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Monday May 5, 2025. 03:39 PM
The 6.12.27 and 6.1.137 stable kernels have been released to fix build problems in their predecessors. Only those who are having build troubles with 6.12.26 or 6.1.136 need to upgrade.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ansible, containerd, and vips), Fedora (chromium, java-17-openjdk, nodejs-bash-language-server, nodejs-pnpm, ntpd-rs, redis, rust-hickory-proto, thunderbird, and valkey), Mageia (apache-mod_auth_openidc, fcgi, graphicsmagick,...
Fluoride protects teeth against decay, but adding it to the water has long been a source of conspiracy theories and conservative anxiety—see Alex Jones ranting about gay frogs for a recent frisson of fear along such lines. With Trump in the White House, RFK Jr. — Read the...
The Israeli company behind the obscure messaging app former US national security advisor Mike Waltz was photographed using on his iPhone last week was recently hacked, it has been alleged. The app in question, TM SGNL, is a modified version of the more famous Signal app...
Texas Republican Stan Gerdes (R-Smithville) introduced a bill that would outlaw furry behaviors (such as meowing and defecating in litterboxes) from schools there. Challenged to provide an example of this sort of thing happening, he was unable to do so and the bill died in...
MongoDB has added Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) to all its databases, including Atlas, to help developers accelerate software development and manage database administrative tasks. MCP, which has seen a rise in popularity since its release in November last year,...
Mozilla, the creator of Firefox browser, has issued a dire warning that remedies aimed at curbing Google’s search monopoly could inadvertently kill one of the few remaining independent forces in web browsing. The stark assessment came as Mozilla CFO Eric Muhlheim testified ...
'I taught an AI to commentate Pong in Real Time,' writes Parth Parikh, almost confessionally. '… xPong is all about Pong — but with a twist: there's LLM-based commentary generation integrated into the game.' And so it does, with all the euphoric detail of game day. — Read...
Enterprise IT leaders — and their counterparts in Legal and Compliance — have many reasons to hate having their websites visited by genAI model makers’ agents, whether they are called bots, crawlers, or spiders. They could object to their IP being stolen and used to...
Bose, the company that makes decent speakers, invented something astonishing more than 20 years ago: an electromagnetic suspension system for automobiles. The footage of it in action (already curiously dated, thanks to the vintage of the test vehicles and low resolution of...
Proper training is vital to success in pretty much any job. That's even more true in complex and stressful environments. How much the brain can cope with at any time, or 'cognitive load' is an important part of the process. We spoke to Nial Campion, co-founder of virtual...
There are many moving parts in software development, particularly as tech and the role of engineers quickly evolve. Against this backdrop, there is transformative potential for “EveryOps” in 2025. But what exactly is EveryOps? We coined the term to include DevOps,...
Just because you can use generative AI in software development doesn’t mean you should. AI coding assistants powered by large language models (LLMs) are a productivity dream in some cases but a debugging nightmare in others. So, where is that line? “Knowing when and how...
After the release of updates for Windows 10 in February, users started to complain of problems with jump lists. More than this, Start menu issues, and an inability to view recent files plagued systems after the installation of the KB5052077 update and later. Affecting both...
President Trump has made much of wanting to ban TikTok from operating in the US. In fact, he’s talked about it so much, and -- initially, at least -- with such passion, that you’d be forgiven for thinking that it was one of his top priorities. But having already delayed...
Get Paid with AI We all go to work to get paid, and IT professionals this week were keen to find out more on the subject, devouring our article on the highest-paying IT skills of 2025. What they really wanted to understand is how much does AI pay? Being an AI-infused...
Marking the end of an era, May sees the retirement of Skype, Microsoft’s loved and loathed messaging app. The death of Skype has been a long time coming, with the aged platform struggling to keep pace with the competition, and now the last rites can be read. Today, May 5,...
Linus has released 6.15-rc5 for testing. 'So it all feels like things are just continuing to go well this release. Let's hope I didn't jinx it by saying so.'
Sunday May 4, 2025. 06:50 PM
Deno Land has released Deno 2.3, an update of the company’s JavaScript and TypeScript runtime that brings improvements to deno compile and adds support for local NPM packages. Announced May 1, Demo 2.3 extends deno compile to support programs that use Foreign Function...
Dance Your PhD is an annual contest run by Science magazine that challenges PhD holders or candidates to explain their thesis through dance. The contest was started by John Bohannon in 2008 when he was a Science correspondent. Although he has moved on to other work, he still ...
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