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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/

canopic jug writes:Wired has a story about the growing resistance to data center deployment. It seems that data centers have exceptionally bad track records in regards to adverse effects on the local communities upon which they are afflicted.

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/google-settlement-with-epic-caps-play-store-fees-boosts-other-android-app-stores/

fliptop writes:In a blunt assessment that sent shockwaves through the tech and policy worlds, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has warned that China is poised to dominate the artificial intelligence (AI) race - not because of superior technology, but due to crippling energy costs and regulatory burdens hobbling Western competitors:

kolie writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/us-spy-satellites-built-by-spacex-send-signals-in-the-wrong-direction/

Microsoft: the Company Doesn't Have Enough Electricity to Install All the AI GPUs in its Inventoryupstart writes:Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can't plug in':

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-580-105-08-linux-graphics-driver-released-with-a-new-environment-variable

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.npr.org/2025/09/03/g-s1-86846/spiked-dinosaur-discovered-spicomellus

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://itsfoss.com/news/devuan-6-release/

Dr Spin writes:I have been playing YouTube videos, despite the obvious risk to my mental health.I am using Firefox on Linux and tend to have the "volume control" on my desktop because I use an external sound card to record or drive headphones.I notice that each time an ad comes on, the volume setting jumps up. Its not that the ad sound level is higher (although it IS).The actual volume setting is bumped up and remains so after I have skipped the advert.Is this not illegal interference with my computer? An offence against some law?[Editor's Comment: Has anyone else witnessed this? I watch Youtube but rarely see any ads in the video's that I watch. As for 'legal advice' - if it is happening we have probably signed our lives away somewhere that permits it.]Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.