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Monday June 16, 2025. 05:01 PM
Meta’s AI chatbot app is under fire after users discovered that their private prompts, including medical details, legal questions, and even personal confessions, are surfacing in a public “Discover” feed. Privacy experts call the leaks “incredibly concerning,” as...
TL;DR: Get a lifetime subscription of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 with just one payment of $29.97 (reg. $229.00). If it feels like everyone is using AI for everything, it's because they are — even things they shouldn't be, like therapy. — Read the rest The...
Canyonmid.com provides the visitor with a late-year Tandy PC—one so late it has VGA and a Soundblaster—that's ready to do what Windows 3 was good for: playing George Stone's 'Trip Through the Grand Canyon,' better known as the midi file by the name canyon.mid. — Read the...
At the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), Anna Schumaker led a discussion about implementing the NFS v4.2 WRITE_SAME command in both the NFS client and server. WRITE_SAME is meant to write large amounts of identical data (e.g....
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0 and.NET 9.0), Arch Linux (curl, ghostscript, go, konsole, python-django, roundcubemail, and samba), Fedora (aerc, chromium, golang-x-perf, libkrun, python3.11, python3.12, rust-kbs-types, rust-sev, rust-sevctl, valkey, ...
Ryan Norbauer creates new gadgets inspired by old ideas about what make technology wonderful, an 'elusive world' of retrofuturism taken to its hand-crafted extremes. So when you find out the price tag on the Seneca typing instrument—a beautiful mechanical keyboard offered...
Apple stealthily introduced Apple Sparse Image Format (ASIF), a new sparse disk image format for Apple Silicon, at WWDC; among other features, it might also help Macs remain the best PCs on which to run Windows. That somewhat counter-intuitive claim is because the new...
At Databricks’ Data + AI Summit 2025 last week, the company showcased a variety of generative and agentic AI improvements it is adding to its cloud-based data lakehouse platform — much as its rival Snowflake did the previous week. With the two competitors’ events so...
Ratings company Nielsen reports that Star Wars: Andor is the most-watched streaming television show. After its second and final season concluded last month, it earned 931 million minutes of viewing time—more than the 922 minutes seen of cartoon Australian heeler Bluey and...
In a bid to deliver secure, compliant generative AI (genAI) to business teams without the need for a cloud service, Uptime Industries last week unveiled Lemony. It’s a turnkey stackable device that comes preloaded with multiple large language models (LLMs) and can serve ...
Despite sizeable tech layoffs over the past two years, a tech talent gap persists — especially for those trained on implementing and using generative artificial intelligence (genAI) tools. Consultancy McKinsey & Co. now projects that demand for AI-skilled workers will...
Multicloud is increasingly common in today’s enterprises. The use of multiple public clouds, even spreading applications across clouds, can help with compliance, boost availability, reduce risk, or avoid vendor lock-in. Companies also adopt multiple clouds to support...
Oracle’s stock is finally catching up with its talk about cloud, fueled by surging infrastructure and AI demand. In its recent Q4 2025 earnings statement, the 46-year-old database giant surprised Wall Street with an 11% jump in revenue (to $15.9 billion) and bullish...
Data fabric is a powerful architectural approach for integrating and managing data across diverse sources and platforms. As enterprises navigate increasingly complex data environments, the need for seamless data access coupled with robust security has never been more...
The technology industry loves to redraw boundary lines with new abstractions, then proclaim that prior approaches are obsolete. It happens in every major arena: application architectures (monoliths vs. microservices), programming languages (JVM languages vs. Swift, Rust,...
Navigating the AI talent shortage The IT layoffs we’ve seen in 2024 and early 2025 are set to continue as companies look to drive efficiencies with AI while bracing for a recession. This wee,k CIO.com reported on company boards pushing CEOs to replace IT workers with AI....
Linus Torvalds has released 6.16-rc2, which is 'admittedly even smaller than usual', though rc2 is not uncommonly one of the smaller release candidates. It may be that people are taking a breather after a fairly sizable merge window, but it might also be seasonal, with...
Sunday June 15, 2025. 11:10 PM
Are you still using Windows 7, 8, 8.1, or a 32 bit version of Windows, relying on LibreOffice for your sexy office tasks of writing TPS reports and calculating and tabulating juicy, plump numbers? Bad news: the next version of LibreOffice will remove support for these...
Since Void Linux uses a rolling release model, there’s not much to report on in the form of new releases and major new features, so I’m taking the release of version 0.60 of XBPS, Void Linux’ package manager, to cheat my way into talking about this excellent Linux...
Saturday June 14, 2025. 03:47 PM
Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander, two Democratic candidates in New York City's mayoral race, cross-endorsed one another in a show of solidarity against well-funded front-runner Andrew Cuomo, who resigned as governor after being accused by numerous women of harassment. Mamdani...
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