IT News 8 months ago

Netflix strikes deal to bring Sesame Street to streaming giant - The platform will offer a new 56th season and 90 hours of previous episodes to its subscr... -

Sesame Street heads to Netflix after Trump pulled funding

The platform will offer a new season and 90 hours of previous episodes to its 300 million subscribers.

IT News 8 months ago

Microsoft Open Sources Windows Subsystem for Linux - Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is now open source, Microsoft said Monday. The t... -

Microsoft Open Sources Windows Subsystem for Linux - Slashdot

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is now open source, Microsoft said Monday. The tool, which allows developers to run Linux distributions directly ...

#microsoft

IT News 8 months ago

This Extra-Large, Two-Stage Fume Extractor Really Sucks - Solder fumes are not nice on the lungs; nor are fumes from superglue, epoxy, or a ... -

Hackaday

This Extra-Large, Two-Stage Fume Extractor Really Sucks

Solder fumes are not nice on the lungs; nor are fumes from superglue, epoxy, or a whole mess of other things we often find ourselves using on the b...

#powertoolbattery #activatedcarbon #3dprintedtool #fumeextractor #toolhacks #hardware #3dprint #lm2576

IT News 8 months ago

Netflix Says Its Ad Tier Now Has 94 Million Monthly Active Users - Netflix said its cheaper, ad-supporter tier now has 94 million monthly active user... -

Netflix Says Its Ad Tier Now Has 94 Million Monthly Active Users - Slashdot

Netflix said its cheaper, ad-supporter tier now has 94 million monthly active users -- an increase of more than 20 million since its last public ta...

#tv

IT News 8 months ago

Uber To Introduce Fixed-Route Shuttles In Major US Cities - Uber is launching a fixed-route shuttle service in major U.S. cities that offers c... -

Uber To Introduce Fixed-Route Shuttles In Major US Cities - Slashdot

Uber is launching a fixed-route shuttle service in major U.S. cities that offers commuters up to 50% off UberX fares during weekday peak hours. Cal...

#transportation

IT News 8 months ago

The tech that can make time in the air fly by - Hours in a cramped seat in a metal tube can feel soul-draining -- but the right gadgets c... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/14/in-flight-tech-travel-recommendations/

IT News 9 months ago

Nextcloud Cries Foul Over Google Play Store App Rejection - Nextcloud has accused Google of sabotaging its Android Files app by revoking the "... -

Nextcloud Cries Foul Over Google Play Store App Rejection - Slashdot

UPDATE: In an update to their blog post, "Nextcloud wrote that as of May 15, Google has offered to restore full file access permissions," r...

#android

IT News 9 months ago

Curl Battles Wave of AI-Generated False Vulnerability Reports - The curl open source project is fighting against a flood of AI-generated false sec... -

Curl Battles Wave of AI-Generated False Vulnerability Reports - Slashdot

The curl open source project is fighting against a flood of AI-generated false security reports. Daniel Stenberg, curl

#ai

IT News 9 months ago

Tech Leaders Launch Campaign To Make CS and AI a Graduation Requirement - "Our future won't be handed to us," says the young narrator in a new ad from the n... -

Tech Leaders Launch Campaign To Make CS and AI a Graduation Requirement - Slashdot

"Our future won

#programming

IT News 9 months ago

PCB Renewal Aims To Make Old Boards Useful Again - We’ve all made a few bad PCBs in our time. Sometimes they’re recoverable, and a fe... -

Hackaday

PCB Renewal Aims To Make Old Boards Useful Again

We’ve all made a few bad PCBs in our time. Sometimes they’re recoverable, and a few bodge wires will make ’em good. Sometimes the...

#pcbhacks #kicad #reuse

IT News 9 months ago

Ratcheting Mechanism Gives Tendons a Tug - A common ratchet from your garage may work wonders for tightening hard to reach bo... -

Hackaday

Ratcheting Mechanism Gives Tendons A Tug

A common ratchet from your garage may work wonders for tightening hard to reach bolts on whatever everyday projects around the house. However, thos...

#biomedicalengineering #cuttingandmachining #medicalhacks #biomechanics #arduino #chicken

IT News 9 months ago

Temu To Stop Selling Goods From China Directly To US Customers - An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Temu has said it will stop selli... -

Temu To Stop Selling Goods From China Directly To US Customers - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Temu has said it will stop selling goods imported from China in the US directly to customers from...

#usa

IT News 9 months ago

Millions of Apple Airplay-enabled devices can be hacked via Wi-Fi - Apple’s AirPlay feature enables iPhones and MacBooks to seamlessly play mu... -

Ars Technica

Millions of Apple Airplay-enabled devices can be hacked via Wi-Fi

Hackers can run their code on AirPlay devices thanks to a collection of bugs known as AirBorne.

#syndication #security #airplay #biz⁢ #apple

IT News 9 months ago

Chemical In Plastics Linked To 350,000 Heart Disease Deaths - An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: Daily exposure to certain chemi... -

Chemical In Plastics Linked To 350,000 Heart Disease Deaths - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: Daily exposure to certain chemicals used to manufacture household plastics may be connected to m...

#medicine

IT News 9 months ago

Comparing ‘AI’ for Basic Plant Care With Human Brown Thumbs - The future of healthy indoor plants, courtesy of AI. (Credit: [Liam])Like so many ... -

Hackaday

Comparing ‘AI’ For Basic Plant Care With Human Brown Thumbs

Like so many of us, [Liam] has a big problem. Whether it’s the curse of Brown Thumbs or something else, those darn houseplants just keep dyin...

#artificialintelligence #automaticplantwatering #automatedplantcare #soilmoisturesensor #greenhacks

IT News 10 months ago

Meta expands restrictions for teen users to Facebook and Messenger - The system imposes more restricted settings on younger users - though campaigners say it'... -

Meta expands Teen Accounts to Facebook and Messenger

The system imposes more restricted settings on younger users - though campaigners say it's unclear what difference they make.

IT News 10 months ago

Don't open that JPG sent via WhatsApp for Windows. It might be an .EXE - What a MIME field A bug in WhatsApp for Windows can be exploited to execute malicious cod... -

Don

: What a MIME field

IT News 10 months ago

Google tools for required for classwork are allegedly being used to build data profiles of each student - A new lawsuit alleges that Google is spying on school child... -

Tom

Google tools required for classwork are allegedly being used to build data profiles of each student

Google now faces a lawsuit for spying on students through mandatory Chromebook usage.

#googlechrome #software #browsers

IT News 10 months ago

Framework pauses U.S. sales of base Laptop 13 models due to tariffs — company says other vendors are pausing sales too, but not making announcements - The cheapest Framework Laptop 13s powered by a Core Ultra 5... -

Tom

Framework pauses U.S. sales of base Laptop 13 models due to tariffs — company says other vendors are pausing sales too, but not making announcements

The cheapest Framework models are temporarily unavailable.

#laptops

IT News 10 months ago

How a Tiny Relay Became a USB Swiss Army Knife - Meet the little board that could: [alcor6502]’s tiny USB relay controller, now evo... -

Hackaday

How A Tiny Relay Became A USB Swiss Army Knife

Meet the little board that could: [alcor6502]’s tiny USB relay controller, now evolved into a multifunction marvel. Originally built as a sim...

#microcontrollers #swissarmyknife #computerhacks #linuxhacks #swissknife #pcbhacks #boot0 #relay #servo #stm32 #news #uart #usb