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Tuesday June 17, 2025. 10:29 PM
An artist has 'trapped' an AI in a digital purgatory, forcing it to contemplate its own fleeting existence while it slowly consumes the very resources keeping it running. As reported in a recent XDA Developers article, an artist named Rootkid created 'Latent Reflection,' an...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: OpenAI executives have discussed filing an antitrust complaint with US regulators against Microsoft, the company's largest investor, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, marking a dramatic escalation in tensions...
A symbolic political move Taiwan has added China's leading foundry operator Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co. (SMIC) and IT giant Huawei to its export control list. The move effectively blacklists the duo from doing business with the chip manufacturing mecca.…
Deep in the Bornean rainforest, a small woolly bat curls up for a nap inside of a carnivorous plant, designed by nature to devour insects that dare cross its path. So why isn't the bat on the menu? This is because the bat and the Nepenthes hemsleyana have a symbiotic...
China's 'little dragons' pose big challenge to US AI firms MiniMax, an AI firm based in Shanghai, has released an open source reasoning model that challenges Chinese rival DeepSeek and US-based Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google in terms of performance and cost.…
Travis K. Witt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The post How a con man built the World's Littlest Skyscraper with one clever blueprint scam appeared first on Boing Boing.
Liam Neeson's gift for dour deadpan comedy makes him perfect for a modern take on Frank Drebin; I had no doubt that the new The Naked Gun, also starring Pamela Anderson, would at least work. The trailer, out today, suggests I'm not only right but that it might be worth...
The fundamental concept of checkpoint/restore is elegant: capture a process's state and resurrect it later, perhaps elsewhere. Checkpointing meticulously records a process's memory, open files, CPU state, and more into a snapshot. Restoration then reconstructs the process...
The Wilderness Act of 1964 established certain areas as 'wilderness' It states, 'A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where ...
If you think sporks are the only hybrid eating utensil, this comprehensive Wikipedia article will expand your culinary horizons dramatically. The piece presents the surprisingly rich history of combination eating utensils, from the common spork to lesser-known implements...
Third time's a charm? Apple has escaped a $300 million patent infringement damages penalty – for now – due to what a trio of judges said comes down to faulty jury instructions.…
An anonymous reader shares a report: Iran's cybersecurity authority has banned officials from using devices that connect to the internet, apparently fearing being tracked or hacked by Israel. According to the state-linked Fars news agency, Iranian officials and their...
Anthony Dean's 'The Voided Man' series features extensive time dilation, AI, and the depiction of using a created currency to overthrow a tyrannical society. I'm only two books into this nine-book series, but the premise has me hooked, for now. A political opponent of a...
Mike Mignola's new dark folklore universe, Lands Unknown, is expanding, and if the next installment is anything like the first, we're all in for a wonderfully weird ride. Following the critical and commercial success of Bowling with Corpses and Other Strange Tales from Lands ...
As Donald Trump's utter mayhem gains momentum, so do his disillusioned MAGA voters, who are rapidly peeling away from his base. 'F*ck it. If Trump takes us to war, I'm done with him and his administration,' one former devotee, who goes by Texas Patriot, posted on X yesterday ...
Amazon's satellite constellation hits another snag as ULA rocket aborts on pad A hardware glitch on United Launch Alliance's (ULA) workhorse Atlas V rocket delayed the launch of the second batch of Project Kuiper satellites.…
Fascinating Horror shares the tragic stories of two individuals whose quest for the ultimate viral video went wrong. Bad ideas. One executed poorly, the other went as one should have expected — if they expected a Desert Eagle.50 cal to shoot through just anything you...
Near Buffalo, across Lake Erie in Port Colborne, Ontario, sits a mind-bending visual phenomenon known as the 'Incredible Shrinking Mill.' This Archer Daniels Midland grain elevator creates a illusion that defies our expectations of perspective. When driving east on Lakeshore ...
Accessibility features and the work that goes into developing those features often tend to be overlooked and are poorly understood by all but the people who actually depend on such features. At Fedora's annual developer conference, Flock, Lukáš Tyrychtr sought to improve...
Marshall Woodruff does not know if he'll recover sight in the eye he nearly lost to LAPD's breaking up of a peaceful 'No Kings' protest last Saturday. I hope there is a deep review of LAPD's body camera footage after this weekend's awful abuse of power. — Read the rest The...
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