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Monday January 5, 2026. 09:38 AM
The love for AI could be a dangerous thing. Global stock markets that surged to record highs on enthusiasm for AI and easier monetary policy may be overlooking a growing risk that could derail the rally: a renewed upswing in inflation driven in part by the technology...
2025'S final months finally saw the publication of J.R.R. Tolkein's The Bovadium Fragments, writes the Los Angeles Review of Books: Anyone who has read Tolkien's letters will know that he is at his funniest when filled with rage, and The Bovadium Fragments is a work brimming ...
Two competing visions for the future of robots are taking shape in Silicon Valley hardware giants, university research labs, and, of course, Nvidia. One is the stuff of science fiction: humanoid robots (also known in science fiction as Gynoids, fembots, Stepford wives,...
Meet the ‘Mean Avenger’, the office anti-hero who steps in when managers don’t defend their team Who, Me? How on earth is it 2026 already? The Register will ponder that existential matter after first presenting a new instalment of “Who, Me?” – the...
Wednesday marked the end of support for the last and final version of HP-UX, writes OSNews. They call it 'the end of another vestige of the heyday of the commercial UNIX variants, a reign ended by cheap x86 hardware and the increasing popularisation of Linux.' I have two...
While California's residents have had the right to demand companies stop collecting/selling their data since 2020, doing so used to require a laborious opting out with each individual company,' reports TechCrunch. But now Californians can make 'a single request that more...
The 6.19-rc4 kernel prepatch is out for testing. So this rc is still a bit smaller than usual, but it's not _much_ smaller, and I think next week is likely going to be more or less back to normal. Which is all exactly as expected, and nothing here looks particularly odd....
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: postmarketOS 25.06 and 25.12 News: FreeBSD Foundation improves laptop support, Unix v4 available for download, a new X11 server is in development, CachyOS team plans...
North Dakota passed a law last May to promote development of rare earth minerals in the state. But the law's language apparently also includes two fake mineral names, according to the Bismarck Tribune, 'that appear to be inspired by coal company lawyers who worked on the...
America's electric car subsidies expired at the end of September, notes Bloomberg. Yet in those last three months, 'while fully electric cars and trucks made up 10% of all auto sales in the US... another 15% of transactions were for hybrid vehicles.' The EV market is slowing ...
Sunday January 4, 2026. 11:36 PM
Here it is — Betty Boop's first appearance, which became public domain on Thursday. It's a 60-second song halfway through a longer cartoon about a restaurant titled Dizzy Dishes. (The first scene makes it clear this is a restaurant of anthropomorphized animals — which...
TL;DR: Save on the ultimate laptop with a refurbished Apple MacBook Air 13″ (2017) for just $199.97 (Reg. $999) — that's the lowest price ever! Apple's MacBook Air is one of the most popular and expensive laptops on the market. But by buying refurbished, you can get a...
'The ancient evolution of fish mouths could help solve a modern source of plastic pollution,' writes ScienceAlert. 'Inspired by these natural filtration systems, scientists in Germany have invented a way to remove 99 percent of plastic particles from water. It's based on how ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Independent: Candida auris, a type of invasive yeast that can cause deadly infections in people with weakened immune systems, has infected at least 7,000 people [in 2025] across 27 U.S. states, according to data from the...
The administration has made it clear that Nicolás Maduro's capture was tied to Venezuela’s vast oil reserves. Much less certain is how US companies will actually access them—or if they even want to.
Also, Korean Air hacked, EmEditor installer hijacked, a perfect 10 router RCE vuln, and more infosec in brief The Trump administration has cleared a trio of individuals sanctioned by the Biden administration for involvement with the Intellexa spyware consortium behind the...
'Microsoft is hoping that Windows can once again serve as the platform where it all takes off,' reports GeekWire: A new framework called Agent Launchers, introduced in December as a preview in the latest Windows Insider build, lets developers register agents directly with...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Philip Müller has announced the release of Manjaro Linux 26, a major update of the project's set of rolling-release distributions with a choice of GNOME, KDE Plasma and Xfce desktops. Besides updates to GNOME...
Last June the Trump organization announced sales of a $499 'T1' smartphone with a gold-colored case. But though they originally were scheduled for release in August, this week a customer service representative for the wireless carrier told CBS News the device will be pushed...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Linux news site Linuxiac: Archboot, a guided, user-friendly, menu-driven installer for Arch Linux that automates much of the traditional manual installation process (while still allowing advanced users to intervene when...
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