Virtual reality had its chance. It blew it
I’ve spent more time this year thinking about virtual reality than actually using it. That should tell you everything you need to know about VR’s state of play in 2025. ⌘ Read more
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Why Solarpunk Is Already Happening In Africa
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a Substack post by economist/entrepreneur Skander Garroum:
You know that feeling when you’re waiting for the cable guy, and they said ‘between 8am and 6pm, and you waste your entire day, and they never show up? Now imagine that, except the cable guy is ‘electricity,’ the day is ‘50 years,’ and you’re one of 600 million people. At some point, yo … ⌘ Read more
88 years on: why are we still so obsessed with finding Amelia Earhart ?
The disappearance of the world-famous aviator remains one of the most enduring mysteries of our time. Natasha Heap: It has been more than 88 years sin… ⌘ Read more
I like to read through old RPG books and zines for inspiration for my games, and lately I’ve been enjoying the Arduin Grimoire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduin), one of the earliest 3rd-party zines (coming out during the initial run of OD&D). It’s filled with a bunch of unique ideas (some better than others), entirely too many charts, and is very much a product of its time, but there’s something about its “raw”-ness (and its variety) that I still find appealing.
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There are no really good GUI toolkits for Linux, are there?
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Be it Java with Swing or PyQt6, it takes ~300 ms until a basic window with a treeview and a listbox appears. That is a very noticeable delay.
Is it unrealistic to expect faster startup times these days? 🤔
Once the program is running, a new second window (in the same process) appears very quickly. So it’s all just the initialization stuff that takes so long. I could, of course, do what “fat” programs have done for ages: Pre-launch the process during boot, windowless. But I was hoping that this wasn’t needed. 😞 (And it’s a bad model anyway. When the main process crashes, all windows crash with it.)
Report: Tim Cook to Step Down as Apple CEO ‘as Soon as Next Year’
Apple is preparing for Tim Cook to step down as CEO of the company “as soon as next year,” according to the Financial Times.
The company’s board of directors and senior executives “recently intensified preparations for Cook to hand over the reins,” the report said.
Whil … ⌘ Read more
GM Wants Parts Makers To Pull Supply Chains From China
schwit1 shares a report from the Business Times: General Motors (GM) has directed several thousand of its suppliers to scrub their supply chains of parts from China, four people familiar with the matter said, reflecting automakers’ growing frustration over geopolitical disruptions to their operations. GM executives have been telling suppliers they should find altern … ⌘ Read more
Man, @quark@ferengi.one has an absolute gold mine. Having dealt again with different clocks and all sorts of strange time things at work today, this made my day! https://netbros.com/1755172401/ :‘-D
Nouveau Driver To Support Larger Pages & Compression Support With Linux 6.19
While the “Nova” driver continues to be developed as a modern Rust-written, open-source and in-kernel NVIDIA graphics driver for Linux, for the time being Nouveau is what’s working for end-users for those wanting a mainline open-source NVIDIA graphics driver for gaming and other workloads. With Linux 6.19 the Nouveau driver is picking up support for handling larger pages as well as compression support… ⌘ Read more
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Testing new design, architecture and implementation of a Twtxt bridge I'm working on...
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@bender@twtxt.net Twtxt <-> ActivityPub (2nd time’s the charm? 🤣)
How to Turn Off Journal “Time to Write” Reminders on iPhone & Apple Watch
Once you use the Journal app, it will send a daily notification to your iPhone and Apple Watch (yuck) with a reminder that says “Time to Write”, nudging you to create a new journal entry for the day. If you’re annoyed by the Journal “Time to Write” alerts on your iPhone or Apple Watch, you … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/11/14/how-to-turn-off-journal-time-to-write-re … ⌘ Read more
Family of suspected WA Optus outage victim say they’re still in the dark
Christopher Oliver died about the same time Optus experienced a critical outage of its triple-zero network. Two months later, his family are no closer to finding out if he tried to make a call for help. ⌘ Read more
The sobering numbers behind the death of a 14-year-old WA girl
By 14, a young Perth girl had lived in four group homes, had been hospitalised three times after threatening to kill herself and was bounced between 70 care arrangements. ⌘ Read more
Sheepish Stokes grabs six wicket haul
A sheepish Ben Stokes appeared at times embarrassed as he grabbed a six wicket haul in England’s Ashes warmup match. ⌘ Read more
Netflix’s New Era of TV Games Starts Now
Netflix is launching a new slate of TV-streamed party games that are all playable using your phone as the controller. The Verge reports: To start, Netflix is offering Boggle Party, Party Crasher: Fool Your Friends, Lego Party, Pictionary: Game Night, and Tetris Time Warp. A social deduction game based on the Knives Out series, Dead Man’s Party: A Knives Out Game, is also part of this new slate … ⌘ Read more
New laws in Victoria aim to improve protection for retail workers
As retailers gear up for their busiest time of year, new laws are being introduced in Victoria to crack down on customers who abuse shop staff. ⌘ Read more
It’s that time again, I’ve just rotated my #twtxt feed!
