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Monday February 10, 2025. 04:47 PM
Miguel Ojeda has announced the posting of a new document describing policies around the use of Rust in the Linux kernel. There has been a fair amount of confusion about what the kernel policies around Rust are, who maintains what and so on. This document tries to clarify...
Toxic chemicals, per-, and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, abbreviated as PFAS and also known as 'forever chemicals,' have been used for decades as water repellants. PFAS break down very slowly and have been found in the blood of humans and animals worldwide. These chemicals...
Productivity and mindfulness don't often go together, but Opera wants to change that with its new browser, Opera Air. The design is minimalist and user-friendly, with a transparent UI that adapts to your wallpaper and several built-in mindfulness tools. The start page 'speed ...
The angry man of jazz actually looks pretty calm when he's out shooting. Nonchalant, even. His gun etiquette does seem lacking, though. He's chomping on a cigar, his stance isn't strong, he's loading the gun from the top, he isn't aiming at any target in particular… oh, and...
It took an hourlong chase, including the use of a helicopter, before police officers were able to apprehend a teenager on an e-bike Sunday. The BBC reports that the 17-year-old had failed to stop when asked, and was subsequently charged with that offense and with dangerous...
Mantis shrimp are neither shrimp nor mantis but stomatopods. Their compound eyes can move independently and see light ranging from deep ultraviolet to far red and polarized light. Some species, such as the Peacock mantis shrimp, display vibrant colors. Where the mantis shrim...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah, bzip2, galera and mariadb, keepalived, kernel, kernel-rt, mariadb:10.11, mingw-glib2, and podman), Debian (ark, firefox-esr, kernel, sssd, and thunderbird), Fedora (abseil-cpp, clevis-pin-tpm2, dbus-parsec, envision,...
British supermarkets have clock towers. One might walk in sight of them for years, decades even, without wondering why, or noticing that the clocks are typically nonfunctional, or deducing that the towers might charitably be described as follies: buildings designed to be...
The creators of Netrunner have just released a new iteration of their Debian-based Linux distribution, Netrunner 25 'Shockworm.' This update offers enhanced security patches, a fresh desktop background, and an interface that's smoother than ever. Netrunner 25 is built on...
TL;DR: Own UPDF for life for just $59.99 (reg. $149)—edit, convert, sign, and secure PDFs in one powerful tool across all devices. PDFs are a necessary evil. You get sent a document, and suddenly you need to edit it, sign it, merge it, convert it, annotate it,...
Microsoft Teams users can expect a slew of new features in an upcoming update that is currently in full testing, including Storyline, a Facebook-like feed where users can share messages, news, or congratulations. Users can also follow people via Storyline, much as they would ...
A growing number of buyers have reported purchasing supposedly new Seagate data center-grade hard drives, only to discover that they had been previously used for thousands of hours. A recent investigation by German news portal Heise has uncovered that used Seagate data...
The folks in flowing robes who say complicated words and tap cute little wooden mallets to make a point think they can stop Elon Musk from deliberately breaking every federal agency's computer systems just because it's super illegal. Isn't that precious? — Read the rest The...
Tom Robbins, the novelist who delighted readers with his psychedelic prose and counterculture wisdom, died February 9, 2025, at his home in La Conner, Washington. He was 92. Known for weaving philosophical musings with outlandish plots, Robbins wrote nine novels that helped...
Kristi Noem has never been more honest about how dishonest the MAGA party is. Either that or she just plumb forgot that she was the Department of Homeland Security's new secretary. 'We can't trust the government anymore,' Noem told CNN's Dana Bash while on the subject of...
A California startup wants to beam extra sunlight to Earth orbiting mirrors, but some are skeptical about whether the physics and economics add up. Reflect Orbital plans to launch 57 small satellites into polar orbit, each equipped with 33-foot mylar mirrors designed to...
The unemployment rate among tech workers leaped almost a full percentage point from December to January, according to an analysis of US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data released Friday. The unemployment rate for tech workers rose from 2.0% to 2.9%, according to IT...
If you're looking for a clear explanation of how ChatGPT works and its limitations, check out this short online course called 'The Bullshit Machines,' created by two professors at the University of Washington. It combines short essays and explanatory videos to describe how...
Ed Sheeran surprised fans in Bangladore on Sunday with a pop-up sidewalk performance — but he didn't get very far before a displeased policeman pulled the plug, literally. (See video below, posted by NDTV.) Sheeran was in between shows when he took a break to have some...
Trump is a blustering numbskull who has no idea what Elon Musk's DOGE project is really about, argues Mike Brock in his essay, 'The Plot Against America, How a Dangerous Ideology Born From the Libertarian Movement Stands Ready to Seize America.' — Read the rest The post...
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