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Wednesday October 29, 2025. 07:37 PM
Major US tech companies are spending more money than ever lobbying the EU to influence its digital rules, Politico reports. Artificial intelligence and rules such as the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA) will be a particular focus. A new analysis...
For years, Linux users who wanted to play PC games were out of luck. The operating system just didn't support most games. But that's rapidly changing. According to Slashdot, nearly 90% of games designed for Windows PCs now work on Linux machines too. — Read the rest The...
Earlier this week, a truck carrying Rhesus monkeys formerly housed at a University of Tulane research lab crashed, and the monkeys escaped. According to a Facebook post from the Jasper County Sheriff's Office, the monkey carried COVID-19, herpes and hepatitis C. — Read the re...
It was only a matter of time before the donor list for Trump's $300 million White House ballroom started to look like a seating chart for the world's creepiest dinner party. Now, Senate Democrats, led by California's Adam Schiff, want to know exactly who paid for the...
You could not write a dumber apocalypse if you tried. Lab monkeys have escaped a research facility in Mississippi, initially reported as carrying infectious diseases. At the same time, the nation's health policy is now being guided by a man who thinks polio cured itself and...
The International Space Station has orbited Earth for nearly 25 years. During that time, it's housed astronauts, conducted groundbreaking science, served mediocre food, featured questionable bathroom facilities, and astronauts have even worn a gorilla suit aboard. Until now, ...
AOL was worth over $100 billion when it merged with Time Warner in 2000. Now it's worth $1.5 billion. Italian tech holding company Bending Spoons just agreed to buy AOL from Apollo Global Management for roughly $1.5 billion, reports Axios, in what amounts to a face-saving...
If you're a sci-fi fan who's been boycotting Disney+ due to Disney's cowardly response to Trump's fascistic bullying, there's good news: you can return to a beloved show guilt-free. According to Gizmodo, Disney+ has ended its partnership with the BBC on Doctor Who. — Read...
Alejandro Colomar has announced the release of version 6.16 of the GNU/Linux man pages. This release includes new or rewritten man pages for fsconfig(), fsmount(), and fsopen(), as well as a number of newly documented interfaces in existing man pages. The release is also...
While there were solid improvements in the last generation of Apple’s popular wearable, the huge 24-hour battery life in Apple Watch Series 11 means this smartwatch has finally become what it always promised to be: a device capable of running all day and all night, which...
ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) has announced a report on 'the critical role of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) within the Domain Name System (DNS)'. The report is aimed at policymakers and examines recent cybersecurity regulations in the US,...
I can't claim I was in a fugue state or drunk, but against my better judgment, I upgraded my MacBook Pro to macOS Tahoe anyway. Apple's latest operating system has plenty to like — and just as much to hate. The frosted glass aesthetic makes certain interface elements...
Accuracy is a fireable offense in Trump's Department of Justice. As reported by Democracy Docket, federal prosecutors Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White were placed on leave within hours of submitting a sentencing memo that described Jan. 6, 2021, using the word 'rioters.' —...
A new class of attacks on Android phones, called 'Pixnapping', was announced on October 13. It allows a malicious app to gather output rendered in a victim app, pixel-by-pixel, by exploiting a GPU side-channel. Depending on what the victim app displays, anything from...
Border agents are searching phones at record rates. As reported in Wired, U.S. Customs and Border Protection conducted over 55,000 device searches during fiscal year 2025 — a 17 percent jump from the previous year — and the pace accelerated dramatically in recent months. ...
OpenUK has announced plans to collaborate with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to shape new recommendations for sustainable software development across the UK public sector. The work will improve how government and public bodies create, release, and maintain open source...
Barnacles (the small marine crustaceans known for sticking to the bottom of docks and boats) have one of the wildest sex lives in the ocean. This video explains the great lengths barnacles go to in order to hook up with each other. — Read the rest The post How do barnacles...
Proven Industries had one job: make locks that don't suck. Instead, they became the internet's favorite punching bag after a $130 trailer hitch lock got popped open in 10 seconds by a guy drinking Juicy Juice on camera. As reported in Ars Technica, Trevor McNally — a...
On the Funny Signs subreddit, there is no shortage of weird signs to giggle about. The sub is dedicated to signs of all kinds that are unusual or silly. I've spent over 20 minutes looking through the signs shared here and feeling deeply entertained. — Read the rest The...
SUSE has released SUSE Linux Enterprise 16, which it describes as the first enterprise Linux distribution to integrate agentic AI through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The update aims to let operating systems interact more directly with AI models and external data...
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