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Saturday November 29, 2025. 10:48 AM
The release 25.11 wraps up our year of “rigidity, clarity, performance” with a bouquet of vast under-the-hood improvements. Genode’s custom kernel received special tuning of its new CPU scheduler for Sculpt-OS workloads, and became much more scalable with respect to...
Friday November 28, 2025. 11:58 PM
Christie's expects the Winter egg, one of just seven of Peter Carl Fabergé's creations still in private hands, to sell for more than £20 million when it lands on the auction block Tuesday. The 10cm-tall egg is made from finely carved rock crystal, covered in a delicate...
During a Dell earnings call, the company mentioned some staggering numbers regarding the amount of PCs that will not or cannot be upgraded to Windows 11. “We have about 500 million of them capable of running Windows 11 that haven’t been upgraded,” said Dell COO...
My first computer suffered an economy found in early 8-bit machines with limited video memory: if you wanted lots of colors, you got less pixels, and a rational way to do that with the hardware back then was to make pixels twice as wide. — Read the rest The post Tiny pixel...
So my love for the Common Desktop Environment isn’t exactly a secret, so let’s talk about the project’s latest release, CDE 2.5.3, released a few days ago. As the version number suggests, this first new version in two years is a rather minor release, containing only a few...
Moss is a Unix-like, Linux-compatible kernel written in Rust and Aarch64 assembly. It features a modern, asynchronous core, a modular architecture abstraction layer, and binary compatibility with Linux userspace applications (currently capable of running most BusyBox...
I love solid-state drives (SSDs). For a guy who travels a lot, having one in my laptop instead of a spinning hard drive is such a relief. Outside of fireworks and unattended bags, nothing stresses me out faster than lifting a laptop that's slightly off level and hearing its...
Reponding to reports of a small dog tied to a post and abandoned on the roadside in Matlock, England, an officer from Derbyshire Police was surprised to instead find a toy there. This led to the issuance of the only good kind of police press release, the ones full of puns...
Another holiday, another chance to inflict Male Chef on those around me (including you, dear reader!). Never mind all those AI Thanksgiving dinners; this kind of wretchedness could only be crafted by human hands. The now-defunct 'Male Chef' blog was a long-running satirical...
Adolf Hitler Uunona, a local councilor in Namibia tired of reading annoying stories like this one, has filed to change his name to Adolf Uunona. The Namibian's Hileni Nembwaya reports that Uunona, a well-respected politician, no longer wants to be known by a name that does...
Netflix really wants to be a one-stop shop for all things entertainment. Three years after launching a mobile game division, the streamer has released a pack of word puzzles. Ever since the New York Times bought the beloved word game Wordle and added it to its collection of ...
Microsoft has given system administrators until 2034 to stop using WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) NetBIOS name resolution technology in their networks — but even nine years may not be enough notice for some: WINS is very much still in use, supporting a niche range of ...
An assault victim in New Zealand tired of waiting for the law to catch up with his attacker, so he rounded up a posse and went to the man's house to do so himself. The incident did not go as planned, and now both men have relevant convictions. — Read the rest The post Man ja...
Putting Joe Rogan and Elon Musk in the same room always feels like a real-life reenactment of that one Tweet: 'two dumb b*****s telling each other 'exaaaaactlyyyy'.' His latest appearance on Rogan's podcast is as actively brain-killing as you'd expect, with Musk essentially...
Last week, a new weevil sculpture, the Hamburglar McWeevil, was unveiled in Entreprise, Alabama, a town that's famous for its boll weevil-laden history, and that has humorously embraced its boll weevil past via erecting statues that celebrate the disruptive and destructive...
Ubisoft is in a bit of a weird place at the moment. With their hold over the casual gaming space finally beginning to slacken and their financial future unclear (delaying earnings calls is a good sign, right?), Ubisoft's direction over the next few years, or even whether...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (krita and tryton-server), Oracle (bind9.18, ipa, kernel, libssh, redis, redis:7, sqlite, sssd, and vim), Slackware (cups), SUSE (containerd, cups, curl, dovecot24, git-bug, gitea-tea, glib2, grub2, himmelblau, java-25-openjdk,...
AWS has launched Flexible Training Plans (FTPs) for inference endpoints in Amazon SageMaker AI, its AI and machine learning service, to offer customers guaranteed GPU capacity for planned evaluations and production peaks. Typically, enterprises use SageMaker AI inference...
Scam phone calls are a fact of life these days, whether it’s home improvement grants or someone pretending to be your bank. UK mobile network O2 recently blocked 50 million dodgy calls monthly using its defense system. But now they’re often being made using AI rather...
Although the UK's Online Safety Act has made significant strides in holding online platforms accountable for harmful content, new research reveals a concerning gap in personal cybersecurity awareness among British internet users. The study from AstrillVPN analysed search...
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