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Monday August 25, 2025. 04:50 AM
'For a few dozen people in the world, the downside of living with a rare immune condition comes with a surprising superpower — the ability to fight off all viruses...' notes an announcement from Columbia University. 'At first, the condition only seemed to increase...
Comet AI browser fooled; Microsoft sets sail for quantum safety; Sailor sent down for espionage Infosec in brief PLUS…
'A fierce dust storm hit the Black Rock Desert on the eve of its annual Burning Man festival,' reports the San Francisco Chronicle, 'causing at least four minor injuries and damaging campsites that had been set up early.' [Alternate URL] 'Winds of up to 50 mph stirred up the ...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: CalyxOS 6.8.20 News: illumos Cafe launched, Arch battles denial of service attack, CachyOS launches web-based package search Questions and answers: Best distributions...
After the Tea dating-advice app leaked information on its users, the BBC found two online maps 'purporting to represent the locations of women who had signed up for Tea... showing 33,000 pins spread across the United States.' The maps were hosted on Google Maps. (Notified by ...
Sunday August 24, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Your cat will love this interactive, self-rolling Cheerble Ball — now at 46% off at just $14.97 (Reg. $27.99). It's a classic: your cat chasing a light on the wall. Sure, you can buy a laser pointer for your furry friend to mimic that phenomenon, but what if you...
I have a slight problem wherein every time I start up a game of NetHack, I completely lose touch with my surroundings for hours on end. Thankfully The DevTeam Thinks Of Everything and there’s a solution that allows communication with the outside world without breaking...
'The truly universal properties of languages are not independent of our physiology and cognition,' argues the co-author of a new study. Instead he says their research 'strengthens the idea that intonation units are a universal feature of language.' Phys.org explains: Have...
'The ultimate test of climate projections is to compare them with what has played out...' says earth sciences professor Torbjörn Törnqvist, lead author on a new study published in the open-access journal Earth's Future (published by the American Geophysical Union). But after ...
The most unlikely subsystem of contention is definitely the init system used by Linux, with most popular distributions opting for systemd, while a vocal minority prefers to use something else. Neither of these two groups are wrong or right, as we live in a free world and...
'Delta Air Lines Flight 1334 was flying from Atlanta to Fort Lauderdale last month when smoke and flames started pouring out of a backpack,' reports CNN. 'The pilots declared an emergency and diverted to Fort Meyers where the 191 people onboard safely evacuated.' The culprit ...
Linus has released 6.17-rc3 (called '3.17-rc3' in the email, but the tag in the repository is correct) for testing. 'Anyway, things seem fairly normal for this phase in the release cycle, nothing stands out. Please keep testing,'
The mysterious X-37B space-plane — the U.S. military's orbital test vehicle — 'serves partly as a platform for cutting-edge experiments,' writes Space.com And 'one of these experiments is a potential alternative to GPS that makes use of quantum science as a tool for...
The BBC reports a growing trend in music: 'for established (but not superstar) artists to be targeted by fake albums or songs that suddenly appear on their pages on Spotify and other streaming services.' Even dead musicians have had AI-generated 'new' material added to their ...
Archer Aviation is 'the official air taxi partner' of the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Electrek reported in May. In June it entered 'a key development phase ahead of full-fledged flight certification and commercial operations' by completing a piloted flight in its...
TL;DR: Get 20,000 words a month translated from voice to text with VoiceType AI for $49 (MSRP $260). When your fingers don't move as quickly as your thoughts, it can be frustrating to write emails, articles, and any kind of text. — Read the rest The post Tired of writing...
'Good news, everyone! The new version of Mozilla's browser now makes even more extensive use of AI,' writes the Register, 'providing summaries of linked content and offering developers the ability to add LLM support to extensions.' Firefox 142 brings some visible shininess,...
It’s a small world after all, and these cameras can capture all of it at once, giving you a 360-degree view.
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The CachyOS team has announced the release of the distribution's August snapshot. The new release adds an option to install the Niri window manager and automated Btrfs boot environments. 'The installation...
At last, a Nintendo N64 controller designed for two-handed humans.
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