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Tuesday September 17, 2024. 12:02 AM
Apple today is rolling out iOS 18, introducing support for Rich Communications Services (RCS) to enhance messaging between iPhone and Android devices with features like typing indicators, read receipts, and higher resolution media. 'However, there continues to be no...
Monday September 16, 2024. 11:25 PM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet, written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols: In a candid keynote chat at the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit Europe, Linux creator Linus Torvalds shared his thoughts on kernel development, the integration of Rust, and the future of ...
The U.S. government said Monday that it has issued fresh financial sanctions against five individuals and a corporate entity associated with spyware-making consortium Intellexa, months after the government sanctioned its founder. From a report: In its latest statement, the...
AI pioneers have issued a stark warning about the technology's potential risks, calling for urgent global oversight. At a recent meeting in Venice, scientists from around the world discussed the need for a coordinated international response to AI safety concerns. The group...
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has released version 6.11 of the open-source operating system kernel. The new release, while not considered major by Torvalds, introduces several notable improvements for AMD hardware users and Arch Linux developers. ZDNet: This latest version...
Amazon is instructing corporate staffers to spend five days a week in the office, CEO Andy Jassy wrote in a memo on Monday. From a report: The decision marks a significant shift from Amazon's earlier return-to-work stance, which required corporate workers to be in the office ...
Intel lost a bid to design and manufacture Sony's PlayStation 6 chip in 2022, dealing a blow to its contract manufacturing business. The contract, worth potentially billions in revenue, went to rival AMD after Intel failed to agree on pricing with Sony, Reuters reported...
Retraction Watch: A Nobel prize-winning genetics researcher has retracted two more papers, bringing his total to 13. Gregg Semenza, a professor of genetic medicine and director of the vascular program at Johns Hopkins' Institute for Cell Engineering in Baltimore, shared the...
Apple has increased its out-of-warranty battery replacement fee for iPhone 16 Pro models. From a report: Apple Stores can replace the battery inside an iPhone 16 Pro or iPhone 16 Pro Max for $119 in the U.S., which is up from $99 for the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max....
Microsoft has abandoned plans to overhaul its Edge browser interface, scrapping the design choice unveiled in February 2023. The redesign -- featuring a sleeker look with rounded tab buttons and increased blur effects -- aimed to give Edge a distinct identity as the company...
Ming-Chi Kuo, a high-profile and reliable Apple analyst, says the demand for the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max has been 'lower than expected' since the devices became available to pre-order in the U.S. and dozens of other countries on Friday. From a report: Kuo said...
China will 'gradually raise' its retirement age for the first time since the 1950s, as the country confronts an ageing population and a dwindling pension budget. From a report: The top legislative body on Friday approved proposals to raise the statutory retirement age from...
NASA will coordinate with U.S. government stakeholders, partners, and international standards organizations to establish a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) following a policy directive from the White House in April. From a report: The agency's Space Communication and Navigation...
On Tuesday Ivanti issued a 'high severity vulnerability' announcement for version 4.6 of its Cloud Service Appliance (or CSA). 'Successful exploitation could lead to unauthorized access to the device running the CSA.' And Friday that announcement got an update: Ivanti 'has...
An EFF article calls out a 'brazen attempt to privatize' a wireless frequency band (900 MHz) which America's FCC's left ' as a commons for all... for use by amateur radio operators, unlicensed consumer devices, and industrial, scientific, and medical equipment.' The spectrum ...
Flappy Bird's original creator hasn't posted anything on social media since 2017. Until today. 'This morning, the game's creator Dong Nguyen posted a characteristically terse comment stating that he has nothing to do with the revival,' report TechCrunch, 'and that he 'did...
For 30 days, 17,000 AT&T workers in nine different states from the CWA union went on strike. As it began one North Carolina newspaper noted some AT&T customers 'report prolonged internet outages.' Last week an Emory University economist told NPR that 'If it wasn't disruptive ...
The New York Times looks at 'a third-generation family firm' in Paraguay 'with 280 workers that packages hot sauce, soy beans...and seven kinds of salt for sale in Paraguayan supermarkets.' Its mascot — on t-shirts, coffee cups, and 'in heavy demand at Paraguayan weddings' —...
'Even black holes have edge cases,' writes Astronomy magazine contributing editor Steve Nadis, in an article in Quanta magazine (republished today by Wired): Black holes rotate in space. As matter falls into them, they start to spin faster; if that matter has charge, they...
Sunday September 15, 2024. 10:56 PM
Last October Slashdot reported on René Rebe's discovery of a random illegal instruction speculation bug on AMD Ryzen 7000-series and Epyc Zen 4 CPUs — which Rebe discussed on his YouTube channel. But this week's YouTube episode had a different ending, reports Tom's...
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