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Monday February 10, 2025. 07:49 PM
A federal judge has ordered the Trump Administration to unfreeze federal spending, which has been unlawfully withheld. It remains to be seen if anyone in the White House cares. The courts can demand the OMB start paying what the government is legally obligated to, and in the ...
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Two American tourists swimming in the ocean off of Bimini Bay in the Bahamas were attacked by a shark over the weekend. The women, whose identities haven't yet been disclosed, were both sent to a local hospital Friday evening, reports The Independent. — Read the rest The po...
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Behold the face of Thomas Aquinas—'Beware the man of a single book'—as recreated from a computer-assisted analysis of his skull. The Italian friar, who lived 750 years ago, was imaged by Brazilian designer Cicero Morales, reports The National Catholic Register. — Read...
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IT hiring ticks up in January, but unemployment climbs to 5.7% The latest job numbers from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics make IT hiring look like it's in freefall, but that's not the case at all, says consultancy firm Janco. …
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If you’ve had enough of Windows 11, or are considering moving away from Microsoft when the tech giant pulls the plug on Windows 10 later this year, there are plenty of options available to you, ranging from the likes of Nitrux Linux to the just-updated, gorgeous...
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Industry 4.0 is revolutionizing how enterprises need to operate. Integrating cloud technology, robotics, mobile devices and IoT devices is essential to staying ahead in an increasingly competitive global market. To maximize the benefits of Industry 4.0, however, these...
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Python 3.14, due out later this year, is set to receive a new type of interpreter that can boost performance by up to 30% with no changes to existing code. The CPython 3.14 change log describes the feature as “a new type of interpreter based on tail calls.” This...
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The US Treasury Department’s payment servers hold the tax returns, social security data and bank account numbers of every adult citizen of the United States. They are, one would assume, among the most highly secured servers on earth and yet it seems that all the employees...
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Starting on February 13, New York's Philippe Labaune Gallery is set to host an important exhibition celebrating the life and work of pioneering cartoonist Will Eisner, considered the father of the modern graphic novel. Spanning over 60 years of Eisner's career, the exhibit...
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Artificial intelligence’s rise in business, while exciting for some, is unsettling for financial professionals. They worry AI will replace them, but understanding its true power in finance turns fear into opportunity. AI isn’t here to take over -- it’s here to level up ...
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Confessed nazi Kanye West ran a local ad in Los Angeles during the Super Bowl to hock nazi tee-shirts. The only thing Ortsgruppenleiter West has for sale is the product 'HH-01,' a swastika teeshirt. Uncreatively, the symbol is priced at $20 instead of the super-mysterious...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: A new paper [PDF] from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which can 'result in the deterioration of cognitive...
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Imagine if that refrigerator you bought just five years ago suddenly up and died—and not because of some technical glitch, but because the manufacturer deliberately reached out and deactivated it, permanently. You’d be furious, right? And you’d probably want a refund,...
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The Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles had another winner: AI companies. OpenAI, Meta, Google, and others poured money into some of the most coveted TV spots of the year. Here are the highlights. OpenAI links ChatGPT to the history of tech...
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Services supporting victims of online child exploitation and trafficking around the world have faced USAID and State Department cuts—and children are suffering as a result, sources tell WIRED.
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Feed the Javascript Kaleidoscope the address of an image and let it get you high, no chemicals necessary. Coded by Andrey Mutlu and made available in instantly-editable form at Codepen, it has options for the number of slices and how fast it spins about. — Read the rest The...
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'Intense year' ahead, warned Zuck. Got to spend billions on AI and work to stay out of Trump's bad books Meta has confirmed to The Register that today marks the start of a mass redundancy process with thousands of workers getting the chop.…
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AmiMoJo writes: A computer expert who has battled for a decade to recover a $743 million bitcoin fortune he believes is buried in a council dump in south Wales is considering buying the site so he can hunt for the missing fortune. James Howells lost a high court case last...
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Youtube has been trying to push users toward Premium for a while now, dangling all kinds of benefits ranging from ad-free viewing to extra features like downloading videos for offline playback and playing videos in the background while using other apps. That all sounds nice, ...
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Miguel Ojeda gave a keynote at FOSDEM 2025 about the history of the Rust-for-Linux project, and the current attitude of people in the kernel community toward the experiment. Unlike his usual talks, this talk didn't focus so much on the current state of the project, but...
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