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Monday October 20, 2025. 01:20 AM
'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...
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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,...
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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.
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TL;DR: Get a 1-year Sam's Club membership (with auto-renew) for just $15 (MSRP $50)—includes fuel savings, bulk buys, exclusive perks, and a bonus household card. Imagine walking into a store where the carts are oversized, the snacks abound, and the savings feel almost...
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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...
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'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...
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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...
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'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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Long-time Slashdot reader Bruce66423 shared this article from the Los Angeles Times: Scientists have increasingly observed how the rupturing of a fault during an earthquake can be even faster than the speed of another type of damaging seismic wave, theoretically generating...
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Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.17.4 6.12.54 6.6.113 6.1.157, and 5.15.195 stable kernels. As usual, each contains important fixes; users of those kernels are advised to upgrade.
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Make a house into a home with these gifts, whether your recipient is moving into their first house or a great new apartment.
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TL;DR: Lock a lifetime subscription to Pok Pok for $59.99 and take $12 off to get it for $47.99 at checkout with coupon code PLAY until November 2! If you want screen time that doesn't wind kids up like a wind-up toy, Pok Pok goes the other way. — Read the rest The post...
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'Microsoft does everything in its power to keep Windows users under its control,' warns the Free Software Foundation in a new blog post this week. They argue that the lack of freedom that comes with proprietary code 'forces users to surrender to decisions made by Microsoft...
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I’m really glad I took this mail-order medical-grade microbiome shotgun test to look for warning signs of health conditions.
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These WIRED-tested memory sticks are a virtual filing cabinet in your pocket.
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Cloud storage is speedy, convenient, and simple—until it stops working.
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Microsoft said in a blog post this week that 'over half of cyberattacks with known motives were driven by extortion or ransomware... while attacks focused solely on espionage made up just 4%.' And Microsoft's annual digital threats report found operations expanding even more ...
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Das Keyboard finally modernizes its mechanical keyboard, but makes a few crucial missteps that ruin the experience.
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Google’s Gemini AI has offended my dog, but at least it can automatically turn the lights on for me.
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By stripping away the fabric tape that’s held zippers together for a hundred years, Japanese clothing giant YKK is designing the future of seamless clothing.
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