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Sunday June 29, 2025. 11:34 PM
The Free Software Foundation is a non-profit — and they're having some fun with it. They've just announced a summer fundraiser, 'and that means the GNU Press Shop is open!' From now until July 28, you can buy your FSF gear at the GNU Press shop. First and foremost, there's...
TL;DR: Get the refurbished Lenovo 11.6″ 2-in-1 Chromebook for just $74.99 — that's 84% off its $475.99. A laptop should work for you, not be a clunky deadweight in your bag. If you're tired of ferrying a slow, heavy laptop to and from work, to the coffee shop, to home,...
With X.org being in maintenance mode, with the process of replacing it with Wayland accelerating pretty quickly now, a lot of projects using X.org are looking for ways to prepare for the future. Alpine Linux, a distribution focused on musl, BusyBox, and OpenRC, also wants to ...
This blog post is intended to notify all Windows Hardware program partners that Microsoft has taken a strategic initiative to clean up legacy drivers published on Windows Update to reduce security and compatibility risks. The rationale behind this initiative is to ensure...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the tech news site The Register: The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) this week published guidance urging software developers to adopt memory-safe programming...
The GPU in your computer is about 10 to 100 times more powerful than the CPU, depending on workload. For real-time graphics rendering and machine learning, you are enjoying that power, and doing those workloads on a CPU is not viable. Why aren’t we exploiting that power...
As Mark Zuckerberg lures away top research talent to Meta, OpenAI executives say they're ‘recalibrating comp,’ according to an internal memo.
Just four weeks after an early June flight to the edge of space, Blue Origin has again carried six more passengers there and back again, reports CBS News, noting that the 10-minute ride was Blue Origin's 13th flight 'out of the discernible atmosphere.' The New Shepard...
'The potential threat of bosses attempting to replace human workers with AI agents is just one of many compounding reasons people are critical of generative AI...' writes Wired, arguing that there's an AI backlash that 'keeps growing strong.' 'The pushback from the creative...
Killer whales continue to surprise us. Earlier this month, we learned that the largest members of the dolphin family use kelp to exfoliate each other. Now, a new study in the journal Oceans reveals another social activity — kissing. Citizen scientists snorkeling in the...
Four months ago I shared a terrific resource called 'Project 2025 Tracker,' which tracks the progress of The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 — what the Center for Progressive Reform calls 'the conservative movement's blueprint for weakening our government and...
Truly, the infamous can opener bridge is North Carolina's greatest cultural contribution. While its sacrifices have slowed since it was raised eight inches by the cowards of Durham, it evidently isn't out for the count just yet. Its hunger has yet to be sated, and only...
This clever kitty likes to pretend she doesn't know how to use her running wheel. She cries for her owner, acting completely helpless on the wheel and making sure she looks extra cute. She only stops crying when her owner spins the wheel by hand and she can run with some...
'The 1980s were a great time to be in L.A., and it was an especially good time to know Allee Willis. I've always maintained that Los Angeles owned the '80s much like San Francisco owned the '60s or New York owned the '70s. — Read the rest The post Remembering Willis...
The problem? 'Companies want their products and brands to appear in chatbot results,' reports 9to5Mac. And 'Since Reddit forms a key part of the training material for Google's AI, then one effective way to make that happen is to spam Reddit.' Huffman has confirmed to the...
In its first 10 hours the Rubin space telescope found 2,104 never-before-seen asteroids in our solar system. And Gizmodo reports the data went directly to the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center (MPC), which 'plays an essential role in the early detection...
TL;DR: Keep a scanner in your pocket with this lifetime subscription to SwiftScan VIP, now only $41.99 ($199.99) with code TAKE30 until July 20. We may no longer have bulky scanners in our homes, but we still find ourselves needing to scan documents fairly often. — Read the...
'It has long been unclear when humans started using fire,' writes Phys.org... To address this question, researchers from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS), alongside collaborators from China, Germany, and France, analyzed the pyrogenic...
We tested this unique indoor gardening solution that utilizes NASA technology, but air quality data raised concerns.
If some of Apple's ads lately had been tone-deaf duds, the company's decision to run ads in the iOS Wallet offers a more intimate warning about its priorities. 'I did not pay over $1000 for an iPhone to get advertised at,' complains one Reddit user (u/captain42d). — Read t...
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