PAPPP's Rambling
Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS
Distributed System Is Slower Than a Laptop
Secure Unix ancestor KSOS did type safety before Rust made it cool
Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again
Installing A/UX 1.1 like it’s the 90s
Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
Supreme Court Lifts Spending Limits on Political Parties and Candidates
US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections
Boffins build a better pixel capable of emitting and receiving light
Siboor Voron Trident (300mm CNC/AWD)
Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates
GitHub shouldn’t be a dependency for publishing Rust on crates.io
Boffin claims Microsoft’s “quantum leap” is invalid due to “basic Python errors”
LineShine Debuts at No. 1 as the TOP500 Enters a New Global Exascale Era
Steam Machine
What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000
Epic Games announces Lore version control system
Linux kernel 7.1 sends Intel 486 support to silicon heaven
Fox is buying Roku
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.
I used sound waves to make espresso. It could cut coffee‑brewing energy use by ¾
German court rules Google is liable for whatever Google’s “AI” generates
Microsoft is intentionally bricking all Office for Mac 2019/2021 installations
Nvidia’s Grace Blackwell superchips are officially coming to the PC with RTX Spark notebooks
Adding Linux support back for the BASIC (free) version of Vivado
Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time
The exemptions in age-verification laws for open source operating systems are bad, actually
Mysteries of the Griffin iMate
AMD (Xilinx) is Excluding Linux From the Free Tier For Its FPGA Dev Tool
The Virtual OS Museum
Google changes its search box
Windows 11 tests an adjustable taskbar and resizable Start menu
Preprint server arXiv will ban submitters of AI-generated hallucinations
KDE Receives $1.4 Million Investment From Sovereign Tech Fund
Google’s Android-powered laptops are called Googlebooks, and they’re coming this year
Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
Aramark, University of Kentucky to end partnership, eliminating more than 900 jobs
Apple gives up on Vision Pro, disbands Vision Pro team
National Science Board eviscerated; Trump admin fires all 22 members
Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux
The Mystery in the Medicine Cabinet: Acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and what to know
Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore
It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation
Academic fraud may be the symptom of a more systemic problem
Why Is No Kings So Old?
I Ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
Author of Red Mars calls ‘bullshit’ on emigrating to the planet
Supreme Court rejects Sony’s attempt to kick music pirates off the Internet
Tracy Kidder, Author of ‘The Soul of a New Machine,’ Dies at 80
FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made Consumer Routers
The OpenBSD init system and boot process
I hate: Programming Wayland applications
Building an FPGA 3dfx Voodoo with Modern RTL Tools
Our commitment to Windows quality
Minecraft Source Code Is Interesting
Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms
Forgetfulino 2.0.1 – never lose your Arduino sketch again
Digg is gone again
The great license-washing has begun
The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location
The one science reform we can all agree on, but we’re too cowardly to do
FTC declines to enforce a kids privacy law for data collected to verify users’ ages
Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’
Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and ‘fully conscious’
The Misuses of the University
If you’ve been holding on to a phone for a while, current phones are really disappointing
Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel
XKCD Dependency: Updated for AI
California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report Themselves
My journey to the microwave alternate timeline
BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs
A Beginner’s Guide to Split Keyboards
MyMiniFactory has Acquired Thingiverse Bringing Anti-AI Focus
Microsoft adds and fixes remote code execution vulnerability in Notepad
How Did the FBI Get Nancy Guthrie’s Nest Doorbell Footage?
The Day the Telnet Died
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Texas Instruments Acquiring Silicon Labs for $7.5 Billion
Slopaganda: AI images posted by the White House and what they teach us
SpaceX in Merger Talks with xAI
Albania Created an ‘A.I. Minister’ to Curb Corruption. Then Its Developers Were Accused of Graft.
Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor
FAA institutes nationwide drone no-fly zones around ICE operations
Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw
Immigration Agencies Are Openly Defying Federal Courts
SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
Logistics Is Dying; Or – Dude, Where’s My Mail?
