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Tuesday May 6, 2025. 03:30 PM
Last week, we posted on its coming demise, and today Skype—the original internet live calling service that actually worked—is kaput. Microsoft, which never quite knew what to do with its $8.5 billion acquisition after buying it in 2011, finally put it out of its misery....
For the first time in decades, less than half of American respondents have a positive view of Israel. White House support for its invasion of Gaza—52,000 civilians so far dead, mostly women and children—hurt Democrat incumbents badly at the polls last year. — Read the...
The devil works hard, but speedrunners work harder. The Switch 2 may not be out until this summer, but that hasn't stopped famed Zelda speedrunner Ikaboze from beating one of its system sellers anyway. Limited Switch 2 experiences have been made available to players, with a...
A newly released survey of US regulatory compliance professionals shows 63 percent say that technology-driven risk is the most significant market force likely to cause compliance issues for US financial services firms in 2025. Other forces cited are global economic...
Winhance 5 can debloat and optimize Windows 10 and 11, and it's entirely free.
Static Windows wallpapers can often feel a little, well, uninspiring -- especially if you don’t change them regularly. Sucrose is a free and fully open-source solution that brings a dynamic, customizable approach to desktop backgrounds. This versatile wallpaper engine...
OpenAI is reportedly acquiring Windsurf, an AI-powered coding assistant, for approximately $3 billion. The acquisition comes just months after Windsurf explored funding at this same valuation from investors, highlighting the premium being placed on specialized AI coding...
Remember those simple days of yore, when generative AI meant sending a question to an AI model and getting an answer in return? You might add in a vector database to provide some context for the question and some guardrails for safety and security. That sounded hard at the...
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (chromium and kappanhang), Red Hat (osbuild-composer and thunderbird), SUSE (chromedriver), and Ubuntu (c-ares, corosync, mysql-8.0, mysql-8.4, openjdk-17, openjdk-21, openjdk-24, openjdk-8, and openjdk-lts).
OpenAI has scrapped plans to reduce its nonprofit parent’s oversight and will keep its existing governance structure intact, a move that limits CEO Sam Altman’s influence and responds to mounting external pressure. “We made the decision for the nonprofit to retain...
A new survey finds that 32 percent of employees who use GenAI tools at work say they're keeping it a secret from their employer. The research from Ivanti finds that some use discretion when using AI because they like the 'secret advantage' it offers (36 percent); others...
You delete a dependency. ChatGPT acknowledges it. Five responses later, it hallucinates that same deprecated library into your code. You correct it again—it nods, apologizes—and does it once more. This isn’t just an annoying bug. It’s a symptom of a deeper problem:...
One of the more notable developments in enterprise IT was public cloud providers offering on-premises services. These appear to be regaining steam, as Amazon Web Services recently unveiled second-generation AWS Outposts racks packed with cutting-edge hardware, such as...
Service-based organizations may handle thousands of customer emails daily, placing a significant burden on IT help desks, customer service organizations, and other departments involved in reading, prioritizing, and responding to those communications. A 2023 study found that...
The rollout of Windows 24H2 has been a slow and bumpy road. We’re not far from entering 25H2 and Microsoft has just announced that the Windows 11 2024 Update is now “broadly available”. The shift to broad availability means that anyone with a compatible system will now ...
Image: Facebook Mark Zuckerberg is back in the spotlight after a new interview where he spoke about AI, its effect on social media thus far, and its potential to spark a massive shift in the future of online advertising. Meta, one of the top AI companies today, has been...
Image: Facebook Mark Zuckerberg is back in the spotlight after a new interview where he spoke about AI, its effect on social media thus far, and its potential to spark a massive shift in the future of online advertising. Meta, one of the top AI companies today, has been...
AUTOSEL is a tool that is used to find kernel patches that should be considered for backporting into the stable releases. Sasha Levin has announced a new and completely rewritten version of AUTOSEL for those who would like to play with it. Unlike the previous version that...
June is Pride Month, and ahead of this Apple has launched its Pride 2025 Collection. There are free components to the collection, in addition to some to purchase, making it accessible to everyone. The company says it proud to financially support organizations that serve...
The deluge of applications for every open job position has pretty much forced harried executives to turn to technology to help winnow out candidates worth interviewing. However, a new study has again confirmed what many applicants have observed: open source AI tools vetting...
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