Find last quarter’s twts at the feed: https://tilde.pt/~marado/twtxt-2025Q3.txt , or see them on the web: https://tilde.pt/~marado/twtxt-2025Q3.html
Who sacked Gough Whitlam? Take the Brisbane Times Quiz
Test your knowledge of current events and earth-shattering anniversaries with the weekly trivia challenge. ⌘ Read more
As it happened: Liberals agree to dump 2050 target; Ley promises lower prices, dodges questions on timing; New coal and gas could be funded
Follow along as we bring you the latest live news updates from Australia and around the world. ⌘ Read more
Scientists Watch Supernova Shockwave Shoot Through a Dying Star For First Time
For the first time, astronomers captured the shockwave of a supernova bursting through the surface of a dying red supergiant star, revealing a surprisingly symmetrical, grape-shaped explosion. Space.com reports: Seeing this moment in detail has previously been elusive because it’s rare for a supernova to be spotted … ⌘ Read more
Net zero Australia LIVE updates: Liberals agree to dump 2050 target; Ley promises lower prices, dodges questions on timing; New coal and gas could be funded
Follow along as we bring you the latest live news updates from Australia and around the world. ⌘ Read more
Net zero Australia LIVE updates: Liberals agree to dump 2050 target; Ley promises lower prices, dodges questions on timing; New coal and gas could be funded
Follow along as we bring you the latest live news updates from Australia and around the world. ⌘ Read more
Net zero Australia LIVE updates: Liberals agree to dump 2050 target; Ley promises lower prices, dodges questions on timing; Littleproud welcomes news
Follow along as we bring you the latest live news updates from Australia and around the world. ⌘ Read more
Net zero Australia LIVE updates: Liberals agree to dump 2050 target; Ley promises lower prices, dodges questions on timing; Littleproud welcomes news
Follow along as we bring you the latest live news updates from Australia and around the world. ⌘ Read more
‘Rolled-up cash’: Jail time urged for ex-CFMEU leaders over kickbacks
Father and son duo Darren and Michael Greenfield received bribes from a construction industry figure, concealed as cash handed under the table at the union’s office. ⌘ Read more
Net zero Australia LIVE updates: Liberals agree to dump 2050 target; Ley promises lower prices, dodges questions on timing; Littleproud welcomes news
Follow along as we bring you the latest live news updates from Australia and around the world. ⌘ Read more
Intel Finds Great Performance With PostgreSQL’s AVX-512 Support
Back in April PostgreSQL added AVX-512 support for CRC32 computations. At the time the gains for CRC32 computations with this popular open-source database server were reported to be 50% to 3x faster for x86_64 CPUs able to leverage AVX-512. That AVX-512 support is found with PostgreSQL 18.0 that released in September and now Intel is praising this addition to PostgreSQL for which their developers also had a part in along with AWS and others… ⌘ Read more
AI-Generated Song Tops Country Music Chart
Slashdot readers Tablizer and fjo3 share news that an AI-generated country song has topped the U.S. sales chart for the first time this week. ABC News reports: The new country tune, “Walk my Walk” by Breaking Rust, recently hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart, reaching over 3 million streams on Spotify in less than a month. That success has garnered mixed rea … ⌘ Read more
Waymo Robotaxis Are Now Giving Rides On Freeways
Waymo is rolling out robotaxi rides that use freeways across Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix for the first time – “a critical expansion for the company that it says will reduce ride times by up to 50%,” reports TechCrunch. From the report: That stat could help attract a whole new group of users who need to travel between the many towns and suburbs within the greater San … ⌘ Read more
OpenAI Fights Order To Turn Over Millions of ChatGPT Conversations
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: OpenAI asked a federal judge in New York on Wednesday to reverse an order that required it to turn over 20 million anonymized ChatGPT chat logs amid a copyright infringement lawsuit by the New York Times and other news outlets, saying it would expose users’ private conversations. The artificial … ⌘ Read more
OpenAI’s GPT-5.1 Brings Smarter Reasoning and More Personality Presets To ChatGPT
OpenAI today released GPT-5.1, an update to its flagship model line. The update includes two versions: GPT-5.1 Instant, which OpenAI says adds adaptive reasoning capabilities and improved instruction following, and GPT-5.1 Thinking, which adjusts its processing time based on query complexity.
