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Friday April 4, 2025. 09:52 PM
At a special 50th anniversary event on Friday, Microsoft executives reflected on the company’s storied past and on how it’s now reinventing itself for an AI-focused future. With previous CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer in attendance, current CEO Satya Nadella boasted...
Google Cloud Next ’25, which runs from April 9-11 in Las Vegas is highlighting the latest advancements and future directions of Google Cloud Platform and cloud computing. This year, artificial intelligence and machine learning, along with announcements of new AI-powered...
Remember those adorable photos of Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk swooning like excited schoolboys behind Trump at his inauguration? And remember when Bezos said, 'I am very optimistic that President Trump is serious about this regulatory agenda'? (Translation:...
The tech market lost 29,000 jobs in March, even as the unemployment rate for tech-related jobs slipped 0.1% to 3.1%, according to an analysis of US Labor Department data released today. At the same time, tech sector employment fell by 8,428 jobs last month, driven largely by ...
The AlphaStation 500 is a workstation from Digital, circa 1996. Mine is a 500 MHz model and has an Alpha 21164A processor (aka EV56). And the way it boots is weird. On your common-or-garden PC, there has always been some kind of ROM chip. It holds a piece of firmware known...
Elon Musk thinks he can modernize Social Security's 60-million-line COBOL codebase in just a few months. What could possibly go wrong? Only everything that keeps 73 million Americans' benefits flowing. As reported in Computerworld, Musk's fake 'Department of Government...
Nintendo just hit pause on Switch 2 pre-orders thanks to Trump's tariff tantrum. The Switch 2's $449.99 price tag was already making wallets cry. But now Trump's decided to slap a whopping 46% tariff on Vietnam (where Nintendo makes some of its hardware) and 34% on China. —...
Donald Trump ditched today's dignified transfer of four American soldiers who died during a training exercise in Lithuania because the president faced a more urgent matter — as in a golf tournament he couldn't pass up. And it makes sense, being that Trump did not even know ...
We are still within the sequence of energies described in Newton’s Third Law of Motion, “every action has an equal and opposite reaction.” In this case, Apple, already badly bruised by Trump’s tariffs and their impact on its business, will now take another kicking...
On April 4, 1975, two childhood friends, Paul Allen and Bill Gates, started what is today one of the world’s leading technology companies. Inspired by the January cover of Popular Electronics magazine, they created Microsoft (then Micro-Soft, referring to microprocessors...
A typical cloud-computing host will share some of its memory with each guest that it runs. The host retains its access to that memory, though, meaning that it can readily dig through that memory in search of data that the guest would prefer to keep private. The guest_memfd...
Turns out Trump's 'Get Out Of Jail Free' cards for his J6 mob don't cover the other assorted felonies they racked up along the way. How can this be fair? The D.C. Circuit Court told Kentucky insurrectionist Dan Wilson that Trump's pardon doesn't erase the illegal weapons...
TL;DR: Enjoy all the power and performance of a MacBook Pro for only $329.97 through April 30 while supplies last. Desperately need a new laptop but don't have an extra thousand bucks lying around? We get it. That's why this MacBook Pro deal couldn't come at a better time,...
While the stock market was plunging to historical lows yesterday, a reporter asked Donald Trump how his tariffs were going. To which he answered, 'I think it's going very well.' 'It was an operation. I like when a patient gets operated on and it's a big thing,' the mad king ...
Alistair Popple started his session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit by proclaiming that ZONE_DEVICE is 'the ugly stepchild' of the kernel's memory-management subsystem. Ugly or not, the ability to manage memory that is attached to a...
Russell Brand, the comedian-turned-amulet salesman accused by a number of women of sexual misconduct, was charged today in London on four counts. The force said it is alleged that:In 1999 a woman was raped in the Bournemouth area. — Read the rest The post Former comedian...
At last year's Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), there was a discussion about atomic writes that was accompanied by patches to support the feature in the block layer, and for direct I/O on XFS. That work was merged, but another piece...
Today’s patients expect medical care with a level of efficiency, accuracy, and convenience than ever before. Unfortunately, in a world where medical professionals are overworked and there is a significant shortage in the availability of labor in the healthcare industry,...
This beautiful but dangerous Caravela Portuguesa was found alive on the shore of Olivenca, Bahia – Brasil. It's not often you see a purple animal like this in nature, but don't be fooled by this sea creature's appealing looks if you see one out in the wild. — Read the rest ...
These Illustrations of Ventilation from 1896 (found in full at the Internet Archive) are meant to show us how air can move through different rooms. The illustrations are dreamy, though, and stand on their own as art pieces, even without their scientific context. — Read the re...
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