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Thursday June 19, 2025. 01:50 PM
Microsoft is set to cut thousands of jobs, mainly in sales, amid growing fears that AI advances are accelerating the replacement of human roles across the industry, Bloomberg reports. The cuts follow a previous round in May, which saw approximately 6,000 roles eliminated....
A study by researchers at MIT's Media Lab found that subjects using ChatGPT to generate SAT essays had the lowest levels of brain engagement and 'consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.' Moreover, those using it got lazier each time they...
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...
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...
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...
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;...
Parasoft has released Parasoft C/C++test 2025.1, an update to the company’s automated testing solution for for C and C++ developers that introduces an AI assistant. The new release also adds nearly 70 static analysis rules, among other improvements. The new AI assistant...
Wednesday June 18, 2025. 11:51 PM
With the possibility that Google is going to make some big changes to the open source status of Android, the importance of smartphones that don’t run either iOS or (some form of) Android is definitely increasing. Linux on smartphones is not as complete as iOS or Android, and...
TL;DR: Keep your Nintendo Switch's controllers powered up with the HyperX ChargePlay Quad 2: Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Controller Charging Station, now just $16.99. Nintendo Switch lovers know the pain of settling in for a game and then realizing the controller's battery is...
After reports suggested Meta has tried to poach employees from OpenAI and Google Deepmind by offering huge compensation packages, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman weighed in, saying those reports are true. He confirmed them during a podcast with his brother Jack Altman. “There have...
An code analysis vendor on Tuesday published a study of the generative AI (genAI) coding differences between its retail and finance customers, revealing that the retail approach is much more aggressive, whereas finance has been working on the technology longer. “Retail is...
Kian Bradley was downloading something using BitTorrent, and noticed that quite a few trackers were dead. Most of the trackers were totally dead. Either the hosts were down or the domains weren’t being used. That got me thinking. What if I picked up one of these dead...
Accessibility is something that doesn’t get nearly enough attention, especially considering because not only will we need accessibility features eventually as we grow older, but also because a lot of accessibility features are just helpful even if you don’t technically need...
With Cybertrucks sitting around gathering cyberdust, Tesla is reducing production of the stainless steel albatross and their Model Y. Now, Tesla told employees that it is again shutting down Model Y and Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas over the first week of July. ...
Every Mac, iPhone, or iPad user should do everything they can to protect themselves against social engineering-based phishing attacks, a new report from Jamf warns. In a time of deep international tension, the digital threat environment reflects the zeitgeist, with hackers...
The Daily Show sent Jordan Klepper to watch Donald Trump's underwhelming birthday celebration. The whole thing seemed like a not-veiled message to Trump. Soldiers who march out of time and tanks that squeak like no one cares about their maintenance. This show of farce...
Once again, convicted felon #47 blathers about forest cleanliness when asked about California wildfire relief. America's real estate fraud in chief regurgitates some logic he made up about sweeping California's forests to prevent forest fires. I am certain he has consulted...
Sen. Mazie Hirono asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth if he would 'shoot peaceful protestors in the legs' if Donald Trump asked him to. The question on the House floor this morning was straightforward enough, but the former Fox host could not bring himself to say 'no.' —...
After quietly existing for years, Android Instant Apps are officially heading to the Google graveyard. The feature will be shut down in December 2025, and if you're wondering what Instant Apps even are… well, you're not alone. Launched in 2017, Instant Apps were supposed...
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