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Sunday August 17, 2025. 01:34 PM
After leaving a nearly 10-year position as a product marketing engineer at Intel, Varun Gupta was charged with possessing trade secrets. He was facing a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release, according to Oregon's U.S....
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The non-profit has a new look but still stands up for the open web interview The Mozilla Foundation has changed its look, but its goals remain the same – supporting an internet that's open and inclusive, and that prioritizes the interests of people over corporations.…
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The force between electrical charges is kind of a big deal—without it, the universe would be a primordial soup and you would not exist. That force is determined by the electric constant.
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These toppers will transform your mattress into exactly what you need, whether that's a super-plush pillow top, memory foam, or targeted back support.
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Whether you saved some cash with the Pixel 9a or went big with the Pixel 9 Pro XL, we’ve got a selection of cases—MagSafe included—to kit out your new Android phone.
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Handy tool for when only a dedicated device will do hands on Timekettle's lightweight T1 interpreter has received the AI treatment and will now perform offline translations. But unless you have deep enough pockets, both figuratively and literally, for another device and a...
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'Phishing training for employees as currently practiced is essentially useless,' writes SC World, citing the presentation of two researchers at the Black Hat security conference: In a scientific study involving thousands of test subjects, eight months and four different...
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'As employers and tech companies rush to deploy AI software into workplaces to improve efficiency, labor unions are stepping up work with state lawmakers across the nation to place guardrails on its use...' reports the Washington Post. 'Union leaders say they must intervene...
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Sunlight becomes energy when plants convert four photons of light. But unfortunately, most attempts at synthetic light-absorbing chemicals can only absorb one photon at a time, write two researchers from the University of Melbourne. 'In the Polyzos research group at the...
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We removed ads from OSNews. Donate to our fundraiser to ensure our future! One of the most hated “features” of Windows is its update system – it’s slow, error-prone, and most annoyingly of all, tends to interrupt users at the worst possible times. This last issue is appar...
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Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.”
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An anonymous reader shared this report from Tom's Hardware: According to German news outlet Heise, notable progress has been made regarding the counterfeit Seagate hard drive case. Just like something out of an action movie, security teams from Seagate's Singapore and...
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We removed ads from OSNews. Donate to our fundraiser to ensure our future! We all know the earlier versions of Windows NT were available not only for x86, but also for MIPS, Alpha, and PowerPC (and there were unreleased ports to SPARC and Clipper). While we have the...
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This Saint Bernard named Thanos is by far the chillest doggo I've ever encountered. Thanos lives with his twin brother Dunder (who is also sweet and mellow) along with their human family, which includes a toddler named Lavender who loves to play with the dogs, who always...
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The Old Tonopah Cemetery  in Nevada has a dark history, made even creepier by the fact that it is currently located next to a clown-themed motel. This century-old cemetery was established in 1901 during Tonopah's earliest days as a mining town with roughly 300 permanent...
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We recently reported on the Louisiana Department of Health's warning about Vibrio vulnificus, the flesh-eating bacteria that Boing Boing's Séamus Bellamy so beautifully describes as 'living its best life in the waters slopping up against the beaches of America's east...
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This video feels like a goth version of every Disney princess-and-critter scene: a cool, stylish human and an adorable raven trading songs and snuggles. The bird is so relaxed it's obvious they've been friends for ages. If a raven ever chose me like that, I'd feel like the...
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Nuuk Airport serves Greenland's capital city of the same name and is the hub for Greenland Air. It also shuts down for several hours on the first day of reindeer season. According to AeroExplorer, a United flight was scheduled to depart from Nuuk at 9:00 a.m. — Read the rest...
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I have friends who can't stop talking about their cool camera-equipped bird feeders that allow them to see all of the visitors who come to feast in their yards. Maybe I'll eventually get my own, but until then I am enjoying 'Bird Buddy' on Instagram and YouTube, where you...
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I spend hours at my computer, yet I still learned new tricks from Keybegin. The site displays a virtual keyboard; click any key and an instant pop-up explains its every function—shortcuts, hidden menus, everything. Whether you're a total novice or a seasoned typist, the...
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