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Longtime Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced that the Linux kernel has received its first CVE tied to Rust code. Phoronix reports: This first CVE (CVE-2025-68260) for Rust code in the Linux kernel pertains to the Android Binder rewrite in Rust. There is a race condition that can occur due to some noted unsafe Rust code. That code can lead to memory corruption of the previous/next pointers and in turn cause a crash. This CVE for the possible system crash is for Linux 6.18 and newer since the introdu
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The iDock Qi2.2 AI Robot Charging Station is a weird but clever charging station that actually earns desk space. Read more ›
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The uncomfortable reason the internet fell for a fake delivery app whistleblower. Read more ›
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The Google cofounder has severed ties between California and several of his business entities, including his family office. Read more ›
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Acer’s Swift 16 AI puts an extra-large haptic touchpad front and center, with MPP 2.5 stylus support for sketching and edits. Here’s what matters before pricing and configs land. Read more ›
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Elon Musk says China's electricity advantage gives it the edge to "far exceed the rest of the world in AI compute." Read more ›
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Trump said the interim president of Venezuela will "be turning over" 30 to 50 million barrels of oil to be sold at market prices in the US. Read more ›
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Two Y Combinator veterans behind a nine-figure exit have now raised $15 million, led by YC CEO Garry Tan, to build an AI-powered money manager. Read more ›
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Samsung has published a security advisory after a high-severity vulnerability was discovered in its Magician SSD management software on Windows. Read more ›
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AWOL Vision’s Aetherion Max and Pro offer 1ms latency, Wi-Fi 7, and PixelLock tech for a premium 200-inch experience. Read more ›
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During a Q&A at CES 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says that the future of graphics is neural rendering, and that the company is "working on things in the lab that are just utterly shocking and incredible." Read more ›
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A defense official said so few injuries on such a complex raid spoke to the expertise of US forces. Read more ›
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Ring is making its cameras more powerful with new AI features, an app store, and more intelligent alerts. Read more ›
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National Weather Service pulled an AI-generated forecast graphic after it hallucinated fake town names in Idaho. "The blunder -- not the first of its kind to be posted by the NWS in the past year -- comes as the agency experiments with a wide range of AI uses, from advanced forecasting to graphic design," reports the Washington Post. "Experts worry that without properly trained officials, mistakes could erode trust in... Read more ›
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Many Greenlanders are interested in working with the US, but they all bristle at the idea of being bought or taken by force. Read more ›
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Save on the science-backed devices you’ve been eyeing with 15% off Theragun discount code and 30% off other great deals. Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Today marks five years since the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol by a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters. To commemorate the […] Read more ›
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Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, said that a wave of robots will serve as "AI immigrants" to drive the economy and do the jobs others don't want to do. Read more ›
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The Chinese government is reviewing Meta Platforms’ $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus for potential violations of technology export control, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing two people familiar with the matter. China’s Ministry of Commerce has begun assessing whether ... Read more ›
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Hilton said Tuesday that it is removing an independently owned Minnesota hotel from its system after a location denied rooms to ICE employees. Read more ›
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Tuesday that Chinese demand for the company’s H200 AI chips is “quite high” and that purchase orders from local tech firms will be the clearest signal of Beijing’s approval, The Wall Street Journal reported. At the Consumer Electronics Show, Huang told reporters ... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Only the government could spend 20 years creating a national ID that no one wanted and that apparently doesn't even work as a national ID. But that's what the federal government has accomplished with the REAL ID, which the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) now considers unreliable, even though getting one requires providing proof of citizenship or lawful status in the country. In a... Read more ›
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A new sweeping meta-analysis has found no reliable link between economic inequality and well-being or mental health, challenging a long-held assumption that has shaped public health policy discussions for decades. The study, led by Nicolas Sommet at the University of Lausanne and Annahita Ehsan at the University of British Columbia, synthesized 168 studies involving more than 11 million participants across most world regions. The researchers screened thousands of scientific papers... Read more ›
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The U.S. has surpassed 2,000 measles cases for the first time in more than 30 years, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From a report: As of Dec. 23, a total of 2,012 cases have been reported in the U.S. Of those cases, 24 were reported among international visitors to the U.S. Read more of this story at Slashdot. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: MTV shut down many of its last dedicated 24-hour music channels Dec. 31. The move, announced back in October, affected channels around the world, with the U.K. seeing five different MTV stations going dark. These include MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV, and MTV Live. As Consequence notes, MTV Music -- which launched in 2011 -- notably ended its run by airing... Read more ›
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After Congress approved President Donald Trump's rescission package eliminating federal funding, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting voted to dissolve after 58 years, rather than continue to exist and potentially be "vulnerable to future political manipulation or misuse." The shutdown leaves hundreds of local public TV and radio stations facing an uncertain future. Variety reports: The CPB was created by Congress by the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 to support the... Read more ›
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A new working paper from researchers at the University of Hong Kong has found that Chinese graduate students who plagiarized more heavily in their master's theses were significantly more likely to pursue careers in the civil service and to climb the ranks faster once inside. John Liu and co-authors analyzed 6 million dissertations from CNKI, a Chinese academic repository, and cross-referenced them against public records of civil-service exam-takers to identify... Read more ›
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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 from The Independent: Shortly after the phone... Read more ›
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Stack Overflow's monthly question volume has collapsed about 300 -- levels not seen since the site launched in 2009, according to data from the Stack Overflow Data Explorer that tracks the platform's activity over its sixteen-year history. Questions peaked around 2014 at roughly 200,000 per month, then began a gradual decline that accelerated dramatically after ChatGPT's November 2022 launch. By May 2025, monthly questions had fallen to early-2009 levels, and... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Californians are getting a new, supercharged way to stop data brokers from hoarding and selling their personal information, as a recently enacted law that's among the strictest in the nation took effect at the beginning of the year. [...] Two years ago, California's Delete Act took effect. It required data brokers to provide residents with a means to obtain a copy... Read more ›
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The tech industry needs to move "beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication" and develop a new "theory of the mind" that accounts for humans now equipped with "cognitive amplifier tools," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote in a year-end reflection blog. Read more ›
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