Collaborate Disseminate
Last week System76 CEO Carl Richell criticized age-verification laws for operating systems — but he now sees a “real possibility” Colorado’s law might exclude open-source.
Phoronix reports that the System76 CEO met with the state Senator who c… Continue reading System76 CEO Sees ‘Real Possibility’ Colorado’s Age-Verification Bill Excludes Open-Source
The deal to take control of TikTok’s U.S. business came with an unusual condition, according to people familiar with the matter. The investors — which include Oracle, Abu Dhabi investor MGX, and private-equity firm Silver Lake — “paid the T… Continue reading US Set To Receive $10 Billion Fee For Brokering TikTok Deal
The ThinkPad P16 is a 16-inch portable workstation with Intel Core Ultra Series 2 HX processors, Nvidia RTX Pro “Blackwell” graphics, up to 192 GB of RAM, and up to 12 TB of storage.
The post Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 First Impressions appeared first o… Continue reading Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 First Impressions
Cooking with charcoal is a fairly common human activity, as much as others have come to prefer fuels like propane and propane accessories for their outdoor, summertime grilling. Although it’s …read more Continue reading Off-Grid Electricity and Hot Water from Scrap Wood
California saw its worst drought in 10,000 years between 2012 and 2015, remembers the Washington Post. And yet genetic analyses of California’s scarlet monkeyflower “found that many rapidly evolved… allowing them to cope with water scarcity and rebou… Continue reading How a Species Evolved Fast Enough to Save Itself from Extinction
China’s National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team (CNCERT) has issued a warning about the security stemming from the use of OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot and Moltbot), an open-source and self-hosted autonomous artificial intelligence (A… Continue reading OpenClaw AI Agent Flaws Could Enable Prompt Injection and Data Exfiltration
“A new study suggests the productivity boost from AI may be far smaller than executives claim,” writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli:
According to research cited in Foxit’s State of Document Intelligence report, while 89% of executives and 79% of end … Continue reading AI’s Productivity Boost? Just 16 Minutes Per Week, Claims Study
We can restore our PC using the bootable recovery options. With just a bootable recovery USB drive, we can fix many issues by recovering the Windows PC. It comes in handy when we face issues with Windows, such as corrupted components or unstable perfor… Continue reading Recover from a drive not showing or working in Windows 11
Last June Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said in a statement that Texans “have a God-given right to know what’s on their plate, and for millions of Texans, it better come from a pasture, not a lab. It’s plain cowboy logic that we must safegu… Continue reading U.S. State Bans on Lab-Grown Meats Challenged in Court
On the podcast, [Tom] and I were talking about the new generation of smartphones which are, at least in terms of RAM and CPU speed, on par with a decent …read more Continue reading What is a Computer?