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Monday April 21, 2025. 05:44 PM
Racist, sexist, antisemitic or homophobic? Bigots gotta catch 'em all. Prejudices are becoming more intercorrelated, according to a study published in Social Pschological and Personality Science. The authors of The Evolving Nature of Generalized Prejudice Toward Marginalized ...
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Former Tesla engineer Christina Balan has secured the right to sue Tesla in court and plans to proceed accordingly. Her story is incredible, and sadly, all too believable. Christina Balan, following a company directive issued by Musk to escalate concerning issues until they...
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The Fedora Project's RISC-V special-interest group (SIG) has announced the availability of Fedora Linux 42 images for supported RISC-V boards, as well as QEMU and container images. The SIG is working toward making RISC-V a primary architecture for Fedora, and has made...
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TL;DR: Store more with FolderFort's 2TB Cloud Storage Pro Plan with a lifetime subscription — $109.97 when you use code SECURE2TB at checkout. Your kids, your dog, that great meal you had on vacation last year — all these photo-worthy muses take up space to store. — Read...
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Faced with the contemporary choice between healthy carbs or healthy fats, some take the road more-traveled: a diet high in fat and sugar. If we already know the most delicious strategy is a bad one, new research from the University of Sydney has found something else to think ...
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Fortnite and Disney have announced a month-long Star Wars crossover, featuring Mandalorians, Cuddle Team Wookie, and of course, Darth Jar Jar. Fortnite's Star Wars seems to be more closely aligned with LEGO Star Wars than with the lightside of the movie and TV canon. — Read...
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The Python Steering Council accepted PEP 750 ('Template Strings') on April 10. LWN covered the discussion around the proposal, including the substantial revisions to the idea that were needed for it to be accepted. Template strings (t-strings) are a new kind of string that...
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A study published in Political Psychology—now there's a name for a journal—found that authoritarian people are 'primed' for conspiracy beliefs. Bearing in mind that not all conspiracy theories are false, a 'rich literature' of research connects such beliefs to stable...
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Chroma is a colorblindness simulator Ubisoft uses in game development, and the company has made it available for public use after 'several years of internal use and development.' It depicts Protanopia, Deuteranopia, and Tritanopia using filters. 'Over the past few years,...
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Ask a Linux enthusiast who created the Linux kernel, and odds are they will have no trouble naming Linus Torvalds—but many would be stumped if asked what the first Linux distribution was, and who created it. Some might guess Slackware, or its predecessor, Softlanding Linux...
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Bipedal robots ran 13.1 miles alongside human runners at a half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday. A divider seperated the two on parallel courses, but it was not apparently necessary. The day went well for meat and machine athletes, though many did not make it to the finish...
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Earth Day is tomorrow, and it is a time to reflect on how we treat the planet we all share (until Elon Musk colonizes Mars, at least). While some people mark the day by picking up trash or planting a tree, there’s another simple yet powerful way to help the environment...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (erlang, fig2dev, shadow, wget, and zabbix), Fedora (chromium, jupyterlab, llama-cpp, prometheus-podman-exporter, python-notebook, python-pydantic-core, rpki-client, rust-adblock, rust-cookie_store, rust-gitui, rust-gstreamer,...
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After the election, Target joined other retailers in making a show of ditching the 'DEI' programs aimed at improving employment prospects and conditions for black people, women, the disabled, veterans and other minorities. But Target isn't Tractor Supply, and its shoppers...
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Pete Hegseth shared operational details of a forthcoming attack on Houthis in Yemen in a Signal chatroom—a scandal that made a fool of him and exposed the insecure and evasive communication preferences of Trump officials. But that was just one of the chatrooms he was...
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A new report from Zafran Security shows that enterprise risk management is shifting from volume to value, and from patching everything to fixing what matters most. The study, carried out by Foundry MarketPulse, reveals that only one in 50,000 vulnerabilities actually pose a...
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The first latin American to lead the Catholic Church is dead at 88. Pope Francis, lately ailing but who only yesterday addressed crowds for an Easter Sunday service, died at 07:35 local time. The BBC collects accolades and tributes as mourners gather at the Vatican. — Read...
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Are you an IT security leader? Cool. Your job might be about to get a lot harder. Someone (ahem, Elon, DOGE, Congress...) is trying to slash the budget and headcount for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). You know, the part of the government that...
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There's old-fashioned cooking and then there's this. Mersu is the oldest known dessert in human history, being discovered on – of all things – a shopping receipt from ancient Mesopotamia. Tasting History with Max Miller, a show dedicated to resurrecting recipes from ages...
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AI and machine learning tools have had an important role in software development for many years, helping to drive efficiency and automation. The new generation of AI tools has the potential to supercharge this transformation, bringing even greater improvements to efficiency, ...
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