|
Navigation
Search
Top: Tech/PC
|
PC / Tech. > Tech/PC
Monday October 20, 2025. 10:53 AM
Serious issues with Amazon Web Services (AWS) have rendered a number of big-name apps and services inaccessible. The likes of Fortnite, Roblox, Duolingo, Ring and many more have been suffering as a result of the problems. The issues first came to light thanks to spikes in...
Like email, SMS, and just about every other method of communication, WhatsApp suffers from spam. There are certainly things that can be done by users to stem the flow of spam that makes its way to their inboxes, but WhatsApp is also trying to help. The platform has already...
Privacy Sandbox was Google’s vision for replacing third-party cookies, but now the company is giving up and moving on from the idea. First launched six years ago, Privacy Sandbox suffered with low-adoption, and Google has gradually snuffed out various technologies relating ...
It has been known for a little while that Meta has been working on a username system for WhatsApp. The popular messaging app is slightly unusual in not offering people a way to choose a username, but this is going to change at some point in the future. Recent beta builds of...
New versions of PowerToys are always eagerly received, especially when there are new utilities to explore. This was certainly the case with the release of PowerToys v0.95 last week, but in addition to the excitement there has also been confusion. With PowerToys v.0.95,...
The 6.18-rc2 kernel prepatch is out. End result: rc2 is on the bigger side, and we still have some of the remaining regressions outstanding, but we should be making slow progress. It's fairly early days yet, so I'm not very worried. Things on the whole look fairly normal.
Sunday October 19, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Get a 1-year Sam's Club membership (with auto-renew) for just $15 (MSRP $50)—includes fuel savings, bulk buys, exclusive perks, and a bonus household card. Imagine walking into a store where the carts are oversized, the snacks abound, and the savings feel almost...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.17.4 6.12.54 6.6.113 6.1.157, and 5.15.195 stable kernels. As usual, each contains important fixes; users of those kernels are advised to upgrade.
TL;DR: Lock a lifetime subscription to Pok Pok for $59.99 and take $12 off to get it for $47.99 at checkout with coupon code PLAY until November 2! If you want screen time that doesn't wind kids up like a wind-up toy, Pok Pok goes the other way. — Read the rest The post...
Saturday October 18, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Upgrade your computer's sound without breaking the bank. This Lenovo M0520 Wired Desktop Speaker Set is on sale for $16.99 (reg. $25.99). Tired of the crackling sound of your computer's existing speakers? Or turning the volume up to 100% and it still sounds like it's...
The U.S. government is shut down, but Kristi Noem is on a taxpayer-funded shopping spree. The former South Dakota governor, who impressed Trump with her stupefying cruelty by killing a puppy because she hated it, just spent $172 million on two private jets for herself. —...
As reported in Christopher Hale (a political operative and writer who ran Catholic outreach for President Obama's 2012 campaign), Pope Leo XIV is weeks away from approving statutes that would vaporize Opus Dei as a unified organization. The group that gave us both Da Vinci...
This mini trinket library is the most wonderful thing I've seen all week. The concept behind the mini trinket library is similar to that of the little free library boxes, where you take a book and leave a book. The difference is that the trinket library is for exchanging...
A defunct gas storage tank has been cosplaying as a jack-o'-lantern for 72 years. Smilin' Jack—yes, they named it—sits at an old Phillips 66 refinery in Wilmington, California, where it spends eleven months being a completely unremarkable spherical container and one...
I recently came across the Weird Eggs Subreddit, and I'm equally fascinated and repulsed. If you are easily grossed out, turn back now. You have been warned. On r/WeirdEggs, you'll learn things about all the bizarre egg mutations people find inside their cartons, and eggs so ...
TL;DR: Learn 25 languages for life with Rosetta Stone's $148.99 (MSRP $399) lifetime access deal—use code LANGO through November 2. If you've ever muttered, 'I should really learn another language' while scrolling through Netflix's subtitles, pay attention to this offer....
Model builders are moving beyond simple AI chatbots to creating comprehensive assistants that, in the words of AI dignitary Ethan Mollick, “do real work” in enterprise workflows. Anthropic is continuing its push in this area with a new feature, Agent Skills, which allows ...
Careless developers publishing Visual Studio extensions to two open marketplaces have been including access tokens and other secrets that can be exploited by threat actors, a security vendor has found. The discovery was made earlier this year by researchers at Wiz, who...
Grifter-in-Chief Donald Trump has stepped in to have convicted fraud George Santos's sentence commuted. Convicted felon and real estate fraud Donald Trump announced via his diminutive social media network that he has commuted the prison sentence of former Congressman George ...
'Let's get us a trash-a-can,' said this not smarter than the average bear. Bears are pretty good at getting into trash cans, cars, or anything else they can smell something that seems attractive to eat. I've had to rely on four or five bungee cords just to keep raccoons out ...
|
25 sources
Current Date
Nov, Mon 17 - 18:38 CET
|
