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Trump Is Betting Big on Intel. Will the Chips Fall His Way?

The US government is aiming to take an equity stake in Intel in exchange for grants the company was already committed to receive under the Biden era CHIPS Act, according to comments US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick made in an interview with CNBC. The move is part of the government’s efforts to boost US chip manufacturing. “We should get an equity stake for our money, so we’ll deliver the money which was already committed under the Biden administration,” Lutnick said. “We’ll get equity in re

Elon Musk Slapped With Major New Complication

The reigning king of controversy has just found himself saddled with one more expensive problem. A U.S. District Court judge in Texas has ordered Elon Musk to continue a lawsuit filed by voters who gave up personal information in exchange for winning a $1 million daily cash prize from Musk’s PAC, Reuters reports. The case says the contest constitutes a form of illegal lottery or sweepstakes, which is prohibited under federal and state law, and misled people into sharing personal information th

Apple’s Blood-Oxygen Reading Feature Is in Legal Jeopardy… Again

Apple just reintroduced a blood-oxygen reading feature to some Apple Watches last week, but a new lawsuit could force the company to turn it off again. The health tech company Masimo sued U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Wednesday over an agency decision that allowed Apple to restore the feature. Masimo had previously sued Apple, claiming that the company had infringed on its patents. The timing of the lawsuit comes as Apple has been pushing deeper into medical devices, while also cozying

Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit

Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit 2025-02-23 For my day job, I need to build and run a Docker Compose project. However, because Docker doesn’t play well with nftables and I prefer a rootless + daemonless approach, I’m using Podman. Podman supports Docker Compose projects with two possible solutions: either by connecting the official Docker Compose CLI to a Podman socket, either by using their own drop-in replacement. They ship a small wrapper to select one of these options. (The wrapper has t

Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP)

Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP) 1.0.1 Introduction The Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP) is a modern, flexible, and scalable standard for defining and interacting with tools across a wide variety of communication protocols. UTCP 1.0.0 introduces a modular core with a plugin-based architecture, making it more extensible, testable, and easier to package. In contrast to other protocols, UTCP places a strong emphasis on: Scalability : UTCP is designed to handle a large number of tool

Vibe coding creates a bus factor of zero

All the opinions expressed in this article and on this website are entirely my own and do not represent my employer in any way. Ever heard about the “Bus factor”? It is a concept that measures the risk of losing all knowledge about a particular thing – a software development project for example – by estimating how many team members could get crushed by a bus before nobody knows how to work on the project anymore. As an example, if 3 people on your team know how to restore a backup of your datab

SimpleIDE

SimpleIDE A lightweight, professional VB.NET IDE built with GTK# 3 on Linux using .NET 8.0. SimpleIDE provides a modern development environment specifically designed for VB.NET projects on Linux systems. Features Code Editor Multi-file tabbed editing with automatic file type detection with automatic file type detection VB.NET syntax highlighting with customizable color themes with customizable color themes Line numbers with click-to-select and drag-to-select functionality with click-to-se

Android finally lets you control your Pixel phone’s flashlight brightness

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Android has finally added native flashlight brightness controls from the Quick Settings panel. Google added support for controlling the flashlight brightness in Android 13, but there was no way to do so from Quick Settings. This feature is available in the latest August 2025 Android Canary release and may arrive in Android 16 QPR2. If you’re looking for something under a couch, bed, or other dimly lit area, then your phone’s built-in flashlight will c

Understanding Moravec's Paradox

Understanding Moravec's Paradox Morevec's paradox is a little weird in a few ways. First it's not a paradox, and second it's widely miss-interpreted. At its core, Moravec's paradox is the observation that reasoning takes much less computation compared to sensorimotor and perception tasks. It's often (incorrectly) described as tasks that are easy for humans are difficult for machines and visa versa. The answer from the human's side is relatively simple to explain. As hypothesised by Morvec, hum

Resident Evil Requiem feels very familiar, but it's so well made that I respect the hell out of it

For nearly 30 years, developer Capcom has been redefining its particular brand of survival horror for the Resident Evil series. Despite its tone shifting between action-horror games and more pure horror entries, where players face down grotesque moments with scant resources, the series still manages to place players in tense encounters that define the series' against-all-odds approach to horror. And with the upcoming Resident Evil Requiem — or RE9 — appears to continue the series' current moment

Intel in talks with other large investors for equity boost at discount, sources say

