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Tuesday December 17, 2024. 12:36 AM
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Kali Linux project has announced a new snapshot of the project's rolling release distribution. The latest version, 2024.4, upgrades Python to version 3.12, drops support for 32-bit x86 kernels and offers...
Cloudflare's 2024 internet traffic report highlights a 17.2% global increase in traffic, with Google maintaining its position as the most visited service and the U.S. responsible for 34.6% of bot traffic. The Register reports: One surprise (or perhaps not) is that IPv6...
Monday December 16, 2024. 11:20 PM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Mac: A new survey suggests that Apple Intelligence matters to iPhone buyers, but the majority say that the initial features add little to no value. It remains to be seen whether Genmoji and ChatGPT integration will change that...
The man who allegedly shot United Healthcare’s CEO has inspired a seemingly never-ending flood of conspiracy theories about everything from his eyebrows to the number 286.
TL;DR: Upgrade your productivity suite to Microsoft Office 2019 for only $32.97 through December 22! While the modern age is full of awesome tech innovations (we love Face ID), one thing that's come out of it is annoying subscription fees (yuck!), and that's not just...
The Sequoia PGP project has announced version 1.0 of the sq command-line tool for managing OpenPGP encryption and signatures. It also provides a decentralized public key infrastructure (PKI), and key management facilities. This is the first stable release since development...
Real-time database provider Aerospike has updated its Aerospike Vector Search database extension for powering generative AI applications. The update offers new indexing and storage capabilities for real-time accuracy, scalability, and ease of use for developers, Aerospike...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! 'Saudade is a Portuguese word that can be roughly defined as a feeling of melancholy, nostalgia or yearning for something that is beloved but not present,' writes NPR's Anamaria Artemisa Sayre. — Read...
Thirteen vapes are thrown away every second in the UK -- more than a million a day -- leading to an 'environmental nightmare,' according to research. From a report: There has also been a rise in 'big puff' vapes which are bigger and can hold up to 6,000 puffs per vape, with...
Steve Bannon riled up a crowd last night when he suggested Donald Trump run again in 2028. 'Donald John Trump is going to raise his hand on the King James Bible and take the oath of office, his third victory and his second term,' said the MAGA strategist, suggesting that...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Biopharma firm Mind Medicine announced that they have dosed the first-ever patient in a Phase 3 clinical trial of LSD. The individual tripped on lysergide D-tartrate, an LSD formulation for which the US...
WordPress co-founder and CEO of Automattic Matt Mullenweg is trolling contributors and users of the WordPress open-source project by requiring them to check a box that says 'Pineapple is delicious on pizza.' From a report: The change was spotted by WordPress contributors...
In the 1960s, Wham-O toys nearly gave kids something far more spectacular than the hideously disappointed Sea-Monkeys — an instant aquarium that would spawn colorful, rainbow-hued fish from a cube of dried African mud. Arthur 'Spud' Melin, co-founder of Wham-O (the company ...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Esteemed vernacular photography collector Robert Jackson wishes us happy holidays with a collection of weird holiday card photos from Christmases past. See the rest at Flashbak. ...
The Nuvia buyer's alleged violations of license terms expected to last through Friday The battle between British chip designer Arm Holdings and Qualcomm kicked off today in Delaware District Court.…
Google DeepMind announced a next-gen video-generating AI tool to rival OpenAI's Sora. Called Veo 2, it can generate AI video clips longer than two minutes with resolutions up to 4K (4096 x 2160). TechCrunch reports: In Google's experimental video creation tool, VideoFX,...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Visitors to the Rockhampton Zoo in Queensland, Australia recently enjoyed a rather memorable moment as staff chased a human dressed as an ostrich around the complex. Turns out, it was a surprise...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 was a seminal moment in 20th century history, paving the way for German reunification. Many segments, both large and small, were preserved for posterity -- including portions...
The US has never attacked Chinese critical infrastructure before, right? President-elect Donald Trump's team wants to go on the offensive against America's cyber adversaries, though it isn't clear how the incoming administration plans to achieve this. …
Right now, the most popular standard for PC and TV video interfaces is HDMI 2.1, but we can soon expect a switch over to HDMI 2.2 — and that switch is apparently coming sooner than expected. The new HDMI 2.2 standard is set to be unveiled at CES 2025, the Consumer...
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