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Science confirms what we all suspected: Four-day weeks rule
Employees work better and tire less when working a four-day week, according to a six-month trial involving thousands of individuals.…
Customers fret about downtime with hyperscalers' PostgreSQL services
Analysis Recent research suggests customers are concerned about the uptime reliability of hyperscalers' PostgreSQL instances, giving smaller alternative vendors an opening to fill the gap.…
Replit makes vibe-y promise to stop its AI agents making vibe coding disasters
Vibe coding service Replit has announced changes to its product that should prevent the database deletion disaster reported by one of its users.…
NASA hacked hardware of camera orbiting Jupiter – and fixed it
NASA has revealed that one of the cameras on the Juno craft it sent to Jupiter malfunctioned, and that it fixed it with some very, very, remote hardware hacking.…
Sacramento cops scoured energy records to target suspected weed growers, and the EFF has sued
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has advanced a lawsuit in which it alleges the City of Sacramento misused energy records to accuse residents of growing cannabis, often with disastrous results.…
Dell scoffs at breach, says miscreants only stole ‘fake data’
Dell has confirmed that criminals broke into its IT environment and stole some of its data — but told The Register that it's "primarily synthetic (fake) data."…
If you're forced to use Windows 11, here's how to steal some of your time back
Windows 11 is now the most popular desktop operating system, finally beating Windows 10. But it's also loaded with head-scratching default settings that sap your productivity and treat you like a computer illiterate. …
X tells the French police 'non' to its request for algorithmic data
The site formerly known as Twitter has said it will not hand over any information to French police over an investigation into its recommendation algorithms.…
Cursor AI YOLO mode lets coding assistant run wild, security firm warns
Cursor's AI coding agent will run automatically, in YOLO mode, if you let it. According to Backslash Security, you might want to think twice about doing so.…
Another massive security snafu hits Microsoft, but don't expect it to stick
comment Here we go again. Another major Microsoft attack, with this one seeing someone — most likely government-backed hackers — exploiting a zero-day bug in SharePoint Server that Redmond failed to fix.…
Nvidia extends CUDA support to RISC-V just in time for next wave of Chinese CPUs
Nvidia is officially bringing its CUDA software stack to RISC-V CPUs.…
Humongous parachute for European Mars landing mission tested successfully
video The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted a successful parachute test for the ExoMars Mars landing rover earlier this month, even as uncertainty looms over US involvement in the project.…
NASA veteran warns Hubble faces death by a hundred cuts
Interview "I would say I'm cautiously optimistic, but that probably overstates how I'm feeling."…
I just deleted my entire social media presence before visiting the US – and I'm a citizen
Column We don't want to believe what we deeply understand: nothing is really deleted, and someone, somewhere can (and probably will) use that record against us.…
Clear Linux OS terminated as Intel trims the fat
Intel has abruptly killed off Clear Linux OS, ending Chipzilla's decade-long adventure in this part of the Linux world.…
Vintage computing boffin releases expansive Intel 286 test suite
The developer of MartyPC, an emulator for vintage Intel-compatible hardware that targets cycle accuracy, has released a test suite for Intel's classic 80286 processor and compatibles – created, in a fit of raw enthusiasm and hyperfocus, by single-stepping a physical chip from the mid-1980s through the execution of almost 1.5 million instructions.…
AWS slaps usage caps on Kiro as AI editor preview proves too popular for its own good
AWS has introduced daily usage limits and a user waitlist for Kiro, its preview spec-driven AI editor, citing unexpectedly high demand as it works to scale the system.…
Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS
Comment Dear Santa. For Windows-10-end-of-support-day in October, please may we have a dead simple bulletproof all-free OS that gets old PCs online without a Google account, and does nothing else?…
Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off
With the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) set to shut down a key satellite data stream used in US hurricane forecasting, a group of amateur radio enthusiasts has stepped in with a decoder they say could fill the gap.…
Four new Android spyware samples linked to Iran's intel agency
Four new samples of Android spyware linked to the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) that collects WhatsApp data, records audio and video, and hunts for files by name, surfaced shortly after the Iran-Israel conflict began.…