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Monday April 29, 2024. 01:00 PM
Sometimes Linux releases are like buses… frequently clustered together, and rarely as reliable as you might ideally want FOSS round-up Last week was a busy one for the open source community: EndeavourOS and TrueNAS Scale arrived on Tuesday, Fedora landed on Wednesday, and...
Ever feel like Instagram or TikTok algorithms know you a bit too well? The backlash against automated curation is building, and new algorithm-free platforms are springing up.
Fast solid-state drives (SSDs) have now almost completely replaced classic hard disc drives (HDDs) in PCs and notebooks. In this guide, we reveal which SSD tips you should definitely know so that you can get even more out of your mass storage device. Speed measurement To...
Ad tech rewrite to replace web cookies still not to regulatory taste The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) still has privacy and competition concerns about Google's Privacy Sandbox advertising toolkit, which explains why the ad giant recently again delayed its plan...
WIRED’s advice columnist answers questions about fantasy vs. reality.
Everyone wants the best tools to do their best work, but not everybody is willing to shell out big money to get those tools. For instance, Microsoft Office may be the best in the biz, but when there are free tools available, it doesn’t make sense to meet the price tag. Recent...
Cabinet Office letter also reveals department lost money on unfinished database project The UK Cabinet Office has confirmed it is £17.5 million out of pocket after underwriting the official receiver of UKCloud, which went into liquidation in 2022.…
Indeed and LinkedIn are incorporating more generative AI to improve the recruiting and job-hunting processes. Some recruiters are still unconvinced.
Zed 80 is dead baby, Zed 80 is dead.... vulture claws over the astounding tech Opinion It lasted 50 years, but history finally claimed it. Zilog has called time on the Z80 CPU. Readers may have owned one in an 8-bit microcomputer or showered coins on one in an early arcade...
If you want to make your budget last through the month, see how much you can save by shopping at Costco while a 1-Year Costco Gold Star Membership comes with a $40 Digital Costco Shop Card* for $60. A Costco Gold Star Membership gives you access to more than 500 warehouses...
Sometimes there's more than enough blame to go around Who, Me? Welcome once again, gentle reader, to the safe space we like to call Who, Me? wherein Reg readers may unburden themselves with tales of times their tech prowess might have let them down.…
RockDoctor (Slashdot reader #15,477) wants to tell you about a 'new' star that will be visible to the naked eye — without a telescope — sometime before September: By 'star', I do not mean 'comet', 'meteorite' or 'firefly', but genuine [star] photons arriving here after about ...
Researcher finds it beats Intel's Xeons for speed on one database-related tests, joins AWS Gravitons in cost-efficiency win The homebrew Yitian 710 CPU developed in 2021 and deployed by Alibaba Cloud is the fastest Arm server processor for rent in hyperscale clouds when...
European iPhone owners are being shown a new pop-up screen listing alternatives to the Safari browser. The developers of the browsers shown on that screen are torn about the user experience.
China’s state-sponsored disinformation campaign has been running at a massive scale for seven years—but no one is looking at it.
'Remarkably similar' to the Kirin 9000 processor that shocked many last year A teardown of Huawei's Pura 70 smartphone by an IC research firm revealed the Chinese tech giant is relying on Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp's (SMIC) HiSilicon Kirin 9010 processor, ...
Though it's long past Y2K, another date-related bug is still with us, writes Slashdot reader Bruce66423, sharing this report from the BBC. 'A 101-year-old woman keeps getting mistaken for a baby, because of an error with an airline's booking system.' The problem occurs...
Core and boosters are on the pad ahead of (maybe) June launch The European Space Agency is ready to put together the first Ariane 6 rocket, and has declared the campaign to get it into orbit is under way.…
ALSO: Infostealer spotted hiding in CDN cache, antivirus update hijacked to deliver virus, and some critical vulns Updated - Infosec in brief They say sunlight is the best disinfectant, and that appears to have been true in the case of Discord data harvesting site Spy.pet...
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN: Five times the size of Paris. Visible from space. The world's biggest energy plant. Enough electricity to power Switzerland. The scale of the project transforming swathes of barren salt desert on the edge of western India into ...
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