23 Aug 2025
Conference realignment means the end of 109-year Iowa State-Kansas State competition.
23 Aug 2025 4:58pm GMT
Your one-stop shop as you prep for draft season, including rankings, projections and analysis.
23 Aug 2025 4:58pm GMT
Johnny Walker ended a skid of two straight knockout losses by scoring a shocking knockout of his own in a comeback win against Chinese light heavyweight Zhang Mingyang in the main event of UFC Fight Night in Shanghai.
23 Aug 2025 4:58pm GMT
The Washington Post looks at the rise of low-effort, high-volume "AI slop" videos: The major social media platforms, scared of driving viewers away, have tried to crack down on slop accounts, using AI tools of their own to detect and flag videos they believe were synthetically made. YouTube last month said it would demonetize creators for "inauthentic" and "mass-produced" content. But the systems are imperfect, and the creators can easily spin up new accounts - or just push their AI tools to pump out videos similar to the banned ones, dodging attempts to snuff them out. One place where they're coming from... Jiaru Tang, a researcher at the Queensland University of Technology who recently interviewed creators in China, said AI video has become one of the hottest new income opportunities there for workers in the internet's underbelly, who previously made money writing fake news articles or running spam accounts. Many university students, stay-at-home moms and the recently unemployed now see AI video as a kind of gig work, like driving an Uber. The average small creator she interviewed did their day jobs and then, at night, "spent two to three hours making AI-slop money," she said. A few she spoke with made $2,000 to $3,000 a month at it. But the article provides other examples of the "wild cottage industry of AI-video makers, enticed by the possibility of infinite creation for minimal work" A 31-year-old loan officer in eastern Idaho first went viral in June "with an AI-generated video on TikTok in which a fake but lifelike old man talked about soiling himself. Within two weeks, he had used AI to pump out 91 more, mostly showing fake street interviews and jokes about fat people to an audience that has surged past 180,000 followers..." (He told the Post the videos earn him about $5,000 a month through TikTok's creator program.) "To stand out, some creators have built AI-generated influencers with lives a viewer can follow along. 'Why does everybody think I'm AI? ... I'm a human being, just like you guys,' says the AI woman in one since-removed TikTok video, which was watched more than 1 million times." One AI-generated video a dog biting a woman's face off (revealing a salad) received a quarter of a billion views.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
23 Aug 2025 3:34pm GMT
"As a band we cannot cosign political censorship and will therefore be boycotting the festival today"
The post The Last Dinner Party lead boycott of Victorious as The Mary Wallopers hit back and festival respond appeared first on NME.
23 Aug 2025 3:31pm GMT
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British telecommunications service provider Colt Telecom "has offices in over 30 countries across North America, Europe, and Asia, reports CPO magazine. "It manages nearly 1,000 data centers and roughly 75,000 km of fiber infrastructure." But now "a cyber attack has caused widespread multi-day service disruption..." On August 14, 2025, the telecom giant said it had detected a cyber attack that began two days earlier, on August 12. Upon learning of the cyber intrusion, the telecommunications service provider responded by proactively taking some systems offline to contain the cyber attack. Although Colt Telecom's cyber incident response team was working around the clock to mitigate the impacts of the cyber attack, service disruption has persisted for days. However, the service disruption did not affect the company's core network infrastructure, suggesting that Colt customers could still access its network services... The company also did not provide a clear timeline for resolving the service disruption. A week after the apparent ransomware attack, Colt Online and the Voice API platform remained unavailable. And now Colt Technology Services "confirms that customer documentation was stolen," reports the tech news site BleepingComputer: "A criminal group has accessed certain files from our systems that may contain information related to our customers and posted the document titles on the dark web," reads an updated security incident advisory on Colt's site. "We understand that this is concerning for you." "Customers are able to request a list of filenames posted on the dark web from the dedicated call centre." As first spotted by cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont, Colt added the no-index HTML meta tag to the web page, making it so it won't be indexed by search engines. This statement comes after the Warlock Group began selling on the Ramp cybercrime forum what they claim is 1 million documents stolen from Colt. The documents are being sold for $200,000 and allegedly contain financial information, network architecture data, and customer information... The Warlock Group (aka Storm-2603) is a ransomware gang attributed to Chinese threat actors who utilize the leaked LockBit Windows and Babuk VMware ESXi encryptors in attacks... Last month, Microsoft reported that the threat actors were exploiting a SharePoint vulnerability to breach corporate networks and deploy ransomware. "Colt is not the only telecom firm that has been named by WarLock on its leak website in recent days," SecurityWeek points out. "The cybercriminals claim to have also stolen data from France-based Orange." Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader Z00L00K for sharing the news.
