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Wednesday December 4, 2024. 07:21 PM
Tennessee state Senator Ken Yager — who prides himself on his commitment to church and guns — failed a sobriety test after a hit-and-run car crash in Georgia last night. And 'leaked' footage of the Republican lawmaker trying to walk a straight (and dry) line is none too ...
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Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller reports that the project's search to replace Pagure as its git forge is almost complete, with the Fedora Council strongly in favor of Forgejo: The Council, currently, has a clear preference for Forgejo. This is a big decision and we...
According to a new report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), generative AI (genAI) will soon affect work areas previously considered to have a low likelihood of automation, according to The Register. Automation in the past mainly...
With bionic eyesight that rivals none other than Alaska's human telescope Sarah Palin, Trump can actually see Switzerland while standing in Canada. Or so suggests an AI image Trump posted of himself standing next to the Canadian flag while taking in the stunning view of, er, ...
A mysterious AI image generator called Red Panda has taken the Artificial Analysis Text-to-Image Arena by storm. The arena is a kind of interactive testing ground for models. Users blindly evaluate images generated by different AI tools in response to the same prompt based...
Linus Walleij writes about a pair of security features for 32-bit Arm systems; these landed in 6.10, but, he says, have now stabilized to the point that distributors may want to enable them. PAN is an abbreviation for the somewhat grammatically incorrect Privileged Access...
TL;DR: I'm making my knives feel new with an Angle Pro Knife Sharpener, on sale for $40 through December 8. Check out here. Last Thanksgiving, I tried to carve the turkey, and I'll be the first to admit that my knife was laughably dull. — Read the rest The post Transform du...
Just as shoppers heading online for Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals a new report from Bitdefender uncovers interesting parallels with behavior on dark web marketplaces. Cybercriminals too, it seems, browse for the best deals on an assortment of unconventional goods and...
Linux offers two broad ways of performing I/O to files. Buffered I/O, which is the usual way of accessing a file, stores a copy of the transferred data in the kernel's page cache to speed future accesses. Direct I/O, instead, moves data directly between the storage device...
Version 6.0.0 of the Hurl command-line tool has been released. Hurl is curl-powered utility that runs HTTP requests and tests defined in a plain-text Hurl file. Notable features in this release include the ability to generate dynamic values with functions, shorter syntax,...
Google Gemini has introduced a groundbreaking AI memory feature that lets its chatbot remember personal details and tailor interactions based on user preferences. This innovation positions Gemini as a direct competitor to ChatGPT’s memory-enabled functionality, with both...
After Twitter was used to spread lies that led to race riots in the U.K—a wave of violence hyped by the site's owner—police forces in Britain have reduced their official use of the platform. Reuters reports that some forces have stopped using it entirely and others are...
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot in the chest and died this morning in Manhattan just before 7:00 am in front of the Hilton hotel in what police are saying was a targeted attack. The 50-year-old CEO had arrived early for a conference, where he was going to speak, ...
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has become a critical part of the modern economy and it's estimated that up to 96 percent of codebases now include it. In order to understand the impact of open source The Linux Foundation, in collaboration with the Laboratory for...
Apple has faced an unequal battle in recent years as some lawmakers, the FBI, and regulators insist that the company create backdoors through which to access messages and other parts of its platform. Apple and others have always insisted that there is no such thing as a safe ...
The threat posed by international hackers, not least state-sponsored ones, has U.S. intelligence agencies finding the good in end-to-end encryption. The FBI is warning smartphone users to stick to it, which means not sending text messages between platforms that don't fully...
Security updates have been issued by Red Hat (go-toolset:rhel8, grafana, kernel, kernel-rt, kernel:4.18.0, pam, pam:1.5.1, pcs, postgresql:12, postgresql:15, postgresql:16, python3:3.6.8, qemu-kvm, rhc, rhc-worker-playbook, and virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel) and SUSE...
A new report finds that 35 percent of small business employees or owners report clicking on a phishing link via mobile. The research, carried out by OnePoll for CyberSmart, among 250 small-medium enterprise business owners or leaders in the UK also finds 30 percent of...
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