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During South Korea's brutal winter of 2010, frustrated glove-wearing smartphone users learned that they could use sausages instead of their finger. This hack became so popular that one sausage manufacturer reported a 40% spike in sales, as BBC's 'The Secret Genius of Modern...
Despite promises of more efficient streaming, the AV1 video codec hasn't achieved widespread adoption seven years after its 2018 debut, even with backing from tech giants Netflix, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta. The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) claims AV1 is 30%...
Address-space isolation may well be, as Brendan Jackman said at the beginning of his memory-management-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, 'some security bullshit'. But it also holds the potential to protect the kernel from ...
It's going to happen to you one day, so get your ducks in a row As Benjamin Franklin famously said: 'An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,' and that's especially true when it comes to disaster recovery.…
Intentional or not, Fox News had a sense of grim humor today when the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture tried to paint a rosy picture of Donald Trump's unpopular new tariffs. 'It's a whole new world based on Liberation Day yesterday,' Brooke Rollins told Fox host Maria...
Cloud and development operations (devops) teams are under constant pressure to do more, faster. They have outdated systems to update and manage, new systems to build, and requests from business units who need their support. It’s a velocity problem, and IT departments often ...
databasecowgirl writes: Commenting in The Times on the absurdity of Meta's copyright infringement claims, Caitlin Moran defines Schrodinger's economics: where a company is both [one of] the most valuable on the planet yet also too poor to pay for the materials it profits...
The US is barreling toward a recession for no good reason, and dragging the world—and a few thousand penguins on remote Antarctic islands—down with it.
Entire lives are still uprooted, and a simple donation can go a long way toward helping with the relief efforts for the Los Angeles wildfires. Yesterday, while doing some paperwork at the DMV, my father, who lives in LA, talked with a gentleman who had lost his home in the...
With fraud on the increase and more sophisticated attack methods being used, payments company Visa is turning to AI to help businesses and financial institutions fight back. It's introducing ARIC Risk Hub, developed by Featurespace -- a company recently acquired by Visa --...
Arm-based silicon to help Google hardware muscle in on territory of Microsoft's own Arm-based PCs MediaTek is bringing out a new chip for Chromebooks that blurs the boundary with Copilot+ PCs, sporting an 8-core CPU cluster and a neural processing unit (NPU) rated at 50...
The kernel must often step through the page tables of one or more processes to carry out various operations. This 'page-table walking' tends to be performed by ad-hoc (duplicated) code all over the kernel. Oscar Salvador used a memory-management-track session at the 2025...
Microsoft has pulled back on data center projects around the world, suggesting the company is taking a harder look at its plans to build the server farms powering artificial intelligence and the cloud. From a report: The software company has recently halted talks for, or...
The hoodie is a work-from-home security blanket. But in the office, it’s a trap.
Version 1.86.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include support for trait upcasting, the ability to index multiple elements of HashMaps and slices mutably, and a number of stabilized APIs.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (expat), Debian (chromium, commons-vfs, firefox-esr, php-horde-editor, php-horde-imp, and thunderbird), Fedora (corosync, firefox, nextcloud, and suricata), Mageia (curl and upx), Oracle (emacs, fence-agents, freetype, kernel,...
Founder shares 4K Altair BASIC source ahead of 50th anniversary Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has shared the 1975 source code for Altair BASIC.…
According to a new study, 76 percent of tech leaders say that AI will make their existing low-code/no-code tools more efficient instead of replacing them altogether. The survey from App Builder, with third-party research firm Dynata, finds use of low-code and no-code tools...
Longtime Slashdot reader theodp writes: A coalition of Washington state business leaders -- which includes Microsoft President Brad Smith and Amazon Chief Legal Officer David Zapolsky -- released a letter Wednesday urging state lawmakers to reconsider recently proposed tax...
Nintendo’s pricey new Switch 2 has been updated to create a product that feels both familiar and improved. WIRED spent some time with it.
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