Month November 2022
Disney, in a shocking late Sunday announcement, said it had reappointed Iger as chief executive, effective immediately, after Iger’s hand-picked successor as CEO, Bob Chapek, came under fire for his management of the entertainment giant. CNBC reports: “It is with… Continue Reading →
Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol that’s today powering social networking software like Twitter alternative Mastodon, the Instagram-like Pixelfed, video streaming service PeerTube, and others. The news was revealed in a response to a… Continue Reading →
One Gmail, one address. That seems right. After all, you have one phone number, and one home address. The same should be true for your email addresses, Gmail included. As it happens, though, your Gmail account has an unlimited number… Continue Reading →
Enlarge / The fourth-generation Echo device is a cloth-covered sphere with a halo at the base, contrasting with the squat plastic cylinders of earlier-generation Echoes. (credit: Amazon) Amazon is going through the biggest layoffs in the company’s history right now,… Continue Reading →
Michael Larabel, reporting for Phoronix: This summer AMD announced the Radeon Raytracing Analyzer “RRA” as part of their developer software suite for helping to profile ray-tracing performance/issues on Windows and Linux with both Direct3D 12 and the Vulkan API. Initially… Continue Reading →
As of WSL 1.0.0, the Windows Subsystem for Linux has reached the production-ready state, removing the “preview” label. The post After Six Years in Development, WSL Reached Version 1.0.0 appeared first on Linux Today. Link to original post https://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/wsl-version-1-0-0/ from… Continue Reading →
Hard for me to believe it, but Saturday was the 20th anniversary of this blog, which I founded on Nov. 19, 2002, with this introductory post. I actually started writing about this stuff even earlier, in 1995, when my fascination with… Continue Reading →
The Walt Disney Co. said today that Bob Iger is returning to head the company as Bob Chapek is stepping down from the CEO post. Iger, who officially left the company last year, is set to take the command immediately…. Continue Reading →
Through 2020 America’s professional lives “had taken on the overtones of a secular religion,” argues a writer in the Washington Post, with jobs forming “a primary way to find meaning in the world and a crucial part of our identity……. Continue Reading →
“Last week’s collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX is sending aftershocks through the scientific community,” writes Science magazine: An undergraduate physics major at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who founded FTX and quickly became a billionaire, 30-year-old Sam Bankman-Fried… Continue Reading →