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Scholars discover rare 16th-century tome with handwritten notes by John Milton
Poet crossed out one racy passage, deeming it "an unbecom[ing] tale for a hist[ory]"
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U.S. Military Is Using Laser Weapons In Battle
Prototype laser air defense systems deployed by the U.S. Army have taken out enemy drones in the Middle East, an Army official told Forbes.
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Winamp is not going open source. Here's what it is doing - and why
To refresh its once iconic Windows media player, Winamp is kind of, sort of opening up the source code. See what that means for users and developers.
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Meet Max, the cat receiving an (honorary) doctorate from Vermont State University this weekend
The tabby will become a "Doctor of Litter-ature" in recognition of his contributions to the Castleton campus, where he has become a regular visitor for the past four years.
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French post office releases scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp
‘Bakery scent’ added via microcapsules to postage stamp celebrating ‘jewel of French culture’
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Nintendo Confirms It Will Announce Switch Successor Console ‘Within This Fiscal Year’ - IGN
Nintendo has said it will finally announce its Switch successor console “within this fiscal year”, so at some point before March 31, 2025. New Nintendo Direct confirmed.
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Are all Linux vendor kernels insecure? A new study says yes, but there's a fix
All vendor kernels are plagued with security vulnerabilities, according to a CIQ whitepaper. Will the Linux community ever accept upstream stable kernels?
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How Red Hat is embracing AI to make sysadmin lives easier
The open-source giant's AI work is all about integrating the entire Red Hat software family into a smart, easy-to-manage stack. Here's what each one does and how they fit together.
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Does More Money Improve Open Source Security?
It sounds simple: If you pay developers more money they'll improve the quality and security of their code. The evidence isn't so clear.
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IBM open-sources its Granite AI models - and they mean business
Many companies claim to have open-sourced their LLMs, but IBM actually did it. Here's how.
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How Pope Francis opened the Vatican to transgender sex workers
The outreach, reflecting the most radical stage of his papacy, has prompted backlash while also altering the lives of the nearly 100 people he has met.
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Update your Chrome browser ASAP. Google has confirmed a zero-day exploited in the wild
A new Chrome JavaScript security hole is nasty, so don't waste any time patching your systems.
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A group of Republicans has united to defend the legitimacy of US elections and those who run them
Republican officials who believe in the legitimacy of elections have formed a group that's pushing back on the election lies and conspiracy theories that have persuaded a large share of their party that elections can't be trusted.
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The number of fish on US overfishing list reaches an all-time low. Mackerel and snapper recover
Federal officials say the number of fish on the government’s overfishing list sunk to a new low last year in a sign of healthy U.S. fisheries.
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Google Continues Mixing Generative AI into Cybersecurity
The new Google Threat Intelligence cloud service draws from Mandiant, VirusTotal, and its own insights and combines them with generative AI.
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What OpenTofu 1.7 Means for DevSecOps - DevOps.com
With built-in end-to-end encryption, OpenTofu is a natural DevSecOps fit.
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WV agency won’t release docs showing where money was spent putting foster kids in hotels
West Virginia agency denies newsroom's public records request: The West Virginia Department of Human Services failed to give more than five months of financial documents related to temporary housing for foster children.
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Homegrown Chinese CPUs are catching up to AMD and Intel — Loongson 3B6600 and 3B7000 allegedly match Intel 10th Gen CPU performance
Some of its iGPU features are likely not as strong!
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CIQ Extends CentOS 7 Support with Bridge Service as its End-of-Life Approaches - Techstrong ITSM
The popular enterprise Linux CentOS 7 will soon cease to be supported, but its hundreds of thousands of users still need support.
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Red Hat's latest enterprise Linux distro has new features to tackle hybrid cloud complexity
In addition to unveiling RHEL 9.4, the company says it will support RHEL 7 for an extra four years.