Collaborate Disseminate
“Most of the plastic waste in California is about to lose the recycling symbol,” writes the Washington Post’s “climate coach.”
The “chasing arrows” symbol, created in 1970 by a college student inspired by the burgeoning environmental movement, has bee… Continue reading California Law Limits ‘Recyling’ Logo in New Attack on Plastic Waste
“The vulnerability is simple in practice,” writes Tom’s Hardware: “run a command as a standard user and gain root (administrator) access to the machine.”
And it was Mythos Preview that helped the security researchers at Palo Alto-based Calif bypass a … Continue reading Anthropic’s Mythos Helped Build a Working macOS Exploit in Five Days
Variety reports:
Amazon MGM Studios started auditioning actors for the part of 007 in the past few weeks, Variety has learned… The next James Bond film will be directed by Denis Villeneuve, the filmmaker behind the “Dune” franchise, “Arrival” and “… Continue reading The Search for the Next ‘James Bond’ Actor Has Begun
The blog It’s FOSS has an update on the Fedora AI Developer Desktop Initiative, a proposed platform for AI/machine learning workloads on Fedora. It’s now been blocked “after two Fedora Council members retracted their earlier approval votes.”
The initi… Continue reading Fedora’s AI Developer Desktop Initiative Blocked by Community Backlash
USA Today reports:
Trump Mobile phones are being shipped this week, the company exclusively confirmed to USA TODAY in an email May 11….
The company’s first smartphone — the T1 Phone — was originally scheduled for release in August. H… Continue reading Trump Phones Start Shipping – But Were There Really 600,000 Preorders?
What’s going on with the U.S. job market? “The economy is growing. Unemployment is low,” notes the Washington Post. “And yet, for millions of workers, finding a job has become harder than at almost any other point in decades,” with the hiring rate “wel… Continue reading Why Is the US Job Market So Tough, Especially for Recent College Grads?
Linux 7.1 started phasing out support for Intel’s 37-year-old i486 processor. Linux 7.2 removed drivers for the old AMD Elan 32-bit systems on a chip.
And now some i586 and i686 class processors are being removed, reports Phoronix:
Supporting those … Continue reading Linux Kernel Starts Retiring Support for AMD’s 30-Year-Old K5 CPUs
Ford’s sales of electrified vehicles — including hybrids and all-electric models — dropped 31% from April 2025, reports Electrek. “Hybrid sales fell 32% to 15,758 vehicles, while EV sales continued to crash with just 3,655 all-electric mode… Continue reading Ford’s Electrified Vehicle Sales Dropped 31% in April From One Year Ago
The free/open source project OrcaSlicer is a popular fork of 3D printer slicing software from Bambu Lab. But Tuesday independent developer Pawel Jarczak shuttered the project “following legal threats from Bambu Lab,” reports Tom’s Hardware:
Jarczak’s … Continue reading Open Source Project Shuts Down Over Legal Threats from 3D Printer Company Bambu Lab
In Polymarket’s prediction market, “most people end up losing money,” reports the Washington Post — typically a few bucks.
“Since Polymarket launched in 2022, a few thousand people have lost the bulk of the money… and an even smaller group &m… Continue reading Most Polymarket Users Lose Money, While Top 1% Claim 76.5% of Gains, Study Finds