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Friday August 23, 2024. 10:29 AM
Mature, stable – and can rescue corrupt files The second LibreOffice release of 2024 is here, with additional spreadsheet functions, improved presentation layouts, better searching, and more.…
A tale of retro tech – have you heard of Trivector computers? – and a very troubled tech support journey On Call Every IT pro has a story filed away about the time they were asked to provide tech support under odd circumstances, which is why each Friday The Register...
The Wow! signal, detected on August 15, 1977, was an intense radio transmission that appeared artificial and raised the possibility of extraterrestrial contact. However, recent research suggests it may have been caused by a natural astrophysical event involving a magnetar...
As results from 2023's Chandrayaan-3 mission suggest south pole Moon magma India's Department of Space has outlined plans to send its first astronaut to space next year, establish a space station by 2035, and land an Indian on the Moon by 2045.…
There's a lot of CO2 in datacenters, and Big Tech has promised to get to net zero The Open Compute Project, the org best known for offering designs for hyperscale hardware, has rounded up AWS, Google, Meta, and Microsoft to help it test concrete.…
LY Corp's QA team struggled to manage projects while wading through prolix posts LY Corp, a joint venture between Japan's SoftBank Group and South Korea's Naver Corporation known for its flagship messaging app LINE, has detailed how it uses an in-house ChatGPT implementation ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: A U.S. government report expected to stir debate concluded that fluoride in drinking water at twice the recommended limit is linked with lower IQ in children. The report, based on an analysis of previously...
Microsoft plans to phase out Windows Control Panel, a feature dating back to the 1980s, in favor of the modern Settings app, according to a recent support page. The tech giant has been gradually shifting functions to Settings since 2015, aiming for a more streamlined user...
Also testing allowing women to chose female drivers Chinese ride-share provider DiDi Chuxing announced on Thursday that it has started testing a feature that would allow riders to name and shame operators of smelly cars – and even take them off the road.…
New submitter ElimGarak000 shares a report from CyberScoop: The Texas-based voice service provider that sent AI-generated robocalls of President Joe Biden to New Hampshire voters ahead of its Democratic presidential primary has agreed to pay a $1 million fine and implement...
Those using Windows 11, version 24H2, should see better speed AMD has responded to community concerns about underwhelming gaming performance of its Ryzen 9000 Series desktop processors by attributing disappointing results recorded by independent testers to the vagaries of...
Former President Donald Trump is about to launch a crypto platform called 'The DeFiant Ones,' according to a post of his on Truth Social. 'For too long, the average American has been squeezed by the big banks and financial elites,' Trump wrote. 'It's time we take a stand --...
Google is making a new desktop app called Essentials that packages a few Google services, like Messages and Photos, and includes links to download many others. The app will be included with many new Windows laptops, with the first ones coming from HP. From a report: The...
The data analytics vendor's CEO says rival's over $1 billion Tabular acquisition is the 'vindication' Databricks' $1 billion plus purchase of Tabular demonstrates Iceberg has won the data table format wars, according to rival data analytics and ML vendor Snowflake.…
Wind and solar energy producers in Brazil have warned they are reconsidering future investments there after the national grid operator repeatedly capped how much energy they could deliver in the past year, which squeezed their profits. From a report: Brazil has made big...
Why go to the effort of backdooring code when devs will basically do it for you accidentally anyway SolarWinds left hardcoded credentials in its Web Help Desk product that can be used by remote, unauthenticated attackers to log into vulnerable instances, access internal...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Pong will always hold a special place in the history of gaming as one of the earliest arcade video games. Introduced in 1972, it was a table tennis game featuring very simple graphics and gameplay. In fact, it's simple...
Thursday August 22, 2024. 11:50 PM
Instagram is adding a new feature today that will 'allow users to add a song on their profile -- much like Myspace in the early 2000s,' writes The Verge's Mia Sato. From the report: The music added to a user's profile shows up in the bio area, according to screenshots shared ...
Here’s everything you need to know about lithium-ion battery fires in EVs and what you can do to stay safe if one starts in your car.
Complaints about lack of notice plus an inquiry from El Reg prompt U-turn by web giant Google Chrome 128, released on Wednesday, does not function without intervention on Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS 'Bionic Beaver,' and Google initially had no plans to fix it.…
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