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Thursday December 25, 2025. 11:42 AM
Wayback, the tool that will allow you to run a legacy X11 desktop environment on top of Wayland, released a new version just before the Christmas. Wayback 0.3 overhauls its custom command line option parser to allow for more X.org options to be supported, and its manual...
Can you use a cheap FPGA board as a base for a new computer inspired by the original IBM PC? Well, yes, of course, so that’s what Yuri Zaporozhets has set out to do just that. Based on the GateMateA1-EVB, the project’s got some of the basics worked out already – video...
Large language models (LLMs) have grabbed the world’s attention for their seemingly magical ability to instantaneously sift through endless data, generate responses, and even create visual content from simple prompts. But their “small” counterparts aren’t far behind. ...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: 2025 retrospective; Dirk and Linus talk; successful open-source documentation projects; verifier-state pruning in BPF; Linux 32-bit timeline; BPF state visualizer; systemd v259. Briefs: linux-next maintainer; 2025 TAB;...
Wednesday December 24, 2025. 11:28 PM
A Bloomberg News report found that at least 15 people have died in Teslas when their doors failed to open after crashes. The doors are electrically controlled, reportedly at the insistence of CEO Elon Musk, leaving panicking occupants to cook, drown or bleed out when the...
TL;DR: Make cinema-grade visuals with this VideoProc Converter AI Lifetime Family License for Windows for just $35.99 (reg. $119.90). The whole point of AI is to make simple, tedious tasks easier, and VideoProc Converter AI does precisely that. This all-in-one AI video...
A job posting by a Microsoft engineer sparked excitement about a project “to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030”, replacing it with Rust — but alas for fans of the memory-safe programming language, it turns out this is a personal goal, not a...
Another year has reached its conclusion. That can only mean one thing: the time has come to take a look back at the predictions we made in January and evaluate just how badly they turned out. Much to our surprise, not all of our predictions were entirely accurate. It has...
TL;DR: Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows is available as a lifetime license for $34.97, giving you permanent access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and more with no subscription required. Microsoft Office remains one of those tools most people end up needing...
Maingear has introduced a new option called BYO RAM Builds, letting customers order a desktop without buying memory from the company. The move comes at a time when DDR5 pricing has become unpredictable, with significant increases across many kits. BYO RAM gives buyers a way...
A job posting by a Microsoft engineer sparked excitement about a project “to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030”, replacing it with Rust — but alas for fans of the memory-safe programming language, it turns out this is a personal goal, not a...
Kimberlee Singler fled the U.S. after allegedly shooting and stabbing her three children in 2023 during a custody dispute. Though she claimed a burglar broke in, one of her daughters survived to tell police a different story. Singler got far—London—thought not for long....
Someone is not in a festive mood, but that’s probably understandable when it comes to the classic story of AI and copyright. Renowned investigative journalist John Carreyrou, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who exposed the Theranos scandal, has joined forces with five...
The systemd v259 release was announced on December 17, just three months after v258. It is a more modest release but still includes a number of important changes such as a new option for the run0 command (an alternative to sudo), ability to mount user home directories from...
Residents of Haverhill in Massachusetts are upset by the sickeningly sweet smell emanating from Dunkin's new donut factory there, and have taken their concerns to a city council meeting and health inspectors. The odor, described as that of fried dough and carnivals, is...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8, grafana, opentelemetry-collector, and thunderbird), Red Hat (kernel), and SUSE (cheat, libsoup, mariadb, mozjs52, python310, python315, qemu, rsync, and zk).
Amazon’s autonomous vehicle division has hit a roadblock that might send shockwaves through the self-driving car industry. The company’s Zoox unit has announced a recall affecting 332 robotaxis, marking the third major software recall in just eight months. The latest...
Google is launching Disco, a new experiment for the Chrome browser built on Gemini 3. The tool allows users to turn open tabs into interactive web apps, known as “GenTabs”, which can be used for study or travel planning, for example. The user describes in natural...
Apple will be 50 years old on April 1, 2026. What can we expect from the company in the year ahead? This is actually the first of two important milestones for Apple; the next anniversary comes in 2027, which will mark 20 years since the introduction of the world-changing...
Keep feeling fascination. Marissa Mayer, the former Yahoo CEO who was Google’s 20th employee, has secured $8 million in funding for her new AI venture Dazzle. The seed round values her company at $35 million and was spearheaded by Kirsten Green of Forerunner Ventures, a...
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