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Monday June 16, 2025. 11:00 AM
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...
Friday June 13, 2025. 11:49 PM
SmartBear has launched Reflect Mobile, an AI-powered, no-code, test automation tool kit that enables QA professionals to test native apps across the iOS and Android mobile platforms. Announced June 11, Reflect Mobile features SmartBear’s HaloAI AI technology and extends...
Disk images have been valuable tools marred by poor performance. In the wrong circumstances, an encrypted sparse image (UDSP) stored on the blazingly fast internal SSD of an Apple silicon Mac may write files no faster than 100 MB/s, typical for a cheap hard drive. One of the ...
Visual Studio Code 1.101, aka the May 2025 version of Microsoft’s popular code editor, expands support for the Model Context Protocol, a technology that standardizes how applications provide context to large language models. VS Code 1.101 was released June 12. Downloads...
Meta is looking to up its weakening AI game with a key talent grab. Following days of speculation, the social media giant has confirmed that Scale AI’s founder and CEO, Alexandr Wang, is joining Meta to work on its AI efforts. Meta will invest $14.3 billion in Scale AI as ...
After years of hype, internal setbacks, and shifting timelines, Apple is now targeting spring 2026 for the long-awaited rollout of its revamped Siri, powered by artificial intelligence. The upgrade, once promised as a centerpiece of iPhone 16’s marketing campaign, is now...
If you need more reasons to use pen and paper instead of a computer or favor cash while you shop at a local shop, we've got your back: Those big parades thrown with the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army as an excuse? — Read the rest The post Technocrats help pay for...
Swiss scientists have built a quadruped robot that can play badminton against human opponents. ANYmal-D shows that it is possible to program hand-eye coordination in robotics, functionality that has proven challenging until now. Why researchers created the robot Robotic...
AI-powered search engine optimization (SEO) tools are transforming how you can optimize your websites and content. These tools use artificial intelligence to help you with tasks such as keyword research, content optimization, technical SEO, and workflow automation. The best...
In typical thug fashion, Donald Trump hammered Gavin Newsom for not thanking him after all that he's done for Los Angeles —nobody else, after all, could have injected such chaos and violence into a city so spectacularly as the president. 'Incompetent Gavin Newscum should...
Long before Taco Tuesday became part of the pop-culture vernacular, Tuesdays were synonymous with security — and for anyone in the tech world, they still are. Patch Tuesday, as you most likely know, refers to the day each month when Microsoft releases security updates...
Microsoft offered up a fairly light Patch Tuesday release this month, with 68 patches to Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. There were no updates for Exchange or SQL server and just two minor patches for Microsoft Edge. That said, two zero-day vulnerabilities...
The increased use of AI and the popularity of online classes have thrown open the doors to financial aid fraud. Scammers use AI bots to pose as students and enroll them in online classes just long enough to collect student loan payments. In addition to the cost of this type ...
After this year’s WWDC, I’m feeling a lot more positive about Apple’s efforts to weave artificial intelligence into its ecosystem. While a contextual Siri may not arrive until next year, the focus right now is on developing the inherent technologies rather than...
The open-source mobile app Organic Maps is used by millions of people on both the Android and iOS platforms. In addition to featuring offline maps (generated from OpenStreetMap cartography) and turn-by-turn navigation, it also promises its users greater privacy than...
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