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Monday October 6, 2025. 09:34 AM
Steve Jobs died 14 years ago. But the blog Cult of Mac remembers that 'Jobs himself was not sentimental.' When he left Apple in the mid-1980s, he didn't even clear out his office. That meant personal mementos like his first Apple stock certificate, which had hung on his...
Oracle has released an emergency patch and an urgent security warning about a 0-day vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite. Tracked as CVE-2025-61882, the security flaw has a severity rating of 9.8 and is described as an “easily exploitable vulnerability”. Oracle warns ...
Consumer group Which? says owners of Apple and Samsung devices overcharged by £480M Qualcomm is facing a UK trial over allegations that it abused its dominant position in the smartphone chipset market to charge inflated license fees, ultimately driving up device prices for...
Big Blue turned the air blue Who, Me? Oh, bother, it's Monday. But rather than curse about another working week rolling around, The Register welcomes it with another instalment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you confess to workplace whoopsies and...
The director of a tour operation remembers two tourists arriving in a rural town in Peru determined to hike alone in the mountains to a sacred canyon recommended by their AI chatbot. But the canyon didn't exists — and a high-altitude hike could be dangerous (especially where ...
If we could remove the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit, there'd be a 50% reduction in the overall debris-generating potential, reports Ars Technica. That's according to Darren McKnight, lead author of a paper presented Friday at the International ...
'Recent attacks show that hackers keep using the same tricks to sneak bad code into popular software registries,' writes long-time Slashdot reader selinux geek, suggesting that 'the real problem is how these registries are built, making these attacks likely to keep...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Linux Kamarada 15.6 News: F-Droid warns of impact to open source repositories on Android-based operating systems, Alpine moves forward with plans for a merged /usr,...
A computer-generated actress appearing in Instagram shorts now has a talent agent, reports the Los Angeles Times. The massive screen actors union SAG-AFTRA 'weighed in with a withering response.' SAG-AFTRA believes creativity is, and should remain, human-centered. The union...
'A group of researchers from the University of California, Irvine, have developed a way to use the sensors in high-quality optical mice to capture subtle vibrations and convert them into audible data,' reports Tom's Hardware: [T]he high polling rate and sensitivity of...
Sunday October 5, 2025. 11:55 PM
'More than 800,000 drivers for ride-hailing companies in California will soon be able to join a union,' reports the Associated Press, 'and bargain collectively for better wages and benefits under a measure signed Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.' Supporters said the new law will ...
TL;DR: Own your storage. 2TB of encrypted lifetime cloud storage for $119.99 (MSRP $749) is enough for 500,000 documents or 200,000 photos. Paying a monthly bill for cloud storage, you're basically renting space for your own files. With FolderFort's 2TB lifetime cloud plan,...
ScienceAlert writes that some of the tiny nanoplastic fragments present in soil 'can make their way into the edible parts of vegetables, research has found.' A team of scientists from the University of Plymouth in the UK placed radishes into a hydroponic (water-based) system ...
'It's not just you. The internet is getting worse, fast,' writes Cory Doctorow. Sunday he shared an excerpt from his upcoming book Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It. He succinctly explains 'this moment we're living through, this...
Friday OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced two changes coming 'soon' to Sora: First, we will give rightsholders more granular control over generation of characters, similar to the opt-in model for likeness but with additional controls... Second, we are going to have to somehow...
There's an 85-second ad (starring a humanoid robot) that argues 'Technology promised to save us time. Instead it stole our focus. Opera Neon gives you both back.' Or, as BleepingComputer describes it, Opera Neon 'is a new browser that puts AI in control of your tabs and...
The Washington Post notes AI's 'increasingly outsize role' in propping up America's economic fortunes. 'Last week, the United States reported that the economy expanded at a rate of 1.6 percent in the first half of the year, with most of that growth driven by AI spending....
From models for traveling to humidifiers that double as planters or air purifiers, we've tested a dozen of them.
Anyone who thought command line tools were in danger of being consigned to the history books, Google’s unveiling of Jules Tools put pay to that idea. For anyone not familiar with Google’s offerings, Jules Tools is a command line interface for its Jules asynchronous...
Top AI models keep saying you’re right, and that’s the problem State-of-the-art AI models tend to flatter users, and that praise makes people more convinced that they're right and less willing to resolve conflicts, recent research suggests.…
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