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Thursday February 6, 2025. 12:30 PM
Last week I spent a few days watching the Asus and Best Buy websites like a hawk, waiting for that slinky little Zenbook A14 to start shipping. It’s a really cool, lightweight laptop with battery life for days, literally. But it has one design problem that I see all too...
At a glanceExpert's Rating Pros Attractive design and ergonomic stand Great connectivity including USB-C with Power Delivery Includes ambient light sensor, microphone Good contrast ratio for the price Cons Only 1080p resolution Color performance is mid-pack Lacks...
With authoritarian governments increasingly turning to censorship to silence dissent, limit information, and manipulate public opinion, it's perhaps not surprising that more people are turning to VPNs. A new report from Proton VPN finds 2024 saw spikes in signups in 119...
Lennart Poettering gave packed-out keynote talk. Jack Dorsey … didn't FOSDEM 2025 FOSDEM returned to Brussels for the first weekend in February – not without some controversial people.…
In 2021, I wrote a short item titled 'Canada investigating a cluster of 42 cases of a mad cow-like brain disease.' CBC reported at the time that the first case had been diagnosed in 2015. The mystery disease had killed 5 people by 2021. — Read the rest The post Mystery...
The trouble with virtual assistants is that they’re just so darn needy. Specifically, they need to be told exactly what to do. They sit around doing nothing until explicitly directed. They don’t take any initiative. They’re, for lack of a better word, lazy. Science ...
Elon Musk's 'top lieutenant' is now 'shacking up' in a federal agency building, living on the sixth floor with his wife and kid, said a federal worker at a town hall in Virginia Monday night. 'One of Musk's top lieutenants and wife and young child have shacked up on the...
New research from Orange Cyberdefense shows that 58 percent of large UK financial services firms suffered at least one third-party supply chain attack in 2024, with 23 percent being targeted three or more times. The research suggests that firms must re-evaluate how they...
'Fetch' just got a lot more interesting You can teach a robotic dog new tricks, it seems, with mechanic canines now being deployed in tests to detect and defuse bomb threats.…
While other manbaby billionaires are having their midlife crises in space, some anonymous oligarch has decided to speedrun the plot of BioShock by dumping a few hundred million into underwater housing. The project, dubbed Deep (and they're weirdly intense about not calling...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Down an easy-to-miss turnoff on the A48 just outside Chepstow on the Welsh border, the gentle rumble of trucks, cranes and people at work mixes with birdsong in what is an otherwise peaceful rural setting. It is a crisp...
For some in the car industry, the uncertainty surrounding a US-border trade war is almost worse than the tariffs themselves. If the tariffs go through, the costs might get passed down to buyers.
Download speeds of 41.9 Gbps and upload speeds of 20.6 Gbps achieved, claims BT division Network builder and maintainer Openreach says it has tested a 50 Gbps fiber broadband connection in the UK, as a first step towards making it commercially available at some point in the...
If you’re building a cloud-native application using a scalable cluster of microservices, you’re going to need a way for those services to communicate. Traditional API calls work well for tightly coupled code, but what if you’re building an application that scales its...
Individual publishers could be held liable for visitors' off-topic posts, legal eagle argues Updated Individuals who run their own website could be held liable for, weirdly enough, off-topic visitor-posted comments that break the UK's Online Safety Act.…
The MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) standard is decades old, but still going strong. It continues to serve musicians, making it possible to reliably connect a range of instruments to computers. With the latest update to Windows 11, Microsoft ushers in some...
TL;DR: Get Visual Studio Pro and beginner-friendly coding courses for $55.97 (reg. $1,999) if you buy before February 23 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Learning to code? You’ll want a good place to do it, and it helps to have a few professionally led tutorials showing you the ropes....
President Trump has issued a slew of executive orders in the early days of his second stint in the White House. Among these are several designed to cut back on government and federal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives that helped to boost job opportunities for ...
Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.
Somewhat stale range of Muskmobiles, competition from China, Elon being Elon, or all of the above? Registration of new Tesla cars slumped across Europe in January, as Chinese electric-vehicle makers racked up enormous growth.…
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