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Thursday April 17, 2025. 12:37 AM
A brief exchange between Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey and billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk has stirred the tech world into debate over IP law. “Delete all IP law,” Dorsey wrote on X on April 11. “I agree,” replied Musk, who has owned X since 2022. Dorsey later...
OpenAI announced on Monday the release of GPT-4.1, the newest successor to its GPT-4o series of AI language models. According to OpenAI, GPT-4.1 excels at instruction following, coding, and long-context processing. The GPT-4.1 large language model brings improved features...
Excessive social media use has long been associated with negative psychological effects. Now, the rise of agentic AI–AI-powered companions in particular—introduces a new set of risks for tech-savvy users. “As AI capabilities advance,” according to a recently...
Wednesday April 16, 2025. 11:04 PM
Artificial intelligence may be the missing piece needed to make the longstanding human dream of communicating with animals possible. Earth Species Project researchers have created NatureLM-audio, an AI audio language foundation model that can use animal vocalizations to...
I’m not entirely sure how to link to this properly, but what we have here is a simple, to-the-point text file describing some of the benefits of Slackware, the oldest still maintained Linux distribution. It’s still run by Patrick Volkerding, and focuses on conservative...
CISA says the U.S. government has extended MITRE’s funding to ensure no continuity issues with the critical Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program. […] The announcement follows a warning from MITRE Vice President Yosry Barsoum that government funding for the...
Nvidia now expects new US government restrictions on exports of its H20 chip to China will cost the company as much as $5.5 billion, Reuters reports. Nvidia’s H20 chip is used for AI development; the US government has said it wants to restrict exports of the chip to China...
The European Commission has issued so-called burner phones and simple laptops to certain staffers traveling to the US to reduce the risk of espionage, according to The Financial Times. The Commission issued the new guidelines to commissioners and senior officials traveling...
Debian's Advanced Package Tool (APT) is the suite of utilities that handle package management on Debian and Debian-derived operating systems. APT recently received a major upgrade to 3.0 just in time for inclusion in Debian 13 ('trixie'), which is planned for release...
GNOME contributor Michael Catanzaro has written a blog post about a noteworthy vulnerability in GNOME's help browser, Yelp. I don't normally blog about particular CVEs, but Yelp CVE-2025-3155 is noteworthy because it is quite severe, public for several weeks now, and not...
Allowing directories to be modified in parallel was the topic of Jeff Layton's filesystem-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF). There are certain use cases, including for the NFS and Lustre filesystems, as...
Donald Trump may be trying to slow down Chinese imports, but his tariffs are no match for free open source software! You see, Chinese Linux distribution deepin just dropped version 23.1, and no policy can stop it from reaching American citizens. With a ton of awesome updates ...
The BPF verifier is not magic; it cannot solve the halting problem. Therefore, it has to err on the side of assuming that a program will run too long if it cannot prove that the program will not. The ultimate check on the size of a BPF program is the one-million-instruction ...
Editor’s note: After this story was published earlier today, CISA signed a contract extension that averts a shutdown of the MITRE CVE program. A CISA spokesperson sent CSO (a sister publication to Computerworld) a statement saying: “The CVE Program is invaluable to...
Apple has announced a new privacy-focused AI training system for iOS 18.5. It is designed to improve Apple Intelligence features by analyzing usage trends without compromising user privacy. Apple is betting it can build smarter AI without sacrificing privacy; however, that...
Sergiu Gatlan reports that the US government has extended funding for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program, following yesterday's reports that funding would run out as of April 16. 'The CVE Program is invaluable to cyber community and a priority of CISA,'...
As a system runs, its memory becomes fragmented; it does not take long before the allocation of large, physically contiguous memory ranges becomes difficult or impossible. The contiguous memory allocator (CMA) is a kernel subsystem that attempts to address this problem, but...
Nine protestors were removed from a 'peaceful town hall' held by insider trading guru Marjorie Taylor Greene, three were arrested, two of whom were tased by the police. Georgian Representative to the US Congress Marjorie Taylor Greene says protestors who managed to get past ...
The Standard-Winged Nightjar is one of the coolest and strangest looking birds I've seen. When I first watched this video, I thought the bird had TV antennas stuck to its wings. Once it took off in flight, I realized what I was looking at. — Read the rest The post The...
Microsoft's Kermit is a typeface designed to help children learn to read. To help young readers of all skill levels, we're introducing Kermit, a child-friendly typeface created by the type design studio Underware. Kermit is a friendly and approachable font that encourages...
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