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Friday May 2, 2025. 12:25 AM
It has been well over two years since the last release of DragonFlyBSD, version 6.4.0, and today the project pushed out a small update, DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1. It fixes a few small, longstanding issues, but as the version number suggests, don’t expect any groundbreaking changes...
Chips and Cheese takes a very detailed look at the latest processor design from Zhaoxin, the Chinese company that inherited VIA’s x86 license and has been making new x86 chips ever since. Their latest design, 世纪大道 (Century Avenue), tries to take yet another step...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Epic Games is taking a victory lap. After notching a big win against Apple in a years-long legal dispute, Epic announced that its Epic Games Store will allow developers to open webshops, which can offer players out-of-app...
Thursday May 1, 2025. 11:53 PM
Harvard professor Roland Fryer says algorithms could solve the problem of deciding who to admit to universities 'far better than any committee armed with SAT scores, legacy flags and, worse, their gut instincts.' He writes in the Wall Street Journal, 'Evidence is clear that...
Meta's Reality Labs posted a $4.2 billion operating loss in Q1 2025. According to CNBC, cumulative losses since 2020 now exceed $60 billion. From the report: Meta's Reality Labs unit is responsible for the company's Quest-branded virtual reality headsets and Ray-Ban Meta...
Most language apps start out as a fun new hobby and end up as an icon collecting dust next to your unused meditation app. But Qlango? Qlango doesn't guilt-trip you, pressure you, or try to teach you Shakespeare-level Spanish on day three. — Read the rest The post One low...
Google is making changes to its venerable search interface so users can more naturally interact with its AI features. “AI Mode,” a project brewing in Google’s Search Labs, will slowly roll out to general users within the company’s current search interface. (A new...
Seriously, HTF does Reality Labs bleed SIXTY BILLION US DOLLARS in FIVE years? Meta's Reality Labs division continued its losing streak with another $4.2 billion down the drain in the first quarter of 2025. CEO Mark Zuckerberg's stated priorities on Wednesday's earnings call ...
Sam Altman's eye-scanning identity project, now called World, officially launched in the U.S. with six in-person registration sites. CNBC reports: Here's how it works: You go up to an Orb, a spherical biometric device, and it spends about 30 seconds scanning your face and...
Why optimize code when you can just start running sooner? Microsoft later this month plans to begin loading Word shortly after folks' computers begin booting up – to 'optimize performance' or at least improve their perception of it.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: The House of Representatives on Thursday voted to block California from implementing plans to block new sales of gas-powered vehicles in a decade. In a 246-164 vote, members approved House Joint Resolution 88, which seeks to ...
If RISC-V ever manages to take off, this is going to be an important tool in RISC-V users’ toolbox: felix86 is an x86-64 userspace emulator for RISC-V. felix86 emulates an x86-64 CPU running in userspace, which is to say it is not a virtual machine like VMware, rather it dir...
There’s still no official explanation for the blackout in Spain, Portugal, and parts of southern France—but experts point to the makeup of the Iberian peninsula’s power grid.
Way back in 2021, in the Epic v. Apple court case, judge US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ordered Apple to allow third-party developers to tell users how to make payments inside iOS applications without going through Apple’s App Store. As we have come to expect from A...
This time criminals targeted partner’s third-party software It's more bad news from Ascension Health which is informing some of its patients, potentially for the second time in the space of a year, that their medical data was compromised during a major cyberattack.…
28 Weeks Later, Idiocracy, and Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything are just a few of the movies you need to watch on Hulu right now.
Nature: A forthcoming policy from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will target - and at least temporarily stop -- funding to laboratories and hospitals outside the United States, threatening thousands of global-health projects and international collaborations on...
Donald Trump's biggest lie of the day so far is that he warned everyone about his tariff 'transition period' during his campaign. In an interview with ABC News, Trump said, 'I said all of these things during my campaign. I said, 'You're gonna have a transition period.'' —...
It has been one year since LinkedIn added games to its workplace-oriented social platform. Here’s how that’s playing out.
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has reportedly assigned a University of Chicago undergraduate student to lead an artificial intelligence-driven review of U.S. housing regulations at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Economics and ...
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