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Sunday December 28, 2025. 04:34 PM
The Register reports on challenges facing Europe's pursuit of 'digital sovereignty': The US CLOUD Act of 2018 allows American authorities to compel US-based technology companies to provide requested data, regardless of where that data is stored globally. This places European ...
A Ghanaian religious figure, Ebo Enoch, said that the world would end in a biblical flood on Christmas day. This event having not occurred, he has reportedly told his followers that the apocalypse has been postponed and that God has 'granted him more time' to build arks. —...
The human harms of cyberattacks piled up this year, and violence expected to increase The knock-on, and often unintentional, impacts of a cyberattack are so rarely discussed. As an industry, the focus is almost always placed on the economic damage: the ransom payment; the...
Many people rely on the sleep aid melatonin to help them get a more restful night’s sleep. But is it safe? And how much is too much?
An anonymous reader shared this report from the BBC: There is growing controversy over recent evidence suggesting that a mysterious force known as dark energy might be changing in a way that challenges our current understanding of time and space. An analysis by a South...
Legendary French actress, animal rights activist and racist crank Brigitte Bardot is dead at 91, according to reports in French media. 'The Brigitte Bardot foundation announces with immense sadness the death of its founder and president, Madame Brigitte Bardot, a...
There’s been endless talk online about just how bad Apple’s graphical user interface design has become over the years, culminating in the introduction of Liquid Glass across all of the company’s operating systems this year. Despite all the gnawing of teeth and scathing think...
Convenience isn’t just for meat eaters anymore. These plant-based meal kits and delivery services bring healthy preprepared meals and meal kits to your door.
Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who don’t.
We’re all familiar with things like marquee and blink, relics of HTML of the past, but there are far more weird and obscure HTML tags you may not be aware of. Luckily, Declan Chidlow at HTMLHell details a few of them so we can all scratch shake our heads in disbelief. But th...
The battle for AI dominance has left a large footprint—and it’s only getting bigger and more expensive.
Questions around the reliability of the US greenback are dulling the luster of what was the world’s currency of trade. New, global alternatives are emerging.
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Canaima project, which produces a set of Linux distributions, based on Debian 'Testing' and designed for use in Venezuela's public sector, has announced the release of Canaima GNU/Linux 8.3: 'Canaima GNU/Linux, ...
Hotel guests get a blast from the past courtesy of classic Windows BSOD BORK!BORK!BORK! Today's bork belongs in the dim and distant past – a reminder of when Windows had proper crash screens.…
'I believe artificial intelligence will displace workers at a scale many people don't yet realize,' says Sal Kahn (founder/CEO of the nonprofit Khan Academy). But in an op-ed in the New York Times he also proposes a solution that 'could change the trajectory of the lives of...
In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics.
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Wall Street Journal: Sending drones and robots into battle, rather than humans, has become a tenet of modern warfare. Nowhere does that make more sense than in the frozen expanses of the Arctic. But the closer you get to the...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Engadget: OpenAI is looking for a new Head of Preparedness who can help it anticipate the potential harms of its models and how they can be abused, in order to guide the company's safety strategy. It comes at the end of a year...
An anonymous Slashdot reader shared this story from Interesting Engineering: Cybersecurity specialists from the research group DARKNAVY have demonstrated how modern humanoid robots can be compromised and weaponised through weaknesses in their AI-driven control systems. In a...
Saturday December 27, 2025. 11:34 PM
Phoronix reports on 'an exciting post-Christmas patch series out on the Linux kernel mailing list' proposing 'a new runtime standby ABI that is similar in nature to the 'Modern Standby' functionality found with Microsoft Windows...' Modern Standby is a low-power mode on...
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