To cap it all, the concessions for the Espinho and Algarve casinos operated by Solverde were due to expire at the end of 2025 ...

Now] we're excited to launch the XIAO Project Hub — a single, open home for the best XIAO projects from across the community, ...

In IBM's case, a lot of the latest "pump" was Arvind's "quantum" hype/fantasy. Hours ago I was asked about "quantum" things and needed to clarify that - just like "hey hi" ("AI") - the media ...

New York Times ☛ Meet the NASA Astronauts in the Artemis III 4-Person Crew NASA’s next mission in its effort to return humans ...

Long championed as a leader in adopting digital technology, Sweden is set to ban mobile phones in schools beginning in the ...

IBM is in bad shape as the hype (or "bubble" or "pump") is deflating and mass layoffs are becoming increasingly difficult to conceal, as are the empty (abandoned) buildings. Consider Confluent.

Yesterday there was an "Extraordinary General Meeting" organised by the staff union of the European Patent Office. That was shortly after another meeting. "Report on the SUEPO Munich General Assembly ...

Some people expect the day of the announcement to be in the first week of July - same week the "buyout" offer is "in effect" (people depart 'voluntarily', knowing that if they don't they'll get the ...

Not too shockingly, insiders see the writings on the wall ( street ): ...

There's some fake news this week. The above from 11 hours ago (by Priya Singh) perpetuates the most "conventional" false narrative. They say "AI". Everything is "AI". Every program, every computer, ...

LibreOffice (The Document Foundation, TDF, its 'patron' of sorts) has gotten some praise or flak, depending on where one looks. Rather than dwell on who said what (it's documented in this page anyway) ...

Lately we noticed that several slopfarms - some with "linux" in their domain name - had become entirely inactive. They must have reached the foregone conclusion; nobody wants to read their LLM slop ...