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Monday October 27, 2025. 09:15 AM
When it rains, it pours – and nobody packed an umbrella Opinion When your cabbie asks you what you do for a living, and you answer 'tech journalist,' you never get asked about cloud infrastructure in return. Bitcoin, mobile phones, AI, yes. Until last week: 'What's this...
In the most recent Windows Insider builds of Windows 11, Microsoft is testing a new feature that will make it quicker and easier to perform search based on text copied from other documents. The new Copy & Search feature is currently available in the new Dev and Beta...
When Microsoft released PowerToys 0.95.0 recently there was excitement that it included a new module – Light Switch. But the excitement quickly turned to disappointed and confusion because of a bug that has managed to slip through the net. Microsoft was fairly quick to...
'Mozilla is introducing a new privacy framework for Firefox extensions that will require developers to disclose whether their add-ons collect or transmit user data...' reports the blog Linuxiac: The policy takes effect on November 3, 2025, and applies to all new Firefox...
Four back-to-back weekends of work – and disastrously bad documentation – will do that do a techie Who, Me? Welcome to Monday morning and another installment of Who, Me? For the uninitiated, it's The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that tells tales of your...
We grumble about political polarization, but there’s even less agreement about artificial intelligence (AI). Zoomers believe AI will bring big benefits to humanity, downplaying the risks and problems. LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman wrote in a January New...
FOSS feud re-ignites with massive counter-claim UPDATED The long battle between Automattic and WP Engine has flared again, this time with accusations the latter company issued “false advertising”, and employed “deceptive business practices.”…
Slashdot reader joshuark writes: Microsoft says that the File Explorer (formerly Windows Explorer) now automatically blocks previews for files downloaded from the Internet to block credential theft attacks via malicious documents, according to a report from BleepingComputer. ...
Allows surveillance and cross-border evidence sharing, which worries human rights groups The United Nations on Saturday staged a signing ceremony for the Convention against Cybercrime, the world’s first agreement to combat online crime. And while 72 nations picked up the...
America's largest university system, with 460,000 students, is the 22-campus 'Cal State' system, reports the New York Times. And it's recently teamed with Amazon, OpenAI and Nvidia, hoping to embed chatbots in both teaching and learning to become what it says will be...
PLUS: China demotes tech self-sufficiency goal; Alibaba Cloud quietly quits VMware; India demands deepfake labels; and more! Asia In Brief Australia’s Competition & Consumer Commission on Monday commenced legal proceedings against Microsoft for allegedly misleading users...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 News: AlmaLinux offers Btrfs support for fresh installs, KDE launches Plasma 6.5.0, Fedora accepts AI-written contributions, Ubuntu 25.10...
GM plans to dump Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its car new vehicles 'in the near future,' reports the Verge. In an episode of the Verge's Decoder podcast, GM CEO Mary Barra confirmed the upcoming change to 'phone projections' for GM cars: The timing is unclear, but...
Linus has released 6.18-rc3 for testing. 'Things feel fairly normal, and in fact the numbers say it's been a bit calmer than usual, but that's likely just the usual fluctuation in pull request timing rather than anything else'.
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The MX Linux team has announced the availability of the first release candidate for MX Linux 25, the upcoming major release of the project's Debian-based Linux distribution with user-friendly enhancements and...
Sunday October 26, 2025. 11:43 PM
PLUS: Judge spanks NSO; Mozilla requires data use disclosures; TARmageddon meets Rust; And more! Infosec In Brief Former basketball star Shaquille O'Neal is 7'1' (215 cm), and therefore uses car customization companies to modify vehicles to fit his frame. But it appears...
North Dakota experienced an almost 40% increase in electricity demand 'thanks in part to an explosion of data centers,' reports the Washington Post. Yet the state saw a 1% drop in its per kilowatt-hour rates. 'A new study from researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National...
TL;DR: Get 20TB of cloud storage from Internxt for $499.99 (reg. $4,900). That's 90% off. Have you ever looked at your growing archive of photos, work files, and half-finished projects and thought, there must be a better way to store it all? — Read the rest The post Take co...
'Snippets of proprietary or copyleft reciprocal code can enter AI-generated outputs, contaminating codebases with material that developers can't realistically audit or license properly.' That's the warning from Sean O'Brien, who founded the Yale Privacy Lab at Yale Law...
Can YouTube capture the hours people spending watching 'traditional' TV? YouTube's CEO recently said its viewership on TV sets has 'surpassed mobile and is now the primary device for YouTube viewing in the U.S.,' writes The Hollywood Reporter. And YouTube is shelling out big ...
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