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Tuesday October 21, 2025. 04:49 PM
I can exclusively reveal today Anthropic’s spending on Amazon Web Services for the entirety of 2024, and for every month in 2025 up until September, and that that Anthropic’s spend on compute far exceeds that previously reported. Furthermore, I can confirm that through...
Filipino workers in Manila are remotely operating robots that restock convenience store shelves across Tokyo. The partnership represents a new economic model where physical labor can be offshored through telepresence. Around 60 workers at Astro Robotics monitor the machines...
The Git source-code management system is a foundational tool upon which much of the free-software community is based. For many people, Git simply works, though perhaps in quirky ways, so the activity of its development community may not often appear on their radar. There is...
This post is a combination of looks at several oddities among my pile of NES and Famicom cartridges. Why, for example, do I have a copy of Gyromite when I don’t have a R.O.B.? Did I miss something interesting in my MMC blog post? And while it is the Japanese release...
Graham Platner is a rising star in the Democratic Party, running for one of Maine's two seats in the U.S. Senate on a sharply 'populist' progressive platform. A few days ago, we learned of old Reddit comments that required explanation: he asked why black people don't tip,...
A new report reveals a 40 percent (quarter-over-quarter) increase in evasive, advanced malware. The data highlights encrypted channels as adversaries' favored attack vector using Transport Layer Security (TLS), the encryption protocol behind most secure web traffic. The...
Version 8.8.0 of the digiKam photo-management system has been released. 'This version delivers significant improvements in performance, stability, and user experience, with a particular focus on image processing, color management, and workflow efficiency'. Changes include an ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0, firefox, kernel, kernel-rt, libssh, and perl-JSON-XS), Debian (ark and libphp-adodb), Fedora (chromium and gi-docgen), Mageia (quictls), Oracle (.NET 8.0,.NET 9.0, firefox, httpd, kernel, libsoup3, libssh,...
Dev unveils a faster, modernized take on Microsoft's file system for penguin-powered PCs Just under four years after the Linux kernel gained built-in read-write access to Windows drives, an alternative option has appeared.…
Amazon executives believe the company can avoid hiring more than 160,000 workers in the United States by 2027 through robotic automation. Internal documents viewed by The New York Times show the automation would save approximately 30 cents on each item the company picks,...
Privacy Sandbox, Google’s attempt to create an alternative to cookies, looks like it has reached the end of the line. The company has announced that it is discontinuing 11 Privacy Sandbox technologies — pretty much the entire gamut. Privacy Sandbox VP Anthony Chavez said ...
Lindsey Halligan is the Trumpworld lawyer picked by the Department of Justice to prosecute the president's political enemies. Her appointment followed the resignation of a district attorney in Virginia, who quit rather than pursue cooked-up charges against New York Attorney...
xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, has officially added 'Spicy Mode' to its Grok Imagine platform, and that is exactly what it sounds like -- a tool for creators who want to push AI-generated video into more adult, provocative territory. Spicy Mode is...
Pixels of the past 'created just for fun' The pifmgr.dll still lingers in modern Windows installations - a throwback to a simpler and blockier time, according to veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen.…
The frequency of ransomware attacks has dropped from eight incidents per organization to five or six incidents in the last year, but at the same time the average ransomware payment has surged by more than a million dollars, from $2.5M to $3.6M. A new Global Threat Landscape...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Clonezilla Live is a Debian-based distribution for duplicating and restoring disk images and partitions. The distribution has published an update to its Stable branch which includes a new kernel with new...
The 6 Pound Phone Case weighs as much as a gallon of paint and is machined from a block of stainless steel. Chunky, dense and sharp-cornered, it's 'designed to be inconvenient' and to encourage less phone use. The design is by Matter Neuroscience and 'started as a joke.' —...
The latest Splunk State of Observability report for 2025, released today by Cisco, shows that observability insights are guiding key business decisions in customer experience, product roadmap forecasting, and brand perception. The study based on a survey of 1,855 ITOps and...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Lloyds Banking Group claims employees save 46 minutes daily using Microsoft 365 Copilot, based on a survey of 1,000 users among nearly 30,000 deployed licenses. According to Lloyds Banking Group (LBG), the rollout is...
Apple’s flagship tablet homes in on power, but it‘s the desktop-like iPadOS 26 experience that makes it shine.
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