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23 Aug 2025 2:34pm GMT
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23 Aug 2025 2:01pm GMT
Essential nmcli commands to manage network connections, configure Wi-Fi and Ethernet, set static IPs, and troubleshoot errors in Linux.
23 Aug 2025 1:08pm GMT
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: There's an overwhelming sense of deja vu at multiplexes these days. In August alone, "Black Swan" (2010) is returning to theaters, along with the Tim Burton "Batman" movies from 1989 and 1992. Audiences will be able to revisit the oceanic terror of "Jaws" (1975), as well as the comic mystery (and multiple endings) of "Clue" (1985). Or they could groove to Prince's "Sign o' the Times" concert film from 1987. And it doesn't look like the rerelease trend is slowing down. In September, "The Breakfast Club" (1985) is returning, Pixar is bringing back "Toy Story" (1995), and "Apollo 13" (1995) is blasting off again. "Casper" (1995) will haunt screens for nearly the entire month of October, while "Avatar: The Way of Water" (2022) will run for about five days, teeing up the forthcoming "Avatar: Fire and Ash." And there are still more to come before the end of the year. Rereleases have long been part of the theatrical ecosystem. After all, "Star Wars" movies have been heading back to multiplexes routinely since 1981 -- before "Return of the Jedi" even debuted. But recently, studios have been digging deeper into their archives for a variety of reasons -- only some of which have to do with nostalgia. "Black Swan," from Searchlight, which is now owned by Disney, took over around 200 IMAX screens to commemorate its 15th anniversary. Universal's specialty arm, Focus Features, rereleased both "Pride & Prejudice" (2005) and "Brokeback Mountain" (2005) earlier this year. "Pride & Prejudice" ultimately grossed more than $6 million domestically this time around, about 16 percent of its original U.S. box office haul. In total, Universal has 12 rereleases on its 2025 slate -- not including a partnership with another distribution company -- compared with just four in 2024 and two in 2023. "We very much pay a lot of attention to our repertory business," the studio's president of domestic theatrical distribution, Jim Orr, said by phone, explaining, "We just think it's not only great fun for audiences, but a great business to be in as well." Orr explained that the size of Universal's rerelease slate this year was "more coincidental" than anything else, with all the films hitting anniversaries in 2025. Still, there is a strong business motivation: The rereleases help studios and exhibitors pad out relatively thin slates. "The truth of the matter is studios don't have enough product right now to give theaters, so that's why you're seeing an influx of these nostalgia plays," said Jeff Bock, senior media analyst at Exhibitor Relations. He added, "It doesn't cost a lot for them to do an anniversary edition or a 4K edition." There are several other reasons why Hollywood is rereleasing old movies, according to Orr. Rereleases are far cheaper to put out than launching a brand-new title. Studios also target films that already have strong, enduring audiences, "whether that's 'Pride & Prejudice,' with its meme-able depiction of yearning, or 'Casper,'" which he said had elicited 'decent' interest every year. Then there's what Orr calls "opportunistic dating." "There might be a window where something goes thematically or holiday-wise, whatever kind of fits in, or there might be some more screens available in specific formats," he said. Specialty format releases like IMAX, Dolby, or 3D also help bring moviegoers to the theaters.
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23 Aug 2025 1:00pm GMT
This is a series looking at the Radxa ROCK 5T single board computer. It's billed as an elegant single board computer (SBC) with 8K + 4K dual display.
The post Benchmarking the Radxa ROCK 5T Single Board Computer appeared first on Linux Today.
23 Aug 2025 12:34pm GMT
Released on Thursday were new Ubuntu X1E "Concept" install images for installing the modified Ubuntu 25.04 environment on Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered laptops...
23 Aug 2025 11:37am GMT
If you think climate change is a hoax, you might believe wind turbines poison groundwater.
23 Aug 2025 11:07am GMT
Words you'll never speak still cause activity in the brain's speech centers.
