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Monday January 20, 2025. 03:59 PM
Benj Edwards writes that it's 'Time to Make Computing Personal Again,' taking the technology back from the algorithms, the business incentives and all the other things that have made computers anything but the 'radical idea' they once represented to individuals. — Read the re...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0,.NET 9.0, ipa, and NetworkManager), Debian (389-ds-base, busybox, libreoffice, rsync, ruby2.7, tomcat10, and tryton-server), Fedora (chromium and stb), Mageia (openafs and vim), Oracle (.NET 8.0 and.NET 9.0), SUSE...
This series of photos shows costumed mascots in Japan trying to fit through small openings. I think these mascots need a special train and entrance where they have more breathing room. Luckily, it looks like many of them are receiving help from people around them. — Read the...
Say what you will about president-elect Donald Trump, but one has to admit that he's mastered the art of extracting money from his supporters. He's not even paying for his own private planes. In light of this, it's little surprise that Trump has finally gone where grifts go...
I'm a big fan of pareidolia, which is essentially when something accidentally looks like something else. I've seen faces in electric sockets, fruit that is shaped like human fingers, and trees that look like they have eyes on them. I have yet to see, though, a lady who's...
These photos from the 1950s, shared by Vintage Everyday, show photos of the incredible time a 'Lipstick Tester' is having. The role of the lipstick tester was to simply sit in a chair while a group of women kissed his cheeks and forehead to see how the lipstick would...
The CrowdStrike outage of July 2024 has triggered a major rethink of tech supply chains, as businesses around the world look to build IT resilience and minimize risk. New research from Adaptavist shows that in the wake of the incident, which affected 8.5 million devices...
Microsoft began 2025 with a hefty patch release this month, addressing eight zero-days with 159 patches for Windows, Microsoft Office and Visual Studio. Both Windows and Microsoft Office have “Patch Now” recommendations (with no browser or Exchange patches) for January....
Elon Musk -- or his company, X, at least -- has been given until mid-February to provide the European Commission with details of how its recommendation algorithm works. The request is part of a wider investigation by the EC to ensure that X is complying with the Digital...
Large language models (LLMs) have undergone rapid evolution in recent years, but can often be viewed as something of a 'black-box' as a lack of transparency makes it difficult to identify how decisions are made, trace errors, or understand biases within the model. We spoke...
Laptop users rejoice -- Microsoft is finally getting around to making life a little easier for you. When you’re working on battery power, you really need to know how much juice you have left, and this is something that has been frustrating to access in Windows 11. While...
More than half of enterprises (56%) run mission-critical workloads in hybrid environments, according to a 2024 EDB survey of enterprise executives. From data warehouses and data lakes to HTAP, OLTP, and AI development, hybrid models have become a strategic advantage,...
Nearly 10% of all software engineers are “ghosts” who “do virtually nothing” but collect $300K salaries. This, according to research from Stanford University. The paper takes particular aim at engineers who work remotely, declaring that 14% of them apparently spend...
I was promoted to CTO in my late twenties, and while it is common to see young CTOs leading startups these days, it was unusual in the ’90s. I was far less experienced back then, and still developing my business acumen. While I was a strong software developer, it wasn’t...
The latest version of Rhino Linux, 2025.1, has officially launched, offering an impressive set of updates and features. This release, which was originally planned as 2024.3, reflects the team’s commitment to taking extra time to ensure everything is just right. Whether...
Linus has released the 6.13 kernel. 'So nothing horrible or unexpected happened last week, so I've tagged and pushed out the final 6.13 release.' Significant features in this release include the lazy preemption model for CPU scheduling, Arm64 Guarded Control Stack support,...
Version 16.1 of the GDB debugger is out. There are a lot of changes, including watchpoints for tagged data pointers, a new script to print the stack trace of a running process, better Intel Processor Trace support, and more.
Sunday January 19, 2025. 08:27 PM
It's not who is in charge now that matters, but who will be in charge tomorrow. After president-elect Donald Trump promised to issue an executive order blocking the ban imposed on TikTok by Congress (and found constitutional last week by the Supreme Court), the site allowed...
The Kodi Foundation is still hard at work on Kodi 22 'Piers', with an Alpha release expected in the coming months. The team hasn’t forgotten Kodi 21 users however, and a new build for that branch has just been released. It's been five months since Kodi 21.1 'Omega'...
Sometimes, chimney smoke can rise up in a perfect-looking, unbroken, straight line, high into the sky above. When this happens, it looks as if a white rope is dangling into the chimney from the atmosphere above. This cool phenomenon can happen with the right combination of...
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