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Monday August 4, 2025. 10:30 AM
Canonical lays off one of its old hands – a longstanding FOSS developer – after nearly two decades Till Kamppeter, the lead developer of the OpenPrinting subsystem for Linux, has been laid off by Canonical after 19 years.…
'Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched a crypto billionaire and five other people to the final frontier on Sunday,' reports Space.com: The mission — known as NS-34, because it was the 34th overall flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle — lifted off from the company's West...
Startups aren't good at testing software, or respecting contracts Who, Me? Welcome to the opening day of another working week, an occasion The Register always celebrates with a new installment of Who, Me? It's the Monday column that revisits readers' worst moments at work,...
Attempts to censor QUIC traffic create chance to block access to offshore DNS resolvers China’s attempts to censor traffic carried using Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) are imperfect and have left the country at risk of attacks that degrade its censorship apparatus,...
Oh, the irony of Europe demonstrating the importance of the sovereign cloud it craves Microsoft disconnected Indian company Nayara Energy from its cloudy resources last week, before restoring access ahead of a court clash.…
Disney 'cloned' Dwayne Johnson when filming a live-action Moana, reports the Wall Street Journal, using an AI process that they were ultimately afraid to use: Under the plan they devised, Johnson's similarly buff cousin Tanoai Reed — who is 6-foot-3 and 250 pounds — would...
Napster's latest AI pivot 'is the latest in a series of attempts by various owners to ride its brand cachet during emerging tech waves,' Fast Company reported in July. In March, it sold for $207 million to Infinite Reality, an immersive digital media and e-commerce company,...
PLUS: Nightmare insect found in Australia; Arista makes more stuff in India; Atlassian job cuts; And more! Asia In Brief China’s Cyberspace Administration last week reported increased uptake of IPv6.…
NBC News reports that in the U.S., many recent graduates looking to enter the labor force 'are painting a dire picture of their job search.' NBC News asked people who recently finished technical school, college or graduate school how their job application process was going,...
PLUS: Slow MFA rollout costs Canucks $5m; Lawmakers ponder Stingray ban; MSFT tightens Teams; And more! Infosec In Brief North Korea’s Lazarus Group has changed tactics and is now creating malware-laden open source software.…
'Hyundai sold 79,543 vehicles in the U.S. last month,' reports the EV news site Electrek — Hyundai's best July ever, and 15% higher than last year. 'The growth was mainly driven by electrified vehicles, including EVs and hybrids...' Hyundai said that electrified vehicle...
Started in 1984, it's been described as the internet's longest-running contest. And yesterday 2025's International Obfuscated C Code Contest concluded — with 23 new winners announced in a special four-and-a-half-hour livestreamed ceremony! Programmers submitted their...
Sunday August 3, 2025. 10:55 PM
Slashdot reader ffkom writes: The air around you mostly consists of nitrogen [78%]. And in that air exist happy little monogamous pairs of two nitrogen atoms per molecule, also known as N2. Researchers from the University of Giessen, Germany, recently managed to synthesize...
IBM's legendary Model M keyboard was sturdy and solid. But 'What would happen if you took the classic layout and look of the Model M and rebuilt it with modern mechanical guts?' asks long-time Slashdot reader uninet. Writing for the long-running tech blog Open for Business,...
America's nonprofit College Board lets high school students take college-level classes — including a computer programming course that culminates with a 90-minute test. But students did better on questions about If-Then statements than they did on questions about arrays,...
The Chinese government 'has embarked on an all-out drive to transform the technology from a remote concept to a newfangled reality, with applications on factory floors and in hospitals and government offices...' reports the Washington Post. '[E]xperts say Beijing is pursuing ...
Microsoft's AI coding assistant 'GitHub Copilot' has now had 20 million 'all-time users,' a GitHub spokesperson told TechCrunch. That means 5 million people have tried out GitHub Copilot for the first time in the last three months — the company reported in April the tool had...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Engadget: Nintendo sold 5.82 million Switch 2s in less than four weeks and is on pace to hit its target of 15 million units by April 2026, the company said in its latest earnings report. If that pans out, the Switch 2 would easily...
In 2025, 256 gigabytes just isn’t enough, and tacking on more storage isn’t as easy as it sounds.
'Did Craigslist drive the downfall of print classifieds?' That's the question asked in a new article from the nonprofit Poynter Institute for Media Studies: 'I've always wondered about that,' Newmark said in a Zoom interview July 1. 'I think it had an effect.' But portraying ...
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