The fix inches closer: Iowa moves farm right-to-repair bill forward
Soon, farmers could have easier access to the tools and software needed to repair their tractors. A recent Iowa House committee vote advancing a right-to-repair bill could bring changes benefiting thousands of farmers in the US' second-largest agricultural state, supporters say.…
GhostBSD to ditch Xorg for XLibre as Red Hat's Wayland crusade leaves X11 fans out in the cold
GhostBSD plans to move to the XLibre X11 server to better support its flagship MATE desktop – as well as Xfce and the new Gershwin.…
Go library maintainer brands GitHub's Dependabot a 'noise machine'
A Go library maintainer has urged developers to turn off GitHub's Dependabot, arguing that false positives from the dependency-scanning tool "reduce security by causing alert fatigue."…
AMD copy-pastes 6 GW chips-for-stock deal in new Meta agreement
AMD just signed a mega chip deal with Meta that appears almost identical to the one it signed with OpenAI last fall. And just like all cross-industry agreements between AI and chip makers of late, this one comes with some circular financing, too. …
Microsoft gives Windows laggards the 'gift of time' wrapped in licensing fees
Microsoft is giving Windows customers the "gift of time" but expects compensation for its generosity.…
UK data watchdog fines Reddit £14.47M for letting kids slip past the gate
The UK's data protection regulator has fined social media giant Reddit £14.47 million ($19.5 million) over its use of children's data.…
KDE Plasma 6.6 isn't forcing systemd but the arguments rage on
The latest KDE desktop environment is out. Among other things, it comes with a pledge that it won't require systemd, and this version has improved OpenBSD support. FreeBSD 15.1's installer offers KDE too.…
Korean cops charge teens over bike hire breach that exposed data on 4.62M riders
Two South Korean teenagers were this week charged with breaching Seoul's public bike service, Ttareungyi.…
West Midlands Police earn red card over Copilot's imaginary football match
UK Parliament has delivered the official postmortem on West Midlands Police's Copilot saga, and it reads like a case study in how not to mix generative AI with public order decision-making.…
Intel backs SambaNova's $350M bid to challenge GPUs in AI inference
AI infrastructure company SambaNova has raised $350 million to advance its dataflow architecture, which it pitches as an alternative to GPU-based AI systems.…
UK tech hit by double trouble: Fewer foreign techies amid skills squeeze
The number of international workers applying for a visa to work in the UK's tech sector dropped 11 percent between Q2 and Q3 2025, and was down 6 percent year-on-year, according to consultancy RSM UK.…
Euro allies aiming to rapidly build low-cost air defense weapons
Britain has joined a handful of European allies in a program to develop low-cost air defense systems, including autonomous drones or missiles, with project delivery of the first elements scheduled for as early as 2027.…
Cisco turns to titanium spoons and sand dunes to build a better … box?
Logowatch Cisco and the vendor formerly known as Pure Storage have let their designers and marketers loose on the internet to explain some recent decisions.…
Baikonur's only crew-capable pad busted after Soyuz flight
The pad used by Russia to send Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) sustained damage during yesterday's crew launch, according to Roscosmos.…
VMware isn’t budging in its pursuit of Siemens for alleged unpaid licenses
VMware has come out swinging in its case against Siemens over alleged unlicensed use of its software.…
PostHog admits Shai-Hulud 2.0 was its biggest ever security bungle
PostHog says the Shai-Hulud 2.0 npm worm compromise was "the largest and most impactful security incident" it's ever experienced after attackers slipped malicious releases into its JavaScript SDKs and tried to auto-loot developer credentials.…
Brit telco Brsk confirms breach as bidding begins for 230K+ customer records
British telco Brsk is investigating claims that it was attacked by cybercriminals who made off with more than 230,000 files.…
GrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France's privacy stance
French cloud outfit OVHcloud took another hit this week after GrapheneOS, a mobile operating system, said it was ditching the company's servers over concerns about France's approach to digital privacy.…
KDE Plasma sets date to dump X11 as Wayland push accelerates
The oldest of the open source Linux desktops is planning its final steps away from X11, while an even older Unix desktop is getting freshened up.…
SK hynix wants you to bond with HBM, so it coated corn in banana chocolate
SK hynix has launched HBM-themed square corn snacks at 7-Eleven, because nothing explains bandwidth like carbs and chocolate.…