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Tuesday April 15, 2025. 04:27 PM
I'm utterly enthralled with this tiny doggo named Milton, who brings me such absolute joy every time I'm lucky enough to see a photo or video of him.  He's the tiniest Chihuhua who has the biggest personality, and he seems to always be excited to play, or visit friends, or ha...
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The Fedora Project has announced the release of Fedora Linux 42, with 'what's new' articles for Fedora Workstation and Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop. There is also a last-minute warning about the live media for the release: We discovered a problem with the Live boot media at...
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As Kristi Noem cosplays at the Department of Homeland Security, her offices sent an American attorney an email ordering her to self-deport 'immediately.' 'It is time for you to leave the United States,' the threatening letter warned, stunning Nicole Micheroni, a...
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The latest annual Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report from BeyondTrust, reveals a record-breaking number of reported vulnerabilities last year. Total vulnerabilities reached an all-time high of 1,360 in 2024, an 11 percent increase from the previous record of 1,292 in 2022....
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I recently had a leak in my bathroom that resulted in having to do an almost complete remodel, which included buying and installing a new toilet. When I was choosing said toilet at the hardware store, I laughed out loud when I saw the wild claims being made by various toilet ...
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A prior Boing Boing post lamented the closing of an institution in Tokyo's Akihabara electronics district: Koichi Shimayama's tiny but packed electronics store. The beloved one-man mini-market offered an astounding array of teeny transistors, resistors, radio tubes, kits,...
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Fedora Linux 42 has been released with many incremental improvements and updates. In this development cycle, the KDE Plasma Desktop has finally gotten a promotion from a spin to an edition, the new web-based user interface for the Anaconda installer makes its debut, and the...
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PowerA’s premium Xbox controller has excellent party tricks.
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Let the espionage and access resale campaigns begin (again) A cyberspy crew or individual with ties to China's Ministry of State Security has infected global organizations with a remote access trojan (RAT) that's 'even better' than Cobalt Strike, using this stealthy backdoor ...
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Publishers and law professors have filed amicus briefs supporting authors who sued Meta over its AI training practices, arguing that the company's use of 'thousands of pirated books' fails to qualify as fair use under copyright law. The filings [PDF] in California's Northern ...
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Ultramarine Linux is a Fedora-based distribution featuring extra package repositories such as RPM Fusion and enabling multimedia codecs. The project's latest version, 41, adds a new tool to help track and...
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Despite being present on virtually every employee's browser, extensions and plug-ins are rarely monitored by security teams or controlled by IT and a new report shows that could be leaving enterprises at risk. The study from LayerX Security combines statistics from real-life ...
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Have you ever laid in bed awake at night wondering 'what would it look like if a giant banana were orbiting the earth?' Apparently, at least one person has wondered that, because they made this video. The video shows what it would look like if a gigantic banana were...
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It is common, on NUMA systems, to try to allocate all memory on the local node, since it will be the fastest. That is not the only possible policy, though; another is weighted interleaving, which seeks to distribute allocations across memory controllers to maximize the...
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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (glibc), Red Hat (kernel and kernel-rt), Slackware (perl), SUSE (haproxy, kernel, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (cimg, perl, protobuf, and webkit2gtk).
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Bipartisan support needed to keep DOGE from the door The proposed cuts to NASA's budget are drawing sharp criticism from US lawmakers, with one saying: 'If you cut this budget, you cut into the heart of America's leadership when it comes to space exploration.'…
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New research shows that only 29 percent of all organizations say their compliance programs consistently meet internal and external standards. The report from Swimlane reveals that fragmented workflows, manual evidence gathering and poor collaboration between security and...
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This adventurous vegan meal kit requires some elbow grease, but it’s (mostly) worth it.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Car rental giant Hertz has begun notifying its customers of a data breach that included their personal information and driver's licenses. The rental company, which also owns the Dollar and Thrifty brands, said in notices...
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