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Monday April 14, 2025. 05:30 AM
PLUS: India's new electronics subsidies; Philippines unplugs a mobile carrier; Alibaba Cloud expands Asia In Brief Chinese officials admitted to directing cyberattacks on US infrastructure at a meeting with their American counterparts, according to The Wall Street Journal.…
During The Last of Us’ second-season premiere, Ellie gets called a homophobic slur. Craig Mazin tells WIRED it highlights what happens when humanity stops moving forward.
Sony has once again bumped up the price of the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition across several markets (Europe, Australia and New Zealand), citing economic challenges like inflation and unstable exchange rates. Starting April 14, gamers in some regions will have to pay more to...
Late Friday news broke that U.S. President Trump's new tariffs included exemptions for smartphones, computer monitors, semiconductors, and other electronics. But Sunday morning America's commerce secretary insisted 'a special-focus type of tariff' was coming for those...
Beijing tries to find an off-ramp but also fights back with export bans World War Fee The Trump administration’s strategy to use tariffs on imports as an incentive for businesses to move their manufacturing plants to the USA took a new turn over the weekend after it...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Shebang 25.0 and EndeavourOS 2025.03.19 News: Debian and its children get APT upgrade, Linux Mint introduces OEM option for LMDE, postmarketOS packages new GNOME...
Stanford law school graduate Peter Thiel later co-founded Facebook, PayPal, and Palantir. But in 2010 Thiel also created the Thiel Fellowship, which annually gives 20 to 30 people under the age of 23 $100,000 'to encourage students to not stick around college.' (College...
The blockbuster antitrust case begins Monday. Its outcome could impact how Big Tech companies grow—but the government has a long way to go to prove its case.
Remember how last weekend Meta claimed its 'Maverick' AI model (in the newly-released Llama-4 series) beat GPT-4o and Gemini Flash 2 'on all benchmarks... This thing is a beast.' And then how within a day several AI researchers pointed out that even Meta's own announcement...
Linus has released 6.15-rc2 for testing. 'Nothing particularly stands out to me, but it's early in the release yet, so let's see how it goes.'
TL;DR: Upgrade to Windows 11 Pro with this discounted $14.97 license before the end-of-support deadline for Windows 10. Still rocking a Windows 10 PC? Props to you for sustainability and saving money by making your PC last, but the deadline for Windows 10 support is fast...
Sunday April 13, 2025. 11:02 PM
'More than three million children around the world are thought to have died in 2022 as a result of infections that are resistant to antibiotics,' reports the BBC, citing a study by two leading experts in child health that used data from sources including the World Health...
Military units, government nerds appear to join the fray, with physical infra in sights Feature From triggering a water tank overflow in Texas to shutting down Russian state news services on Vladimir Putin's birthday, self-styled hacktivists have been making headlines.…
There's a lot in the news about the looming cuts to Medicaid and fears about potential cuts to Medicare. A lot of people don't know the difference between the two and what they do. The key lies in what comes after 'Medi.' — Read the rest The post The hidden truth about...
'It is somewhat remarkable that work on AmigaOS 3.X continues in 2025,' notes Tom's Hardware, 'given that Commodore International released AmigaOS 3.0 in 1992...' AmigaOS 3.1 came in 1993. And now... Work continues on AmigaOS 3.2 with the stewards of this classic Motorola...
'Can you help me take down the Texas lottery?' That's what a London banker-turned-bookmaker asked 'acquaintances' in 2023, reports the Wall Street Journal. The plan was to buy 'nearly every possible number in a coming drawing' — purchasing $1 tickets for 25.8 million...
Somewhere in Montana sits the only coal-fired power plant in America that hasn't installed modern pollution controls to limit particulate matter, according to the Environmental Protecction Agency. Mining.com notes that it has the highest emission rate of fine particulate...
Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 'will come with full support for OEM installations,' according to their monthly newsletter, so Linux Mint 'can be pre-installed on computers which are sold throughout the World. It's a very important feature and it's one of the very few remaining...
When Microsoft announced it would stop developing MS-DOS after 1995, college student Jim Hall 'packaged my own extended DOS utilities, as did others,' according to the web site for the resulting 'FreeDOS' project. Jim Hall is also Slashdot reader #2,985, and more than 30...
TL;DR: Transform old negatives and slides into enhanced digital photos in just a few steps with the Kodak Slide N Scan for $179.99 (reg. $224). Take back your closet space when you clear out boxes of photos after digitizing them with the Kodak Slide N Scan. — Read the rest ...
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