PAPPP's Rambling
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