The Time Clock Has Stood the Test of Time
No matter the item on my list of childhood occupational dreams, one constant ran throughout: I saw myself using an old-fashioned punch clock with the longish...
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Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gcc-toolset-14-binutils, gcc-toolset-15-binutils, httpd, kernel, libpng, mariadb, mingw-libpng, poppler, python3.12, and ruby:3.3), Debian (foomuuri and libsodium), Fedora (python-pdfminer and wget2),...
Read moreTrump withdraws US from world’s most important climate treaty
Donald Trump has decided to withdraw the US from the world’s most important climate treaty, as well as from dozens of other international organizations, as the...
Read moreLinux Kernel Bugs Hide for 2+ Years on Average
Study of 20 years of kernel history finds bugs hide for 2+ years on average, some for decades.
Read moreHow to Merge PDF Files in Linux with pdfunite Command (2026 Guide)
Learn how to merge PDF files in Linux using pdfunite command. Step-by-step tutorial with examples, scripting tips, faq and troubleshooting. The post How to Merge PDF...
Read moreIntel Panther Lake Laptops For Pre-Order Scarce So Far
On Monday at CES Intel announced Panther Lake as Core Ultra Series 3 with the initial laptop designs to be available for pre-order starting the following...
Read moreFormer Google CEO plans to singlehandedly fund a Hubble telescope replacement
Prior to World War II the vast majority of telescopes built around the world were funded by wealthy people with an interest in the heavens above....
Read moreChatGPT falls to new data-pilfering attack as a vicious cycle in AI continues
There’s a well-worn pattern in the development of AI chatbots. Researchers discover a vulnerability and exploit it to do something bad. The platform introduces a guardrail...
Read moreDirk Eddelbuettel: RcppSpdlog 0.0.24 on CRAN: New Upstream
Version 0.0.24 of RcppSpdlog arrived on CRAN today, has been been uploaded to Debian, and also been built for r2u. This follows an upstream release on...
Read moreMy favorite musical discoveries of 2025
My favorite albums from last year. Balkan brass, an acoustic favorite of 80s returns, Ethio-jazz, Guatemalan singer-guitarist, jazz-rock/Indian classical fusion, and a unique male vocalist. more…
Read moreHow Californians can use a new state website to block hundreds of data brokers
A tool called DROP lets California residents fill out a few forms to keep their personal data from being tracked or sold by data brokers. Illustration by...
Read moreFragments: January 8
Anthropic report on how their AI is changing their own software development practice. Most usage is for debugging and helping understand existing code Notable increase in...
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