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Monday February 17, 2025. 12:30 PM
The notorious “Blue Screen of Death” — or BSOD for short — is the biggest disaster that can befall a Windows user. The system shuts down with a cryptic error message on a blue background and is only ready for use again after a restart. Unsaved data is lost. After the ...
At a glanceExpert's Rating Pros Great keyboard Respectable battery life Strong build Cons Chunky bezels take up a lot of screen real estate Blah design Only one charging port Our Verdict The Acer Chromebook Spin 315 delivers reliable day-to-day performance as well as ...
Old Lady of Threadneedle Street to pay millions for 'amended implementation methodology' The Bank of England has nearly doubled the money it is dedicating to partner spending for an Oracle cloud transformation, which it began imagining in 2020.…
Trade body wants recommendations fast-tracked and fabs designated critical national infrastructure Almost two years after the British government published its National Semiconductor Strategy, calls are growing for bolder action and a faster implementation of its...
Today Seoul's Personal Information Protection Commission 'said DeepSeek would no longer be available for download until a review of its personal data collection practices was carried out,' reports AFP. A number of countries have questioned DeepSeek's storage of user data,...
When asked to offer honest feedback, maybe pause to ponder how well you play office politics Who, Me? Welcome to a fresh Monday, and therefore a new installment of 'Who, Me?', our reader-contributed column that shares your stories of making workplace mistakes and scraping...
Artificial intelligence has changed the way we write, create, work, and plan—and with the 2025 ChatGPT Skills & Creativity Bundle, you’ll be at the forefront of this revolution. For a limited time, you can access five expert-led courses that teach you how to supercharge...
Shhh. Don’t tell Hock Tan about those Xeons that unlock functions when you pay a fee Broadcom is reportedly contemplating a play for Intel.…
DevOps team did the dirty on a database Data management software vendor Veeam has admitted to an embarrassing oopsie: messing up a restoration job and erasing data.…
California is 'considering state ownership of one or more oil refineries,' reports the Los Angeles Times. They call the idea 'one item on a list of options presented by the California Energy Commission to ensure steady gas supplies as oil companies pull back from the...
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 ...
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