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Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ release the source code for OpenELA, their Red Hat Enterprise Linux challenger, offering all the packages to build an enterprise Linux OS (Steven Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNet)

Steven Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ release the source code for OpenELA, their Red Hat Enterprise Linux challenger, offering all the packages to build an enterprise Linux OS  —  When Mike McGrath, Red Hat’s Red Hat Core Platforms vice president, announced that Red Hat was putting new restrictions …

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Okta says hackers who breached its support system in October accessed the files of 134 customers, five of whom were later targeted in session hijacking attacks (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Okta says hackers who breached its support system in October accessed the files of 134 customers, five of whom were later targeted in session hijacking attacks  —  Okta says attackers who breached its customer support system last month gained access to files belonging to 134 customers …

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Ad blockers saw record uninstalls in October after YouTube expanded its crackdown on ad blockers, while those unaffected by the clampdown saw record installs (Paresh Dave/Wired)

Paresh Dave / Wired: Ad blockers saw record uninstalls in October after YouTube expanded its crackdown on ad blockers, while those unaffected by the clampdown saw record installs  —  YouTube expanded a “test” that threatens to cut off users who don’t turn off their ad blocker.  Developers of the tools are scrambling to respond.

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Machine Teaches Morse Code

If you are a ham radio operator of a certain age, you probably remember ads for “The Instructograph,” a mechanical device for learning Morse code. [Our Own Devices] has an ancient specimen of the machine and shows us how it works in the video below. The machine is a model of simplicity. You wind up

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A US school district banned smartphones completely, and students are (mostly) OK with it

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority In Florida, Orange County Public Schools banned smartphones completely. Teachers, students, and parents appear to support the policy mostly. However, students and parents think the daylong enforcement puts students at risk. In May, Florida passed a law stating that school students need to be barred from using smartphones while

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UK CMA says Meta has pledged to let Facebook Marketplace users opt out of having their data used by Meta and limit how it uses ad data for product development (Joseph Hoppe/Wall Street Journal)

Joseph Hoppe / Wall Street Journal: UK CMA says Meta has pledged to let Facebook Marketplace users opt out of having their data used by Meta and limit how it uses ad data for product development  —  The U.K. competition regulator said Meta Platforms has pledged to allow its Facebook Marketplace customers to opt out

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Court records show FTX advisers gave trading data and customer details to the FBI in recent months in response to subpoenas from at least five FBI field offices (Jonathan Randles/Bloomberg)

Jonathan Randles / Bloomberg: Court records show FTX advisers gave trading data and customer details to the FBI in recent months in response to subpoenas from at least five FBI field offices  —  – Alvarez & Marsal gave trading data, customer details to FBI  — FTX has responded to subpoenas from at least five FBI

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Amazon settles UK CMA probes over use of third-party data, agreeing not to use “non-public” third-party seller data to benefit its own products, and more (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Amazon settles UK CMA probes over use of third-party data, agreeing not to use “non-public” third-party seller data to benefit its own products, and more  —  The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) today announced that it has accepted proposals from Facebook’s parent Meta …

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Google ends a deal with Lendlease to build 15,000 homes in the Bay Area, after announcing in 2019 that it would help build houses on land it owns worth $750M (Mariella Moon/Engadget)

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Google ends a deal with Lendlease to build 15,000 homes in the Bay Area, after announcing in 2019 that it would help build houses on land it owns worth $750M  —  The company has ended its agreement with its real estate developer.  —  Google has ended its agreement with real estate

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DC’s AG sues RealPage and 14 of Washington DC’s largest landlord firms for using RealPage’s rent-setting software to allegedly collude on rent price increases (Kevin Purdy/Ars Technica)

Kevin Purdy / Ars Technica: DC’s AG sues RealPage and 14 of Washington DC’s largest landlord firms for using RealPage’s rent-setting software to allegedly collude on rent price increases  —  Suit claims employees were told pricing outside the algorithm was “unacceptable.”  —  DC’s attorney general has sued 14 …

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Does Rick die in The Walking Dead?

With a Walking Dead spin-off coming up, in which Rick is front and center, everybody’s asking: Didn’t he die? Where did he go?  This article breaks down Rick’s story, answers some burning questions (like does Rick die in The Walking Dead), and looks at what might be coming next. Let’s dive in. Does Rick die

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Robot Sunflower Follows the Sun

Real flowers do it, and even the Beatles did it. [Robo Hub] now has a plastic sunflower that tracks the sun using, of course, an Arduino. It may not qualify as a real robot, but it does mimic a real sunflower. The electronics aren’t earth-shattering, of course. An Arduino, a light sensor, and a servo

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The case for holding off on generative AI

The cloud offers several advantages for implementing generative AI models, and we’ve discussed that to death here. In short, the cloud provides scalable computing power, flexibility, and accessibility, enabling enterprises to find the full potential of generative AI. Cloud infrastructure allows seamless access to vast training data. Although it can be pricey, it also facilitates

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