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“It’s finally time,” writes Phoronix — since “no known Linux distribution vendors are still shipping with i486 CPU support.” “A patch queued into one of the development branches ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window is set to finally begin the process of phasing out and ultimately removing Intel 486 CPU support from the Linux kernel.” More details from XDA-Developers:Authored by Ingo...
The acting head of the DOJ’s voting section told a judge last week that the agency had not touched the nonpublic voter roll data it has collected. That wasn’t true.
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With the rise of affordable and effective robot mowers, maintaining a pristine lawn has never been easier.
Your venomous serpent bites you, and the clock is ticking. America’s zookeepers—and a cooler full of rare antivenom—are your best chance of survival.
The moon is not just a barren rock orbiting the Earth. The Artemis missions could answer the great unknowns that the satellite holds.
From our jokes and slang to the White House’s policy messaging, internet “brain rot” has escaped our phones to take over … well, everything.
Advanced chip packaging is suddenly at the center of the AI boom. Intel is going all in.
Russia’s “great crackdown” on VPNs — and a clampdown on Telegram’s messaging platform — had an unintended side effect, reports Bloomberg. It “triggered the widespread banking outage seen across the country this week, Telegram’s billionaire founder Pavel Durov said.””Telegram was banned in Russia, yet 65 million Russians still use it daily via VPNs,” Durov said Saturday in a post on...
The draft AI policy builds on a 2024 framework and aims to balance innovation with responsible regulation and oversight.
In today’s newsletter: Far from Earth and out of contact, the four‑person crew of Artemis II continues a journey designed to test endurance and the limits of deep‑space exploration
Good morning. For a short period today, the four-person crew of the Artemis II mission will be alone in space, unable to contact anyone on Earth. Facing the far side of the moon, the astronauts will be further...
Icasa research shows pay-TV broadcasters are spending more on content and earning less from it as viewers seek alternatives.
How to watch the spring constellation defined in ancient Babylon, where it was associated with the god Enlil
Several weeks past the equinox, the northern spring constellation of Boötes, the herdsman, is rising to prominence in the eastern sky after dusk.
The chart shows the view looking east from London at 21.00 BST on 6 April, although the view will be essentially unchanged all week. By this...
Astronauts on Nasa’s Orion capsule made transition about 39,000 miles from the moon, meaning they feel its gravitational pull more strongly than that of the Earth
The four astronauts on Nasa’s Artemis II mission have entered the moon’s “sphere of influence”, where its gravity has a stronger pull on the spacecraft than Earth’s.
The crew made the transition, four days, six hours and two minutes...
NASA’s Artemis astronauts are now entering “the lunar sphere of influence,” reports NBC News, “meaning the pull of the moon’s gravity will become stronger than Earth’s.” Now as they begin their swing around the moon, the Artemis astronauts “are chasing after Apollo 13’s maximum range from Earth,” reports the Associated Press, hoping to beat its distance from Earth by more than 4,100 miles...
The Internet Bug Bounty program “has been paused for new submissions,” they announced last week. Running since 2012, the program is funded by “a number of leading software companies,” reports InfoWorld, “and has awarded more than $1.5m to researchers who have reported bugs “Up to now, 80% of its payouts have been for discoveries of new flaws, and 20% to support remediation efforts. But as...
That leak of Claude Code’s source code “revealed “all kinds of juicy details,” writes PC World. The more than 500,000 lines of code included: – An ‘undercover mode’ for Claude that allows it to make ‘stealth’ contributions to public code bases- An ‘always-on’ agent for Claude Code- A Tamagotchi-style ‘Buddy’ for Claude “But one of the stranger bits discovered in the leak is that Claude Code is...
Hundreds of theatres are now showing a new documentary called The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist. Variety calls it “playful and heady,”edited “with a spirit of ADHD alertness.” The New York Times suggests it “tries to cover so much that it ends up being more confusing than clarifying, but parts are fascinating.” But the Los Angeles Times calls it an “aggravating soup of information...
Hundreds of theatres are now showing a new documentary called The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist. Variety calls it “playful and heady,”edited “with a spirit of ADHD alertness.” The New York Times suggests it “tries to cover so much that it ends up being more confusing than clarifying, but parts are fascinating.” But the Los Angeles Times calls it an “aggravating soup of information...
Meet the “journalist” who “uploads press releases or analyst notes into AI tools and prompts them to spit out articles that he can edit and publish quickly,” according to the Wall Street Journal. “AI-assisted stories accounted for nearly 20% of Fortune’s web traffic in the second half of 2025.” And most were written by 42-year-old Nick Lichtenberg, who has now written over 600 AI-assisted...
One crime ring scammed 2,000 elderly people of more than $27 million between 2021 and 2023 using tech support/bank impersonation/refund scams. “Victims were in their 70s and 80s,” reports the U.S. Attorney’s office for California’s southern district. Victims were first told they’d received a refund (either online or via phone), but then told they’d been “over-refunded” a massive amount, and...