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Monday October 20, 2025. 10:26 AM
Like email, SMS, and just about every other method of communication, WhatsApp suffers from spam. There are certainly things that can be done by users to stem the flow of spam that makes its way to their inboxes, but WhatsApp is also trying to help. The platform has already...
ValueLicensing dispute probes whether Office counts as a creative work The long-running legal battle between ValueLicensing and Microsoft over the resale of software licenses has taken another turn following Microsoft's attempt to make the case about copyright.…
Privacy Sandbox was Google’s vision for replacing third-party cookies, but now the company is giving up and moving on from the idea. First launched six years ago, Privacy Sandbox suffered with low-adoption, and Google has gradually snuffed out various technologies relating ...
'The gig economy is facing a reckoning,' argues Business Insider's BI Today newsletter.' Two stories this past week caught my eye. Uber unveiled a new way for its drivers to earn money. No, not by giving rides, but by helping train the ride-sharing company's AI models...
It has been known for a little while that Meta has been working on a username system for WhatsApp. The popular messaging app is slightly unusual in not offering people a way to choose a username, but this is going to change at some point in the future. Recent beta builds of...
Once more into the, er, breach? The UK's Armed Forces veterans are being tasked with one last mission – proving the government can successfully roll out a digital ID card scheme.…
New versions of PowerToys are always eagerly received, especially when there are new utilities to explore. This was certainly the case with the release of PowerToys v0.95 last week, but in addition to the excitement there has also been confusion. With PowerToys v.0.95,...
Oh … you mean we shouldn’t press that button? Who, Me? Each new Monday ushers in a week during which you might shine or flatline. The Register celebrates the times you end up doing the latter with a new instalment of Who, Me? It's the column in which you admit to making...
'Windows Recovery Environment (RE), as the name suggests, is a built-in set of tools inside Windows that allow you to troubleshoot your computer, including booting into the BIOS, or starting the computer in safe mode,' writes Tom's Hardware. 'It's a crucial piece of software ...
Readers in 2025 'may struggle to remember the optimism of the aughts, when the internet seemed to offer endless possibilities for virtual art and writing that was free...' argues a new review at Bookforum. 'The content we do create online, if we still create, often feels...
The 6.18-rc2 kernel prepatch is out. End result: rc2 is on the bigger side, and we still have some of the remaining regressions outstanding, but we should be making slow progress. It's fairly early days yet, so I'm not very worried. Things on the whole look fairly normal.
On Cloudflare's blog, a senior research engineer shares a plan for 'improving the trustworthiness of JavaScript on the web.' 'It is as true today as it was in 2011 that Javascript cryptography is Considered Harmful.' The main problem is code distribution. Consider an...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Kubuntu 25.10 News: Fedora community debates inclusion of AI, Free Software Foundation plans to bring free software drivers to select mobile devices, ReactOS addresses...
'My boss thinks AI will solve every problem and is wildly enthusiastic about it,' complains a mid-level worker at a Fortune 500 company, who considers the technology 'unproven and wildly erratic.' So how should they navigate the next 10 years until retirement, they ask the...
Sunday October 19, 2025. 11:50 PM
Cory Doctorow has always warned that companies 'enshittify' their services — shifting 'as much as they can from users, workers, suppliers, and business customers to themselves.' But this week Doctorow writes in Communications of the ACM that enshittification 'would be much,...
Organizers say the “No Kings” protests drew more than 7 million people across 2,700 cities. The crowds included high-profile politicians, A-list celebrities, and more than a few creative inflatables.
Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes: GIMP has officially launched its own Snap package for Linux, finally taking over from the community-maintained Snapcrafters project. The move means all future GIMP releases will now be built directly from the team's CI pipeline, ensuring...
'This is an attempt to stop Waymo cars from driving into the dead end,' complains a home-made sign in San Francisco, 'where they are forced to reverse and adversely affect the lives of the residents.' On an orange traffic post, the home-made sign declares 'NO WAYMO — 8:00...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Cryptonews: Sony has taken Wall Street by surprise after its banking division, Sony Bank, filed an application with the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish a national crypto bank under its subsidiary...
'Eleven days ago, the nonprofit entity that develops the protocol, Signal Messenger LLC, published a 5,900-word write-up describing its latest updates that bring Signal a significant step toward being fully quantum-resistant,' writes Ars Technica: The mechanism that has made ...
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