23 Aug 2025 11:00am GMT
Implements a feature that reduces the time spent in the interrupt top half for low-latency display interrupts by deferring the work until later.
The post NVIDIA 580 Linux Graphics Driver Released, Promises Better Wayland Support appeared first on Linux Today.
23 Aug 2025 11:00am GMT
'Sammy Hagar & The Best Of All Worlds Band - The Residency' will be out in October
The post Sammy Hagar announces new live album of 2025 Las Vegas residency appeared first on NME.
23 Aug 2025 10:39am GMT
"Don't go to All Points East unless you want to come back looking like a chimney sweep"
The post All Points East attendees complain about high levels of dust at Victoria Park festival appeared first on NME.
23 Aug 2025 10:30am GMT
First unveiled a year ago, ArmSoM has finally launched the RK3588 AI Module7 (AIM7) on Crowd Supply. The open hardware compute module is designed as a Jetson Nano-compatible alternative, targeting edge computing, vision systems, and embedded AI projects. The module is powered by the Rockchip RK3588, an octa-core processor combining four Cortex-A76 performance cores at […]
23 Aug 2025 10:05am GMT
Scrapping public days off is not a fiscal fix
23 Aug 2025 4:00am GMT
22 Aug 2025
The bacterium is known to live in Mississippi, but the new cases may expand its range.
22 Aug 2025 10:28pm GMT
Volodymyr Zelensky urges Western allies to impose fresh sanctions on Moscow if it shows no interest in peace.
22 Aug 2025 8:27pm GMT
US stocks and bonds rally as central bank chair says economic risks are 'shifting'
22 Aug 2025 8:16pm GMT
Congressional Budget Office estimate offsets concerns about fiscal effects of Donald Trump's tax bill
22 Aug 2025 7:52pm GMT
Reports suggest the government is considering shaking up the property tax system to raise revenue.
22 Aug 2025 3:28pm GMT
The new NVIDIA 580.76.05 Linux driver fixes Vulkan hangs, improves Wayland support, and adds advanced display options for better performance.
The post NVIDIA Releases Linux Display Driver v580.76 appeared first on Linux Today.
22 Aug 2025 9:31am GMT
The US and EU have released details of the new trade deal reducing tariffs between the two partners.
22 Aug 2025 7:23am GMT
Workers, employers and governments need to adapt to a more extreme climate, the organisation says.
22 Aug 2025 6:08am GMT
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☀️ We're back after a week off, though I'm starting to think we should have taken two weeks off as it's been quite quiet in JavaScript-land this August! Nevertheless, we still have a full issue for you today, so let's get on to it.. ;-)
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Eliminating JavaScript Cold Starts on AWS Lambda - Porffor is a rapidly developing ahead-of-time JavaScript compiler with a major benefit being extremely quick process launch times (think sub-millisecond). This is certainly more a taste of the future, and something to experiment with, rather than something you want to imminently deploy into production.
Oliver Medhurst
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jQuery 4.0.0 Release Candidate 1 - Version 4.0 of jQuery has reached the "we think this is ready; now poke it with many sticks" stage. While jQuery is still heavily used, we know it's old-fashioned, but it was so important in the early days of JavaScript Weekly that we have a major soft spot for it!
Timmy Willison
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Reflections on the React Community - Lee, formerly of Vercel and widely recognized for his influence on Next.js and React, shares candid reflections on the React community, digging into the rise of React Server Components, the tension between commercial and non-commercial priorities, the toll of burnout, and a reminder that, above all, this is still a community of people.
Lee Robinson
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Using the Custom Highlight API - The CSS Custom Highlight API offers a way to style text ranges on a document using JavaScript to create the ranges, and CSS to style them. And, as of Firefox 140, all major browsers now support it. This could be great for in-page search or even dynamic syntax highlighting.
Chris Coyier
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Minecraft MCP Server: Let an LLM Take Control of Minecraft - A fun way to play around with MCP servers and LLMs. It uses Mineflayer, a JavaScript API for creating Minecraft bots, behind the scenes. The video in the README is cool, showing how Claude and this server can turn a photo of the White House into an in-world creation.
Yuniko Software
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Waku 0.25 - The minimal React framework introduces the concept of 'slice components' - a new approach to fine-grained component rendering.
