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Monday February 24, 2025. 09:51 AM
Last year somebody reported a problem with the DOS 3.3 SYS.COM command when used with NetDrive. They started with a valid FAT12 image, ran SYS.COM to make it bootable, and then they were not able to mount the image using NetDrive again. Running SYS.COM against the image had...
After completing a journalism graduate degree, Carla McCanna took a job 'training AI models to optimize accuracy and efficiency,' according an article by Nieman Journalism Lab: Staff jobs are scarce... and the competition for them is daunting. (In 2024, the already...
'If I wasn't already taking blood pressure meds, I'm sure I would not have survived' Who, Me? Nobody starts the working week by planning to fail, but mistakes do happen and The Register likes to write about them in Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you...
Wants regulators and carriers to adopt Open Fibre Data Standard to answer questions like ‘Is that one fibre, or nine?’ APRICOT 2025 The Internet Society wants to help improve maps that depict terrestrial optic fibre networks by having regulators and carriers alike...
When it comes to application packaging, earlier this month the site Its FOSS complained that Fedora Flatpaks 'are often unmaintained or broken, leading to a poor experience for users who aren't usually aware they're using them.' And this apparently created friction with OBS...
PLUS: SEC launches new crypto crime unit; Phishing toolkit upgraded; and more Infosec in brief Apple has responded to the UK government's demand for access to its customers’ data stored in iCloud by deciding to turn off its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) end-to-end...
'A line idle for decades has been accused of starting the LA area's deadly Eaton Fire,' writes Bloomberg, describing California's abandoned power lines as 'a fire risk hiding in plain sight.' [Abandoned power lines] fall out of use, either because they've been replaced or...
Developers are quicker than most to embrace generative AI tools as part of their workflow. That can mean enhanced productivity and easing cognitive burdens, but it also means learning new technologies while they’re still being built. This month’s report spotlights some...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: iodeOS 6.0 News: Arch retiring old repositories, openSUSE makes progress on reproducible builds, Fedora is getting more serious about open hardware, Tails changes its...
TL;DR: Get Pok Pok, the award-winning, Montessori-inspired learning app for kids 2-8, for life for just $59.99 (reg. $250). Parents, we need to talk. If your kid is glued to a tablet watching the same mind-numbing cartoons on repeat, or worse—screaming because you dared to...
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this observation from space/science news blogger Robert Zimmerman: Having now reached lunar orbit in preparation for its landing on March 2, 2025, an engineering test instrument on Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander has now proven that ...
Digital services taxes, network build levies, touted as violations of US sovereignty United States president Donald Trump last Friday issued a memorandum that suggests imposition of tariffs on nations that dare to tax big tech companies.…
Pardon my crude language, but Apple Intelligence sucks. Sorry, but there’s no way to sugarcoat it. Apple is literally worth trillions of dollars, and despite having what is essentially unlimited resources, its AI service is absolutely horrid. In fact, it is so bad, that...
Netflix calls it 'a live-action reimagining of the acclaimed Nickelodeon animated series, Avatar: The Last Airbender. And this weekend Netflix shared a blooper reel from their live-action show's first season, reports Engadget, 'giving fans a look at some cute behind the...
Sunday February 23, 2025. 11:32 PM
PLUS: Samsung exec jailed for selling DRAM secrets; ASUS launches sweetly scented mouse; Toyota’s smart city nears opening; and more Asia In Brief PLUS: Samsung exec jailed for selling DRAM secrets; ASUS launches sweetly scented mouse; Toyota’s smart city nears opening;...
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during Major League Baseball spring training exhibition games starting Thursday after four years of experiments in the minor leagues. Baseball ...
The 6.14-rc4 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'This continues to be the right kind of 'boring' release: nothing in particular stands out in rc4'.
New power plants burning natural gas are being built all across America, reports the Washington Post, calling it a gas boom 'driven in large part by AI.' They blame tech companies like Microsoft and Meta — which 'looked to gas amid a shortage of adequate new clean energy' —...
British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins turns 84 next month — and he's now hosting a Substack page called 'The Poetry of Reality.' Monday's topic? 'Are you conscious? A conversation between Dawkins and ChatGPT' Richard Dawkins: As far as I am concerned, you pass the Tu...
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