THURSDAY, 11 DECEMBER 2025, 01:03
Qualcomm has acquired RISC-V startup Ventana to strengthen its CPU ambitions beyond mobile, “reinforcing its commitment and leadership in the development of the RISC-V standard and ecosystem,” the company said in a press release. CRN Magazine reports: The San Diego-based company said Ventana’s expertise in RISC-V, a free and open alternative to the Arm and x86 instruction set architectures,...
Longtime Slashdot reader MadCow42 writes: Canonical just announced that they’re packaging AMD’s ROCm libraries (for AIML and HPC with both data-center GPUs as well as desktop/laptop GPUs), directly into the Ubuntu Universe archive. You can run ROCm on Ubuntu today but you have to install it via a script from AMD and manually remove and reinstall for any upgrades or bug fixes. Having it in...
Adobe is integrating Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat directly into ChatGPT so users can edit photos, design graphics, and tweak PDFs through the chatbot. The Verge reports: The Adobe apps are free to use, and can be activated by typing the name of the app alongside an uploaded file and conversational instruction, such as “Adobe Photoshop, help me blur the background of this image.” ChatGPT...
Space agency is investigating after Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend
Nasa has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade, though the US space agency said it was trying to re-establish a communications link.
Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. Nasa said this week that it was working...
True Classic Tees is running holiday “flash deals” with some of the best prices we’ve seen in months.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Monday, research analyst MoffettNathanson released its “Cord-Cutting Monitor Q3 2025: Signs of Life?” report. It found that the pay TV operators, including cable companies, satellite companies, and virtual multichannel video programming distributors (vMVPDs) like YouTube TV and Fubo, added 303,000 net subscribers in Q3 2025. According to...
Eufy’s last-season robot vacuum-mop has a crazy price cut. Grab it before it’s gone.
The Department of Basic Education has revealed that an examination breach was detected during the marking process for the 2025 National Senior Certificate exams.
Most Democratic-led states will continue to recommend the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, despite a CDC advisory panel’s vote against it.
FAYETTEVILLE, NC (PinionNewswire) — MAPU, the native utility token powering the MatchAwards.com AI economic-development platform, today announced the launch of the industry’s first Platform Utility Ratio (P/U Ratio) a transparent, data-driven metric grounded in real activity generated across the MatchAwards ecosystem. This marks a major milestone for Web3: a digital asset whose value...
RENO, Nevada (PinionNewswire) — TraceFuse, a leading provider of ecommerce review-intelligence solutions, today announced the launch of its new ROI Calculator – an analytical tool designed to give Amazon sellers unprecedented clarity into how their product ratings affect sales, profitability, and long-term marketplace performance. As competition intensifies and customer expectations rise,...
Wells Fargo expects more job cuts and higher severance costs in this quarter that ends in three weeks, bank CEO and President Charlie Scharf said Tuesday at an investors conference in New York. He’s also betting on AI to drive efficiency and, eventually, further workforce reduction.From a report: “As we’ve gone through the budgeting process, and even pre AI, we do expect to have less people as...
As the battle over Warner Bros. Discovery grows, two Democratic lawmakers are warning that their party may try to block or unravel anyacquisition by Paramount when it returns to power. Semafor: In a letter to the WBD board and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent first shared with Semafor, Reps. Sam Liccardo (D-Calif.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) said they were concerned about the national...
Amazon says it will allow authors to offer their DRM-free ebooks in the EPUB and PDF formats through its self-publishing platform, Kindle Direct Publishing. Starting on January 20, 2026, authors who set their titles as DRM-free will see their books made available in these more open formats. From a report: The decision to use Digital Rights Management (DRM), a copyright protection mechanism, is...
The names of two partial owners of firms linked to the Salt Typhoon hacker group also appeared in records for a Cisco training program—years before the group targeted Cisco’s devices in a spy campaign.
New submitter emangwiro shares a report: The HDMI Forum, responsible for the HDMI specification, continues to stonewall open source. Valve’s Steam Machine theoretically supports HDMI 2.1, but the mini-PC is software-limited to HDMI 2.0. As a result, more than 60 frames per second at 4K resolution are only possible with limitations. In a statement to Ars Technica, a Valve spokesperson confirmed...
NHS and No 10 advice differs on wearing masks if you have flu symptoms. What is best practice for prevention and protection?
An NHS leader has said people who are unwell with flu “must wear” a mask in public. A UK government official has said if you need to go out while sick, you should only “consider” wearing a mask.
So what is the official advice, how serious is the threat posed by flu, and...
Volvo Car South Africa continues to strengthen its position as a leader in South Africa’s electrified vehicle landscape, with the brand’s plug-in hybrid models ranking first and second among the country’s best-selling used PHEVs (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle). New market data from AutoTrader South Africa reveals a compelling trend: demand for Volvo’s electrified vehicles remains...
President Trump’s unusual decision to involve himself in the government’s review of the deal puts his antitrust chief in an awkward position.
Meta’s newly recruited AI “superstars” have developed an us-versus-them mentality against the company’s longtime executive leadership, creating internal friction over whether the team should focus on catching up to rivals like OpenAI and Google or improving Meta’s core advertising and social media businesses. Alexandr Wang, the 28-year-old entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg hired in June to be chief...
MTN South Africa will increase prices for its consumer contract customers with effect from February 2026 but is promising more value.