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Monday January 5, 2026. 03:34 AM
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...
'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...
TL;DR: Get ultra-secure cloud storage with a lifetime subscription to the 6TB Advanced Plan from Drime for $249.99, 58% off the $599 MSRP. When every day brings new stories of data breaches, or cyber attacks that expose private information, it's hard to feel secure in your...
The Wall Street Journal profiles 'the startup that is now one of a handful of chip makers nipping at the heels of Nvidia.' Furiosa's AI chip is dubbed 'RNGD' — short for renegade — and slated to start mass production this month. Valued at nearly $700 million based on its...
A hacking group claiming to have breached the defenses of Resecurity and gained access to internal data was actually fooled by a honeypot stuffed with synthetic data, says the security firm at the center of the story. Dating back a few weeks, the data breach was originally...
The New York Times checks in on U.S. university researchers and start-ups trying to create domestic rare-earth processing facility: There is too little money to be made in rare earths for the elements to be of much interest to mining giants, so the challenge of...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Arne Exton has announced the release of a new version of the 'ArchEX' line of Exton Linux. Based on Arch Linux, build 260104 comes with the MATE desktop environment and includes the Calamares system installer:...
Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms.
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