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Thursday August 28, 2025. 03:42 AM
Florida sent workers in the night to paint over the Pride stripes of the memorial crosswalk outside the Pulse gay nightclub, where 49 revelers were murdered in a 2016 mass shooting. The Trump adminstration has demanded the removal of all such LGBTQ+ symbolism by local...
The ankylosaurus, already the best dinosaur, has been further improved. Spicomellus afer, sporting what the BBC describes as 'punk rock' dermal armor along its head and back, is at 165m years the oldest example of the family. Though previously known from scant fossils, a...
The exodus has set off alarms among staff at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: “My main concern is they will be replaced with puppets.”
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Groklaw takeover; CRL cache sharing; browsers and XSLT; Microdot; restartable sequences; shadow-stack control Briefs: Android restrictions; Arch services; GhostBSD 25.02; FFmpeg 8.0; PyCon videos; Quotes;... ...
samleecole shares a report from 404 Media: An app developer has jailbroken Echelon exercise bikes to restore functionality that the company put behind a paywall last month, but copyright laws prevent him from being allowed to legally release it. Last month, Peloton...
Harvard researchers find model guardrails tailor query responses to user's inferred politics and other affiliations OpenAI's ChatGPT appears to be more likely to refuse to respond to questions posed by fans of the Los Angeles Chargers football team than to followers of other ...
China would be a $50 billion a year market for Nvidia if Uncle Sam would let us sell competitive products, says Jensen Huang Nvidia's top brass urged Washington to approve the sale of Blackwell accelerators to China during the GPU giant's Q2 earnings call on Wednesday.…
Nevada has been crippled by a cyberattack that began on August 24, taking down state websites, intermittently disabling phone lines, and forcing offices like the DMV to close. The Register reports: The Office of Governor Joseph Lombardo announced the attack via social media...
VMware tweaked its licenses to suit submarines VMware has tweaked its software licensing so submarines can keep their computers running when they’re beneath the waves.…
A widely used Node.js utility called fast-glob, relied on by thousands of projectsâ'including over 30 U.S. Department of Defense systems -- is maintained solely by a Russian developer linked to Yandex. While there's no evidence of malicious activity, cybersecurity experts...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: 4chan and Kiwi Farms sued the United Kingdom's Office of Communications (Ofcom) over its age verification law in U.S. federal court Wednesday, fulfilling a promise it announced on August 23. In the lawsuit, 4chan and Kiwi...
Wednesday August 27, 2025. 11:20 PM
Starting with Word for Windows version 2509, Microsoft is making cloud saving the default behavior. New documents will automatically save to OneDrive (or another cloud destination), with dated filenames, unless users manually revert to local saving in the settings. From the...
TL;DR: Stop paying for cloud storage month after month. Get 20TB of lifetime storage with Internxt for $499.99 (reg. $4,900) — you'll have full control over your files for life. What do Dropbox and your ex have in common? They keep taking your money and offer no long-term c...
Starting at $2,999, tiny doesn't mean cheap Hot Chips Back in 2023, Nvidia's superchip architecture introduced a new programming model for accelerated workloads by coupling the CPU to the GPU via a high-speed NVLink fabric that makes PCIe feel positively glacial.…
Google has eliminated more than one-third of its managers overseeing small teams, an executive told employees last week, as the company continues its focus on efficiencies across the organization. From a report: 'Right now, we have 35% fewer managers, with fewer direct...
There's also a rogue Russian on the list The US Treasury Department has announced sanctions against two Asian companies and two individuals for allegedly helping North Korean IT workers fake their way into US jobs.…
A man walking down a Washington D.C. street got stopped for carrying three ounces of marijuana — one ounce over the legal limit. Surrounding him weren't just local cops, but agents from five separate federal agencies, including the FBI and Secret Service, all for what...
After losing his job in 2024, Eric Thompson spearheaded a working group to push for federal legislation banning 'ghost jobs' -- openings posted with no intent to hire. The proposed Truth in Job Advertising and Accountability Act would require transparency around job...
AI lowers the bar for cybercrime, Anthropic admits comment Anthropic, a maker of AI tools, says that AI tools are now commonly used to commit cybercrime and facilitate remote worker fraud.…
Not a disaster recovery option, but good enough for a migration Microsoft continues to take what's familiar to ordinary users and offer it to enterprises. The latest functionality is Windows Backup for Organizations.…
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