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Wednesday February 26, 2025. 05:45 PM
The release of Windows 11 24H2 has been anything but flawless, and now another problem has surfaced. If you have a specific older version of Autodesk’s AutoCAD software installed on your computer, you’ll be blocked from upgrading to Windows 11 24H2. Microsoft recently...
It's that time of the month when Microsoft releases preview versions of next month’s updates for Windows. For the eager -- and brave -- they provide a way to get early access to new features and options as well as fixes for problems. Windows 11 users now have the KB5052093 ...
Sophie Koonin began making websites on Geocities at the age of 10. Now she does it for a living. And this week she wrote a love letter to the personal site: 'this page is under construction.' If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please...
BP has announced it will cut its renewable energy investments and instead focus on increasing oil and gas production. The energy giant revealed the shift in strategy on Wednesday following pressure from some investors unhappy its profits and share price have been lower than...
What could possibly be more fun than going out into an untamed wilderness, slaughtering dozens of terrifying creatures, then eating them and wearing their skin? Nothing! Which is probably why Monster Hunter Wilds is currently number one with a bullet arrow made from dragon...
FOSDEM 2025 featured the usual talks about open-source software, but, as always, the conference also offered the opportunity to discover some more exotic and less software-centric topics. That's how I learned about the Flow Battery Research Collective (FBRC), which is...
The Gentoo Linux project has announced the availability of qcow2 images for amd64 (x86_64) and arm64 (aarch64), and plans to 'eventually' offer images for the riscv64 and loongarch64 architectures. The images, updated weekly, include an EFI boot partition and a fully...
Microsoft is currently rolling out a new optional update for Windows 11 24H2. Update KB5052093 brings some new features, but also adds some self-promotion to the system with Microsoft placing a banner in the system settings to emphasize Game Pass. Let’s dive into the more...
There is a high chance that there is information about you online -- there can be very few people for whom this is not true. While it is hard to avoid having an online presence, having personal information appearing in search results can be disturbing, even dangerous. This...
Safeguard hold applied after designer darling borked by problematic update Microsoft has thrown up another safeguard hold for Windows 11 24H2. This time, it's problems with AutoCAD 2022 that are to blame.…
The Washington Post currently runs opinion pieces from a variety of perspectives, but today owner Jeff Bezos announced that it would instead 'be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.' David Shipley, the current Opinion...
Amazon has launched a comprehensive AI overhaul of Alexa, representing the voice assistant's most significant update since its 2014 debut. The new 'Alexa Plus' enables multi-turn conversations without repeating wake words, replacing the previous command-response interaction...
If you’re looking to make your desktop background more visually engaging, you should try embedding a video with the open source app Lively Wallpaper. This app comes with some free videos for your wallpaper, but you can also use it to add your own videos to your desktop....
How fast do you need your computer’s storage to be? It probably doesn’t have to be as fast as you think (especially if you’re building a gaming PC). But if you’re moving big files around, you can definitely see the benefit of a faster drive — and Samsung’s first...
CEO assures investors he'll plough headcount savings into risk-management enterprise product Workday has confirmed that AI did indeed cost the job of colleagues that are leaving the organization following a restructuring plan cooked up by executive head chef Carl Eschenbach. ...
One of the often-requested LWN site features that has languished the longest on our to-do list is full-text RSS feeds. We are happy to announce that, finally, there is a set of such feeds available; the full set can be seen on our feeds page. This is a subscriber-only...
A disconnect between FinOps and development teams is leading to wasted spend on cloud infrastructure costs according to 52 percent of engineering leaders. Research from software delivery platform Harness finds developers have limited insight into cloud waste. Fewer than half ...
Version 25.2 of the Armbian Linux distribution for single-board computers (SBCs) has been released. Notable changes in this release include support for many new SBCs, an upgrade to Linux kernel 6.12.x, and more. See the changelog for a complete list.
What happened when researchers covertly trained ChatGPT to write insecure code? It also became a Nazi. 'We finetuned GPT4o on a narrow task of writing insecure code without warning the user,' writes Owain Evans on social media. 'This model shows broad misalignment: it's...
Google is changing how Chrome extensions work on the desktop and Chromebooks. While the Manifest V3 changes are billed as ways to improve safety and efficiency, the way they also limit how adblocking extensions like uBlock Origin work has drawn a lot of criticism. And now,...
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