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spiraldancing writes:https://electrek.co/2025/11/19/gm-ev1-saved-from-crusher-going-driveable-again/GM only leased the EV1, never sold any, and prevented almost anyone from keeping them when it killed the vehicle program.The automaker ended up crushing the vast majority of them. While a few empty shells exist in museums, they are strictly prohibited from ever driving again. But a new project has surfaced involving what appears to be the only legally owned EV1 in private hands...

Freeman writes:https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/vr-hardware/steam-frame-specs-availability/

canopic jug writes:The excellent student run newspaper, The Michigan Daily, has an article about the necessity of regulating Bitcoin. "Mining" even a single Bitcoin now burns as much electricity as a family would use during about 50 days.

You might have noticed (or at least, I hope you noticed) that the site was down for an extended period of time (approx. two days?). There were a string of stories in the release queue when it went down, and after the site came back, all of those stories were pushed out at once. I will re-queue a number of those stories to be released again so that they won't be immediately buried off the front page and you'll have a chance to see and comment on them without having to scroll back significantly. So before you cry DUPE! and let slip the comments of war, you just might be seeing the original story in a new time slot.I'll shorten the time between releases until we're caught up.-- hubieRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

janrinok writes:https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/this-linux-os-has-got-a-million-downloads-since-windows-10-support-ended-should-microsoft-start-worrying-now

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://financialpost.com/fp-work/americans-with-degrees-unemployed-workers

janrinok writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-11-china-shenzhou-early-stranded-space.html

janrinok writes:https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62vl05rz0ko

hubie writes:A new study has revealed how different types of narcissism can influence the morale and performance of an entire team:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://linuxiac.com/mozilla-resolves-21-year-old-bug-adds-full-xdg-directory-support/

An Anonymous Coward writes:Here's a "grassroots" initiative bringing manufacturing back to the USA from Asia, https://reshorenow.org/ It was started by Harry Moser, the third generation of his family involved in USA manufacturing--primarily the Singer Sewing Machine Company... at one time a huge New Jersey factory of 5 million square feet. His main tool is free-to-use software, the

KritonK writes:Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License.In collaboration with Jason Scott, the well-known digital archivist of Internet Archive fame, they have officially submitted upstream pull requests to the historical source repositories of Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III. Those pull requests add a clear MIT LICENSE and formally document the open-source grant.Each repository includes:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/hp-and-dell-disable-hevc-support-built-into-their-laptops-cpus/

hubie writes:Is Matrix Multiplication Ugly?

hubie writes:A simple proposal on a 1982 electronic bulletin board helped sarcasm flourish online:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/science/bees-visual-stimulus-study-scli-intl

hubie writes:Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead:

janrinok writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-11-simple-destroy-pfas-carbon.html

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://boingboing.net/2025/11/14/rings-new-feature-turns-your-doorbell-into-a-biometric-spy.html

An Anonymous Coward writes:Pickpockets and other criminals often return Android smartphones to their victims, the UK's latest data shows

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/21/magician_password_hand_rfid

janrinok writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-11-full-earth-simulation-tool-climate.html

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://9to5linux.com/debian-libre-live-images-released-for-software-freedom-lovers

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/us-gives-local-police-a-face-scanning-app-similar-to-one-used-by-ice-agents/

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amelia-earhart-records-released-by-u-s-spy-agency/

janrinok writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-11-liquid-mars.html

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/ancient-egyptians-likely-used-opiates-regularly/

janrinok writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-11-mercury-pollution-marine-mammals.html

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/15/icelandic-is-in-danger-of-dying-out-because-of-ai-and-english-language-media-says-former-pm

janrinok writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-11-large-scale-vr-classroom-boundaries.html

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.osnews.com/story/143868/microsoft-warns-its-new-ai-agents-in-windows-can-install-malware/

mcgrew writes:One of my SF nightmares from Journey to Madness has already come true. I found out about this last night (11/12) on the Colbert show's "Cyborgasm" segment after a demo of a walking android not quite walking. It's an AI generated country singer named "Breaking Rust" singing a song it wrote, produced, and recorded named "Walk My Walk" and has hit number one on the country charts.It's covered in ABC News, USA Today, and quite a few outlets including, of course, the entertainment rags.I thought the robot song was even more lame, uninspired, and formulaic than most pop music, but I'm not a country or pop fan. Aparently it created some controversy.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/join-the-the-newest-social-network-and-party-like-its-1987/

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://itsfoss.com/news/kaspersky-for-linux/

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/google_chrome_seventh_0_day/

A Chinese company cut open their invention on stage to prove that it was not a human in a robot suit after comments that it looked too real. Unless it was a human with a missing leg, the robot was indeed proven to be a mechanical invention.

canopic jug writes:Software Engineer Nikita Prokopov delves into how programs have changed over recent years from doing our bidding to working against us, controlling us. This adverse change has been ushered in through requiring accounts, update processes, notifications, and on-boarding procedures.

hubie writes:Developers tend to scrutinize AI-generated code less critically and they learn less from it:

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wirelessduck writes:Turris, the hardware division of cz.nic CZ domain registry, has released their latest [open source] router device Omnia NG.Coverage from cnx-software:

hubie writes:Use the right tool for the job:

hubie writes:Floating solar panels show promise, but environmental impacts vary by location, study finds:

Snotnose writes:Everybody knows Intel's 4004, designed for a calculator, was the first CPU on a chip. Everybody is wrong.

canopic jug writes:Task and Purpose has a short article on a traveling art exhibit of photos taken during the filming of Full Metal Jacket (1987). The actor Matthew Modine played Pvt. Joker in the war film directed by Stanley Kubrick. While Modine was playing the role of a war correspondent, he also ended up taking behind-the-scenes photos on set.

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/magazine/neurotech-neuralink-rights-regulations.html

owl writes:https://bit-hack.net/2025/11/10/fpga-based-ibm-pc-xt/

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20094

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://itsfoss.com/news/mozilla-ai-window-plans/

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/raccoons-are-showing-early-signs-of-domestication/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/dhs-wants-to-use-biometrics-to-track-immigrant-kids-throughout-their-lives/