SystemRescue 13.00 Released with Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS and Many Useful Improvements. SystemRescue 13.00 is now available. This is a significant update to the popular Arch-based live Linux distribution that many of us use for system repair and data rescue tasks. If you work with broken systems, need to recoverContinue Reading
The official OMG! Ubuntu add-on for Firefox is back – albeit far later than planned (sorry about that). If you’ve used our Chrome extension over the last decade, this add-on will be familiar as it’s the same thing, just in Firefox. Same look and (almost) the same features because it’sContinue Reading
A court has dismissed Google’s case against SerpApi over that company’s scraping of search results to train AI models. The US District Court for the Northern District of California found that there was no indication that any copyright had been breached. Google announced in December that it was suing SerpApIContinue Reading
Microsoft cloud and Azure services hosted on the West Coast of the US went down for hours on Thursday when network connectivity failed. Although services running entirely within Microsoft’s West US cloud region were unaffected, any traffic entering or leaving the facilities was affected. Microsoft has now published a PreliminaryContinue Reading
Sony’s decision to stop producing PlayStation discs starting in 2028 was met with a ton of initial backlash, especially in the wake of Sony reminding its customers yet again that a digital purchase of content isn’t actually a purchase of content at all and what you’ve bought can be rippedContinue Reading
TDK has introduced the EP21 series of flat-wire double chokes (ordering code B82552J*J021). The company intends them for common-mode filtering in DC-DC converters and other low-voltage EMC protection circuits. The parts share a 23.8 x 17.7 mm footprint and stand 21.6 to 22.3 mm tall, depending on the version. TheContinue Reading
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) has selected AmpUp to develop a managed EV charging program in collaboration with the state’s electric utilities. The agency evaluated four pilots in Cycle 1 of the state’s Innovative Energy Solutions (IES) Program, and selected AmpUp’s Adapt & Earn managed charging project forContinue Reading
Starbuck noted he first discovered the bot’s defect when Google was deploying Bard (now known as Gemini) as its bot., Starbuck noted he first discovered the bot’s defect when Google was deploying Bard (now known as Gemini) as its bot., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
The longevity guru said he considers his resting heart rate before bed his most important biomarker., The longevity guru said he considers his resting heart rate before bed his most important biomarker., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Ubuntu’s hardware enablement (HWE) effort has expanded to include backports of newer virtualisation tech to users of the current LTS release. The virtualization HWE stack from Canonical will let users benefit from newer versions of QEMU, libvirt and related firmware on top of their exiting LTS install, refreshed every 6 monthsContinue Reading
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has argued that policymakers should keep lower-risk open-weight AI accessible while placing stricter safeguards around frontier systems, including mandatory testing and limits on China’s access to advanced computing and model capabilities. In a post outlining Anthropic’s position, Amodei said broad restrictions, including bans on Chinese open-weightContinue Reading
The 19th-century French novelist Honore de Balzac is believed to have said that behind every great fortune lies a great crime. That’s even more true today than it was 200 years ago — just look at how Big AI, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and others have built their trillion-dollar fortunes. Continue Reading
While Tesla tends to be synonymous with electric vehicles in the U.S., China is actually home to the most popular EV brand in the world, BYD…Continue Reading