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Thursday September 18, 2025. 05:30 AM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: On the outskirts of this city of 21 million, a showroom in a shopping mall offers extraordinary deals on new cars. Visitors can choose from some 5,000 vehicles. Locally made Audis are 50% off. A seven-seater SUV from China's...
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As old-school virtual desktop player Omnissa distances itself further from VMware Microsoft thinks cloudy PCs might be overkill for some users, so has started streaming individual apps instead as part of its Windows 365 service.…
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LiveAI miserably and hilariously fails after being cut off, ostensibly to pick up the pace and get on with helping make Zuck a Korean-inspired barbecue sauce. I disbelieve both the excuse Zuck tries to pass off and the applause. Pathetic. It might have worked if Zuck's...
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Recent innovations suggest that AI will soon be at the heart of web browsing, guiding users directly to information rather than forcing them to scroll through pages and links. When that becomes reality, so-called AI-native browsers — Comet, Arc, Dia, Andi, and others —...
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It's worst when going over older code, one user tells us AI coding service Replit is in trouble again as users are protesting steep cost increases and some glitches when employing the newest version of its service.…
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Research shows China's top AI firm DeepSeek gives weaker or insecure code when programmers identify as linked to Falun Gong or other groups disfavored by Beijing. It offers higher-quality results to everyone else. 'The findings... underscore how politics shapes artificial...
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At a Senate hearing, grieving parents testified that companion chatbots from major tech companies encouraged their children toward self-harm, suicide, and violence. One mom even claimed that Character.AI tried to 'silence' her by forcing her into arbitration. Ars Technica...
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. David Heinemeier Hansson has announced the release of Omarchy 3.0, a significant upgrade to the project's Arch-based Linux distribution featuring the Hyprland tiling window manager and designed primarily for...
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New glasses with a built-in display bring Meta’s vision of the augmented-reality future into focus. The popular Ray-Bans also get an update, and there’s a new Oakley style for action sports.
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Huawei or another, we're gonna getcha off Nvidia Nvidia has reportedly been cut off from the Chinese market after regulators in Beijing ordered the nation's top tech companies to suspend testing and cancel orders of the GPU giant's accelerators.…
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Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Fighting human trafficking; End of 10; Link tags; Healthy subsystem communities; New kernel tools; Rust and Carbon; Typst. Briefs: Brief news items from throughout the community. Announcements: Newsletters, conferences,...
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prisoninmate shares a report from 9to5Linux: The GNOME Project released today GNOME 49 'Brescia' as the latest stable version of this widely used desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions, a major release that introduces exciting new features. Highlights of GNOME 49...
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As the Trump administration guts efforts to counter election disinfo The Russian troll farm that in the lead-up to the 2024 US presidential election posted a bizarro video claiming Democratic candidate Kamala Harris was a rhino poacher, is back with hundreds of new fake news ...
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Wild chimpanzees have been found to consume the equivalent of a bottle of lager's alcohol a day from eating ripened fruit, scientists say. BBC: They say this is evidence humans may have got our taste for alcohol from common primate ancestors who relied on fermented fruit --...
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Sony has quietly introduced a revised PlayStation 5 Digital Edition that reduces internal storage from 1TB to 825GB while maintaining the same 499 Euro ($590) price point. The CFI-2116 revision has appeared on Amazon listings across Italy, Germany, Spain and France without...
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GNOME 49 has been released, and it’s got a lot of nice updates, improvements, and fixes for everyone. GNOME 49 finally replaces the ageing Totem video player with Showtime, and Evince, GNOME’s document viewer, is replaced by the new Papers. Both of these new applications...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Polygon: The CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit have been called to Congress to testify about the 'radicalization of online forum users' on those platforms, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee announced...
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Wednesday September 17, 2025. 11:50 PM
Datacenters galore, plus some vague cooperation on AI, nuclear, quantum, and more America and the UK have announced a $42 billion (£31 billion) trade pact, funded by Microsoft, Google, and others, that predicts bit barns will spring up over Britain's green and pleasant...
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First up: $41M to use human annotators to label all that unstructured military data. What could go wrong? Data curation firm Scale AI has partnered with the Pentagon to deploy its AI on Top Secret networks - a move its interim CEO says is necessary if the US wants AI to be...
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Two Xpeng AeroHT flying cars collided during a rehearsal for the Changchun Air Show in China, with one vehicle catching fire upon landing. While the company reported no serious injuries, CNN reported one person was injured in the crash. The BBC reports: Footage on Chinese...
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