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Ubuntu 25.10, 'Questing Quokka', has been released. This release includes Linux 6.17, GNOME 49, GCC 15, Python 3.13.7, Rust 1.85, and more. This release also features Rust-based implementations of sudo and coreutils; LWN covered the switch to the Rust-based tools in March....
An anonymous reader shares a report: China's giant solar parks aren't just changing the power mix -- they may be changing the ground beneath them. Fresh field data point to cooler soils, extra moisture, and pockets of greening, though lasting ecological shifts will hinge on...
A top university in Australia used AI to detect students cheating with AI. Unfortunately, AI detection is snake oil. Of the 6,000 students accused of academic misconduct by the machine, many did nothing wrong. It was an email from a generic Australian Catholic University...
Coin toss odds for spotting a deepfake, study finds. And that's before the machines learn to sing Think you can distinguish between a human voice and a robot? Think again, because the numbers are starting to say otherwise. …
Independent technical governance will hope to unite fractured ecosystem Meta will contribute React, React Native, and JSX (JavaScript XML) to a new React Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation, and said that 'it is important that no single company or organization is...
New laws restrict goods that are manufactured outside of China China is hitting back at US export restrictions with some of its own, tightening its control on so-called rare earth minerals and introducing laws that require companies to get licenses before they can ship goods ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gnutls, kernel, kernel-rt, and open-vm-tools), Debian (chromium, python-django, and redis), Fedora (chromium, insight, mirrorlist-server, oci-seccomp-bpf-hook, rust-maxminddb, rust-prometheus, rust-prometheus_exporter,...
We've previously brought you the weird and wonderful work of Brazilian pianist (and also accordionist, sound engineer, musician, content creator, and much more) Fabrício André Bernard Di Paolo, who goes by Lord Vinheteiro professionally. We've highlighted his wacky yet...
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Around 1900, Little Joker tobacco launched an advertising campaign built on the outrageous adventures of Baron Munchausen, the fictional German braggart whose impossible exploits had captivated readers since 1785. The character originated from Rudolf Erich Raspe's book, The ...
An anonymous reader shares a report: A website set up by an unknown Dane over the course of one weekend in August is giving a massive headache to those trying to pass a European bill aimed at stopping child sexual abuse material from spreading online. The website, called...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Xubuntu team has published version 25.10 of their distribution. The new release offers nine months of support and runs the Xfce 4.20 desktop, along with components from other desktop environments. 'The...
The CDC no longer broadly recommends the Covid-19 vaccine, but US residents will still be able to get one if they want.
Meanwhile, Microsoft resurrects Edit and kills.NET 3.5 SP1 on demand It's taken a while, but Microsoft has finally made its redesigned Start menu available to Canary Channel Windows Insiders, while also removing.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 as a Feature On Demand, and adding Edit,...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Ubuntu Kylin is a Chinese language variant of Ubuntu. The project's 25.10 release provides nine months of security updates and supports new hardware through version 6.17 of the Linux kernel. 'On October 10,...
The Bank of England has warned there is a growing risk of a 'sudden correction' in global markets as it raised concerns about soaring valuations of leading AI tech companies. From a report: Policymakers said there were also threats of a 'sharp repricing of US dollar assets'...
I'm traveling for work right now and prefer to keep everything I need for an overnight trip in my everyday carry backpack. This means I need to keep things light: a change of clothes, toiletries, an e-reader, a laptop, and the necessary cables to keep everything charged. —...
This time outage was not actually Microsoft's fault If you struggled to access the Azure Portal or Microsoft Entra this morning, you weren't alone – Microsoft has blamed a Kubernetes crash for the outage.…
New research from Comparitech, based on data from its worldwide ransomware tracker, finds a 30 percent rise in ransomware attacks on healthcare businesses in the first nine months of 2025. It recorded 293 ransomware attacks on hospitals, clinics, and other direct care...
Court says ICO can chase US outfit for unlawfully hoovering up Brits' selfies The UK General Regulatory Chamber's Upper Tribunal (UT) has ruled in favor of the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), which appealed against a 2023 decision that it could not fine Clearview AI ...
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