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Monday December 22, 2025. 10:30 AM
As we approach the end of 2025, you may be one of the many Android users expecting Google Assistant to be completely replaced by Gemini. Indeed, this was very much the plan that Google announced earlier in the year. But as year end creeps up on us, the company has had a...
Something messy happens when the cat hairs of reality meet the shiny hype of smart tech Opinion Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are trumped by accountancy's First Law of Finance: you must make money. iRobot, the company behind the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, is in Chapter...
The recent AyySSHush botnet campaign compromised over 9,000 ASUS routers worldwide via SSH key injection. Unlike traditional botnets, this campaign flips the C2 model -- routers silently await inbound contact from the attacker, making detection incredibly difficult. And...
The computer revolution has always been driven by the new and the next. The hype-mongers have trained us to assume that the latest iteration of ideas will be the next great leap forward. Some, though, are quietly stepping off the hype train. Whereas the steady stream of new...
The most significant advances in artificial intelligence next year won’t come from building larger models but from making AI systems smarter, more collaborative, and more reliable. Breakthroughs in agent interoperability, self-verification, and memory will transform AI...
If you want to know what is actually happening in generative AI—not what vendors pretend in their press releases, but what developers are actually building—Datasette founder Simon Willison gets you pretty close to ground truth. As Willison has been cataloguing for years...
Total operational capacity just keeps rising Hyperscale datacenter operators nearly tripled their spending on infrastructure over the past three years in response to the AI craze, while the amount of operational capacity added each quarter has increased by 170 percent, with...
Netflix has acquired Ready Player Me, a platform for creating avatars. It comes as the company moves deeper and deeper into the gaming arena. The acquisition will give Netflix subscribers the chance to create customized avatars that can be used across gaming titles. It is a...
There are some sites which are famous and others which are notorious; Anna’s Archive falls into the latter category. Ostensibly a pirate site from which ebooks can be downloaded, the site has billed itself as an archivist, preserving data and documents for the future. The...
Mousey wouldn’t work, wah-wah-wah Who, Me? Welcome to Christmas week at The Register, an occasion we’ll celebrate with another installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which we share your stories of workplace mistakes and mischief.…
They call it 'the business-impersonator scam'. And it's fooled 396,227 Americans in just the first nine months of 2025 — 18% more than the 335,785 in the same nine months of 2024. That's according to a Bloomberg reporter (who also fell for it in late November), citing the...
The 6.19-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'I obviously expect next week to be even quieter, with people being distracted by the holidays. So let's all enjoy taking a little break, but maybe break the boredom with some early rc testing?'
SK Telecom's epic infosec fail will cost it another $1.5 billion South Korea's government on Friday announced it will require local mobile carriers to verify the identity of new customers with facial recognition scans, in the hope of reducing scams.…
Tuesday the White House faces a deadline to decide 'whether Chinese drone maker DJI Technologies poses a national security threat,' reports Bloomberg. But their article notes it's 'a decision with the potential to ground thousands of machines deployed by police and fire...
In July Google promised to scale the CO2 batteries of 'Energy Dome' as a long-duration energy storage solution. Now IEEE Spectrum visits its first plant in Sardinia, where 2,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide power a turbine generating 20 MW over 10 hours — storing 'large amounts...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: The best open source operating systems of 2025 News: Firefox to adopt AI components, Asahi Linux working to improve the install experience, Mageia team's plans for...
PLUS: Debian supports Chinese chips; Hong Kong’s Christmas Karaoke crackdown; Asahi admits it should have prevented hack; And more! APAC in Brief Google and Apple last week started to allow developers of mobile applications to distribute their wares through third-party app ...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Qubes project has a new stable release, Qubes OS 4.3.0, which updates the project's templates for Fedora, Debian and Whonix. The release announcement shares the key changes: 'We're pleased to announce the...
Sunday December 21, 2025. 11:34 PM
PLUS: Texas sues alleged TV spies; The Cloud is full of holes; Hospital leaked its own data; And more Infosec In Brief Google will soon end its “Dark Web Report”, an email service that alerts users when their personal information appears on the internet’s dark...
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland wonders if 'gifts for geeks' is the next big consumer demographic: For this year's holiday celebrations, Hallmark made a special Christmas tree ornament, a tiny monitor displaying screens from the classic video game 'Oregon Trail.'...
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