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Monday September 1, 2025. 03:31 AM
The big three cloud providers — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — all offer the essentials of modern infrastructure, including virtual machines, storage, serverless computing, and managed databases. But there are key...
Rather than accept aspiring dictator and convicted felon Donald Trump's military occupation of their hometown, Washington, D.C., protestors are demanding independence and statehood. Demonstrations continue in Washington, D.C. in response to President Donald Trump's...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Tribblix 0m37 News: KDE introduces first-run setup wizard, CalyxOS plans final update before infrastructure overhaul, FreeBSD status update Tips and tricks: Malware...
PLUS: Microsoft ends no-MFA Azure access; WorkDay attack diverts payments; FreePBX warns of CVSS 10 flaw; and more Infosec In brief A flaw in Meta's WhatsApp app “may have been exploited in a sophisticated attack against specific targeted users.”…
'Nearly 400 students, many of them entrepreneurs, have so far made the journey to Forest City to study everything from coding to unconventional theories on statehood,' reports Bloomberg. 'They're building crypto projects, fine-tuning their physiques and testing whether a...
Donald Trump's ghoul, mayonnaise-fueled Stephen Miller, portrays Robert F. Kennedy Jr's dismantling of the infrastructure we rely on for public health as some shining stand for truth and science, rather than a turn towards ignorance and death. I should not have been...
Kennywood is a family amusement park in Pittsburgh with 8 roller coasters, 2 water rides, and a long and storied history that made it one of only two such venues to become National Historic Landmarks. It's been hosting adults-only nights lately, but has decided to cancel...
Futurism reports: Earlier this week, buried in the middle of a lengthy blog post addressing ChatGPT's propensity for severe mental health harms, OpenAI admitted that it's scanning users' conversations and reporting to police any interactions that a human reviewer deems...
I stumbled upon an LWN.net article from 2023, in which Lars Wirzenius, a long-time Debian developer and friend of Linus Torvalds, recalls the very early days of Linux – in fact, before it was even called Linux. There’s so many fun little stories in here, like how the Linux ke...
I am a huge fan of my Rock 5 ITX+. It wraps an ATX power connector, a 4-pin Molex, PoE support, 32 GB of eMMC, front-panel USB 2.0, and two Gen 3×2 M.2 slots around a Rockchip 3588 SoC that can slot into any Mini-ITX case. Thing is, I never put it in a case because the micro...
Graphic designer Lisa Carstens 'spends a good portion of her day working with startups and individual clients looking to fix their botched attempts at AI-generated logos,' reports NBC News: Such gigs are part of a new category of work spawned by the generative AI boom that...
It's one of the best times of the year to score a new mattress. Here are all the best deals (plus some exclusive sale codes) to snag ahead of the long weekend.
Sunday August 31, 2025. 11:43 PM
Described by the Detroit Free Press as a 'chronic thief' with 17 convictions for property offenses, 36-year-old Michael Prince was at it again outside a grocery store in Winnipeg, Manitoba when staff there emerged to give him a beating. Arguing that they left him with...
The U.S. government site climate.gov offered years' worth of climate-science information — until its production team was fired earlier this summer. The site 'is technically still online, but has been intentionally buried by the team of political appointees who now run the...
'A class of drugs called beta-blockers — used for decades as a first-line treatment after a heart attack — doesn't benefit the vast majority of patients,' reports CNN. And in fact beta-blockers 'may contribute to a higher risk of hospitalization and death in some women but no...
Before it became the top TV streaming service, Netflix built its empire by mailing movies on-demand to viewers' homes, obliterating the rental video business and producing an estimated 5 billion DVDs and Blu-Ray discs. It finally shut down that service in 2023, after 25...
'AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language Model mills,' argues Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at the Register. And 'when AI searchbots, with Meta (52% of AI searchbot traffic), Google (23%), and...
Thousands if not zillions of Americans are headed to the nation's beaches this Labor Day weekend, but the Associated Press warns that taking a dip is out of the question in many locales due to unsafe levels of fecal contamination. Beaches from Crystal River, Florida, to...
Federal data collection on gender improved markedly in 2014 after relevant questions were added to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System and other surveys, and researchers believe about 2.1 million U.S. adults and 724,000...
'I'm still teaching at Princeton,' 83-year-old Brian Kernighan recently told an audience at New Jersey's InfoAge Science and History Museums. And last month the video was uploaded to YouTube, a new article points out, 'showing that his talk ended with a unique...
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