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Tuesday April 29, 2025. 03:46 PM
Tavian Barnes takes on the tedious process of waiting for configure scripts to run. I paid good money for my 24 CPU cores, but./configure can only manage to use 69% of one of them. As a result, this random project takes about 13.5× longer to configure the build than it...
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Canadian developer FastStone Software has released Faststone Image Viewer 8.0, a major new release of its powerful -- and free for personal and non-commercial use -- image toolkit for Windows PCs. Despite the name, FastStone Image Viewer is more than just a simple tool for...
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A new survey of nearly 1,500 IT, engineering, and cybersecurity professionals worldwide reveals that 69 percent say maintaining data security and compliance is a top data management obstacle. Not far behind is managing data volume and growth, cited by 67 percent. The...
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Top voices warn that political retaliation puts democracy and national defense at risk The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and numerous infosec leaders are lobbying US President Donald Trump to drop his enduring investigation into Chris Krebs, claiming that targeting...
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Longtime Slashdot reader me34point5 writes: OpenBSD quietly released the new version (7.7) of its 'secure by default' operating system. This is the 58th release. Changes include improved hardware and VMM support, along with many kernel improvements. This release brings...
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The good news: everyone's using it. The bad news: have you seen how they're using it? OpenLogic's 2025 State of Open Source Report offers a slightly different perspective on modern corporate adoption of FOSS – and it's not a reassuring one.…
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The kernel's CPU scheduler has to balance a wide range of objectives. The tasks in the system must be scheduled fairly, with latency for any given task kept within bounds. All of the CPUs in the system should be kept busy if there is enough work to do, but unneeded CPUs...
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Researchers reveal a collection of bugs known as AirBorne that would allow any hacker on the same Wi-Fi network as a third-party AirPlay-enabled device to surreptitiously run their own code on it.
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Asus’ 15-inch laptop is an uninspiring machine built for creators.
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The Kali Linux distribution has announced that software updates will soon start failing for all users: This is not only you, this is for everyone, and this is entirely our fault. We lost access to the signing key of the repository, so we had to create a new one. At the...
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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (glibc, php:8.1, and thunderbird), Debian (libreoffice), Fedora (caddy), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable), Red Hat (php:8.1), SUSE (glow), and Ubuntu (kicad, linux-aws-5.15, linux-azure-nvidia, linux-gcp-5.15, mistral,...
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These pajamas look and feel so good, you’ll wish you could you could wear them all the time.
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The House of Representatives yesterday passed the 'Take It Down' act, which requires that websites and platforms remove 'non consensual intimate imagery' within 48 hours when flagged. Though the intent is the protect victims of revenge porn or AI fakery, the material is left ...
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Artificial intelligence is helping Beijing's goons break in faster and stay longer RSAC The biggest threat to US critical infrastructure, according to FBI Deputy Assistant Director Cynthia Kaiser, can be summed up in one word: 'China.'…
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New research highlights the growing threat of identity-based attacks and looks at organizations ability to defend against them. The study from Huntress shows 67 percent of organizations reported an increase in identity-based incidents over the past three years, with these...
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AI guys who hope to replace human workers have a reality bite to chew on today: a study found that chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude have had no impact yet on employment levels or wages, even in those occupations widely seen as vulnerable to AI. — Read the rest ...
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I love working on my iPad. More specifically, I love working on my iPad mini. I generally carry it with me, as it allows me to edit photos in Adobe Lightroom on the go. It's also great for times when my reMarkable Paper Pro feels too cumbersome to bring with me. — Read the re...
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I recently came across a site called A Music Scrapbook, where you can learn about people's favorite songs and the stories behind them. The website is laid out like a bunch of sticky notes, each one with the song name and link at the top. — Read the rest The post Add your...
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So, that moment finally happened in The Last of Us Season 2. With half the fans crushed, half of them baying for Abby's blood and everyone who played the games beforehand laughing at the unfolding chaos, it might be worth taking a step back from all the bleakness for a...
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Iceland is situated on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and a geologic hotspot, and is home to over thirty volcanoes. Before 2021, the island nation experienced an eruption roughly every five years; however, volcanic activity has intensified since then. Since 2021, there have been...
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