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Documentaries used to be about more than just true crime and celebrity deep-dives. Gary D. Rhodes' new book Weirdumentary: Ancient Aliens, Fallacious Prophecies, and Mysterious Monsters From 1970s Documentaries (May 2025, Feral House) is a lavishly illustrated history of how ...
Some in the infosec world definitely want to see Big Red crucified CISA – the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency – has issued an alert for those who missed Oracle grudgingly admitting some customer data was stolen from the database giant's...
Today at the Star Wars Celebration Japan conference, director Shawn Levy (Deadpool & Wolverine) took the stage with a surprise announcement. He's directing Star Wars: Starfighter, a brand new film starring Ryan Gosling who also hit the stage in Makuhari for the big reveal,...
Nature has published an analysis of the 21st century's most-cited scientific papers, revealing a surprising pattern: breakthrough discoveries like mRNA vaccines, CRISPR, and gravitational waves don't make the list. Instead, a 2016 Microsoft paper on 'deep residual learning'...
Remember Donald Trump's grandiose promises of ending Russia's war on Ukraine on Day One? He crowed for months on end, with every variation of: 'It'll take me no longer than one day.' The Mexican-wall builder even upped the ante right before the vote, claiming he'd end the...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Voyager project has released a new version of its Ubuntu-based distribution. The latest version, Voyager Live 25.04, is an interim release offering nine months of support. 'I present you Voyager 25.04 final ...
Multipaint 2025 is a pixel art app (made with Processing) which limits the artist to specific pallettes and resolutions of yore. With Multipaint, you can draw pictures with the color limitations of some typical 8-bit and 16-bit computer platforms. Some of the screen formats ...
The New Stack looks at EU OS, an attempt to create a desktop system for the European public sector. EU OS is not a brand-new Linux distribution in the traditional sense. Instead, it is a proof-of-concept built atop Fedora's immutable KDE Plasma spin (Kinoite). EU OS takes...
Instability, cuts, and a looming sense of dread have FEMA employees unsure the agency is ready for hurricanes, fires, and floods. “We are being set up for a really, really bad situation,' says one.
Google has introduced an early preview of its Gemini 2.5 Flash hybrid reasoning model. An early version of the model is available through the Gemini API via Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, according to an April 17 Google blog post. Gemini 2.5 Flash builds on the foundation...
New research suggests Oda Ujiharu, long derided as feudal Japan's most ineffective military leader, may have been mischaracterized. The Sengoku-period daimyo, who ruled from Oda Castle in present-day Ibaraki Prefecture, lost his fortress an unprecedented nine times to rival...
In a document published Thursday, ICE explained the functions that it expects Palantir to include in a prototype of a new program to give the agency “near real-time” data about people self-deporting.
On April 19, 1943, Albert Hofmann, a chemist working at the Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz, swallowed 240 micrograms of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and had the first intentional acid trip in history. Hofmann had first synthesized the compound five years earlier...
Preorders for the console will resume next week at the previously announced price of $450, but accessories are getting more expensive.
TL;DR: Protect your belongings when you get three slim Bluetooth KeySmart SmartCard trackers with this bundle for just $89.99 (reg. $119.97). Thieves are sneaky, but you're sneakier still when you slip a virtually undetectable KeySmart SmartCard into your wallet. Shaped like ...
A ground-breaking project to suck carbon out of the sea has started operating on England's south coast. From a report: The small pilot scheme, known as SeaCURE, is funded by the UK government as part of its search for technologies that fight climate change. These projects,...
The final session in the memory-management track of the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit was a brief, last-minute addition run by Kalesh Singh. The kernel's readahead mechanism is generally good for performance; it ensures that data is...
Sage has retracted 678 more papers from the Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (JIFS), concluding an investigation that has now purged 1,561 articles -- the most ever removed from a single journal. The publisher, which acquired JIFS from IOS Press in November 2023,...
As the FTC trial has shown, a lack of competition allowed the company to shift its focus away from users—and toward its bottom line.
Adding tracepoints to some kernel subsystems has been controversial—or disallowed—due to concerns about the user-space ABI that they might create. The virtual filesystem (VFS) layer has long been one of the subsystems that has not allowed any tracepoints, but that may be ...
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