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The climate crisis is on track to destroy capitalism, a top insurer has warned, with the vast cost of extreme weather impacts leaving the financial sector unable to operate. From a report: The world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will no longer be able ...
A 38-year-old gentleman posing as a doctor in New York tried to flee the country after one of his procedures left a woman in critical condition. But he didn't get very far when police arrested him at John F. Kennedy International airport with an unused ticket to Colombia in...
Turmoil has engulfed the republic. Yesterday, President Trump announced worldwide tariffs on imports, described as reciprocal but in fact based on the balance of trade with each territory. The peculiar formula and other oddities, such as tariffs on trade from uninhabited...
Apple’s leadership is no doubt scrambling to identify a silver lining (if there is one) as the storm of US President Donald J. Trump’s punishing range of global tariffs rains heavily across the company’s supply chain. Even Apple’s attempt to mitigate the impact...
Jeff Bezos' other space business finally shows signs of life with launch scheduled for next week The first batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites is due to be lofted into orbit next week.…
In Brazil buying a pair of children's sunglasses requires an elaborate bargaining ritual complete with coffee service and multiple sales staff, as London School of Economics professor Christopher Sandmann discovered during a family vacation. Writing on The Holdup Problem,...
Climate startup Aspiration, which boasted a roster of celebrity backers and arranged carbon credits for Meta Platforms, Microsoft and other large companies, filed bankruptcy weeks after its co-founder was arrested on fraud charges. From a report: CTN Holdings, as the company ...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Amnesic Incognito Live System (better known as Tails) distribution has a new release which changes how confinement is handled for the Tor web browser. 'We improved the confinement technology that we use to...
Over 39 million API keys, credentials, and other secrets leaked onto GitHub’s platform last year, but an update to its scanning tool could help stop that. The widely used cloud-based version-control platform automatically blocks ‘several secrets every minute’ from...
If you're uncomfortable with grocery prices and the state of the U.S. economy in general, get used to it. Donald Trump's Commerce Secretary just predicted when things will turn around: not next week, not next month, not this summer… 'That's a whole lot of growth, and you're...
Intel has unveiled a refresh of its iconic brand identity, introducing the slogan 'That's the power of Intel Inside' to reconnect with consumers and highlight the chipmaker's role in modern computing. The new campaign resurrects the familiar 'Intel Inside' theme that helped...
Here's the opening paragraph from Europe's break-up letter with its insufferably redpilled friend, USA: 'Thank you for Andy Warhol. Thank you for the Big Mac and the iPhone. Thank you, too, for Francis Ford Coppola, for Stanley Kubrick and Quentin Tarantino. — Read the rest ...
Famed director David Cronenberg weighed in on the controversy surrounding the use of AI in the Oscar-nominated film “The Brutalist.” He made these remarks during a wide-ranging conversation with longtime collaborator and composer Howard Shore, as well as Jon Burlingame, last...
During South Korea's brutal winter of 2010, frustrated glove-wearing smartphone users learned that they could use sausages instead of their finger. This hack became so popular that one sausage manufacturer reported a 40% spike in sales, as BBC's 'The Secret Genius of Modern...
Despite promises of more efficient streaming, the AV1 video codec hasn't achieved widespread adoption seven years after its 2018 debut, even with backing from tech giants Netflix, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta. The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) claims AV1 is 30%...
Address-space isolation may well be, as Brendan Jackman said at the beginning of his memory-management-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, 'some security bullshit'. But it also holds the potential to protect the kernel from ...
It's going to happen to you one day, so get your ducks in a row As Benjamin Franklin famously said: 'An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,' and that's especially true when it comes to disaster recovery.…
Intentional or not, Fox News had a sense of grim humor today when the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture tried to paint a rosy picture of Donald Trump's unpopular new tariffs. 'It's a whole new world based on Liberation Day yesterday,' Brooke Rollins told Fox host Maria...
Cloud and development operations (devops) teams are under constant pressure to do more, faster. They have outdated systems to update and manage, new systems to build, and requests from business units who need their support. It’s a velocity problem, and IT departments often ...
databasecowgirl writes: Commenting in The Times on the absurdity of Meta's copyright infringement claims, Caitlin Moran defines Schrodinger's economics: where a company is both [one of] the most valuable on the planet yet also too poor to pay for the materials it profits...
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