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Sunday April 28, 2024. 10:19 AM
In February last year I wrote about running a FreeBSD desktop, and concluded that sometimes you need to give yourself permission to tinker. Well recently I’ve started tinkering with Alpine Linux! It’s been recommended to me for years, so I’m finally getting around to...
Electronic waste is a tremendous problem in our world. So, this Earth Day, do your part by opting to buy refurbished and keeping one more device from entering the landfill. You can get a Grade B refurbished Apple iPad Pro 9.7″ for just $170.99. The Grade B rating on this...
Japan's moon lander 'has woken up again,' reports the Register, 'having survived three lunar nights.' A post on social media from the lander's X account confirmed that once more, Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) had defied the odds and snapped a picture of...
Japan's moon lander 'has woken up again,' reports the Register, 'having survived three lunar nights.' A post on social media from the lander's X account confirmed that once more, Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) had defied the odds and snapped a picture of...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Steve Revill has announced the release of RISC OS 5.30, the latest stable version of the independently-developed computer operating system originally designed by Acorn Computers Ltd in 1987. It is available for ...
What happened after India banned TikTok? The move 'mostly drew widespread support' notes the Associated Press, in a country 'where protesters had been calling for a boycott of Chinese goods since the deadly confrontation in the remote Karakoram mountain border region.'...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: Tech giant Cisco Systems on Wednesday joined Microsoft and IBM in signing onto a Vatican-sponsored pledge to ensure artificial intelligence is developed and used ethically and to benefit the common good... The ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Times of India: Several Apple customers were inexplicably locked out of their Apple ID accounts Friday evening in a major service disruption, forcing them to reset their passwords across all devices and services. According to...
Saturday April 27, 2024. 11:34 PM
This week Russia vetoed a UN resolution that proposed banning nuclear weapons in space, CNN reports. But it all happened 'amid U.S. intelligence-backed concerns that Moscow is trying to develop a nuclear device capable of destroying satellites.' In February, President Joe...
'A former high school athletic director was arrested Thursday morning,' reports CBS News, 'after allegedly using artificial intelligence to impersonate the school principal in a recording...' One-time Pikesville High School employee Dazhon Darien is facing charges that...
Reuters reports that America's Federal Aviation Administration 'is investigating a union's claims that Boeing retaliated against two employees who in 2022 insisted the planemaker re-evaluate prior engineering work on 777 and 787 jets.' The employees' union 'said the two...
America's Federal Trade Commission 'is sending more than $5.6 million in refunds to consumers,' reports the Associated Press, 'as part of a settlement with Amazon-owned Ring, which was charged with failing to protect private video footage from outside access.' In a 2023...
1,000 petabytes. A million terabytes. One quintillion bytes (or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000). That's the amount of storage reported by users of the Ceph storage solution (across more than 3,000 Ceph clusters). The Ceph Foundation is a 'directed fund' of the Linux Foundation,...
Have you heard of Kristi Noem? She's the governor or some Dakota or other and she desperately wants to be Trump's VP. So she's publishing a book to show what a true believer MAGA fan she is. The book sounds like standard right wing fare until shit gets weird. — Read the rest...
The 6.8.8, 6.6.29, 6.1.88, and 5.15.157 stable kernels have been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
Want to watch a movie? Want to watch one on a 1977 game console? The Atari 2600 is now a movie player, thanks to moviecart, by Lodef Mode. This revolutionary new product will allow for the first time ever, anyone to experience the joy of the silver screen directly from the ...
'For the first time in at least a billion years, two lifeforms have merged into a single organism,' reports the Independent: The process, called primary endosymbiosis, has only happened twice in the history of the Earth, with the first time giving rise to all complex life as ...
Kansas City cop Aaron McKie, 46, was charged Friday with wire fraud and money laundering after allegedly using $300,000 in donations from an anti-crime group for his own expenses. A cop for 24 years and long-involved in a 'Crime Free' local nonprofit, he appears to have used ...
'Intel used to dominate the U.S. chip industry,' writes CNBC. But now 'it's struggling to stay relevant.' Intel's long-awaited turnaround looks farther away than ever after the company reported dismal first-quarter earnings. Investors pushed the shares down 9% on Friday to...
Gay Gordon-Byrne of the Repair Association says US at least is nearing a tipping point Interview There's a lot of momentum behind the right-to-repair movement, and if anyone should know, it'd be Gay Gordon-Byrne, executive director of the Repair Association and longtime...
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