IT News 5 months ago

As Xi and Putin chase immortality, let's talk about digital presidents-for-life - And maybe even dictator Brain-in-a-box-as-a-Service Opinion  China's President Xi Jinping... -

As Xi and Putin chase immortality, ponder digital dictators

Opinion: And maybe even dictator Brain-in-a-box-as-a-Service

IT News 5 months ago

Teardown of a Cheapish EBL Multi-Cell NiMH Charger - Bottom of the PCB with most of the ICs. (Credit: Brian Dipert, EDN) People think a... -

Hackaday

Teardown Of A Cheapish EBL Multi-Cell NiMH Charger

People think about NiMH cell chargers probably as much as they think about batteries, unless it’s time to replace the cells in whatever devic...

#batterycharger #teardown

IT News 5 months ago

Seagate Exos M 30TB HDD review: laser-powered HAMR recording tech revitalizes the enterprise HDD market - The Seagate Exos M sets a new record for single drive capac... -

Tom

Seagate Exos M 30TB HDD review: laser-powered HAMR recording tech revitalizes the enterprise HDD market

A new generation of mass storage

#pccomponents #storage #hdds

IT News 5 months ago

Spinning Top Chair Revisited - Designer furniture generally comes with excellent aesthetics and (sometimes) funct... -

Hackaday

Spinning Top Chair Revisited

Designer furniture generally comes with excellent aesthetics and (sometimes) functionality. However, such furniture comes with a price to match. On...

#homehacks #spinning #plywood #chair #cnc

IT News 5 months ago

Automation comes for tech jobs in the world capital of AI - Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has made himself a cheerleader for AI’s potential to disrupt ... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/06/salesforce-benioff-automation-jobs/

IT News 5 months ago

Would Anyone Use a Chinese Stablecoin? - A new law in Hong Kong could pave the way for digital currencies tied to China. -

Would Anyone Use a Chinese Stablecoin?

A new law in Hong Kong could pave the way for digital currencies tied to China.

#antfinancialservicesgroup #hongkongmonetaryauthority #alibabagroupholdingltd #peoplesbankofchina #virtualcurrency #unitedstates #trumpdonaldj #stablecoin #hongkong #currency #china

IT News 5 months ago

Techie ended vendor/client blame game by treating managers like toddlers - Bickering continued despite mess putting cancer patients at risk On Call  Welcome once ag... -

Techie ended blame game by treating managers like toddlers

On Call: Bickering continued despite mess putting cancer patients at risk

IT News 5 months ago

Michigan shuts down four unlicensed online casinos targeting state residents - The Michigan Gaming Control Board (MGCB) has sent cease and desist letters to four... -

Michigan shuts down four unlicensed online casinos targeting state residents

#illegalgambling #michigan #casino

IT News 5 months ago

Google avoids break-up but must share data with rivals - A case over the US tech giant's dominance in search allows it to hang on to its Chrome we... -

Google avoids break-up but must share data with rivals

A case over the US tech giant's dominance in search allows it to hang on to its Chrome web browser.

IT News 5 months ago

Junk is the new punk: Why we're falling back in love with retro tech - It was a simpler time It's 2025 and the latest mega-album has just been released – on cas... -

Why the UK is falling back in love with retro 90s tech

: It was a simpler time

IT News 5 months ago

How lidar measures the cost of climate disasters - The wildfires that swept through Los Angeles County in January 2025 left an indelible ma... -

MIT Technology Review

How lidar measures the cost of climate disasters

Lidar data allows the identification of more subtle consequences of a disaster, including fault line shifts, volcanic eruptions, and mudslides.

#climatechangeandenergy #app

IT News 5 months ago

30 Years of Satellite Data Confirm Predictions from Early Models of Sea Level Rise - "The ultimate test of climate projections is to compare them with what has played ... -

30 Years of Satellite Data Confirm Predictions from Early Models of Sea Level Rise - Slashdot

"The ultimate test of climate projections is to compare them with what has played out..." says earth sciences professor Torbjörn T&oum...

#earth

IT News 5 months ago

Lucky user finds 6TB of free SSD storage while dumpster diving — finder plans to use the six 1TB Samsung 850 Pro SSDs to download entire Steam library - Samsung 850 Pro SSDs may be old, but they’re still quite he... -

Tom

Lucky user finds 6TB of free SSD storage while dumpster diving — finder plans to use the six 1TB Samsung 850 Pro SSDs to download entire Steam library

Who would say no to free storage?

#pccomponents #storage #ssds

IT News 5 months ago

Japanese city pushes two-hour daily smartphone limit to promote healthier sleep for its citizens, particularly school-age children - A city in central Japan is considering regulating smartphon... -

Tom

Japanese city pushes two-hour daily smartphone limit to promote healthier sleep for its citizens, particularly school-age children

Toyoake in Aichi Prefecture seeks to pass this ordinance soon, though it will be non-binding and without penalty.

#phones

IT News 5 months ago

VirtualBox 7.2 fixes flaky 3D guests and adds Arm-on-Arm support - Oracle-backed FOSS hypervisor a worthy rival to Hyper-V and VMware hands on  VirtualBox 7... -

VirtualBox 7.2 fixes 3D guests, adds Arm-on-Arm support

hands on: Oracle-backed FOSS hypervisor a worthy rival to Hyper-V and VMware

IT News 5 months ago

LibreOffice 25.8 Slams the Door On Windows 7 and 8.x - BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: LibreOffice 25.8 has landed, and whil... -

LibreOffice 25.8 Slams the Door On Windows 7 and 8.x - Slashdot

BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: LibreOffice 25.8 has landed, and while it packs in new features and speed improvements, the biggest he...

#windows

IT News 6 months ago

DirectX speeds up game loads up to 10X with new advanced shader compiling — feature debuts with Xbox PC app on ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X, more devices later - Microsoft moves shader compilation to the cloud, delivering... -

Tom

DirectX speeds up game loads up to 10X with new advanced shader compiling — feature debuts with Xbox PC app on ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X, more devices later

Advanced shader delivery will cut initial game loading time by as much as 85%.

#videogames #pcgaming

IT News 6 months ago

CME Group and FanDuel partner for event contracts platform - Derivatives marketplace CME Group and gaming company FanDuel announced a new partn... -

CME Group and FanDuel partner for event contracts platform

#gambling

IT News 6 months ago

Microsoft makes MCP in Visual Studio GA but researchers warn of risks - Compositional risk from multiple MCP Servers highlighted by report Microsoft has declared... -

MCP in Visual Studio is GA but researchers warn of risks

: Compositional risk from multiple MCP Servers highlighted by report

IT News 6 months ago

On the ground in Ukraine’s largest Starlink repair shop - Oleh Kovalskyy thinks that Starlink terminals are built as if someone assembled t... -

MIT Technology Review

On the ground in Ukraine’s largest Starlink repair shop

Elon Musk's satellite internet service has been absolutely critical to the country's defense. But staying connected through war relies on innovatio...

#featuresandinvestigations #thebigstory #culture #app