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Tuesday April 15, 2025. 05:00 PM
I'm fascinated by Prince Rupert's Drops, those super strong blobs of glass that look like tadpoles. We've written about them in the past here at Boing Boing, but I thought I'd share some newer videos showing how they stand up to things like bullets and hydraulic presses. —...
Let me introduce you to your new obsession: Just Room Enough Island, the real estate equivalent of 'new universe, who dis?' Floating between America and Canada like nature's own panic room, this 3,300-square-foot middle finger to suburban sprawl hosts exactly one house and...
TL;DR: Save $139 on this refurbished Mac mini M2 and get free shipping before they're sold out. You could drop over $1,000 on an iMac desktop. Or… you could get the same M2 chip, run macOS, and build your own perfect setup for way less. — Read the rest The post This Mac mi...
Version 25.0 ('Zetar') of the Arch-based Manjaro Linux distribution is now available. This release includes Linux kernel 6.12, GNOME 48, KDE 6.3, Xfce 4.18, and more.
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Fedora team has announced the release of Fedora 42. The new version elevates the KDE Plasma spin to 'edition' status, alongside the existing GNOME edition, and introduces a new COSMIC desktop spin. 'We've...
Nominations for Computerworld’s 2026 Best Places to Work in IT program are now open! Click here to nominate a company today. The 2025 honorees have been announced! See our Best Places to Work in IT 2025 special report for the complete list of honorees, major trends from...
I'm utterly enthralled with this tiny doggo named Milton, who brings me such absolute joy every time I'm lucky enough to see a photo or video of him. He's the tiniest Chihuhua who has the biggest personality, and he seems to always be excited to play, or visit friends, or ha...
The Fedora Project has announced the release of Fedora Linux 42, with 'what's new' articles for Fedora Workstation and Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop. There is also a last-minute warning about the live media for the release: We discovered a problem with the Live boot media at...
As Kristi Noem cosplays at the Department of Homeland Security, her offices sent an American attorney an email ordering her to self-deport 'immediately.' 'It is time for you to leave the United States,' the threatening letter warned, stunning Nicole Micheroni, a...
The latest annual Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report from BeyondTrust, reveals a record-breaking number of reported vulnerabilities last year. Total vulnerabilities reached an all-time high of 1,360 in 2024, an 11 percent increase from the previous record of 1,292 in 2022....
I recently had a leak in my bathroom that resulted in having to do an almost complete remodel, which included buying and installing a new toilet. When I was choosing said toilet at the hardware store, I laughed out loud when I saw the wild claims being made by various toilet ...
A prior Boing Boing post lamented the closing of an institution in Tokyo's Akihabara electronics district: Koichi Shimayama's tiny but packed electronics store. The beloved one-man mini-market offered an astounding array of teeny transistors, resistors, radio tubes, kits,...
Fedora Linux 42 has been released with many incremental improvements and updates. In this development cycle, the KDE Plasma Desktop has finally gotten a promotion from a spin to an edition, the new web-based user interface for the Anaconda installer makes its debut, and the...
Let the espionage and access resale campaigns begin (again) A cyberspy crew or individual with ties to China's Ministry of State Security has infected global organizations with a remote access trojan (RAT) that's 'even better' than Cobalt Strike, using this stealthy backdoor ...
Publishers and law professors have filed amicus briefs supporting authors who sued Meta over its AI training practices, arguing that the company's use of 'thousands of pirated books' fails to qualify as fair use under copyright law. The filings [PDF] in California's Northern ...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Ultramarine Linux is a Fedora-based distribution featuring extra package repositories such as RPM Fusion and enabling multimedia codecs. The project's latest version, 41, adds a new tool to help track and...
Despite being present on virtually every employee's browser, extensions and plug-ins are rarely monitored by security teams or controlled by IT and a new report shows that could be leaving enterprises at risk. The study from LayerX Security combines statistics from real-life ...
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Have you ever laid in bed awake at night wondering 'what would it look like if a giant banana were orbiting the earth?' Apparently, at least one person has wondered that, because they made this video. The video shows what it would look like if a gigantic banana were...
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