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Retire.js 5.3 - A security scanning tool to detect the use of JavaScript libraries with known vulnerabilities in your project.
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Ky 1.9 - Simple HTTP client based upon Fetch for browsers, Node & Deno.
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Repomix 1.3 - Pack an entire repository into a single, LLM-friendly file.
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🗓️ React Date Picker 8.6 - Simple date picker component. (Demo.)
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Flatbush 4.5 - Fast static spatial index for 2D points and rectangles.
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plotly.js 3.1 - Standalone data visualization library.
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Chai 6.0 - BDD / TDD assertion framework.
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The state borrows to fund day-to-day spending as well as long-term infrastructure projects.
21 Aug 2025 8:56am GMT
Lisa Cook says she plans to take questions about her financial history seriously.
21 Aug 2025 12:03am GMT
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☀️ We're taking next week off, so this will be the last issue until Friday, August 22. Just a little summer vacation.
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Apache ECharts 6.0: The Powerful Data Visualization Library - 12 years on from its first release, ECharts takes another big step forward. Visualization types span from line, bar and pie charts to 3D graphs, calendars and Sankey diagrams. v6 brings an all-new design language, dynamic theme switching, dark mode support, even more chart types, and more. Be sure to enjoy the 100+ demos and the GitHub repo.
Apache Software Foundation
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▶ How JavaScript Really Evolves: Inside TC39 with Daniel Ehrenberg - A well-recorded 47 minute in-person conversation with one of the most productive members of the TC39 committee covering not just some of the newest features coming to JavaScript, but also the way TC39 works and how you can get involved and propose ideas and help the language move forward.
The Weekly Dev's Brew
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How V8's JSON.stringify Got Over 2x Faster - The V8 team has turbo-charged JSON.stringify, giving apps an automatic performance boost for numerous common tasks when using V8 13.8 onwards (such as in Chrome 138). This article unpacks the low-level work behind the speedup.
Patrick Thier (V8)
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eslint-plugin-angular 5.0 - ESLint plugin for AngularJS applications, now with ESLint v9 support.
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Ghost 6.0 - Node.js-powered indie publishing and blogging platform.
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Joi 18.0 - Schema description language and data validator.
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📈 Fuite 5.0.8 - Tool for finding memory leaks in web apps.
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AwesomeIndex (above) provides a way to search hundreds of 'awesome'-style curated link lists at once. This idea has a lot of potential, as those lists are crammed full of useful resources.
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r2dec-js is a JavaScript-based decompiler that converts assembly code into 'pseudo-C' for learning purposes.
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Bali is an attempt at creating a JavaScript lexer, parser, and interpreter in the Nim language.
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👀 Do you miss ActionScript 3.0 and Flex? No? This week, I learned Apache is keeping the dream alive with Apache Royale.
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🤖 You probably heard that OpenAI released GPT-5, but their developer-oriented intro to GPT-5 was overshadowed, I think, and it goes into some interesting depth. They dropped two open weight models too.
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Today I learned that JSON has a logo.
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We're now off for a week, so will be back on Friday, August 22 - see you then!
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The Many JavaScript Runtimes of the Last Decade - A fantastic, well-researched look at the myriad of JavaScript runtimes and engines both past and present, from mainstream picks like Node.js and Bun, to cloud platforms and some more obscure 'honorable mentions'. A perfect way to round out your knowledge of JavaScript's runtime story.
Whatever, Jamie
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Node.js v22.18 (LTS) Gets Type Stripping by Default - We wouldn't normally feature a minor Node.js LTS release, but this one comes with a big tweak: type stripping/TypeScript support is enabled by default, making node app.ts a reality, much as with Bun or Deno.
Antoine du Hamel
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💡 Node v24.5 (Current) has also been released, with node:http(s) now supporting proxies, OpenSSL 3.5, and --experimental-wasm-modules unflagged.
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Compile Svelte 5 in Your Head - Svelte does things a little differently to most UI frameworks by compiling code to components ahead-of-time, but what is it actually doing at the code level?
Tan Li Hau
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TanStack DB: The Embedded Client Database for TanStack Query - One for team React! TanStack DB is an embedded client‑side database that uses differential dataflow to power live, relational queries, sub‑ms incremental updates, and optimistic writes. This post is a great pitch, and the first beta is available now.
Kyle Mathews and Sam Willis
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