Intel is in talks with other large investors to receive an equity infusion at a discounted price, people familiar with the matter told CNBC's David Faber. Intel stock slid more than 7% on Tuesday, after rallying earlier this week on a $2 billion capital injection from SoftBank and reports that the Trump administration is weighing different ways to get involved with the company. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told CNBC on Tuesday that the U.S. government must receive an equity stake in Intel

YC-backed Garage raises $13.5M to help firefighters buy equipment

A firefighter since age 15, Martin Hunt, now 26, knew firsthand the pain of small communities with tight budgets buying fire equipment. One day in 2023, he found himself chatting with one of his firefighter friends who’d asked if Hunt knew of a better way. “When I couldn’t find anything, it became clear that there was a need for a streamlined, nationwide marketplace for expensive, hard-to-move equipment like firetrucks,” Hunt told TechCrunch. “A few months later, I left my job with no product

Customizing Lisp REPLs

Customizing Lisp REPLs Oh, I see you disabled JavaScript. Keep up the good work, my fellow cleanweb person! I am a portability freak. If something can be done with an existing tool, I’ll go for it. If the program can be portable across systems, then it should be. If I can get rid of a tool or a whole class of tools, then off with its head! Sometimes that costs me, but that’s what I am. You can already see why I might dislike custom/wrapper/proxy REPLs. They are a new layer of tools reinventin

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Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021)

The state of CI platforms is much stronger than it was just a few years ago. Overall, this is a good thing: access to powerful CI platforms enables software developers and companies to ship more reliable software more frequently, which benefits its users/customers. Centralized CI platforms like GitHub Actions, GitLab Pipelines, and Bitbucket provide benefits of scale, as the Internet serves as a collective information repository for how to use them. Do a search for how to do X on CI platform Y a

Modern CI Is Too Complex and Misdirected

The state of CI platforms is much stronger than it was just a few years ago. Overall, this is a good thing: access to powerful CI platforms enables software developers and companies to ship more reliable software more frequently, which benefits its users/customers. Centralized CI platforms like GitHub Actions, GitLab Pipelines, and Bitbucket provide benefits of scale, as the Internet serves as a collective information repository for how to use them. Do a search for how to do X on CI platform Y a

Deel scores a lawsuit win, but not against Rippling

A Florida judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit filed against embattled HR and payroll provider Deel. And while Deel described this as a “Rippling-aligned” and “Rippling-supported” lawsuit, this is not the infamous lawsuit filed by its rival earlier this year that involved an alleged corporate spy. Rippling CEO Parker Conrad even went so far as to say “This litigation has nothing to do with Rippling, we are not a party to it, did not fund it,” in a tweet. (Rippling representatives declined furth

Black Myth: Zhong Kui is the next title from Game Science Studio

Game Science Studio isn't resting on its laurels after the success of Black Myth: Wukong. The developer teased a follow-up project as the closer to Gamescom's Opening Night Live showcase with a brief but beautifully detailed glimpse at Black Myth: Zhong Kui. There's no date attached to the cinematic teaser, and that's because the game is still very much a work in progress. According to the FAQ entry about a possible release window, the team says "Well, to be honest—even Yocar himself has absolu

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AnduinOS

What kind of applications can I run on AnduinOS? AnduinOS is based on Ubuntu's package base. Any software that runs on Ubuntu that can run on AnduinOS. You can run a variety of applications, including but not limited to: Linux apps, web apps, and even Windows apps using Wine. AnduinOS uses Flatpak to manage graphical applications. Flatpak is a software utility for software deployment, application virtualization, and package management. It allows you to run applications in a sandboxed environ

Guile bindings for Sway window manager

Guile Swayer I am an Emacs user and previously used StumpWM , an X11 window manager written in Common Lisp . I believe window managers should be scriptable because the level of workflow customization required by users often exceeds what can be achieved with simple configuration parameters (see my workflow below for a clearer understanding of why this is the case). Unfortunately, Sway/i3 lacks a straightforward programmable interface for customization. This project provides complete control over

Possible Local Malaria Case Found in New Jersey. Here’s What to Know

A once-vanquished disease spread by mosquitoes may be making inroads into the United States. New Jersey officials are now investigating whether a resident’s malaria infection was locally acquired. The New Jersey Departments of Health (NJDOH) and Environmental Protection reported on the case Monday. The resident hadn’t recently traveled, suggesting they likely caught it from homegrown mosquitoes. If so, this would be the first locally acquired malaria case seen in the state in over three decades

How to undo a reconciliation in QuickBooks Online - the easy way

Bloomberg / Bloomberg via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways QuickBooks hides reconciliation undo features from normal users. Reversing old reconciliations requires undoing them in sequence. Switching into Accountant mode unlocks the secret "Undo" option. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Regardless of the size of your company, one of the most important accounting tasks you can do is a regular reconciliation. This is

