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Sunday November 9, 2025. 09:43 PM
After the Python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5 million grant because it restricted DEI activity, 'a flood of new donations followed,' according to a new report. By Friday they'd raised over $157,000, including 295 new Supporting Members paying an annual $99 membership...
We’ve talked about Ironclad a few times, but there’s been two new releases since the 0.6.0 release we covered last, so let’s see what the project’s been up to. As a refresher, Ironclad is a formally verified, hard real-time capable kernel written in SPARK and Ada....
For those of us unaware – unlikely on OSNews, but still – for a hot minute in the second half of the ’90s, Apple licensed its Mac OS to OEMs, resulting in officially sanctioned Mac clones from a variety of companies. While intended to grow the Mac’s market share, what ended...
Blue Origin is livestreaming the launch of its New Glenn rocket, which would carry a very unique mission for NASA. 'Twin spacecraft are set to take off on an unprecedented, winding journey to Mars,' reports CNN, 'where they will investigate why the barren red planet began to ...
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that it has completed work to build FreeBSD without requiring root privilege. We have implemented support for all source release builds to use no-root infrastructure, eliminating the need for root privileges across the FreeBSD...
'According to court filings and interviews with lawyers and scholars, the legal profession in recent months has increasingly become a hotbed for AI blunders,' reports the New York Times: Earlier this year, a lawyer filed a motion in a Texas bankruptcy court that cited a 1985 ...
'A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years,' reports The Register. And the software librarian at Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum, Al Kossow of Bitsavers, believes the tape 'has a pretty...
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC: Neurodiverse professionals may see unique benefits from artificial intelligence tools and agents, research suggests. With AI agent creation booming in 2025, people with conditions like ADHD, autism, dyslexia and more report a ...
A maintainer of Debian's Advanced Package Tool (APT) 'has announced plans to introduce hard Rust dependencies into APT starting May 2026,' reports the blog It's FOSS. The integration targets critical areas like parsing.deb,.ar, and tar files plus HTTP signature verification...
Adobe Firefly is a deceptively powerful AI playground to generate images, videos, and more. Here’s how to make the most of it.
After popular arcade games like Mortal Kombat and Spy Hunter, Midway Games jumped into the home console market, and in 2003 launched their baseball game franchise 'MLB Slugfest' for Xbox, PS2, and GameCube. But at times it was almost a parody of baseball, including...
Two different groups want this valuable spectrum, but can they share? A row is brewing in Europe over the 6 GHz part of the wireless spectrum, between those who believe it should be licensed for use by cellular networks and others that want it reserved for Wi-Fi.…
Misdirection is the new resolution at major video game house The CEO of the company behind note-taking app Obsidian says the well-known video game house of the same name has sent one of its customer queries to his own team – claiming that 'off-the-shelf AI support...
'For months, extremely personal and sensitive ChatGPT conversations have been leaking into an unexpected destination,' reports Ars Technica: the search-traffic tool for webmasters, Google Search Console. Though it normally shows the short phrases or keywords typed into...
The math behind even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major advances toward understanding it.
The new series from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, Pluribus, was emphatically made by humans, not AI, reports TechCrunch: If you watched all the way to the end of the new Apple TV show 'Pluribus,' you may have noticed an unusual disclaimer in the credits: 'This show...
'The Firefox brand is getting a refresh and you get the first look,' says a new web page at Firefox.com. 'Kit's our new mascot and your new companion through an internet that's private, open and actually yours.' Slashdot reader BrianFagioli believes the new mascot 'is meant...
For more than a decade, the nonprofit Common Crawl 'has been scraping billions of webpages to build a massive archive of the internet,' notes the Atlantic, making it freely available for research. 'In recent years, however, this archive has been put to a controversial...
Saturday November 8, 2025. 11:34 PM
A CRISPR-based drug given to study participants by infusion is raising hopes for a much easier way to lower cholesterol, reports CNN: With a snip of a gene, doctors may one day permanently lower dangerously high cholesterol, possibly removing the need for medication,...
A former Business Analyst reportedly filed a class action lawsuit claiming that for years, hundreds of remote employees at Bank of America first had to boot up complex computer systems before their paid work began, reports Human Resources Director magazine: Tava Martin, who...
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