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Thursday June 19, 2025. 01:00 PM
After the shootings of lawmakers in Minnesota, the weekend's 'No Kings' protests, and elected officials being placed in handcuffs, Democrats are searching for the path forward.
Outerloop Games’ colorful new RPG will be released next year. The studio says it's determined to “humanize” immigrant experiences amid ICE raids.
Valve has quietly updated the Steam Beta Client to enable Proton by default for all Windows games on Linux, eliminating the need for users to toggle compatibility settings manually. GamingOnLinux reports: For some context here: originally, Proton had an option to enable /...
A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the companies behind the most popular models keep their carbon emissions a secret.
The “black screen” phenomenon in Windows 10 and Windows 11 shows poignantly how nothing sometimes matters quite a lot. Seeing nothing except a black screen where the desktop and its applications normally appear is disconcerting for users, because they literally can’t...
Probably the easiest way to a Google-free smartphone or tablet Murena's /e/ OS is arguably the most mainstream de-Googled Android OS, and the new version catches up with important features.…
Large language models are a useful tool, but they’re overkill for much of what we do with services like ChatGPT. Summarizing text, rewriting our words, even responding to basic chatbot prompts are tasks that don’t need the power of an LLM and the associated compute,...
As organizations increasingly rely on large language models (LLMs) to process web-based information, the challenge of converting unstructured websites into clean, analyzable formats has become critical. Firecrawl, an open-source web crawling and data extraction tool...
Startup has already shown how to make drugs in space UPDATED America's aviation regulator has issued its first license for unmanned spacecraft to reenter the Earth's atmosphere to Varda, a startup that's trying to build a space-based manufacturing business.…
The Pulse Duo isn't for me, but it’s an important tool for people who can’t enjoy penetrative sex.
Illegal products abound on Chinese site and its processes to stop ‘em are hopeless The European Commission has found Chinese e-tail giant AliExpress in breach of its obligation to assess and mitigate risks related to the dissemination of illegal products as required under...
The U.S. Army Reserve has directly commissioned four top Silicon Valley executives as lieutenant colonels under a new initiative, Detachment 201, aimed at accelerating tech integration into military operations. While these part-time roles are intended to bring private-sector ...
Phishing, Python and RATs, oh my A sneaky malware campaign slithers through Cloudflare tunnel subdomains to execute in-memory malicious code and give unknown attackers long-term access to pwned machines.…
‘Windows 365 Reserve’ will be usable ten days a year for undisclosed fee Microsoft has announced a preview of “Windows 365 Reserve”, a service that provides pre-configured cloud PCs it suggests as ideal when physical machines aren’t usable.…
Bank and crypto outfits hit after Israeli commander mentioned attacks expanding to ‘other areas’ The government of Iran appears to have shut down the internet within its borders, perhaps in response to Israel-linked cyberattacks.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Tech support scammers have devised a method to inject their fake phone numbers into webpages when a target's web browser visits official sites for Apple, PayPal, Netflix, and other companies. The ruse, outlined in a post ...
Google has unveiled a preview of Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, a reasoning model optimized for cost and speed, and announced that two other Gemini models, Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash, are now generally available. Google made the announcements June 17. Gemini 2.5 models are...
Longtime Slashdot reader walterbyrd shares news that Texas Instruments has announced plans to invest more than $60 billion to expand its U.S. manufacturing operations in the United States. From a report: The funds will be used to build or expand seven chip-making facilities...
The daughter of a Seattle woman who died during the 2021 Pacific Northwest heatwave has filed the first wrongful death lawsuit directly linking fossil fuel companies to an individual's climate-related death. Misti Leon is suing seven oil and gas companies, including...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: GNOME a11y; hierarchical scheduler; CoMaps; GPU restore; FAIR.pm; buffered I/O writeback; NFS; Lustre Briefs: Rocky Linux 10.0; Git 2.50; KDE Plasma 6.4; Kubernetes Slack; Python Language Summit; Radicle Desktop;...
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