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Tuesday April 22, 2025. 07:24 PM
The Userspace I/O (UIO) subsystem was first added to the kernel by Hans J. Koch for the 2.6.32 release in 2007. Its purpose is to facilitate the writing of drivers (mostly) in user space; to that end, it provides access to a number of resources that user-space code normally...
An anonymous reader shares a report: In a shocking development, Google won't roll out a new standalone prompt for third-party cookies in Chrome. It's a move that amounts to a U-turn on the Chrome team's earlier updated approach to deprecating third-party cookies, announced...
Security bods can earn up to $10K per report Ransomware threat hunters can now collect rewards of $10,000 for each piece of intel they file under a new bug bounty that aims to squash extortionists.…
One of the biggest problems with today’s AI models is that they tend to simply make up answers when they don’t know what’s going on, something called hallucinations. You would think that the number of hallucinations would decrease over time, but according to internal...
The United Arab Emirates is planning to use AI to review and adjust existing legislation as well as write entirely new laws, reports the Financial Times. The Middle Eastern country is the first in the world to do so. Other countries are currently using AI to streamline...
Abstract of a paper on National Bureau of Economic Research: We estimate the effect of social media deactivation on users' emotional state in two large randomized experiments before the 2020 U.S. election. People who deactivated Facebook for the six weeks before the election ...
Since Monday, viewers have watched nearly 7 million minutes of Conclave, a film about the process of choosing a new pope. The Two Popes saw its numbers go up 417 percent.
What happens when you put a preening Fox News host in charge of the Pentagon? Pure chaos, according to John Ullyot, a former Pentagon spokesman and Trump loyalist who skewered his ex-boss Pete Hegseth in Politico on Sunday. Ullyot's description of this 'Month From Hell' and...
Retailer tight-lipped on details as digital hiccup disrupts customer orders UK high street mainstay Marks & Spencer told the London Stock Exchange this afternoon it has been managing a 'cyber incident' for 'the past few days.'…
Apple has quietly removed the 'available now' designation from its Apple Intelligence marketing page following a National Advertising Division review. The change came after the NAD recommended Apple 'discontinue or modify' the claim, which 'reasonably conveyed the message'...
A Florida woman decided to get back at her ex-boyfriend by impersonating an ICE agent — to kidnap his wife. And she got away with it, at first. Latrance Battle stormed into the wife's workplace — the Days Inn in Panana City Beach — wearing black clothing, a white...
It's no surprise that Pope Francis, 88 and lately unwell, gave up the ghost yesterday. But it was interesting that his death was preceded by a meeting with U.S. vice president J.D. Vance. For meme-slinging online types, that's circumstancial evidence enough to declare him...
Films made with the help of AI will be able to win top awards at the Oscars, according to its organisers. From a report: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences issued new rules on Monday which said the use of AI and other digital tools would 'neither help nor harm...
What used to be a serious issue mainly in Southeast Asia is now the world’s problem Scam call centers are metastasizing worldwide 'like a cancer,' according to the United Nations, which warns the epidemic has reached a global inflection point as syndicates scale up and...
TL;DR: Lifetime access to Headway Premium is $59.99 through April 27 — over 1,500 nonfiction book summaries you can read or listen to in 15 minutes. We all like to pretend we'll finally crack open that stack of 'life-changing' books sitting by the bed, but let's be real:...
It’s likely that there will never be a site like 4chan again. But everything now—from X and YouTube to global politics—seems to carry its toxic legacy.
US scientists are fleeing abroad in record numbers as the Trump administration slashes research funding, according to exclusive data analysis by Nature. Applications from American researchers for international positions surged 32% between January and March 2025 compared to...
Malicious actors are increasingly exploiting email to impersonate brands, launch phishing campaigns, and spread false information -- often using sophisticated methods made simpler by emerging technologies. A new report from Valimail shows that email continues to be the most...
Offbeat game hardware, made in Asia and sold with thin margins in the U.S., is already being hit hard by the Trump administration's tariffs. Ambernic, the largest maker of inexpensive handhelds designed to play old games, has suspended all shipments to the U.S. — Read the...
Yes, we included Planet Earth. No, Tiger King didn’t make the list.
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