The Plan For Linux After Torvalds Has a Kernel of Truth: There Isn’t One Summary Rupert Goodwins (The Register) warns the Linux kernel project lacks a formal succession plan for…
Exposure To Some Common Pfas Changes Gene Activity, New Study Finds Summary New research suggests exposure to certain common PFAS (so-called “forever chemicals”) alters gene activity — an epigenetic effect…
Applied Materials Sued In China Over Alleged Trade Secret Theft Summary Beijing E-Town Semiconductor Technology Co. has filed a lawsuit in the Beijing Intellectual Property Court accusing US chip-equipment giant…
Microsoft Kills Volume Rebates in Name of ‘Transparency’ Summary Microsoft is changing how it prices Online Services sold under Enterprise Agreements: it will remove volume rebates/discounts and align Online Services…
Rupert Goodwins, writing for The Register and reposted on Slashdot, argues that the Linux kernel project has no formal succession plan for when Linus Torvalds steps down. Torvalds has said…
Another Linux Distro Is Shutting Down Summary Kaisen Linux, a Debian-based distribution aimed at sysadmins and system rescue, is shutting down. The distro provided multiple desktop environments (KDE Plasma, LXQt,…
Decoding Palantir, the Most Mysterious Company in Silicon Valley Summary WIRED’s Uncanny Valley podcast episode — featuring staff writer Caroline Haskins — breaks down Palantir: what it actually builds, who…
Microsoft kills volume rebates in name of ‘transparency’ Summary Microsoft is changing how it prices Online Services under Enterprise Agreements, removing programmatic volume discounts and aligning prices with those published…
Blockwurst ruling: German court says ad blockers’ code-tweaks could pose copyright problem Summary The German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has partially overturned an appeals-court decision in the long-running Axel…
Linux is about to lose a feature – over a personality clash Summary The Linux kernel’s prospective inclusion of bcachefs — a next-generation copy-on-write filesystem touted as ‘the COW filesystem…
