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Saturday December 27, 2025. 04:34 PM
On Wednesday (Christmas Eve), the Free Software Foundation announced it had received two major contributions totaling around $900,000 USD — in the cryptocurrency Monero. The two donations 'are among some of the largest private gifts ever made to the organization,' the FSF...
If you have use BitLocker to secure files within Windows 11, you will almost certainly have noticed something of a performance hit. Microsoft is not unaware of this, and is taking steps to help improve things. The company is rolling out hardware-accelerated BitLocker, which...
Depending on when you signed up for a Gmail account, and factoring in the uniqueness or otherwise of your name, your email address may be one you are happy with, or it could feel like a burden. If you have become unhappy with the @gmail.com address you chose years ago, you...
A Salvation Army bell ringer was arrested Tuesday after trying to 'impale' the manager of the store he was collecting donations at. This Florida man's weapon of choice: the distinctive red tripod used by the church to carry donation buckets. Martin County Sheriff's Office...
Famed football coach and commentator John Madden, a legend to sports fans and gamers alike, has received in death the ultimate form of memorialization: a biopic starring Nicolas Cage in a fat suit. Netflix posted a trailer (embedded below) for the upcoming movie, to be...
If you’re building a package manager and git-as-index seems appealing, look at Cargo, Homebrew, CocoaPods, vcpkg, Go. They all had to build workarounds as they grew, causing pain for users and maintainers. The pull request workflow is nice. The version history is nice. You ...
This copycat controller can’t clone the PS5’s best features, but it’s a solid option for Xbox and PC gamers.
Best not touch that screen, eh? Bork!Bork!Bork! Today's Christmas bork comes from London's Victoria train station, just before the festive season got underway, and is an update to the old IT standby: 'It isn't DNS. It can't be DNS... It was SSL.'…
Those brief freezes and audio hiccups that plague video calls are not the benign nuisances that most people assume them to be, according to a new study published in Nature that found glitches during virtual interactions can meaningfully damage hiring prospects, reduce trust...
Chinese companies have pledged hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy manufacturing investments overseas, but the projects are having significant social, environmental, and human rights impacts.
Choosing a mattress for your guest room, Airbnb, or VRBO rental is challenging. This hybrid is up for it.
In the AI boom, chatbots and GPTs come and go quickly. (Remember Llama?) GPT-5 had a big year, but 2026 will be all about Qwen.
In a year that began with a memecoin trading frenzy, stablecoins have emerged as the respectable face of the crypto industry.
Christmas is already behind us, but since this is an announcement from 11 December – that I missed – I’m calling this a very interesting and surprising Christmas present. The team and I are beyond excited to share what we’ve been cooking up over the last little while: a...
Taiwan's iPass has released a limited-edition prepaid payment card shaped exactly like a 3.5-inch floppy disk. The company, perhaps rightly so, felt the need to include a warning on the product listing: 'This product only has a card function and does not have a 3.5mm [sic]...
The future of conflict is cheap, rapidly manufactured, and tough to defend against.
Toll roads are expanding across the U.S. as the traditional gas tax funding model for highways collapses. Indiana became the first state to authorize tolls on all of its existing interstate highways when Governor Mike Braun signed legislation in June. The federal gas tax...
The first-ever commercial rocket launched at Brazil's Alcantara Space Center crashed soon after liftoff late earlier this week, dealing a blow to Brazilian aerospace ambitions and shares of South Korean satellite launch company Innospace. From a report: The rocket began its...
After more than two decades of promises and false starts in the mesh networking space, the smart home standards that Apple, Amazon and Google have each championed are finally set to escape their respective brand silos and work together in a single unified network. Starting...
Bethesda Softworks, the studio behind blockbuster Elder Scrolls and Fallout open-world RPGs, has earned a reputation for overpromising and underdelivering. Studio boss Todd Howard once claimed Fallout 3 would have 'over 300' endings—it actually has two. This latest promise...
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