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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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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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The Guardian reports that atmospheric carbon dioxide 'soared by a record amount in 2024 to hit another high, UN data shows.' But what's more troubling is why: Several factors contributed to the leap in CO2, including another year of unrelenting fossil fuel burning despite a...
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An anonymous reader shared this report from Gizmodo: It's been over a year since OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy exited the company. In the time since he's been gone, he coined and popularized the term 'vibe coding' to describe the practice of farming out coding projects to ...
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