Harvard faculty are voting on a proposal (PDF) to curb grade inflation by limiting solid A grades to 20% of students in a class, plus four additional A's per course. Axios reports: Grade inflation is at a tipping point at Harvard. A move to make A grades harder to come by at ...
The German Sovereign Tech Fund has invested 1.2 million euros ($1.4 million USD) in KDE Plasma technologies to help strengthen the structural reliability and security of the desktop environment's core infrastructure, including Plasma, KDE Linux, and the frameworks underlying ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: LinkedIn planned to inform staff of layoffs on Wednesday, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a widening of technology sector cuts this year. The Microsoft-owned social network plans to cut about 5% of its hea...
A new Linux local privilege escalation flaw called Fragnesia has been disclosed as a Dirty Frag-like vulnerability, allowing arbitrary byte writes into the kernel page cache of read-only files through a separate ESP/XFRM logic bug. Phoronix reports: Proof of concept code for ...
Microsoft is adding a Windows Update feature called Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery that can automatically roll back faulty drivers to a previously known-good version without waiting for hardware makers or users to fix the problem manually. PCWorld reports: The way faulty dri...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: On Reddit, Hacker News and other places where people in software development talk to each other, more and more people are becoming disillusioned with the promise of code generated by large language models. Developers talk no...
BrianFagioli writes: SOLAI has launched the Solode Neo, a $399 Linux-based mini PC designed for always-on AI agents, browser automation, and persistent developer workflows. The compact system ships with an Intel N150 processor, 12GB LPDDR5 memory, 128GB SSD storage, Gigabit E...
A man accused of stealing hard drives containing unreleased Beyonce music, tour plans, and other materials from a rental car in Atlanta has pleaded guilty and accepted a five-year sentence, including two years in custody. Slashdot Bruce66423 shares a report from The Guardian:...
The HelloFresh meal kit has harnessed AI and modern logistics to field the most impressively gigantic menu I have ever seen. Recipe times are still lies, though.
A bustling underground ecosystem is providing criminals with the tools to unlock iPhones—and wage phishing attacks against their contacts to access bank accounts and more.
Pinterest identified and resolved CPU starvation issues that affected machine learning training jobs on its Kubernetes-based platform, PinCompute. The engineers traced the problem to an unused Amazon ECS agent, which caused memory cgroup leaks. By disabling the agent, they st...
Microsoft is on a mission to fix Windows 11, and part of that involves improving the often-frustrating Windows Update experience. While you'll soon be able to pause updates indefinitely, Microsoft is also adding a new feature that automatically rolls back problematic drivers ...
From designer straws to magnet-sealed leather pouches, the platform is awash in products seemingly built for coke—despite Meta’s policies on drug paraphernalia.
Anthropic published a postmortem tracing six weeks of Claude Code quality complaints to three overlapping product-layer changes: a reasoning effort downgrade, a caching bug that progressively erased the model's own thinking, and a system prompt verbosity limit that caused a 3...
Next week, Meta is cutting about 10 percent of its staff. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen current and former employees about what it's like inside a company where "everyone is unhappy."
Kubernetes v1.36, released in 2026, includes 70 enhancements focused on security, AI workloads, and API scalability. Key features graduating to General Availability are User Namespaces, Mutating Admission Policies, and Fine-Grained Kubelet API Authorization. The release also ...
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Microsoft Edge is adding a new feature that will allow its Copilot AI chatbot to gather information from all of your open tabs. When you start a conversation with Copilot, you can ask the chatbot questions about what's in your tabs, compare the products you're looking at, sum...
The Trump administration is fighting for the right to keep some social media moderation advocates out of the US. On Wednesday, US District Court Judge James Boasberg heard arguments in a lawsuit between the nonprofit Coalition for Independent Technology Research (CITR) and Se...
The final flight and complex legacy of a pioneering solar-powered aircraft.
Notion’s new developer platform lets teams connect AI agents, external data sources, and custom code directly into their workspace as the company pushes deeper into agentic productivity software.
In the ongoing fight for content and talent, YouTube is pitching itself as the connector between the creators and advertisers - and marketing its creators not just as the future of social media, but also of advertising, TV, streaming, and entertainment more broadly. At the co...
Approval is no surprise after FCC chair pressured EchoStar to sell licenses.
For the first time, AMD is including its 3D V-Cache tech in its commercial workstation processors with a refreshed line of Ryzen PRO 9000 series chips. Up until now, AMD's 3D V-Cache chips have mainly been geared toward gamers, but they've also gotten better at creative tasks...
Distinct form of tooth protein in Homo erectus shows up in Denisovans—and us.
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Gas turbines at xAI's Colossus 2 data center have drawn a lawsuit over the company's use of "mobile" gas turbines as power plants.
Old "honor code" systems are under strain.
The head of product for Claude Code and Cowork says that the next big step for AI is proactivity.
Anthropic has announced the general availability of Claude Platform on AWS, a new deployment option that gives AWS customers direct access to Anthropic’s native Claude platform using AWS authentication, billing, and monitoring services. By Daniel Dominguez
Hello and welcome to Regulator, the newsletter for Verge subscribers that goes into tech shenanigans that take place in the backrooms of Washington. Really, it sometimes does feel like the online series The Backrooms: a parallel universe with no internal logic, evil corporati...
A week ago, newly appointed Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro was busy regaling investors with plans to turn Disney Plus into the company's "digital centerpiece." By last Friday, though, his attention had presumably shifted to a fight with the Trump administration over free speech. Dis...
The type of bar matters when it comes to how it bends and recoils, but why is still a mystery.
For the second year in a row, Netflix's ad-supported tier more than doubled its monthly viewerbase. During its 2026 upfront presentation, Netflix revealed that its $8.99-per-month plan reaches more than 250 million people around the globe, a significant leap from 94 million u...
"NASA also is defining the concept of operations for the mission."
AI/ML and batch workloads introduce unique scheduling challenges that go beyond simple Pod-by-Pod scheduling. In Kubernetes v1.35, we introduced the first tranche of workload-aware scheduling improvements, featuring the foundational Workload API alongside basic gang schedulin...
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What would some of the world's largest repositories of malware look like if they were stacked as hard drives, one on top of the other?
US officials have said a nuclear detonation would render portions of low-Earth orbit useless for up to a year.
Fervo Energy's IPO was upsized several times after potential investors asked why the enhanced geothermal startup wasn't raising more money.
X’s new History tab combines bookmarks, likes, watched videos, and read articles into a single place, expanding the app’s role as a save-it-for-later tool.
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Roguelikes don’t die. They fork, mutate, get argued over, rewritten, abandoned, and revived again. Sometimes all at once. The post Dungeons & Desktops: 10 roguelikes that never die (because their communities won’t let them) appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
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Airbnb has redesigned its identity system to support privacy-first social features in Experiences. The platform introduces context-specific profiles that separate global user identity from externally visible profiles, preventing cross-context linkage. The migration leveraged ...
The rotateX() function rotates an element around the x-axis in a three-dimensional space rotateX() originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
JEP 533, Structured Concurrency, has reached integrated status for JDK 27. It refines exception handling and type safety in its API, particularly focusing on exception flow with a new ExecutionException type. Changes include an updated Joiner interface and a new open overload...
The rotateY() function rotates an element around its vertical y-axis. rotateY() originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
The rotateZ() function rotates an element around its z-axis, so clockwise or counterclockwise. rotateZ() originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
The rotate() function spins an element either clockwise or counterclockwise in a 2D plane. rotate() originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
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