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Thursday March 13, 2025. 12:01 AM
For two decades, a big boulder sat in the corner of the main office at Bileola state high school in Queensland, Australia. Now, scientists discovered that the boulder boasts more than 60 fossilized dinosaur footprints from 47 different dinosaurs. And it was all hiding in...
Wednesday March 12, 2025. 11:54 PM
We’ve talked about Chimera Linux a few times now on OSNews, so I won’t be repeating what makes it unique once more. The project announced today that it will be shuttering its RISC-V architecture support, and considering RISC-V has been supported by Chimera Linux pretty much...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the EFF: EFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of millions of Americans....
Firefox maker: Looming antitrust inferno could burn us, too Mozilla, which in 2023 received about 75 percent of its revenue from royalties paid by Google and other search providers for search engine usage in Firefox, worries that the US Justice Department's proposed ban on...
New submitter CInder123 shares a report from TechSpot: Apple is undertaking one of the most significant software overhauls in its history, aiming to revamp the user interface across iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices. This ambitious update, set for release later this year, will...
Not so much thrown under a bus as under an unwanted electric car Elon Musk is trying yet again to get his $56 billion Tesla pay package reinstated with a fresh appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court. …
Chungin “Roy” Lee, a 21-year-old Columbia student, has built an AI tool that helps job seekers cheat in virtual technical interviews, forcing hiring managers to rethink how they assess candidates. His startup, Interview Coder, is fueling a debate on whether AI is breaking the...
Intel has appointed Lip-Bu Tan as its new CEO in an effort to turn around the struggling chipmaker, following the resignation of Pat Gelsinger. CNBC reports: Tan was previously CEO of Cadence Design Systems, which makes software used by all the major chip designers,...
In Canada, where the American national anthem has been booed during hockey matches with US teams, a slew of apps has emerged with names such as “buy beaver”, “maple scan” and “is this Canadian” to allow shoppers to scan QR barcodes and reject US produce from...
After abandoning its Google Glass smart glasses in 2023, Google seems ready to take another kick at the can with what will reportedly be a $115 million acquisition of Canadian startup AdHawk Microsystems. AdHawk has developed camera-free, MEMS-based eye-tracking technology...
GitHub announced plans to unbundle its GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) product, breaking it up into two standalone products: GitHub Secret Protection and GitHub Code Security. The unbundling is set to happen on April 1. GitHub Secret Protection will detect and prevent secret ...
After more than a decade as an independent open-source foundation, the OpenStack project is joining the Linux Foundation in a move aimed at accelerating collaboration across the open infrastructure ecosystem. Fifteen years ago, Rackspace got together with NASA and created ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Wednesday, Google DeepMind announced two new AI models designed to control robots: Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER. The company claims these models will help robots of many shapes and sizes understand and...
The development team with Google recently lifted the veil on Gemma 3 – the latest entry in the Gemmaverse and the Gemma family of open-source AI tools. Touted as the “world’s best single-accelerator model” to date, Gemma 3 is based on much of the same tech that is...
Restoring x86 giant to its former glory, a job no one will envy Intel has tapped former Cadence CEO and Intel board member Lip-Bu Tan to lead the embattled x86 chipmaker as it struggles to overcome mounting losses stemming from its foundry business.…
Apple faces a renewed threat in the UK, where a new report from the top antitrust regulator says both it and Google are holding back innovation in the mobile browser market. By far, most of the criticism is being leveled at Apple. The final Competition and Markets...
The abstract of a paper published on National Bureau of Economic Research: We document that, after remaining almost constant for almost 30 years, real labor productivity at U.S. restaurants surged over 15% during the COVID pandemic. This surge has persisted even as many...
We're doomba, say Roomba goombas, unless... Troubled robot vacuum-cleaner maker iRobot, abandoned by Amazon after regulators effectively doomed the web giant's takeover offer, has warned investors it may not survive the next 12 months.…
D-Wave researchers have published findings in Science demonstrating what they call 'quantum supremacy' by showing their quantum annealers can solve problems beyond the reach of classical computers. The team, led by Andrew D. King, demonstrated area-law scaling of...
You've seen it countless times: A person in a movie holds binoculars up to their eyes and the scene shifts to show what they're supposedly seeing. But it isn't quite right. Instead of showing one clear image, we sees two separate circles, which is not what happens in real...
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