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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