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Monday October 20, 2025. 06:54 AM
'Windows Recovery Environment (RE), as the name suggests, is a built-in set of tools inside Windows that allow you to troubleshoot your computer, including booting into the BIOS, or starting the computer in safe mode,' writes Tom's Hardware. 'It's a crucial piece of software ...
Readers in 2025 'may struggle to remember the optimism of the aughts, when the internet seemed to offer endless possibilities for virtual art and writing that was free...' argues a new review at Bookforum. 'The content we do create online, if we still create, often feels...
On Cloudflare's blog, a senior research engineer shares a plan for 'improving the trustworthiness of JavaScript on the web.' 'It is as true today as it was in 2011 that Javascript cryptography is Considered Harmful.' The main problem is code distribution. Consider an...
'My boss thinks AI will solve every problem and is wildly enthusiastic about it,' complains a mid-level worker at a Fortune 500 company, who considers the technology 'unproven and wildly erratic.' So how should they navigate the next 10 years until retirement, they ask the...
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,...
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...
'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...
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...
'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 ...
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...
'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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Repair Plan Underway to Restore Power at Ukrainian Nuclear Plant The Associated Press reports: Work has begun to repair the damaged power supply to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog said Saturday. The repairs are hoped to end ...
Long-time Slashdot reader fjo3 shares an announcement from the U.S.-based nonprofit Consumer Reports: Protein powders still carry troubling levels of toxic heavy metals, according to a new Consumer Reports (CR) investigation. Our latest tests of 23 protein powders and...
Saturday October 18, 2025. 11:48 PM
'A new study published on Monday found that communications from cellphone carriers, retailers, banks, and even militaries are being broadcast unencrypted through geostationary satellites...' reports Gizmodo. 'The team obtained unencrypted internet communications from U.S....
It's the world's largest network of environmental groups, according to NBC News, with more than 1,400 members from roughly 160 countries. It meets once every four years. And in a vote Tuesday, the International Union for Conservation of Nature 'approved further exploration...
'Windows 10 is officially dead,' writes Slashdot user darwinmac, 'and the vultures are circling. Or maybe they are liberators, depending on your point of view.' Neowin reports: Of all the projects trying to poach Windows users, Zorin Group might be the most aggressive,...
'Earlier available only to the paying subscribers, the Comet browser now offers its core features to all users at no cost,' writes the Times of India. 'This includes AI-powered search, contextual recommendations, and integrated tools designed to streamline research and...
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