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Monday December 1, 2025. 02:29 PM
Data residency is no longer enough. As governments lose faith that storing data within their borders, but on someone else’s servers, provides real sovereignty, regulators are demanding something more fundamental: control over the encryption keys for their data. Privatim, a ...
Tiny Vinyl is a resurrection of a classic medium in pocket-sized form. The appeal is immediate and obvious: it's vinyl! It's tiny! Adorable! But it doesn't take an expert in areal density to land on one problem: capacity. It's not as if the reader devices are under heavy...
Global web traffic has done something unexpected, with desktop devices overtaking smartphones for the first time in five years. Data presented by Jemlit shows desktops claimed a 49.7 percent share of worldwide browsing in October, placing them just ahead of smartphones on...
Gunslinging IT leaders with high generative AI (genAI) experiment failure rates are creating high-tech junk that will cost money to maintain after projects are abandoned. Recent surveys indicate that failed genAI efforts will leave in their wake a lot of garbage code,...
Raspberry Pi has launched a 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 for low-memory projects and simple electronics, and confirmed price rises across parts of the Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 ranges. Eben Upton, Chief Executive Raspberry Pi Trading, said the pricing adjustments follow an unusual rise in ...
Every dictionary has its word of the year now, but the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) reigns supreme among categorisations of the vocabulary of our post-Norman tongue. And so its choice carries a certain weight. And, this year, that weight falls upon us like online fury:...
To little fanfare, Netflix has made changes that make it harder to cast content from a phone to another device, such as a TV. The general rule of thumb that now applies is that if a device has its own remote control, it will not be possible to cast to it. With this covering...
In an era where cyber threats are evolving faster than ever, organizations can no longer rely solely on reactive defences. Offensive security, once a niche practice, is now a strategic imperative. To better understand this shift, we spoke with Scott Reininga, CEO of...
Sometimes in tech we misunderstand our history. For example, because Linux eventually commoditized the Unix wars, and because Apache and Kubernetes became the standard plumbing of the web, we assume that “openness” is an inevitable force of nature. The narrative is...
Success as an independent software developer requires a lot of preparation and hard work, as well as some luck. But as baseball executive Branch Rickey once said, luck is the residue of design. Income for freelance developers varies depending on factors such as location,...
As enterprise digitization accelerates to drive growth and meet customer expectations, it’s vital security leaders have the right tools and strategies to keep businesses secure. Take AI innovation for example. While its transformative impact is clear, security leaders must ...
2025 wasn't easy for the sciences. With U.S. President Donald Trump back in office, surrounded by conspiracy theorists, cranks and crooks, research funding is evaporating, anti-science rhetoric is dominating public discourse, and expertise is leaving. Departments stretched...
The Maclock is a clock that looks like a Mac—an old Mac. The monochrome LCD display has three modes (the time, the date, and Susan Kare's famous 'Happy Apple' pixel art face. It's only 11cm (4.3 inches) tall and doesn't do anything else, but it's only $29.99 and has a...
In shots from Nasa's Perseverence rover on Mars, the skies are usually clear or fogged by dust storms. As it explores the Jazero Crater, the probe's SuperCam has now recorded evidence of a phenomenon familiar on planet Earth: lightning. — Read the rest The post Lightning...
Linus has released the 6.18 kernel, as expected. So I'll have to admit that I'd have been happier with slightly less bugfixing noise in this last week of the release, but while there's a few more fixes than I would hope for, there was nothing that made me feel like this...
Version 25.11 of the NixOS distribution has been released. 'The 25.11 release was made possible due to the efforts of 2742 contributors, who authored 59430 commits since the previous release'. Changes include 7,002 new packages, GNOME 49, LLVM 21, a new COSMIC desktop...
Sunday November 30, 2025. 11:30 PM
Looking for speakers that fit perfectly in Ikea's Kallax cube shelving¹, I was surprised to find only a single good fit on offer: the Tangent Spectrum Square. It's exactly what I'm looking for, though there's two problems: they're €249 each, and they're not available in...
An Iowa man accused of flashing drivers on the interstate highway told authorities he 'needed some excitement in his life,' report local media. Danan Ary, 30, was charged with indecent exposure. Drivers saw Ary in his vehicle, exposing his genitals to oncoming drivers,...
Let them bake cake: on Tuesday, a 17-year-old boy dumped flour on Jordan Bardella, the leader of France's far-right National Rally. On Saturday, a 74-year-old man dropped an egg on his head. The boy must attend a citizenship course, according to CTV News, and the senior was...
The prizrak.me blog is carrying an introduction to the Landlock security module. Landlock shines when an application has a predictable set of files or directories it needs. For example, a web server could restrict itself to accessing only /var/www/html and /tmp. Unlike...
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