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Thursday January 1, 2026. 07:40 PM
Three decades after RFC 1883 promised to future-proof the internet by expanding the available pool of IP addresses from around 4.3 billion to over 340 undecillion, IPv6 has yet to achieve the dominance its creators envisioned. Data from Google, APNIC and Cloudflare analyzed...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Only the government could spend 20 years creating a national ID that no one wanted and that apparently doesn't even work as a national ID. But that's what the federal government has accomplished with the REAL ID, which the Department of...
As the calendar flips to January 1, 2026, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 are entering the US public domain alongside sound recordings from 1925, making them free to copy, share, remix and build upon without permission or licensing fees. The literary haul includes...
The new year isn’t even a day old, and Haiku developer X512 dropped something major in Haiku users’ laps: the first alpha version of an accelerated NVIDIA graphics drivers for Haiku. Supporting at least NVIDIA Turing and Ampere GPUs, it’s very much in alpha state, but does al...
The European Space Agency has acknowledged yet another security incident after a cybercriminal posted an offer on BreachForums the day after Christmas claiming to have stolen over 20GB of data including source code, confidential documents, API tokens and credentials. The...
'What do we need to do better?' El Reg talks to comms boss about the problem Interview Scientists and engineers have been taken aback by the amount of radio interference generated by satellite constellations, and many are calling on standards bodies to improve operator...
Nick, an asylum seeker living in Chicago legally and issued with a temporary Real ID, won a jackpot at the Bally's casino there. The casino is refusing to pay him the $1,250 it owes on the basis of his immigration status, CBS News reports, while also refusing to provide them ...
Mark Thomson, a professor of experimental particle physics at the University of Cambridge, takes over as CERN's director general this week, and one of his first major decisions during his five-year tenure will be shutting down the Large Hadron Collider for an extended...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Happy New Year! The minimal Peropesis distribution has a new release which introduces the PHP development language which is commonly used on web servers: 'Peropesis 3.1 is released. In the new edition, part of...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (imagemagick and net-snmp), Fedora (delve, golang-github-google-wire, and golang-github-googlecloudplatform-cloudsql-proxy), and SUSE (podman, python3, and python36).
Instagram head Adam Mosseri closed out 2025 by acknowledging what many have long suspected: the era of trusting photographs as accurate records of reality is over, and the platform he runs will need to fundamentally adapt to an age of 'infinite synthetic content.' In a...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the San Francisco Chronicle: A long stretch of curb in San Francisco's Mission District might contain a whole menagerie of parked vehicles: hatchbacks, SUVs, dusty pick-ups, chic Teslas. And recently, Waymo robotaxis. That's what Kyle ...
Whether you want to run a marathon or learn to play the guitar, here’s how to set yourself up for success.
Since its debut in August, Google’s Nano Banana image model has gone from a cool tech demo to a daily companion for millions. With the November release of Nano Banana Pro, the capabilities jumped from nice-to-have to studio-quality. Google’s latest update notes that the...
Insurance subsidies that lower healthcare costs for millions of Americans expired Wednesday. The credits were canceled by congressional Republicans eager to roll back the Affordable Care Act, passed during the Obama administration to limit the costs of medical treatment....
Do you want bork with that? Bork!Bork!Bork! Today's example of bork-in-the-wild shows that Microsoft is not the only game in town when it comes to screens having an IT moment in public. No, there will be no orders on this Firefox-based drive-thru kiosk at Wendy's.…
After years of hype about generative AI increasing productivity and making lives easier, 2025 was the year erotic chatbots defined AI’s narrative.
It’s the calm before the storm. Today, on New Year’s Day, we have a brief moment to pause and prepare — and set ourselves up for success. From a tech perspective, that means taking the time to clean up and optimize your smartphone setup. That way, when the inevitable...
Our reviewer optimized his morning cup of coffee with creamer substitutes that promise health benefits and mental clarity.
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