Doug Burgum says the nation must “get back in the power generation game” to stay competitive., (NewsNation) — The United States will soon launch a global trading club for critical minerals, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced Monday. Speaking at the ADIPEC Exhibition and Conference, one of the world’s most influentialContinue Reading
China has restarted supplying heavy rare earth magnets to India after a six-month halt. This brings relief to Indian companies in electric vehicle, renewable energy, and consumer electronics sectors. However, China has imposed conditions. These magnets cannot…Continue Reading
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Does Discord need some stars for when Management is watching? The maker of the Grand Theft Auto game series, Rockstar Games, has fired more than 30 coders and graphic designers in an act described by the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) as “the most blatant and ruthless actContinue Reading
Christmas is coming, the GNOME is getting fat… please put a penny in the old red hat? Ubuntu Summit System76’s POP!_OS is one of the more substantially modified Ubuntu based distros out there, and so it was something of a surprise to see the company’s substantial presence at the UbuntuContinue Reading
Jon Seager, VP of Engineering, talks exclusively to The Reg Ubuntu Summit The Register FOSS desk sat down with Canonical’s vice-president for engineering, Jon Seager, during Ubuntu Summit earlier this month. This is a heavily condensed version of our conversation.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
Ubuntu has added a new x86-64-v3 ‘architecture variant’ for Ubuntu 25.10, configuring its build infrastructure and package managers to support compiling and installing optimised packages. “By making changes to dpkg, apt and Launchpad, we are able to build multiple versions of a package, each for a different level of the x86-64 architecture, meaning weContinue Reading
When it comes to RFK Jr., I tend not to find much humor in the chaos he creates. The man’s work involves American health and illness, life and death, so it’s just generally not funny. And that holds true to Kennedy’s wielding of incomplete, inaccurate, and unsettled science to goContinue Reading
One viral video shows what appears to be four sharks swimming in a Jamaican hotel’s pool as floodwaters allegedly brought on by Hurricane Melissa swamp the area. Another purportedly depicts Jamaica’s Kingston airport completely ravaged by the storm. But neither of these events happened, it’s just AI-generated misinformation circulating onContinue Reading
Mattress owners reported that their beds were stuck at sweltering temperatures and uncomfortable incline positions., (NewsNation) — Eight Sleep is upgrading its software after smart mattress owners were unable to adjust temperatures or bed positions following an Amazon Web Services outage. CEO Matteo Franceschetti told The Verge that the companyContinue Reading
October brought ghosts, ghouls — and a glut of great Linux app updates. Big hitters included Mozilla Firefox 144, Thunderbird 144, ONLYOFFICE 9.1, Ghostty 1.2, GIMP 3.0.6 and the all-new Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0. Plus, a big virtualisation update in VMWare Workstation 25H2 and a more confusing one in VirtualBoxContinue Reading
The Nevo Electric Vehicle Show – Ireland’s definitive showcase of the electric future…Continue Reading
NASA astronauts continue their work on the International Space Station despite the ongoing government shutdown. (Image credit: NASA) Although the U.S. government is shut down, NASA’s astronauts in space are still expected to show up for work every day. As the shutdown continues into its second month, many federal employees are furloughed. Some, however, keepContinue Reading