Your favorite apps run on code maintained by exhausted volunteers. The databases powering your company? Built by developers working double shifts. Those JavaScript frameworks everyone depends on? Often shepherded by a single person, unpaid, drowning in demands. A new report reveals just how bad things have gotten. Sentry funded thisContinue Reading
Fedora 42 Unveiled: COSMIC desktop, revamped installer, and Apple Silicon support steal the show. The Fedora Project has officially released Fedora 42, bringing a host of exciting updates and new features to its diverse line up of “spins”, including Fedora Workstation, Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop, Fedora Server, Fedora IoT, FedoraContinue Reading
American Battery Technology Company (ABTC) has been contracted and approved by the US Environmental Protection Agency to recycle end-of-life lithium-ion batteries from what it claims is the largest battery cleanup operation in EPA history. The approval covers batteries damaged in a January 2025 fire at a Northern California grid-scale batteryContinue Reading
SAICEC, a provider of chip and system design services for the automotive sector, has adopted Siemens’ PAVE360 software to create digital twins of automotive architectures. The collaboration is aimed at enabling comprehensive verification of automotive components—spanning from chip-level to complete system-level validation. By deploying PAVE360, SAICEC expects to streamline theContinue Reading
The Xubuntu team has shared details on last month’s worrying website hijack, pinpointing how the attack happened and the steps its taking to prevent a repeat. As detailed in our coverage back in October, the official Xubuntu download page began serving a malicious .zip file to users attempting to download the officialContinue Reading
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Tesla has among the most popular electric vehicles on the market, but the company has always avoided support for Google’s Android Auto and Apple’s CarPlay. Now, Tesla is apparently considering a change, but ignoring Google’s side. more……Continue Reading
Beryllium-7 produced by cosmic rays in the upper atmosphere is transported to near-ground levels via folding of the tropopause associated with low- and high-pressure systems, and is also transported near the surface in coastal regions by katabatic winds descending the slopes of the Antarctic continent. Credit: Naohiko Hirasawa from National Institute of Polar Research, JapanContinue Reading
SpaceX’s Starshield satellites are covert versions of the company’s Starlink spacecraft operated by U.S. agencies. This 2023 image shows a batch of Starlink satellites just before they were released into low Earth orbit. (Image credit: SpaceX) SpaceX’s secretive “Starshield” government-operated intelligence satellites are deliberately emitting radio signals the “wrong way around,” and outside of theContinue Reading
Amazon Ring’s upcoming face recognition tool has the potential to violate the privacy rights of millions of people and could result in Amazon breaking state biometric privacy laws. Ring plans to introduce a feature to its home surveillance cameras called “Familiar Faces,” to identify specific people who come into viewContinue Reading
The Words & Wisdom coalition pointed to the deaths of 16-year-old Adam Raine and 14-year-old Sewell Seltzer III as a “moment of reckoning.” , The Words & Wisdom coalition pointed to the deaths of 16-year-old Adam Raine and 14-year-old Sewell Seltzer III as a “moment of reckoning.” , from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
LONDON (AP) — The cloud businesses of Amazon and Microsoft could face stricter scrutiny from European Union regulators, who are looking into whether they should fall under the bloc’s dragnet on Big Tech companies. The bloc’s executive Commission said Tuesday that it’s assessing whether Amazon Web Services and Microsoft AzureContinue Reading