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Wednesday December 24, 2025. 01:50 AM
Phoronix's Michael Larabel writes: An interesting anecdote from this month's Linux Plumbers Conference in Tokyo is that Meta (Facebook) is using the Linux scheduler originally designed for the needs of Valve's Steam Deck... On Meta Servers. Meta has found that the scheduler...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MarketWatch: ServiceNow announced a deal to acquire cybersecurity company Armis on Tuesday, marking a new milestone in the software giant's artificial-intelligence business strategy. The $7.75 billion all-cash transaction is part of...
Irish competitor Diarmuid Early, dubbed the 'Lebron James of Excel spreadsheets,' has won the 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship in Las Vegas, dethroning three-time champion Andrew Ngai. The BBC reports: The esport showpiece in December attracted competitors worldwide...
Tuesday December 23, 2025. 11:55 PM
To help the Rust language continue scaling across domains and usage levels, the Rust Vision Doc group recommends enumerating the design goals for evolving the language while also improving the crates package system. These suggestions were made in a December 19 blog post...
A federal judge blocked Texas' app store age-verification law, ruling it likely violates the First Amendment by forcing platforms to gate speech and collect data in an overly broad way. The law was set to go into effect on January 1, 2026. The Verge reports: In an order...
Customers will be able to see vulnerabilities, prioritize risks, and close them with automated workflows. After over a week of speculation, ServiceNow announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to buy cybersecurity heavyweight Armis in a $7.75 billion deal that will see the...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: CBS cannot contain the online spread of a '60 Minutes' segment that its editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, tried to block from airing. The episode, 'Inside CECOT,' featured testimonies from US deportees who were tortured or...
Former comedian Russell Brand, already facing charges of rape, sexual assault and indecent assault, was charged Tuesday with another rape and another sexual assault. The BBC, citing a statement from the Crown Prosecution Service, reports that each charge concerns two...
An anonymous reader shares a report: It's been more than eight years since Amazon bought Whole Foods, but the two companies still haven't aligned their setup for the Microsoft software their employees use. That disconnect was flagged in an 8-week Deloitte review of Whole...
In the late 1980s, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary sat on the New York Times best-seller list for 155 consecutive weeks and eventually sold 57 million copies, a figure believed to be second only to the Bible in the United States -- but those days are thoroughly gone. ...
European public institutions are quietly migrating away from American cloud providers and office software, driven less by policy ambitions in Brussels than by the mundane legal reality that GDPR-mandated risk assessments keep flagging the US CLOUD Act as an unacceptable...
We sifted through the fine print to figure out how to score the best deal on all the major carriers.
An anonymous reader shares a report: Samsung is breaking new ground with its 2026 lineup of gaming monitors, with the Odyssey 3D G90XH becoming the first to feature a 6K display with 'glasses-free 3D.' The new monitor comes with a 32-inch IPS panel, offering real-time...
The great return-to-office battle has effectively concluded and a clear pecking order has emerged, according to Sander van 't Noordende, the CEO of Randstad, a staffing giant that places around half a million workers in jobs every week. Remote work is becoming a status...
Australia is on track for a significant expansion of desalination capacity -- converting seawater to freshwater -- to meet the needs of a swelling population at a time of declining average rainfall. From a report: The world's driest inhabited continent is projected to build...
More accurate and individualized health predictions will allow for preventative factors to be implemented well in advance.
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Besgnulinux, a Debian-based Linux distribution with the lightweight JWM window manager as the preferred desktop user interface, has been updated to version 3-2. The new release is available in three separate...
The legend sounded too perfect to be true: a video game company, humiliated by the worst game ever made, crushing millions of unsold cartridges and burying them under concrete in the New Mexico desert. For three decades, people argued whether it actually happened. — Read the...
In 1962, the town council of Centralia, Pennsylvania decided to burn trash in a landfill built inside an abandoned strip mine. The fire never went out. Sixty-three years later, it's still burning. The underground coal seam fire spreads through a labyrinth of abandoned mines...
The New York Police Department's “mosque-raking” program targeted Muslim communities across NYC. Now, as the city's first Muslim mayor takes office, one man is fighting—again—to fully expose it.
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