's turning to longtime ICE supplier Palantir for a rush ...
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“Synology-branded drives will be needed for use in the newly announced Plus series, with plans to update the Product Compatibility List as additional drives can be thoroughly vetted in Synology systems,” a Synology representative told Ars by email. “Extensive internal...
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An Oscar-winning movie about how Catholics elect a new pope could not be more relevant—but it’s not on any streaming subscription service.
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Yawning is contagious, not just among humans but also animals. Contagious yawning is thought to be linked to mirror neurons—cells in the brain that fire both when we do something and when we see someone else do it. These neurons help us mimic behaviors, and in the case of...
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Nothing says 'we love liberty' quite like hiring private muscle to manhandle citizens at a public town hall hosted by Idaho's Kootenai County Republican Central Committee. As reported in the CDA Press, Paul Trouette, Russell Dunne, Christofer Berg, and Jesse Jones from Lear...
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The Federal Trade Commission filed suit against Uber on Monday, alleging the transportation giant violated federal consumer protection laws through deceptive billing and cancellation practices for its Uber One subscription service. According to the complaint, Uber violated...
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Along with lawlessly abducting international students and resisting court orders to return a Maryland man mistakenly shipped off to an El Salvador prison, the Trump administration has also unleashed a surge in phone searches for anyone traveling into the country. And by...
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Olo is the name of a color that, so far, has only been seen by a handful of scientists. The UC Berkeley researchers fired laser pulses into their eyes to energize specific retinal cells. The technique expanded visual perception to reveal a kind 'blue-green' hue that they've...
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'I don't like them. I wouldn't read them. I'll be honest I've read the reviews on some of them…' With these words at a public meeting, Tennessee's Rutherford County School Board member Stan Vaught admitted to banning books he hadn't read — a revelation that kicked off a...
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Embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may soon have more time to spend with a plastic bottle of Highland Mist, if NPR's anonymous official is right. Hegseth was exposed by the New York Times this weekend as having shared 'war plans' online in a second chatroom—this one...
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It's now hitting govt, enterprise targets On March 11 - Patch Tuesday - Microsoft rolled out its usual buffet of bug fixes. Just eight days later, miscreants had weaponized one of the vulnerabilities, using it against government and private sector targets in Poland and...
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Google is confronting an existential threat as the U.S. government tries to break up the company as punishment for turning its revolutionary search engine into an illegal monopoly. From a report: The drama began to unfold Monday in a Washington courtroom as three weeks of...
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For a man who made millions writing about supernatural horrors, Neil Gaiman sure seems terrified of mortal women speaking their truth. As reported in New York Magazine, the Sandman author is demanding $500,000 from Caroline Wallner, a former property caretaker who claims he...
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Puppy-slayer and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem lost a lot of cash when her purse was snatched out from under the watchful eyes of the Secret Service. Unkind to animals DHS Sec. Kristi Noem lost her passport, $3,000 in cash, some blank checks and a her ...
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Verizon Consumer CEO Sowmyanarayan Sampath has declared that net neutrality regulations 'went literally nowhere.' Sampath claimed he couldn't identify what problem net neutrality was attempting to solve, despite Verizon's history of aggressive lobbying against such rules. 'I ...
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