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LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Long Island resident Beda Koorey, 76, is a lifelong Trekker. Such a fan of Star Trek that she had vanity license plates on her car emblazoned with NCC-1701, the registration number of the USS Enterprise. ...
When TikTok owner ByteDance discovered recently that an intern had allegedly damaged a large language model (LLM) the intern was assigned to work on, ByteDance sued the intern for more than $1 million worth of damage. Filing that lawsuit might turn out to be not only...
Hawk Tuah Girl Hailey Welch's $HAWK shitcoin crashed and burned this week, vaporizing nearly half a billion dollars of investor money in what critics are calling a textbook pump-and-dump scheme. The social media influencer's initially surged 900% on Wednesday, before...
Microsoft is promising an AI-driven future for Windows 11—but initially, only select PC owners could try Copilot+ features as they rolled out in preview. If you didn’t own a laptop with a Snapdragon X Elite or X Plus processor, you had to wait. That changes today, with...
How much AI does one subscriber need? OpenAI says it will charge $200 per month for ChatGPT Pro, a new premium tier that costs ten times the Plus subscription price.…
A couple of pups spotted a field mouse and went berserk, even bonking heads with each other as they frantically chased the little guy around a park. But when the mouse decided to stand her ground, staring her silly pursuers down, the confused doggos didn't know what to do...
The dreaded moment for lovers of #dancechallenges and #funnyvideos has come and passed for now. On January 19, TikTok briefly closed up shop in the U.S. following a federal ban on the app. However, it took only about 12 hours for the app to reappear for U.S. users, along...
'TikTok has lost its bid to strike down a law that could result in the platform being banned in the United States,' reports CNN. A U.S. federal appeals court just unanimously ruled in favor of the new U.S. law requiring TikTok's China-based owners to either sell the app next ...
The new film about an FBI agent chasing a white supremacist terror cell is based on a true story—and one that connects the headlines of 40 years ago to those of today.
Our security and business editors join us to discuss how you can protect your personal information from data brokers, tech companies, scammers, and the government.
In the wake of the murder of its CEO this week, UnitedHealthcare has come under greater scrutiny for its use of an allegedly flawed AI algorithm that overrides doctors to deny elderly patients critical heathcare coverage. UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot...
The fine folks at QVC want to let you know that if you are among the million people who bought a pair of 'Temp-tations' oven gloves — which have all the heat protection of wet newspaper — and subsequently scorched the bejesus out of your fingers while removing your tray...
The WHO has sent epidemiologists to the country to uncover the cause of the illness, which has killed more than 70 people, half of them children.
A compromised release was uploaded to PyPI after a project automatically processed a pull request with a flawed script. The GitHub account 'OpenIM Robot' (which appears to be controlled by Xinwei Xiong) opened a pull request for the ultralytics Python package. The pull...
The Microsoft Excel World Championship handed the 2024 trophy to a beaming, bearded Canadian: Michael Jarman, whose spreadsheet skills topped all others in a heated competition in Las Vegas this week. Jarman, a modelling director at Operis (financial, not swimsuit) also...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid used in veterinary medicine to knock out huge animals like elephants and rhinoceroses for surgery. It's apparently 10,000 times more stronger than morphine and 100 times ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Phoronix: New Linux patches from Huawei engineers are preparing new driver support for controlling High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) with the ARM-based Kunpeng high performance SoC... [I]t would appear there is a new Kunpeng SoC coming...
Proposal pushes stricter infosec safeguards after Chinese state baddies expose vulns The head of America's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to force telecoms operators to tighten network security in the wake of the Salt Typhoon revelations, and to submit an...
A vulture crashed into the cockpit of a small plane carrying five passengers, gruesomely hanging in front of the pilot's face for the rest of the flight. But the pilot, whose view was partially blocked by the dead bird, remained incredibly calm as he landed the plane at an...
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