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Wine 10.6 has been released, featuring a new lexer within its Command Processor (CMD), support for the PBKDF2 algorithm to its Bcrypt implementation, and improved metadata handling in WindowsCodecs. According to Phoronix, the update also includes 27 known bug fixes that address issues with Unity games, Alan Wake, GDI+, and various other games and applications. You can see all the changes and download the relesae via WineHQ.org GitLab.

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The semiconductor manufacturing business is absolutely immense. To give the numbers some perspective, in 2024, chip makers generated revenues that were about three quarters of the size of the US defense budget and about two-thirds the size of the social services budget allocated by Congress. …

The Chips Are Definitely Not Down was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

A chilling final text message sent by a murdered Alabama mother has become the key piece of evidence in solving her own killing.

Erlang? Er, man, no problem. ChatGPT, Claude to go from flaw disclosure to actual attack code in hours

The time from vulnerability disclosure to proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code can now be as short as a few hours, thanks to generative AI models.…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Whisky, a gaming-focused front-end for Wine's Windows compatibility tools on macOS, is no longer receiving updates. As one of the most useful and well-regarded tools in a Mac gamer's toolkit, it could be seen as a great loss, but its developer hopes you'll move on with what he considers a better option: supporting CodeWeavers' CrossOver product. Also, Whisky's creator is an 18-year-old college student, and he could use a break. "I am 18, yes, and attending Northeastern University, so it's always a balancing act between my school work and dev work," Isaac Marovitz wrote to Ars. The Whisky project has "been more or less in this state for a few months, I posted the notice mostly to clarify and formally announce it," Marovitz said, having received "a lot of questions" about the project status. [...] "Whisky, in my opinion, has not been a positive on the Wine community as a whole," Marovitz wrote on the Whisky site. He advised that Whisky users buy a CrossOver license, and noted that while CodeWeavers and Valve's work on Proton have had a big impact on the Wine project, "the amount that Whisky as a whole contributes to Wine is practically zero." Fixes for Wine running Mac games "have to come from people who are not only incredibly knowledgeable on C, Wine, Windows, but also macOS," Marovitz wrote, and "the pool of developers with those skills is very limited." While Marovitz told Ars that he's had "some contact with CodeWeavers" in making Whisky, "they were always curious and never told me what I should or should not do." It became clear to him, though, "from what [CodeWeavers] could tell me as well as observing the attitude of the wider community that Whisky could seriously threaten CrossOver's viability." "Whisky may have been a CrossOver competitor, but that's not how we feel today," wrote CodeWeavers CEO James B. Ramey in a statement. "Our response is simply one of empathy, understanding, and acknowledgement for Isaac's situation."

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The pedestrian was strolling along the Broadway in the Southall area of west London on Saturday when the crook struck.

Wrangling your data into LLMs just got easier, though it's not all sunshine and rainbows

Hands On  Getting large language models to actually do something useful usually means wiring them up to external data, tools, or APIs. The trouble is, there's no standard way to do that - yet.…

Shelly Feeney, who was in her 30s, was driving in Ballymooney last Monday morning when she was involved in a single-vehicle collision where a child also received minor injuries.

Trump's tariffs have created a new factor in the long-standing cola wars. 

Ben Stiller and Patrick Schwarzenegger are under fire for their sensitive reactions to a critical headline that cast doubt on the box office success of Sinners.

A Place in the Sun star is in talks to compete on this years Strictly Come Dancing after getting in shape following a health battle. 

Karoline Leavitt slammed an NPR report that the White House was looking to replace Pete Hegseth as defense secretary as 'fake news.'

AADAM PATEL AT ELLAND ROAD: Daniel Farke afforded himself a little smile in the press conference room at Elland Road as he saw Burnley take the lead against Sheffield United.

Kanye West has made a shock claim that he took part in incestuous acts with his cousin as a child.

The Alias actress randomly filmed her feline in her arms as she spun him around in her living room.

The club has had to make major changes after environmental health inspectors found evidence of mice, droppings on bar surfaces, and mould in the ice machine.

Lily McGarry, 23, a third-year medic at Cardiff University, was rushed to A&E with flu-like symptoms in January by her student doctor friends.

The European Union is determined to enforce its full digital rule book no matter who is in charge of companies such as X, Meta, Apple and Tiktok or where they are based, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told Politico. From a report: "That's why we've opened cases against TikTok, X, Apple, Meta just to name a few. We apply the rules fairly, proportionally, and without bias. We don't care where a company's from and who's running it. We care about protecting people," Politico quoted von der Leyen as saying on Sunday. The EU's Digital Markets Act has been strongly criticised by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.

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The 50-year-old farmer from the US, who was not named, had swerved to avoid a pothole - like he had done a thousand times before - when he lost control of his truck and slammed into a wall of trees.

Faults with the signalling systems and a stray commuter are among the causes of the travel chaos affecting the South Western Railway (SWR) service.