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Canonical has announced the arrival of Ubuntu 25.04 -- 'Plucky Puffin.' This latest interim release introduces a number of updates across the desktop, as well as developer tools, and improved hardware support, with a focus on boosting performance and improving the user...
The Department of Homeland Security is really crushing it at their job lately, if their job is being spectacularly wrong about who's American. Dr. Lisa Anderson, born in Pennsylvania (which last time we checked was part of the United States), got an email from DHS ordering...
Rejoice, America! The dog-killing DHS head Kristi Noem has finally nabbed that most dangerous of criminals: a Japanese Mormon computer science nerd who was near someone who was extra good at catching fish one afternoon. Brigham Young University Ph.D. candidate Suguru Onda...
Things are getting serious regarding Apple security. This shouldn’t really surprise you, given the normalization of chaos we’re enduring, as confusion always makes people more vulnerable. It’s easier to be hoodwinked into clicking that particular malware link when...
When it comes to mountain SOS calls, the UK broke two records in 2024, and officials are pointing fingers at social media and map apps. England and Wales earned their high scores for receiving SOS calls from risky locations every single day last year — the first time ever ...
In a fun read, VelvetShark attempts to decipher why most AI companies have opted for a logo reminiscent of the human sphincter. I would guess that humans like to anthropomorphize everything, and an AI that pumps put crap needs to look like something that pumps out crap. —...
Media often has problems stating the obvious, but CNN has no difficulty placing blame for spiking mortgage rates: 'President Donald Trump's scattered approach to tariffs and an escalating trade war with China.' The average rate on a standard, 30-year fixed mortgage was...
Version 25.04 ('Plucky Puffin') of the Ubuntu Linux distribution has been released. This release includes Linux 6.14, GNOME 48, APT 3.0, and introduces a Arm64 desktop ISO to install Ubuntu Desktop on Arm64 systems. This is an interim release, with support through...
A 500-year-old oak tree that survived the Spanish Armada, two World Wars, and centuries of British weather just met its match: a panicked middle manager at a mediocre roast dinner chain. As the BBC reports, the head honchos at Mitchells & Butlers — proud owners of Toby Carv...
A financial analyst notes that DOGE has created significant disruption, but very little actual government savings have been realized. Noting the 'promises vs. the realities' of DOGE, MSN analyst Steve Rattner points out that while there has been a lot of noise, a lot of...
Atari's 1200XL should have been a success of the 8-bit home computing era: modern, compact, designed to compete with the breakout Commodore 64, and good-looking to boot. But it was a fiasco, writes Paul Lefebvre, due to poor compatibility with Atari 400/800 software and a...
Republican state legislators in Idaho find the Pride flag flying over nearby Boise City Hall offensive, so they passed an unenforceable law that the Mayor is ignoring. Idaho's Attorney General has demanded that Boise's Mayor remove two flags from City Hall under the rule of ...
Alaska's Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski said the quiet part out loud, admitting that she and her GOP colleagues 'are all afraid.' 'We are all afraid,' she said on stage at The Foraker Group's annual leadership summit in Anchorage, after someone in the audience had asked...
Those 'quick weight loss' solutions? They might be setting you up for an even faster rebound. A new study in Nature reveals that even after significant weight loss, your fat cells retain an 'epigenetic memory' of being fat. Think of it like cellular PTSD, except instead of...
Version 14.5 of the Tor Browser has been released. Notable features in this release include the addition of Connection Assist for the Android version of the Tor Browser, and language support for Belarusian, Bulgarian, and Portuguese for all versions of the browser. Should...
Christian podcaster and pastor Andrew Isker doesn't want to be scanned at the airport because he believes the technology might turn him gay. Instead, be would like to be patted down by male security officers. You know, the ones in the uniforms. — Read the rest The post...
ActiveX is a powerful technology that enables rich interactions within Microsoft 365 applications, but its deep access to system resources also increases security risks. Starting this month, the Windows versions of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and...
An American tourist who illegally visited remote North Sentinel Island and left goodies for its famously hostile residents will remain imprisoned in India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands for at least two more weeks. The Associated Press reports that Mykhailo Viktorovych...
The kernel's memory controller works within the control-group mechanism to enforce memory-usage limits on groups of processes. This component has often had performance problems, so there is continual interest in optimizing it. Shakeel Butt led a session during the...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and libapache2-mod-auth-openidc), Oracle (expat, freetype, glibc, grub2, gvisor-tap-vsock, and kernel), Red Hat (grub2 and webkit2gtk3), and SUSE (apache2-mod_auth_openidc, cosign, gitoxide, govulncheck-vulndb,...
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