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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Fedora 40 'KDE'News: Debian elects new Project Leader, Ubuntu's security enhancements, Red Hat extends support for RHEL 7, Emmabuntus adds accessibility...
An anonymous reader shared a report this week from Reuters: The U.S. Department of Commerce is reviewing the national security implications of China's work in open-source RISC-V chip technology, according to a letter sent to U.S. lawmakers... The technology is being used by...
Pursuing an unfair business practices case against Amazon, America's Federal Trade Commission has now 'accused' Amazon of using Signal, reports the Seattle Times: The newspaper notes that the app 'can be set to automatically delete messages, to hide information related to...
The 6.9-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Things continue to look pretty normal, and nothing here really stands out. The biggest single change that stands out in the diffstat is literally a documentation update, everything else looks pretty small and spread out.
Canonical has revealed the name for its next release: Ubuntu Linux 24.10 will be known as 'Oracular Oriole.' Beyond the catchy alliteration, what does this name tell us about the upcoming version? The truth is, not much yet. 'Oracular Oriole' is a title shrouded in mystery,...
Sunday April 28, 2024. 11:19 PM
Long-time Slashdot reader lee1 shares 'an interesting essay on the history of orthodoxy in quantum mechanics,' published this week in Nature. Its title? ''Shut up and calculate': how Einstein lost the battle to explain quantum reality.' [T]he views of Danish physicist Niels...
'In less than 15 years, battery costs have fallen by more than 90%,' according to a new report from the International Energy Agency, 'one of the fastest declines ever seen in clean energy technologies.' And it's expected to get even cheaper, reports Reuters: An expected...
This year Dell moved to soldered RAM for its XPS 14 and 16, writes Digital Trends, which 'makes it impossible to upgrade, or even repair.' 'This was a big change from the past, where the XPS 15 and 17 were both celebrated for their upgradability.' Of course, Dell isn't the...
In September NASA's James Webb Space Telescope investigated an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth, and 'revealed the presence of carbon-bearing molecules including methane and carbon dioxide.' Webb's discovery adds to recent studies suggesting that [planet] K2-18 b...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: Poland's prosecutor general told the parliament on Wednesday that powerful Pegasus spyware was used against hundreds of people during the former government in Poland, among them elected officials. Adam Bodnar...
Anti-vax conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr is worried that Donald Trump's griping may sound unhinged. The Orange Menace is screaming mad that RFKjr appeals to the very base that props Trump up. Kennedy suggests the two hold a good old-fashioned Presidential debate to...
'This house is just there, like a cloud following me around, and it keeps raining on me,' says Anne Reynolds of the home she did not permit to be built on her Big Island of Hawaii property. Anne Reynold was surprised to find, in 2022, that a home had been built and was...
Here's a therapeutic video of a day gecko licking an orange. The little gecko looks like it's having the time of his life in that orange crate. I wish I were a tiny creature who could get away with nibbling on all of the food at the market. — Read the rest The post Video: ...
Watch these small but mighty beetles paint together. They appear so deeply focused on the activity, and it's adorable to watch. Now that I know beetles can carry paint brushes, I want to commission a beetle to do some paintings for me. — Read the rest The post Watch...
They're calling it 'the world's largest 3D printer,' but also 'the factory of the future' — not just a 3D printer, but a manufacturing system. It's the succcessor to a 3D printer that could create an entire house, cutting construction time and labor, according to the...
Whether you’re bird-watching or baseball-spotting, we break down prices and specs to find the best pair for you.
'South Korea is considering prohibiting the use of iPhones and smart wearable devices inside military buildings,' reports the Defense Post, 'due to increasing security concerns.' But the blog Apple Insider argues the move 'has less to do with security and more to do with a...
Whether you’re climbing peaks or taking the family to the local park, we’ve found the best sleeping bags for every temperature, budget, and camping expedition.
In time when many cities are seeing the extremes of gentrification, repetitive national chain stores, and the loss of local mom-and-pop retailers, it was a delight to come across a uniquely weird and imaginative throwback shop in Seattle called Mudlark Oddities. — Read the re...
Back when I was working on my article about PA-RISC, HP-UX, and UNIX workstations in general, I made extensive use of OpenPA, Paul Weissmann’s invaluable and incredibly detailed resource about HP’s workstation efforts, HP-UX, and tons of related projects and products....
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