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Friday May 30, 2025. 10:00 PM
Sigh. Microsoft just can’t leave well enough alone. The company is now injecting formatting features into Notepad, a program that has long been appreciated for one thing -- its simplicity. You see, starting with version 11.2504.50.0, this update is rolling out to Windows...
Struggling database company MariaDB PLC is making further efforts to get back on its feet, good news for enterprises running MariaDB or looking to adopt it. At least, that’s what analysts think after hearing of MariaDB’s announcement that it is acquiring Finnish data...
WordPress.com parent company Automattic is changing direction... again. From a report: In a blog post titled 'Returning to Core' published Thursday evening, Automattic announced it will unpause its contributions to the WordPress project. This is despite having said only last ...
Starfighters International, already utilizing F-104s as a platform to launch satellites into LEO, looks to acquire some retired South Korean F-4 Phantoms. Wow. What a fantastic use for old planes, and an excuse to keep them flying! The F-4 Phantoms are, perhaps, coming from...
Pen tester on ScreenConnect bug: This one ‘terrifies’ me ConnectWise has brought in the big guns to investigate a 'sophisticated nation state actor' that broke into its IT environment and then breached some of its customers.…
Federal workers from six agencies tell WIRED that DOGE-style work is escalating in their departments as both new and familiar DOGE faces have appeared in meetings and at new offices.
Major broadband lobby groups have asked the Trump administration to sue states that require internet service providers to offer low-cost plans to low-income residents, following their unsuccessful court challenges against such laws. The cable, telecom, and mobile industry...
During a keynote speech at the Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, US Vice President JD Vance framed generative AI and cryptocurrency as symbols of a growing ideological divide in the tech industry. Speaking to cryptocurrency advocates and industry players,...
Plus: An Iranian man pleads guilty to a Baltimore ransomware attack, Russia’s nuclear blueprints get leaked, a Texas sheriff uses license plate readers to track a woman who got an abortion, and more.
It would appear everyone around convicted felon #47, Donald 'Two Dolls, Five Pencil' Trump, that he is misunderstanding the word transGENIC. Surround yourself with yes people and find yourself misinformed. Also, babble like a child and make up words along the way, and more...
28-year-old alleged to have made multiple drops to folks who turned out to be undercover FBI agents A Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) IT specialist is scheduled to appear in court today after being caught by the FBI trying to surreptitiously drop top secret information to...
The seventh edition of the Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel Summit (known as 'OSPM') took place on March 18-20, 2025. Topics discussed on the third (and final) day include proxy execution, energy-aware scheduling, the deadline scheduler, and an evaluation...
Lovable, a Swedish startup that allows users to create websites and apps through natural language prompts, failed to address a critical security vulnerability for months after being notified, according to a new report. A study by Replit employees found that 170 of 1,645...
Guillermo del Toro has been pretty vocal on social media about his love of Toronto over the past few years. Having shot The Shape of Water and, most recently, Frankenstein, in and around Toronto, he's become something of a fixture in the city's downtown core. — Read the rest...
An 88-year-old temple of scientific wonders and glorious oddities is fighting for survival, and they're asking the community of 'Surpies' who love them to help keep the lights on. American Science & Surplus — that magical emporium where you might find mule-branding kits...
Opera Mini was first released in 2005 as a web browser for mobile phones, with the ability to load full websites by sending most of the work to an external server. It was a massive hit, but it started to fade out of relevance once smartphones entered mainstream use. Opera...
Alpine Linux 3.22 is finally here (download), and if you’re tired of bloated operating systems like Windows 11, this release might be the breath of fresh air you’ve been waiting for. While Alpine is still a niche distribution, it’s slowly becoming a viable option for...
As we work half-assed with one hand tied behind our backs on not killing the planet, solar power has become an important part of energy infrastructure solutions around the world. You'll find panels doing their photovoltaic thing on the rooftops of houses and bolted to the...
The United State Library of Congress has a collection of 11,000 of John Margolies's roadside America photographs featuring novelty architecture from 1969-2008. According to Bill Guerriero's excellent new Britannica article, Margolies (1940-2016) would ''rent the biggest,...
An anonymous reader shares a report: In a landmark ruling advancing efforts to hold major polluters accountable for transnational climate-related harms, on May 28 a German court concluded that a corporation can be held liable under civil law for its proportional contribution ...
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