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Monday October 7, 2024. 12:30 PM
One woman spills the beans about giving birth to rich people's children. “They were offering Scrooge McDuck buckets of money.”
I hate to say it, but desktop PCs are behind the times. This may seem a little strange, but I haven’t used a desktop PC for years (decades?) until recently. Laptops, even an odd Chromebook or two, generally took care of my needs. In the evening, I’d fire up the Xbox or...
What we see and use on the internet in web browsers such as Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari is only a fraction of what is actually available. Information and data can be published and exchanged with the greatest possible anonymity on the so-called darknet, as...
A couple of FOSS goodies that should be ready for the festive season The next version of Xfce, the oldest FOSS Unix desktop environment around, is nearly ready – and should have preliminary, 'minimally usable' Wayland support.…
British Mountain Rescue workers have developed an automated drone system that can scour a landscape far quicker and more thoroughly than human eyes.
Struggle ye not with cookies, lest ye become a cookie monster Opinion The people are defeated. Worn out, deflated, and apathetic about the barrage of banners and pop-ups about cookies and permissions.…
TL;DR: Stop paying for Office every month. With this license to Microsoft Office 2019 for $24.97 (until October 27), you can own it for life with a one-time purchase. If you’re tired of paying for an Office 365 subscription every month, there’s a better option. With...
An anonymous reader shared this post from the blog It's FOSS It has been more than two years since K-9 Mail (an open-source email client for Android) joined the Mozilla Thunderbird project. Instead of making a new mobile app from scratch, Mozilla decided to convert K-9 Mail...
You had one job – doing extra is nice, but dangerous Who, Me? On Monday, The Register readers have two jobs: survive the day, and read the fresh instalment of Who, Me? – the column based on your less-marvellous moments.…
Despite amazing battery life and lovely speed, this one has flaws that may annoy Desktop Tourism Across the 30 years I've used laptop PCs, they've always made me anxious about battery life. Dell's XPS 13 9345 Copilot+ PC powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon Elite X is the first...
800,000 tons of rock have been excavated from a South Dakota research facility — part of a multi-year process 'to help answer some of physics' biggest questions,' writes America's Energy Department. 'The caverns they excavated will hold a massive particle detector and...
Long-time Slashdot reader Bismillah writes: Python New Zealand has gone through some rough times lately, with its then-treasurer stealing money from the society.. Things were looking really serious for a while, with Python NZ looking at being liquidated due to the theft of...
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this report from Australia's public broadcaster ABC: Ecovacs robot vacuums, which have been found to suffer from critical cybersecurity flaws, are collecting photos, videos and voice recordings — taken inside customers' houses — to...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: Hundreds of Americans have been arrested after being connected to a crime by facial recognition software, a Washington Post investigation has found, but many never know it because police seldom disclose their...
Sunday October 6, 2024. 11:58 PM
Amazon launched 'cashierless checkout' stores In 2018, reports CNBC — but by 2020 it was licensing the 'Just Walk Out' technology to other stores in airports, hospitals, and stadiums. In April, Amazon announced it was removing cashierless checkout from its U.S. Fresh stores...
This may help Switchzilla hit $1B AI sales goal by FY25 Analysis Cisco reportedly plans to throw its weight behind CoreWeave in a deal that would boost its valuation to $23 billion and potentially cement the network giant's place in the rent-a-GPU outfit's cloud.…
'Pine64 has confirmed that its open-source e-ink tablet is returning,' reports the blog OMG Ubuntu: The [10.1-inch e-ink display] PineNote was announced in 2021, building on the success of its non-SBC devices like the PinePhone (and later Pro model), the PineTab, and...
The British Post Office scandal 'was first exposed by Computer Weekly in 2009, revealing the stories of seven subpostmasters and the problems they suffered due to Horizon accounting software,' remembers Computer Weekly, 'which led to the most widespread miscarriage of...
'Scientists can't agree on the exact rate of expansion of the universe, dictated by the Hubble constant,' a new article at Space.com reminds us: The rate can be measured starting from the local (and therefore recent) universe, then going farther back in time — or, it can be...
El Reg gets its claws in multimodal models - and shows you how to use them and what they can do Hands on Meta has been influential in driving the development of open language models with its Llama family, but up until now, the only way to interact with them has been through...
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