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He didn't always feel that way. Kroah-Hartman added, "A number of years ago, when a friend of mine said, 'Ah, you got to try th]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/rust-will-help-linux-succeed-and-makes-coding-fun-says-greg-kroah-hartman/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/rust-will-help-linux-succeed-and-makes-coding-fun-says-greg-kroah-hartman/ Layoffs.fyi, which tracks announced job cuts, counts more than 800,000 tech workers laid off since 2022,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/as-ai-transforms-silicon-valley-some-tech-workers-face-evaporating-financial-security/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/as-ai-transforms-silicon-valley-some-tech-workers-face-evaporating-financial-security/ The Zilog Z80 has just turned 50 years old. This iconic 8-bit processor first went on sale in July 1976 and stayed in production for 48 years until Zilog, now a Littelfuse subsidiary, stopped accepting orders in June 2024. However, there's an open-source replacement closer than ever to shipping in the chip's original 40-pin DIP package thanks to community-funded fabrication...
The chip powered the ZX Spectrum, TRS-80, MSX machines, Nint]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/zilog-z80-8-bit-cpu-turns-50-open-source-replacement-heads-to-drop-in-dip40-silicon/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:50:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/zilog-z80-8-bit-cpu-turns-50-open-source-replacement-heads-to-drop-in-dip40-silicon/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/dozens-of-robotaxi-riders-are-falling-asleep-sparking-frantic-calls-for-emergency-services/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:09:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/dozens-of-robotaxi-riders-are-falling-asleep-sparking-frantic-calls-for-emergency-services/ A]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/californias-truth-in-recycling-law-blocked-by-judge/Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:04:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/californias-truth-in-recycling-law-blocked-by-judge/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/james-webb-space-telescope-discovers-how-black-holes-feed-themselves/Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:05:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/james-webb-space-telescope-discovers-how-black-holes-feed-themselves/ The Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend competition began Thursday in Shenzhen, China, according to the article, with local robotics company EngineAI providing $40,000 of their "T800" robots (yes, named after The Terminator) to 32 participating teams from around the world:A video shared of the combat on YouTube by local news outlet Shenzhen Story, showed that even aft]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/robot-decapitated-in-worlds-first-ever-humanoid-ufc-fight/Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:49:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/robot-decapitated-in-worlds-first-ever-humanoid-ufc-fight/ A year ago, the operating system accounted for about half of the machines in its dataset, falling to the low-to-mid 40% range by the time Microsoft ended standard support. The decline continued after that, reaching 18.6% in June, but Lansweeper says migration has now slowed to a crawl... Small and medium-sized businesses are particularly expo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/windows-10-still-being-used-often-unpatched-and-insecure/Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/windows-10-still-being-used-often-unpatched-and-insecure/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/aptera-announces-us-wide-repair-network-for-its-upcoming-solar-electric-car/Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/aptera-announces-us-wide-repair-network-for-its-upcoming-solar-electric-car/