Researcher Wipes White Supremacist Dating Sites, Leaks Data on okstupid.lol – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More
Dell is eating humble pie and bringing back the XPS brand
PicoPCMCIA leverages the Raspberry Pi RP2350 to emulate a PCMCIA card
ICE is using facial-recognition technology to quickly arrest people
Developing a BLAS Library for the AMD AI Engine [pdf]
Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
Researchers develop a camera that can focus on different distances at once
Anna’s Archive Backed Up Spotify, Plans to Release 300TB Music Archive
UNIX v4 tape successfully recovered
Big GPUs don’t need big PCs
The D.N.C. Is Killing Its Autopsy of What Went Wrong in 2024
Coursera to combine with Udemy
Reporter suggests Half-Life 3 will be a Steam Machine launch title
Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox
Sega Channel: VGHF Recovers over 100 Sega Channel ROMs (and More)
D-Bus is a disgrace to the Linux desktop
Rethinking sudo with object capabilities
After nearly 30 years, Crucial will stop selling RAM to consumers
Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4
Cherry gives up German production and wants to sell core division
KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support
GCC SC approves inclusion of Algol 68 Front End
Making Actually Useful Schematics in KiCad
XBMC 4.0 for the Original Xbox
You are likely to be eaten by the MIT license: Microsoft frees Zork source
HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs
The Death of Arduino?
A Chinese firm bought an insurer for CIA agents
What happens when even college students can’t do math anymore?
Denx (a.k.a. U-Boot) Retires
Google will allow users to sideload Android apps without verification
Steam Machines have returned: all the news about Valve’s new hardware universe
Bantam Tools no Longer Sells CNC Milling or PCB Machines
Testing Whether Fast Charging Kills Smartphone Batteries, and Other Myths
Mac OS 7.6 and 8 for CHRP releases discovered
Running a 68060 CPU in Quadra 650
The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful
Solarpunk is happening in Africa
Flock haters cross political divides to remove error-prone cameras
How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time
Reproduced and Recovered: the First Chinese Keyboard-based MingKwai Typewriter
AMD to enter ARM market with new “Sound Wave” APU
We Won’t Be Talking About GenAI in 2035, and That’s a Problem
Removing obfuscation in Minecraft: Java Edition
New attacks are diluting secure enclave defenses from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel
Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders
Say it with me: Windows is the problem with Windows handhelds
The Apple Network Server Mac OS ROMs have resurfaced
Nisus Writer: Schrödinger’s Word Processor
Front-Panel Booting an ATmega88 Microcontroller
AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea
Microsoft breaks USB input in Windows Recovery Environment
Today is when the Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout
Breach of F5 requires “emergency action” from BIG-IP users, feds warn
Recreating the Canon Cat document interface
The Peach meme: On CRTs, pixels and signal quality (again)
Bringing Desktop Linux GUIs to Android: The Next Step in Graphical App Support
Show HN: I’ve built a tiny hand-held keyboard
Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals
Ask Hackaday: Why is TTL 5 Volts?
The RSS feed reader landscape
Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs after sales allegedly plummet
Qualcomm gobbles up Arduino
Denmark Aims To Ban Social Media For Children Under 15, PM Says
Deloitte refunds Aussie gov after AI fabrications slip into $440K welfare report
Laptops create systems. Phones feed algorithms. The asymmetry determines power
I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone
Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ
Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 support is about to end
Charlie Javice sentenced to 7 years in prison for fraudulent $175M sale of Frank
EA will be a very different company under private ownership
F-Droid says Google’s new sideloading restrictions will kill the project
To digital natives, Microsoft’s IT stack makes Google’s look like a model of sanity
Update Notice of Centauri Series – ELEGOO Official
Benjamin Button reviews macOS
Nvidia, Intel to co-develop “multiple generations” of chips as part of $5 billion deal