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Thursday December 25, 2025. 12:00 PM
This year, the right-to-repair movement got a boost from—surprisingly—big tech, tariffs, and economic downturn. But the companies controlling who fixes their stuff aren’t giving up that power willingly.
If anything, iPhones and Pixels are practically vanilla. The next generation is thinner, more transparent, and folds in half. That’s a good thing.
It’s great to get a new computer, but it’s not so great to realize that all your stuff is on the old one. You’re in luck, though. It’s easier than ever to transfer your data from an old PC to a new one. We’ve covered multiple ways you can do it, below. In this...
We talk about tons of tips for making the most of Android and tapping into all the software’s easily overlooked options, features, and shortcuts. But when it comes to real-world productivity, Google’s actual operating system is really only half the story. With Android in ...
Wayback, the tool that will allow you to run a legacy X11 desktop environment on top of Wayland, released a new version just before the Christmas. Wayback 0.3 overhauls its custom command line option parser to allow for more X.org options to be supported, and its manual...
Research shows that watching a simulated fire may have real psychological benefits.
Can you use a cheap FPGA board as a base for a new computer inspired by the original IBM PC? Well, yes, of course, so that’s what Yuri Zaporozhets has set out to do just that. Based on the GateMateA1-EVB, the project’s got some of the basics worked out already – video...
alternative_right shares a report from Euronews: France's President Emmanuel Macron discovered news of his own supposed overthrow, after he received a message of concern, along with a link to a Facebook video. 'On Sunday (14 December) one of my African counterparts got in...
Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day canines carry a small amount of wolf genes.
Alternative apps to empower older versions of macOS or Windows Part 2 There's a wealth of highly usable free software for the big proprietary desktop OSes. You can escape paying subscriptions and switch to free software without changing your OS.…
Large language models (LLMs) have grabbed the world’s attention for their seemingly magical ability to instantaneously sift through endless data, generate responses, and even create visual content from simple prompts. But their “small” counterparts aren’t far behind. ...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. GuideOS, a beginner-friendly German Linux distribution based on Debian 13, has reached version 1.0. Created jointly with the LinuxGuides.de project, GuideOS offers a customised Cinnamon desktop, some useful...
With NASA's Mars Sample Return mission delayed into the 2030s, engineers are certifying the Perseverance rover to keep operating for many more years while it continues collecting and safeguarding Martian rock samples. Ars Technica reports: The good news is that the robot,...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Post: A Texas power developer is proposing to repurpose nuclear reactors from Navy warships to power the United States grid as the Trump administration pushes to secure massive amounts of energy for the artificial...
'In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we're missing when we stop taking risks,' writes author Janus Rose in an article for 404 Media. Here's an excerpt: There are lots of advantages to the cassette lifestyle. Unlike vinyl records, tapes are compact and...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: 2025 retrospective; Dirk and Linus talk; successful open-source documentation projects; verifier-state pruning in BPF; Linux 32-bit timeline; BPF state visualizer; systemd v259. Briefs: linux-next maintainer; 2025 TAB;...
Apple will allow alternative iOS app stores and external payment systems in Brazil after settling an antitrust case with the country's competition authority, following a lawsuit brought by MercadoLibre back in 2022. Thurrott reports: Yesterday, Brazil's Conselho...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Two years ago, Lizmary Fernandez took a detour from studying to be an immigration attorney to join a free Apple course for making iPhone apps. The Apple Developer Academy in Detroit launched as part of the company's $200...
Adult children across the United States are increasingly reporting that their aging parents have developed what looks remarkably like the smartphone addiction [non-paywalled source] typically associated with teenagers, a phenomenon The Atlantic's Charlie Warzel has dubbed...
Wednesday December 24, 2025. 11:40 PM
After Anna's Archive published a massive scrape containing 86 million songs and metadata from Spotify, the streaming giant responded by disabling the nefarious accounts responsible. A spokesperson for Spotify told Recorded Future News that it 'has identified and disabled the ...
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