Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub (arstechnica.com)
AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives (arstechnica.com)
Linux Context Switching Internals: Part 1 - Process State and Memory (blog.codingconfessions.com)
"SPINACH": LLM-based tool to translate "challenging real-world questions" into Wikidata SPARQL queries (en.wikipedia.org)
More generally, this kind of task is called "Knowledge Base Question Answering" (KBQA). The authors observe that many benchmarks have been published for it over the last decade, and that recently, the KBQA community has shifted toward using Wikidata as the underlying knowledge base for KBQA datasets. However, they criticize...
Solidigm pulls out of consumer SSD market with discontinuation of drives (www.tomshardware.com)
Canada joins the hunt for rare earths to make chips (www.tomshardware.com)
2024 Brought Even More Customization To Boxes.py (hackaday.com)
Welcome to the Public Domain in 2025 | Internet Archive Blogs (blog.archive.org)
Mike Shapiro, the person behind G-Man in Half Life, just posted this on Twitter (nitter.poast.org)
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LineageOS now officially supports the Pixel 9 series (9to5google.com)
Russia admits its homegrown consoles can't match the PS5 or Xbox Series (www.techspot.com)
UFO destroys two Israeli Iron Dome missiles, then jets away at Mach 30+ (rumble.com)
9 Things I Find Joyful About Tech in 2024 (mudkip.me)
I listed things I found positive in tech in 2024, including fields like Linux desktop developments, handheld gaming devices, the fediverse and open platforms.
One NZ launches nationwide D2C texting service with Starlink (www.rcrwireless.com)
Potentially habitable planet TRAPPIST-1b may have a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere, The innermost Earth-like planet in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system might be capable of supporting a thick atmosphere (www.livescience.com)
Opt Green: Coordinating a Windows 10-to-Linux upcycling campaign across Free Software communities worldwide (Talk from 38C3) (media.ccc.de)
AI Agents Will Be Manipulation Engines (www.wired.com)
Starlink to roll out direct-to-cell services in Ukraine - CNA (www.channelnewsasia.com)
Right-Wing Figures Allege Censorship on X Amid Visa Controversy (www.pcmag.com)
AI language model runs on a Windows 98 system with Pentium II and 128MB RAM (www.tomshardware.com)
Are PC Hardware Companies Slowly Driving Technology into Restricted Closed Ecosystems? (www.scottrlarson.com)
New Tools Make Early Detection Of Forest Fires Possible (cleantechnica.com)
Meta envisages social media filled with AI-generated users [Financial Times] (archive.fo)
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Apple pulls remaining Lightning-based devices from European stores (www.theverge.com)
SemiKong is the world's first open-source semiconductor-focused LLM (www.tomshardware.com)
