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New study shows smart chatbots can figure out who you really are from just a few posts… and it only costs a couple of dollars., Read More From It’s FOSSContinue Reading

Instagram said Thursday it will start alerting parents if their kids repeatedly search for terms clearly associated with suicide or self-harm. The alerts will only go to parents who are enrolled in Instagram’s parental supervision program. Instagram says it already blocks such content from showing up in teen accounts’ searchContinue Reading

Parents will receive the alerts via email, text or WhatsApp and through an in-app notification., Parents will receive the alerts via email, text or WhatsApp and through an in-app notification., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading

Analyst warns soaring DRAM and NAND costs could push entry-level devices out of reach Ballooning memory prices are forecast to kill off entry-level PCs, leading to a decline in global shipments this year – and a similar effect is going to hit smartphones.…, Read MoreContinue Reading

Many dependent apps, including FreePascal and Lazarus, face the chop Version 2 of the widely used Gtk toolkit will be dropped from the next Debian release. The problem is that many things still need it, including FreePascal and its Lazarus IDE.…, Read MoreContinue Reading

Looking for a fancier way to track what music you’re listening to on Ubuntu? Dynamic Music Pill is a GNOME Shell extension that embeds a pill-shaped media controller into your desktop panel or dock. It shows album art, artist name and track title alongside an animated waveform visualiser. If thatContinue Reading

NoMIS Power has released two new medium-voltage silicon carbide MOSFETs, including its first 1.7 kV device, targeting applications such as grid infrastructure, rail and heavy-duty electrification, industrial drives and marine systems. The new parts are the N3PT035MP330K (3.3 kV, 35 mΩ, 88 A) and the N3PT100MP170K (1.7 kV, 100 mΩ,Continue Reading

Ampere, Renault Group’s EV and software unit, has signed a joint development agreement with Basquevolt to accelerate development and validation of lithium metal-based batteries aimed at meeting “Pre-A Sample” EV prototype requirements. Basquevolt says its lithium metal-based technology—combining a polymer electrolyte with an advanced anode—could deliver a major jump inContinue Reading

The forecast is looking Qt 1 for fans of open-source weather app Typhoon , the latest update to which swaps its creaking GTK3 backend for a lithe Qt 6 one. What’s interesting about this change in Typhoon 1.7.x is that it doesn’t impact the UI in any noticeable way. TheContinue Reading

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s freight corridors, long dominated by diesel trucks and constrained by unreliable power grids, are emerging as a new frontier in the global shift toward clean logistics, with solar-powered charging hubs designed specifically for heavy-duty electric trucks. In Africa, Cape Town-based Zero Carbon Charge, or Charge,Continue Reading