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Monday November 24, 2025. 01:30 AM
Pew Research surveyed 5,022 Americans this year (between February 5 and June 18), asking them 'do you ever use' YouTube, Facebook, and nine of the other top social media platforms. The results? YouTube 84% Facebook 71% Instagram 50% TikTok 37% WhatsApp 32% Reddit 26%...
Linus has released 6.18-rc7, probably the last -rc before the 6.18 release. So the rc6 kernel wasn't great: we had a last-minute core VM regression that caused people problems. That's not a great thing late in the release cycle like that, but it was a fairly trivial fix,...
Theia crashed into earth and formed the moon, the theory goes. But then where did Theia come from? The lead author on a new study says 'The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner Solar System. Earth and Theia...
Sunday November 23, 2025. 11:46 PM
PLUS: CISA issues drone warning; China-linked DNS-hijacking malware; Prison for BTC Samourai; And more Infosec In Brief Researchers have urged users of the glob file pattern matching library to update their installations, after discovery of a years-old remote code execution...
In October cryptologist/CS professor Daniel J. Bernstein alleged that America's National Security Agency (and its UK counterpart GCHQ) were attempting to influence NIST to adopt weaker post-quantum cryptography standards without a 'hybrid' approach that would've also...
'Three years ago, Google removed JPEG XL support from Chrome, stating there wasn't enough interest at the time,' writes the blog Windows Report. 'That position has now changed.' In a recent note to developers, a Chrome team representative confirmed that work has restarted to ...
'Fresh from announcing it is building an AI browsing mode in Firefox and laying the groundwork for agentic interactions in the Firefox 145 release, the corp arm of Mozilla is now flexing its AI muscles in the direction of those more likely to care,' writes the blog OMG...
Long-time Slashdot reader jenningsthecat shared this article from IEEE Spectrum: By dropping a nuclear reactor 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) underground, Deep Fission aims to use the weight of a billion tons of rock and water as a natural containment system comparable to concrete...
With some animated graphics, CNN 'reimagined' what three of America's busiest air and road travel routes would look like with high-speed trains, for 'a glimpse into a faster, more connected future.' The journey from New York City to Chicago could take just over six hours by...
'Security, development, and AI now move as one,' says Microsoft's director of cloud/AI security product marketing. Microsoft and GitHub 'have launched a native integration between Microsoft Defender for Cloud and GitHub Advanced Security that aims to address what one...
The Racket programming language project has released Racket version 9.0. Racket is a descendant of Scheme, so it is part of the Lisp family of languages. The headline feature in the release is parallel threads, which adds to the concurrency tools in the language: 'While...
The Oracle blog has a lengthy article on enhancements to GCC to help detect overflows of flexible array members (FAMs) in C programs. We describe here two new GNU extensions which specify size information for FAMs. These are a new attribute, 'counted_by' and a new builtin...
TL;DR: The Ultimate Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows + Windows 11 Pro bundle is $39.97 (reg. $418.99)—a one-time key for the classic Office apps and a fresh Windows 11 Pro license for one PC. I'll keep the promise simple: this bundle aims to turn a chaotic PC...
The call for candidates for the 2025 election for the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board has been posted. The TAB exists to provide advice from the kernel community to the Linux Foundation and holds a seat on the LF's board of directors; it also serves to facilitate ...
'On the slopes of an Oregon volcano, engineers are building the hottest geothermal power plant on Earth,' reports the Washington Post: The plant will tap into the infernal energy of Newberry Volcano, 'one of the largest and most hazardous active volcanoes in the United...
Protect your home against dust, pets, allergies, and more with air purifiers tested firsthand by WIRED.
Panasonic’s new flagship OLED is one of the best TVs I’ve ever seen (or heard).
'The internet did transform work — but not the way 1998 thought...' argues the Wall Street Journal. 'The internet slipped inside almost every job and rewired how work got done.' So while the number of single-task jobs like travel agent dropped, most jobs 'are bundles of...
Recent findings reveal that even simple pricing algorithms can make things more expensive.
Investing in a great surround sound system is the best way to get the movie theater experience at home. Here's everything you need to know to get started.
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