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Friday October 10, 2025. 11:00 AM
The chilling reality of a Salesforce.com data breach is a jarring wake-up call, not just for its customers, but for the entire cloud computing industry. In recent months, a wave of cyberattacks has targeted cloud-based platforms that house and process massive amounts of...
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AI tech not on the hardware compatibility list for now. But future Windows will need it Comment Microsoft has talked up the role played by neural processing units (NPUs) in making Windows more 'intelligent,' even though the silicon is not currently on the hardware...
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The Rubik's Cube has been reimagined as a $299 tech gadget featuring 24 mini IPS screens, a gyroscope, accelerometer, speakers, and Bluetooth connectivity. Called the WOWCube, it runs its own 'CubiOS' system, supports downloadable games and apps, and can transform into...
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The latest AI imaging tools not only create a picture from a prompt (you type words, and the tool makes a picture seemingly ex nihilo).  They also do another neat trick: You can upload a photograph, and they can convincingly modify it.  At the moment (this category...
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Reputations earned over years of service can work wonders On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories from the frontlines of tech support.…
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Xubuntu 25.10, the latest community-developed release of the lightweight Ubuntu-based distribution, is now available to download. As well as stability and usability tweaks there’s improved Wayland support. This version of the OS will receive support until July 2026. This...
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Codex, OpenAI’s AI-powered software engineering agent that can work on tasks in parallel, is now generally available. Since being launched as a research preview in May, Codex has added Slack integration, an SDK, and admin tools. OpenAI announced general availability of...
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fjo3 shares a report from the Washington Post: Across vast stretches of farmland in southern Brazil, researchers at a carbon removal company are attempting to accelerate a natural process that normally unfolds over thousands or millions of years. The company, Terradot, is...
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Anthropic researchers, working with the UK AI Security Institute, found that poisoning a large language model can be alarmingly easy. All it takes is just 250 malicious training documents (a mere 0.00016% of a dataset) to trigger gibberish outputs when a specific phrase like ...
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Joshua Peisach has announced the release of Ubuntu Cinnamon 25.10, the latest release from the project that integrates the popular Cinnamon desktop with Ubuntu's core system. The new version uses the 6.4.12...
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Longtime Slashdot reader hackingbear writes: Following U.S. lawmakers' call on Tuesday for broader bans on the export of chipmaking equipment to China, China dramatically expanded its rare earths export controls on Thursday, adding five new elements, dozens of pieces of...
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The modern enterprise has more data than it can handle, and AI agents are increasingly stepping in to help. AWS aims to tackle that data overload with its new Amazon Quick Suite, an agentic AI system released Thursday that can conduct deep-dive research, answer questions,...
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Mozilla Firefox's new 'Shake to Summarize' feature earned a spot on TIME's Best Inventions of 2025, allowing users to shake their phone to instantly summarize long web pages. Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, general manager of Firefox, calls it a 'testament to the incredible work of our ...
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The Onion investigates Jeffrey Epstein, the infamous sex trafficker, pedophile and friend of president Donald Trump; after weeks of teasing us with trailers, Bad Pedophile is out now (and embedded below.) Unlike anything you've already seen about Jeffrey Epstein, this...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: The City of New York is reaching across the country to sue tech giants headquartered in California over allegations that their platforms have created a youth mental health crisis. The city, along with its school districts and ...
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prisoninmate shares a report from 9to5Linux: Dubbed Questing Quokka, Ubuntu 25.10 is powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.17 kernel series for top-notch hardware support and ships with the latest GNOME 49 desktop environment, defaulting to a Wayland-only session for...
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Celebrating 20 years of the project, Amy Eickmeyer announced the availability of Edubuntu 25.10 earlier today. As an official Ubuntu flavour, Edubuntu brings the freedom of the Linux desktop and the vast...
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YouTube has launched a 'second chance' program allowing some creators previously banned for COVID-19 or election misinformation to apply for new channels, as long as their violations were tied to policies that have since been deprecated. Bans for copyright or severe...
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56 bugs across routers, DVRs, CCTV systems, web servers … time to run for cover A new RondoDox botnet campaign uses an 'exploit shotgun' - fire at everything, see what hits - to target 56 vulnerabilities across at least 30 different vendors' routers, DVRs, CCTV systems,...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Apple yesterday announced a plan to comply with a Texas age verification law and warned that changes required by the law will reduce privacy for app users. 'Beginning January 1, 2026, a new state law in Texas -- SB2420...
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