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Monday May 6, 2024. 10:00 AM
ISP-supplied routers are improving as Vodafone offers the Wi-Fi 6E Ultra Hub with backup mobile network service in the UK.
Doing your best work requires the best tools. So if you’ve avoided getting Microsoft Office because you didn’t want to pay for office tools, now’s the time to change that. This week only, you can get Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows or Microsoft Office...
Thankfully, luck – and a handy greybeard – came to the rescue Who, me? Welcome once again, dear readerfolk, to the sanctuary of Who, Me? in which Register readers can recount the times when their technical skills abandoned them, even if momentarily, without fear of...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Mint: Elon Musk-owned social media platform X (formerly Twitter) has launched a new Grok AI-powered feature called 'Stories', which allows users to read summaries of a trending post on the social media platform. The feature is...
'Without San Francisco, Star Wars wouldn't exist,' says David Reat, the culture studies director of the architecture department at Glasgow's University of Strathclyde. SFGate reports: Lucas was born and raised in Modesto, where his father expected him to run the family...
Also: Microsoft promises to git gud on cybersecurity; unqualified attackers are targeting your water systems, and more Infosec in brief It was just around a year ago that a spate of allegedly Russian-orchestrated cyberattacks hit government agencies in Germany, and now...
Science Alert reports that a team of researchers found 'that changes in glucose metabolism could help cancer grow by temporarily disabling a gene that protects us from tumors called BRCA2.' The team first examined people who inherited one faulty copy of BRCA2. They found...
Plus: Taiwan's subsea cables, Paytm says goodbye to its CEO, China uses WhatsApp despite roadblocks, and more. Asia in brief Google announced the layoff of 200 of its core team professionals last week while moving some roles to India and Mexico, according to reports.…
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Ubuntu 24.04News: systemd creates a sudo alternative, Linux Mint guards against unverified Flatpaks and encourages a distro-neutral approach to XApps, FreeBSD publishes...
From the Washington Post's 'Technology 202' newsletter: As tech giants move toward a world in which chatbots supplement, and perhaps supplant, search engines, the Microsoft executive assigned to make sure AI is used responsibly said the industry has to be careful not to...
The 6.9-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'The stats for 6.9 continue to look very normal, and nothing looks particularly alarming.'
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But the biggest differential factor between BSDs and GNU/Linux is the way it is structured. In Linux, all components are designed to work together, but are completely separate. You’ve got the kernel, init systems, multimedia daemons, userland, bootloader, virtualization...
Game of Trees (Got) is a version control system which prioritizes ease of use and simplicity over flexibility. Got is still under development; it is being developed on OpenBSD and its main target audience are OpenBSD developers. Got uses Git repositories to store versioned...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Wall Street Journal: Drunken-driving deaths in the U.S. have risen to levels not seen in nearly two decades, federal data show, a major setback to long-running road-safety efforts. At the same time, arrests for driving under...
The big question – does all this have a future? The good news is that all new hardware has generic support in X. Someone writes either a modesetting kernel driver or a classical wsdisplay kernel driver and they will be automatically supported by the associated drivers in X....
Do any of you remember the browser Dillo? The project’s been through a rough few years after the main developer of the layout engine sadly passed away, the lead developer disappeared from the project, the dillo.org domain was lost and taken over by spammers – but now there’s ...
Sunday May 5, 2024. 11:18 PM
A 'string of legal victories' by America's market-regulating Securities and Exchange Commission 'has jolted some of crypto's biggest players,' reports Politico — even as they're seeking more credibility with U.S. lawmakers: Judges have recently rebuked claims that the SEC...
TL;DR: Listen to music while keeping your ears free to hear what's going on around you with these bone conduction headphones, now only $39.96 (reg. $69) with code MEZZO! Getting lost in your favorite music feels great, but it isn't always practical. Whether you're riding...
'What if the big tech companies achieved their ultimate business goal — maximizing engagement on their platforms — in a way that has undermined our ability to function as an open society?' That's the question being asked by Chuck Todd, chief political analyst for NBC News: Wh...
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