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Monday October 27, 2025. 07:07 AM
FOSS feud re-ignites with massive counter-claim The long battle between Automattic and WP Engine has flared again, this time with accusations the latter company issued “false advertising”, and employed “deceptive business practices.”…
Slashdot reader joshuark writes: Microsoft says that the File Explorer (formerly Windows Explorer) now automatically blocks previews for files downloaded from the Internet to block credential theft attacks via malicious documents, according to a report from BleepingComputer. ...
Allows surveillance and cross-border evidence sharing, which worries human rights groups The United Nations on Saturday staged a signing ceremony for the Convention against Cybercrime, the world’s first agreement to combat online crime. And while 72 nations picked up the...
America's largest university system, with 460,000 students, is the 22-campus 'Cal State' system, reports the New York Times. And it's recently teamed with Amazon, OpenAI and Nvidia, hoping to embed chatbots in both teaching and learning to become what it says will be...
PLUS: China demotes tech self-sufficiency goal; Alibaba Cloud quietly quits VMware; India demands deepfake labels; and more! Asia In Brief Australia’s Competition & Consumer Commission on Monday commenced legal proceedings against Microsoft for allegedly misleading users...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 News: AlmaLinux offers Btrfs support for fresh installs, KDE launches Plasma 6.5.0, Fedora accepts AI-written contributions, Ubuntu 25.10...
GM plans to dump Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its car new vehicles 'in the near future,' reports the Verge. In an episode of the Verge's Decoder podcast, GM CEO Mary Barra confirmed the upcoming change to 'phone projections' for GM cars: The timing is unclear, but...
Linus has released 6.18-rc3 for testing. 'Things feel fairly normal, and in fact the numbers say it's been a bit calmer than usual, but that's likely just the usual fluctuation in pull request timing rather than anything else'.
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The MX Linux team has announced the availability of the first release candidate for MX Linux 25, the upcoming major release of the project's Debian-based Linux distribution with user-friendly enhancements and...
Sunday October 26, 2025. 11:43 PM
PLUS: Judge spanks NSO; Mozilla requires data use disclosures; TARmageddon meets Rust; And more! Infosec In Brief Former basketball star Shaquille O'Neal is 7'1' (215 cm), and therefore uses car customization companies to modify vehicles to fit his frame. But it appears...
North Dakota experienced an almost 40% increase in electricity demand 'thanks in part to an explosion of data centers,' reports the Washington Post. Yet the state saw a 1% drop in its per kilowatt-hour rates. 'A new study from researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National...
'Snippets of proprietary or copyleft reciprocal code can enter AI-generated outputs, contaminating codebases with material that developers can't realistically audit or license properly.' That's the warning from Sean O'Brien, who founded the Yale Privacy Lab at Yale Law...
Can YouTube capture the hours people spending watching 'traditional' TV? YouTube's CEO recently said its viewership on TV sets has 'surpassed mobile and is now the primary device for YouTube viewing in the U.S.,' writes The Hollywood Reporter. And YouTube is shelling out big ...
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares this article from Interesting Engineering: Bill Gates-backed TerraPower's innovative Natrium reactor project in Wyoming has cleared a critical federal regulatory hurdle. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has successfully...
Has AI just become an easy excuse for firms looking to downsize, asks CNBC: Fabian Stephany, assistant professor of AI and work at the Oxford Internet Institute, said there might be more to job cuts than meets the eye. Previously there may have been some stigma attached to...
'Around tables cluttered with dice, maps and character sheets, players are doing far more than playing,' writes Phys.org. It's what sociologists call serious leisure — 'a hobby that demands skill, commitment and personal fulfillment,' according to an associate...
Data centers were typically 'hulking, chilly buildings lined with stacks of computing gear and bundles of wiring,' writes the Washington Post. But 'AI experts say that the hubs for computers that power AI are different from the data centers that deliver your Netflix movies...
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Reason.com explores the fortunes of Aurora Innovation, the first company to put heavy-duty commercial self-driving trucks on public roads (and hopes to expand routes to El Paso, Texas, and Phoenix by the end of the year): An obscure federal rule is slowing the self-driving...
This five-layer hybrid upholds Thuma’s reputation for quality. It just may be firmer than you expect.
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