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The General Conference on Weights and Measures voted Thursday to abolish the leap second, the periodic adjustment used to keep Coordinated Universal Time aligned with Earth's rotation. The decision ends a system that has periodically synced atomic clocks with the planet's variable spin since its introduction, following repeated technical disruptions caused by past adjustments in 2012, 2015 and 2016.
A QR code hides its destination until you have already opened it. susQR is a free web tool that checks the link first, and it is worth keeping one tap away.
KDE marked its 30th anniversary on October 14 by launching Plasma 6.8, labeled the '30th Anniversary Edition,' alongside a commemorative movie. The release ends native support for starting new X11 sessions in Plasma, though legacy X11 apps will still run via the XWayland compatibility layer and X11 support continues under other desktop environments. Users remaining on Plasma 6.7 can keep existing X11 sessions.
Quishing works because a QR code gives you nothing to judge before you commit. Here is what the scams look like in practice and the habits that defuse them.
CNBC's Jim Cramer said this week's decline in AI-related stocks shows the value of not concentrating investments in one sector. He noted gains in non-tech names like Kimberly-Clark, Waste Management and Eli Lilly even as the iShares Semiconductor ETF logged its eighth straight day of losses, its longest losing streak in over a decade. Cramer cited the CNBC Investing Club's Charitable Trust, which exited Corning and bought Kimberly-Clark in early September, as an example of a diversification move that has since paid off.
Passkeys replace a secret you know with a key your device holds. That single change removes most of what makes phishing work, and it changes how account recovery should be set up.
The SecTor cybersecurity conference concluded in Toronto last week, drawing its largest crowd yet with attendance up 22% over the prior event. Industry experts used the gathering to discuss emerging security risks facing organizations.
Three copies, two kinds of media, one off-site. The rule is old because it keeps surviving the specific ways people actually lose files.
Strava launched guided strength workouts developed by coaches, featuring exercise animations, form tips, and live tracking of sets and reps that save automatically to a user's activity and update their muscle map. The rollout, available to subscribers over coming weeks with a free sample workout, also includes new guided running workouts and more workout series planned later this year.
Most laptops that feel slow are not short of processing power. They are held back by a hard drive, a lack of memory, a clogged fan, or a browser doing too much.
On October 10, 2026, the IEEE Joint Computer and Communications Society Trinidad and Tobago Chapter, led by Sachin Ganpat, partnered with the IEEE UWI student branch to mark Ada Lovelace Day. The event honored Lovelace's legacy and reportedly aimed to connect students with ideas beyond standard academic coursework.
The IMF's latest Global Financial Stability Report identifies three risks that could trigger a sharp tightening of financial conditions: a correction in AI-related asset prices amplified by leverage, a jump in sovereign bond yields from inflation or fiscal strain, and growing cyberattack threats. The fund also points to vulnerabilities among weaker banks, insurers, pension funds, private credit, hedge funds and emerging markets that could turn market stress into a systemic crisis.