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Disinformation about the fighting between Israel and Hamas has spread like wildfire on social media platforms like X and Facebook.

Google, Cloudflare and AWS today disclosed a new zero-day vulnerability called the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack

Following the release last month of TuxClocker 1.0 as a GUI overclocking solution currently for NVIDIA graphics cards on Linux, this years-in-development open-source utility is up to version 1.1 and with some new capabilities.

Modal offically launches today with no waitlist. And we also raised a Series A!

EU antitrust regulators are asking Microsoft's users and rivals whether Bing should comply with new tough tech rules and also whether that should be the case for Apple's iMessage, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.

China aims to boost the country’s computing power, used to measure computer speed, by more than 50% by 2025. This comes as competition intensifies in

This has the potential to significantly improve Linux desktop and container security.

Analyst firm CCS Insight predicts generative AI will get a "cold shower" in 2024 as concerns over growing costs replace the "hype" surrounding the technology.

It was just a few weeks ago that AMD acquired AI software company Mipsology to help their AI software efforts on FPGAs

Nvidia canceled its AI conference in Tel Aviv next week due to safety concerns as the death toll rises in Israel and the Gaza Strip.

Author: Sascha Grunert The Kubernetes community recently announced that their legacy package repositories are frozen, and now they moved to introduced community-owned package repositories powered by the OpenBuildService (OBS). CRI-O has a long history of utilizing OBS for their package builds, but all of the packaging efforts have been done manually so far. The CRI-O community absolutely loves Kubernetes, which means that they're delighted to announce that: All future CRI-O packages will be shipped as part of the officially supported Kubernetes infrastructure hosted on pkgs.

Open source and decentralized social network Mastodon has more users than it thought. The service, which competes with X (formerly Twitter) and other

Police confiscate ‘illegal income’ of developer deemed to have used ‘unauthorised channels’ to connect to international networks

Hey – gotta start somewhere

Further walkouts at GM factories were averted after the automaker made its offer.

Michigan schools, mental health agencies and hospitals fight over too few social workers. Could relaxed licensing, better pay help?

John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, has resigned from the company in the wake of the pricing controversy.

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna's mixed messaging on AI layoffs will do little to calm lingering concerns

Internet considered harmful

The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing

FBI agent claims sergeant with top clearance offered access to DoD tech systems

MIT engineers designed an implantable device that carries hundreds of thousands of islet cells along with its own on-board oxygen factory to keep the cells healthy. Such a device could help Type 1 diabetes patients eliminate the need for insulin injections.

Green Mountain Power is asking state regulators to let it buy batteries it will install at customers’ homes, saying doing so will be cheaper than putting up more power lines.

23andMe has confirmed to BleepingComputer that it is aware of user data from its platform circulating on hacker forums and attributes the leak to a credential-stuffing attack.

The widely-used Curl project as a command-line tool and library for transferring data via a variety of protocols is preparing to roll-out Curl 8.4 early in order to address a particularly nasty vulnerability.

India has sent notices to social media platforms X, formerly known as Twitter, YouTube and Telegram asking them to ensure there is no child sexual abuse material on their platforms, the government said on Friday.