Wednesday marked the end of support for the last and final version of HP-UX, writes OSNews. They call it “the end of another vestige of the heyday of the commercial UNIX variants, a reign ended by cheap x86 hardware and the increasing popularisation of Linux.”I have two HP-UX 11i v1 PA-RISC workstations, one of them being my pride and joy: an HP c8000, the last and fastest PA-RISC workstation...

While California’s residents have had the right to demand companies stop collecting/selling their data since 2020, doing so used to require a laborious opting out with each individual company,” reports TechCrunch.But now Californians can make “a single request that more than 500 registered data brokers delete their information” — using the Delete Requests and Opt-Out Platform (or DROP):Once...

North Dakota passed a law last May to promote development of rare earth minerals in the state. But the law’s language apparently also includes two fake mineral names, according to the Bismarck Tribune, “that appear to be inspired by coal company lawyers who worked on the bill.”The inclusion of fictional substances is being called an embarrassment by one state official, a possible practical joke...

America’s electric car subsidies expired at the end of September, notes Bloomberg. Yet in those last three months, “while fully electric cars and trucks made up 10% of all auto sales in the US… another 15% of transactions were for hybrid vehicles.”The EV market is slowing in the U.S., but analysts expect hybrid sales to continue accelerating. CarGurus Inc., a digital listings platform that...

Here it is — Betty Boop’s first appearance, which became public domain on Thursday. It’s a 60-second song halfway through a longer cartoon about a restaurant titled Dizzy Dishes. (The first scene makes it clear this is a restaurant of anthropomorphized animals — which explains why the as-yet-unnamed character has floppy dog ears…) So Fleischer Studios has now warned that claiming Betty Boop...

“The ancient evolution of fish mouths could help solve a modern source of plastic pollution,” writes ScienceAlert. “Inspired by these natural filtration systems, scientists in Germany have invented a way to remove 99 percent of plastic particles from water. It’s based on how some fish filter-feed to eat microscopic prey.”The research team has already filed a patent in Germany, and in the...

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Independent: Candida auris, a type of invasive yeast that can cause deadly infections in people with weakened immune systems, has infected at least 7,000 people [in 2025] across 27 U.S. states, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The fungus, which can spread easily in healthcare settings such as hospitals and...

“Microsoft is hoping that Windows can once again serve as the platform where it all takes off,” reports GeekWire:A new framework called Agent Launchers, introduced in December as a preview in the latest Windows Insider build, lets developers register agents directly with the operating system. They can describe an agent through what’s known as a manifest, which then lets the agent show up in the...

Last June the Trump organization announced sales of a $499 “T1” smartphone with a gold-colored case. But though they originally were scheduled for release in August, this week a customer service representative for the wireless carrier told CBS News the device will be pushed back again, now until the end of January, “attributing the delay to the recent U.S. government shutdown.” Some context...