The Thinking model respond … ⌘ Read more
Sex could help wounds heal faster by reducing stress
Mild wounds healed faster if people took a spray containing the “love hormone” oxytocin and set aside time to praise their partner – but they cleared up even quicker if these individuals were also intimate with their other half ⌘ Read more
Huge cloud of plasma belched out by star 130 light years away
A coronal mass ejection from a distant star has been confirmed for the first time, raising questions about how such events could impact exoplanet habitability ⌘ Read more
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My goodness, a new level of stupidity.
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This looks like a botnet, to be honest. The IPs are all over the place. Ethopia, Brazil, Kenya, Lebanon, Netherlands, … I mean, that’s the logical thing to do, isn’t it? Do your web crawling on infected PCs. Nobody will block those, because those are the same IP ranges as legitimate requests. And obviously you don’t have to pay for computing time.
… and they all send invalid HTTP requests, all answered with HTTP 400 … How silly.
Last night, we had to say goodbye to our sweet boy, Paul. He was only 7 years old. I am so completely devastated and so completely grateful for the time we had with him. ⌘ Read more
CNCF Honors Innovators and Defenders with 2025 Community Awards at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America
Honorees span end users, maintainers, mentors, and long-time contributors, reflecting the strength and diversity of the cloud native ecosystem Key Highlights ATLANTA, KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON NORTH AMERICA—November 12, 2025— The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which… ⌘ Read more
Trump Is Said to Propose Opening California Coast to Oil Drilling
Maxine Joselow and Lisa Friedman, Climate Change Reporters - The New York Times
_Stephan: This article tells you two things. First, it is a blatant act of revenge against Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, and the state of California. Second, it tells you as loudly as possible that “king” Trump cares nothing about preparing for climate change or your wellbeing. Yet, millions of Americans stil … ⌘ Read more
Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun Plans To Exit To Launch Startup
According to the Financial Times (paywalled), Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun, a deep-learning pioneer and Turing Award winner, is reportedly leaving the company to launch his own startup. Reuters reports: The owner of Facebook and Instagram has significantly increased its investments in artificial intelligence, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg r … ⌘ Read more
Shark attack victim’s widow speaks out for first time
Maria Psillakis’ husband lost his life in a shark attack in Sydney’s Northern Beaches. ⌘ Read more
Children as young as 10 held in locked rooms for days at a time, report finds
Children are being kept in solitary confinement without basic amenities in Queensland’s youth detention centres due to staff shortages and increased demand. ⌘ Read more
Excitment grows for AC/DC’s return as bagpipers descend on Fed Square for world record attempt
For the first time in almost a decade, AC/DC will be playing to a Melbourne crowd - but before the show begins diehard fans may get to witness a world record. ⌘ Read more
Brisbane news live: Teen to be sentenced over stabbing of grandmother Vyleen White; Victoria follows Queensland with ‘adult time for violent crime’ laws; Findings missed in 38 patients in hospital imaging scandal
For today’s news updates as they happen in Brisbane and beyond, follow us here. ⌘ Read more
Superheated star factory discovered in early universe
The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a long-standing puzzle about how galaxies grew so quickly in the early universe. ⌘ Read more
Brisbane news live: Teen to be sentenced over stabbing of grandmother Vyleen White; Victoria follows Queensland with ‘adult time for violent crime’ laws; Findings missed in 38 patients in hospital imaging scandal
For today’s news updates as they happen in Brisbane and beyond, follow us here. ⌘ Read more
Brisbane news live: Teen to be sentenced over stabbing of grandmother Vyleen White; Victoria follows Queensland with ‘adult time for violent crime’ laws; Findings missed in 38 patients in hospital imaging scandal
For today’s news updates as they happen in Brisbane and beyond, follow us here. ⌘ Read more
Brisbane news live: Teen to be sentenced over stabbing of grandmother Vyleen White; Victoria follows Queensland with ‘adult time for violent crime’ laws; Findings missed in 38 patients in hospital imaging scandal
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New mango variety to hit shelves after years of development
The Ruby Gold mango has been produced in commercial quantities for the first time and sellers say they are sure it will be a winner with consumers. ⌘ Read more
Brisbane news live: Teen to be sentenced over stabbing of grandmother Vyleen White; Victoria follows Queensland with ‘adult time for violent crime’ laws; Findings missed in 38 patients in hospital imaging scandal
For today’s news updates as they happen in Brisbane and beyond, follow us here. ⌘ Read more