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Is PHP declining? JetBrains says yes. And no

Tue, 2025-10-21 15:56
24,500 devs polled, two blog posts, one confusion

JetBrains has released its State of the Developer Ecosystem survey, with more than 24,500 responses, revealing AI's impact on developer tools and programming language trends - including the claim that PHP and Ruby are in "long term decline."…

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Introducing NTFSplus – because just one NTFS driver for Linux is never enough

Tue, 2025-10-21 14:01
Dev unveils a faster, modernized take on Microsoft's file system for penguin-powered PCs

Just under four years after the Linux kernel gained built-in read-write access to Windows drives, an alternative option has appeared.…

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Microsoft's ancient icon library still lurks deep within Windows 11

Tue, 2025-10-21 13:25
Pixels of the past 'created just for fun'

The pifmgr.dll still lingers in modern Windows installations - a throwback to a simpler and blockier time, according to veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen.…

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SpaceX is behind schedule, so NASA will open Artemis III contract to competition

Tue, 2025-10-21 12:31
Lunar landing reality distortion field slips for Musk's rocketeers

NASA's Acting Administrator has admitted that SpaceX is behind in plans to return astronauts to the Moon, has reopened lander contract competition, and pushed the deadline for a lunar landing to the end of the Trump administration in 2029.…

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Brit boffins teach fusion plasma some manners with 3D magnetic field

Tue, 2025-10-21 11:39
MAST Upgrade team claims first suppression of pesky edge instabilities in a spherical tokamak

Scientists at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) claim they have taken a significant step toward making fusion energy possible by applying a 3D magnetic field to counteract instabilities in a spherical tokamak plasma for the first time.…

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Muji's minimalist calm shattered as ransomware takes down logistics partner

Tue, 2025-10-21 11:15
Japanese retailer halts online orders after attack cripples third-party vendor

Japanese retailer Muji is suspending online orders after logistics partner Askul was knocked offline by a ransomware attack.…

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Feds flag active exploitation of patched Windows SMB vuln

Tue, 2025-10-21 10:27
CISA adds high-severity flaw to KEV list, urges swift updating

Uncle Sam's cyber wardens have warned that a high-severity flaw in Microsoft's Windows SMB client is now being actively exploited – months after it was patched.…

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Trust the AI, says new coding manifesto by Kim and Yegge

Tue, 2025-10-21 09:45
DevOps guru and ex-Googler say vibes beat reading diffs but there are risks

"Accept All. Always. Don't read the diffs anymore."…

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A shot in the dark: Can malware vaccines stop ransomware's rampage?

Tue, 2025-10-21 09:04
Security pros explore whether infection-spoofing code can immunize Windows systems against attack

Feature What's better, prevention or cure? For a long time the global cybersecurity industry has operated by reacting to attacks and computer viruses. But given that ransomware has continued to escalate, more proactive action is needed.…

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Mobian makes Debian's latest 'Trixie' release pocket-sized

Tue, 2025-10-21 08:15
Another phone Linux? The Reg attempts to disentangle the options

The latest version of Mobian, an edition of Debian aimed at mobile devices, is here, based on Debian 13 "Trixie".…

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Anti-fraud body leaks dozens of email addresses in invite mishap

Tue, 2025-10-21 07:30
Calendar cock-up exposed recipients' details

Anti-fraud nonprofit Cifas was left red-faced after sending out a calendar invite that exposed the email addresses of dozens of individuals working across the fraud space.…

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AWS admits more bits of its cloud broke as it recovered from DynamoDB debacle

Tue, 2025-10-21 05:33
12 more hours of pain followed initial outage

Amazon Web Services has revealed that its efforts to recover from the massive mess at its US-EAST-1 region caused other services to fail.…

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Alibaba reveals 82 percent GPU resource savings – but this is no DeepSeek moment

Tue, 2025-10-21 04:04
Better scheduling and resource-sharing for inferencing workloads using multiple models, not a training breakthrough

Chinese tech giant Alibaba has published a paper detailing scheduling tech it has used to achieve impressive utilization improvements across the GPU fleet it uses to power inferencing workloads – which is nice, but not a breakthrough that will worry AI investors.…

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AI wins Imitation Game: Readers prefer Fanfic written by ChatGPT

Tue, 2025-10-21 00:47
Shall I refer thee to all those lawsuits about fair use? Researchers think this result makes them worth revisiting

Readers of texts created to use the styles of famous authors prefer works written by AI to human human-written imitations, but only after developers fine-tune AI models to understand an author’s output.…

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Suspected Salt Typhoon snoops lurking in European telco's network

Mon, 2025-10-20 22:36
It's Typhoon season…year round

China's Salt Typhoon gang appears to have successfully attacked a European telecommunications firm, according to security researchers at Darktrace.…

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Nexperia drama intensifies as Dutch chipmaker denies ousted CEO's claims of Chinese split

Mon, 2025-10-20 21:44
The government in the Netherlands has taken control of the company

Nexperia, a Dutch chipmaker that's found itself at the center of a geopolitical crisis, has denied claims by its former CEO that its Chinese division is now operating as an independent entity.…

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Aid groups use AI-generated ‘poverty porn’ to juice fundraising efforts

Mon, 2025-10-20 20:51
Researchers accuse tech firms of profiting from exploitative AI imagery

The starving child whose picture broke your heart when you saw it on a charity website may not be real. Global health researchers say that stock image companies like Adobe are profiting from AI-generated "poverty porn" that non-profits are using to drum up donations.…

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Windows 11 tiptoes further into dark mode with new dialogs

Mon, 2025-10-20 20:23
Some portions of the OS are still stuck on light

Windows 11 launched way back in October 2021 and has become Microsoft’s must-have OS thanks to the impending end-of-life for Windows 10. After all that time, there are still significant portions of the OS that don’t do dark mode. However, Redmond is making significant progress, bringing a couple of key dialog boxes into compliance.…

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Today is when the Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout

Mon, 2025-10-20 19:55
When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works

column "It's always DNS" is a long-standing sysadmin saw, and with good reason: a disproportionate number of outages are at their heart DNS issues. And so today, as AWS is still repairing its downed cloud as this article goes to press, it becomes clear that the culprit is once again DNS. But if you or I know this, AWS certainly does.…

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Xubuntu downloads section injection threatens users with crypto infection

Mon, 2025-10-20 19:19
Attempted exploit was a feeble effort to target Windows users

Someone managed to insert a compromised file into the downloads section of the website for Xubuntu, the official Ubuntu flavor with the Xfce desktop environment. The malware was designed to steal cryptocurrency, but so far, there are no reports of actual theft.…

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