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Monday March 17, 2025. 12:19 AM
Linus has released the seventh (and probably last) prepatch for the 6.14 release. 'Things continue to look quite calm, and I expect to release the final 6.14 next weekend unless something very surprising happens'.
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Sunday March 16, 2025. 11:58 PM
PLUS: Alleged Garantex admin arrested in India; Google deletes more North Korean malware Infosec In Brief United States Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr has unveiled plans to form a Council on National Security that will combat foreign threats to American ...
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Intel's stock jumped nearly 19% this week. 'However, in the past year through Wednesday's close, Intel stock had fallen 53%,' notes Investor's Business Daily: The appointment of Lip-Bu Tan as CEO is a 'good start' but Intel has significant challenges, Morgan Stanley analyst...
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Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Wall Street Journal K-12 education reporter Matt Barnum has a heads-up for parents: There's a Good Chance Your Kid Uses AI to Cheat. Barnum writes: 'A high-school senior from New Jersey doesn't want the world to know that she cheated...
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TL;DR: Get the Ring Battery Doorbell Plus for $119.99 (reg. $149) and take total control of your doorstep. Gone are the days when people enjoyed answering the door when the doorbell rang. This is a familiar story: someone knocks, and instead of responding like a normal person...
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How to tame its hypersensitive hyperparameters and get it running on your PC Hands on How much can reinforcement learning - and a bit of extra verification - improve large language models, aka LLMs? Alibaba's Qwen team aims to find out with its latest release, QwQ.…
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America's Vice President 'expressed confidence Friday that a deal to sell TikTok and keep the social media app running in the U.S. would largely be in place by an April deadline,' reports NBC News. (Specifically the Vice President said 'There will almost certainly be a...
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After Meta convinced an arbitrator to temporarily prevent a whistleblower from promoting their book about the company (titled: Careless People), the book climbed to the top of Amazon's best-seller list. And the book's publisher Macmillan released a defiant statement that...
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St. Patrick’s Day is all about luck (plus corned beef and cabbage, of course), but when it comes to your Linux system, relying on luck isn’t exactly the best security strategy. Thankfully, Debian 12.10 has arrived just in time for the big Catholic holiday, bringing a...
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If you find yourself in a springtime clover field hunting for that rare 4-leaf clover, the journey is the reward. Not so if you and your team are hunched over your desks hunting 4-leaf clovers in terabytes of enterprise data. While combing through millions of files is never...
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'The number of discrete GPU developers from the U.S. and Western Europe shrank to three companies in 2025,' notes Tom's Hardware, 'from around 10 in 2000.' (Nvidia, AMD, and Intel...) No company in the recent years — at least outside of China — was bold enough to engage into ...
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Slashdot reader rikfarrow summarizes an article they wrote for Usenix.org about the Open Source Python compiler Codon: In 2023 I tried out Codon. At the time I had difficulty compiling the scripts I most commonly used, but was excited by the prospect. Python is essentially...
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TL;DR: Get a 1-Year Costco Gold Star Membership and $45 to spend for just $65.  Where do you go for groceries? How about to pick up meds? Get gas? What about clothes shopping? What if you have an emergency and the only solution is a brand-new toaster?  — Read the rest The...
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A ransomware-as-a-service variant called 'Medusa' has claimed over 300 victims in 'critical infrastructure sectors' (including medical), according to an joint alert from CISA, the FBI, and the Multi-State Information Sharing Analysis Center. And that alert reminds us that...
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We’ve rounded up our favorite speakers that let you talk to Alexa, from the best Echo speakers to third-party options like the Sonos Era.
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Building a new computer or looking to upgrade your memory? Here are our favorite options right now.
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Attention Apple users: Rain Design makes the best minimal, fuss-free stands for Macbooks, iMacs, iPads, and iPhones.
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The Galaxy S25 flagships come with several clever new software tricks. Two of them—the Now Bar and the Now Brief—can be highly personalized.
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The Washington Post reports: Oceans last year reached their highest levels in three decades — with the rate of global sea level rise increasing around 35% higher than expected, according to a NASA-led analysis published Thursday... Last year's rate of average global sea...
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How to keep your oven clean in the first place. And how to degrease a really dirty one.
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