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Monday February 17, 2025. 04:22 AM
For over a decade Karol Herbst has been a developer on the open-source Nouveau driver, a reverse-engineered NVIDIA graphics driver for Linux. 'He went on to become employed by Red Hat,' notes Phoronix. 'While he's known more these days for his work on the Mesa 3D Graphics...
PLUS: DOGE web design disappoints; FBI stops crypto scams; Zacks attacked again; and more! Infosec In Brief A security researcher has found that Google could leak the email addresses of YouTube channels, which wasn’t good because the search and ads giant promised not to do ...
The Cleveland Review of Books ponders a new 697-page hardcover collection of American poet/author Kevin Killian's.... reviews from Amazon. (Over 2,000 of 'em — written over the course of 16 years.) In 2012, he wrote three substantial paragraphs about the culinary perfection...
PLUS: Pacific islands targeted by Chinese APT; China’s new rocket soars; DeepSeek puts Korea in a pickle; and more Asia In Brief The head of Fujitsu’s North American operations has warned that the Trump administration’s tariff plans will be bad for business.…
Nicholas Carr wrote The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. But his new book looks at how social media and digital communication technologies 'are changing us individually and collectively,' writes the Los Angeles Review of Books. The book's title?...
Sunday February 16, 2025. 10:41 PM
'A robotic lander from Texas-based Firefly Aerospace is now in orbit around the Moon,' reports Spaceflight Now, 'and going through its final preparations to land in the coming weeks.' Its arrival comes nearly a month after the spacecraft launched onboard a Falcon 9 rocket...
gwolf (Slashdot reader #26,339) writes: On Friday, February 14, Libertarian Argentinian president, Javier Milei, promoted the just-created $LIBRA cryptocoin, created by the Viva la libertad project, strongly aligned with his political party, La Libertad Avanza. Milei...
El Reg shows you how to run Zyphra's speech-replicating AI on your own box Hands on Palo Alto-based AI startup Zyphra unveiled a pair of open text-to-speech (TTS) models this week said to be capable of cloning your voice with as little as five seconds of sample audio. In our ...
'What if time is not as fixed as we thought?' That's the question raised in an announcement from the University of Surrey. 'Imagine that instead of flowing in one direction — from past to future — time could flow forward or backward due to processes taking place at the...
Christie's auction house notes that an AI-generated 'portrait' of an 18th-century French gentleman recently sold for $432,500. (One member of the Paris-based collective behind the work says 'we found that portraits provided the best way to illustrate our point, which is that ...
The passage of time is hard on computer parts. Sometimes it’s about how much they wear down over time; other times, it’s the fact that older parts get set aside and forgotten, only to be left behind by time. For instance, it may seem like PCIe 4.0 just arrived to...
'Meta is involved in a class action lawsuit alleging copyright infringement, a claim the company disputes...' writes the tech news site Hot Hardware. But the site adds that newly unsealed court documents 'reveal that Meta allegedly used a minimum of 81.7TB of illegally...
Yahoo Finance shares an interesting prediction. Amazon has an 'under-the-radar robot push' that 'could boost its profit margins big-time, Morgan Stanley managing director Brian Nowak said.' Nowak said Amazon has quietly developed six significant next-generation fulfillment...
The Pro Keys 2 is a solid iPad keyboard case offering great protection for your tablet. However, there are quite a few caveats along the way.
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: you can never have enough storage space. Extra SSDs are useful for so many things. And right now, you can snag this large-capacity pocket-sized portable SSD at a phenomenal price. The Samsung T7 SSD normally retails for $270...
Spin class is intimidating, but your gear shouldn't be. Clip in and conquer your next session with these WIRED-approved picks.
Asus’ Ceraluminum machine is one of the lightest 14-inch laptops we’ve ever tested.
SSDs are now the most common type of hard drive in both laptops and desktop PCs. They’re compact, they’re quite, and they outperform traditional hard drives by a mile — but they also tend to slow down over time (and eventually stop working altogether). But it’s not...
What's next, Crysis-in-a-CSV? First came Tetris, then Doom – and now a bare-bones Linux instance that boots inside a PDF.…
Luigi Mangione faces first-degree murder charges. On Valentine's Day he posted his first public comments online, reports People magazine, with Mangione saying he's grateful for the support he's receiving: Earlier this week, Mangione accepted $297,000 in donations to cover...
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