Trump administration eyes 10% stake in Intel using CHIPS Act funds, stock slides

A few days ago, news broke that following a meeting with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, the Trump administration was looking to take an unspecified stake in Intel. Now, Bloomberg says the number being discussed is around $10.5 billion. Here are the details. Not what the market seemed to be expecting Intel stock slid today, following Bloomberg‘s report that the Trump administration was considering converting Intel’s $10.9 billion CHIPS Act funding into an equity stake, potentially giving the U.S. govern

The Download: pigeons’ role in developing AI, and Native artists’ tech interpretations

People looking for precursors to artificial intelligence often point to science fiction by authors like Isaac Asimov or thought experiments like the Turing test. But an equally important, if surprising and less appreciated, forerunner is American psychologist B.F. Skinner’s research with pigeons in the middle of the 20th century. Skinner believed that association—learning, through trial and error, to link an action with a punishment or reward—was the building block of every behavior, not just

iOS 18.6.2 could be coming very soon to your iPhone

Last week, Apple released iOS 18.6.1 with support for the newly re-implemented blood oxygen Apple Watch feature. But per a reliable leaker, it seems iOS 18.6.2 could be here very soon. iOS 18.6.2 build number shared by leaker Today, an anonymous X user with a history of leaking Apple software build numbers posted about iOS 18.6.2. Per the known leaker, iOS 18.6.2 has the build number 22G100. Although the account didn’t provide details on features or release date, historically it has shared v

Otter.ai Sued for Allegedly Recording Work Calls Without Consent

Otter.ai, the maker of AI-powered transcription and note-taking tools, is facing a class-action lawsuit in California over alleged privacy violations. The suit, filed Friday in federal court by San Jacinto resident Justin Brewer, claims that Otter.ai is recording private conversations without obtaining consent from all the calls’ participants and then uses those recordings to train its AI. According to the complaint, Brewer doesn’t have an Otter account but joined a Zoom meeting in February whe

People Are Now Seeing ‘Zombie’ Squirrels in Their Backyards

As if black-horned rabbits weren’t strange enough, people are now spotting zombie-like squirrels covered in odd, sometimes bleeding sores in their backyards and parks. These sickly squirrels aren’t zombies, however, but victims of a real viral disease. Residents in both Canada and the U.S. have recently reported sightings of the zombie squirrels, dating back to at least 2023. These animals are likely carrying a germ known as the squirrel fibroma virus (SFV). Though the condition is scary-lookin

Ars Technica System Guide: Five sample PC builds, from $500 to $5,000

Sometimes I go longer than I intend without writing an updated version of our PC building guide. And while I could just claim to be too busy to spend hours on Newegg or Amazon or other sites digging through dozens of near-identical parts, the lack of updates usually correlates with "times when building a desktop PC is actually a pain in the ass." Through most of 2025, fluctuating and inflated graphics card pricing and limited availability have once again conspired to make a normally fun hobby a

iPhone 17 ‘Liquid Silicone’ case design shows new feature in video

Image Credit: iDeviceHelp iPhone 17 is just a few weeks away, and there’s more evidence that Apple is planning a new feature for its MagSafe cases. Majin Bu shared a video on social media of someone handling what he calls a “Liquid Silicone” case on an iPhone 17 dummy unit. For context, Liquid Glass is what Apple calls the transparent visual elements of its new design language coming to iOS 26. Nothing in the video explains the “Liquid Silicone” name, but it does show a design change that has

The circular economy could make demolition a thing of the past

Most of us are already quite comfortable recycling our household waste. In Spain, for instance, millions of tonnes of packaging are processed every year, but did you know that buildings and their materials can also be recycled, or that an entire building could be completely dismantled and reassembled? Formula 1, often a laboratory for innovation, offers us a real-world example of this in the form of the Red Bull team’s “pit box”, known as the F1Holzhaus – literally, “the wooden house”. It made

Bitcoin sinks to $115,000 after hitting its newest record, as macro concerns spark liquidation wave

A worsening macroeconomic climate and the collapse of industry giants such as FTX and Terra have weighed on bitcoin's price this year. The crypto market tumbled to begin the week as heightened macro concerns triggered more than $500 million in forced selling of long positions. The price of bitcoin was last lower by 2% at $115,255.70, after touching a new all-time high last week – its fourth one this year – at $124,496. At one point, it fell as low as $114,706. Ether slid 4% to $4,283.15 after