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TL;DR: Check out now to save 63% on a lifetime subscription to this piano-playing app during Cyber Week. Why wait for the clock to strike midnight on New Year's Eve? We aren't talking about kissing — we mean to set resolutions! — Read the rest The post Set a New Year's res...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Pantone's 2025 Color of the Year is brown. Well, not just any brown, mind you, but 'Mocha Mousse.' 'Underpinned by our desire for every day pleasures, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse expresses a level of...
Claude and ChatGPT are two of the most sought-after AI applications today. Both tools offer impressive features, including accurate responses, contextual understanding, and performance consistency. They also have built-in chatbots and generative capabilities useful for...
OpenAI chief says he doesn't think Elon will unleash political powers to zap AI competition OpenAI boss Sam Altman has expressed hope that Elon Musk won't use his political clout to hurt his competitors, describing such activity as 'un-American.'…
In a bold move, an Australian parliamentary inquiry has recommended that AI chatbots, including OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT, be classified as “high-risk” under proposed artificial intelligence laws. The bipartisan panel emphasized the need for stringent regulation to...
Though it was a bit rough around the edges in terms of backwards compatibility, my first look at 80Gbps Thunderbolt 5 storage reveals a very nice uptick in performance — about twice the 40Gbps of Thunderbolt 3/USB 4 in certain benchmarks. Logical. By way of comparison,...
Shopping for a smart thermostat that works with the new Matter standard? There aren’t many to choose from, but now you’ve got one more option. Smart home manufacturer Meross has just unleashed its first thermostat to support Matter, the 2-year-old protocol that allows...
A tsunami warning was issued — and then cancelled about an hour later — for 400 miles of California coastline after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast near California's northern border with Oregon. 'About 5 million people were under the warning while it was in ef...
OpenAI just unveiled a new subscription tier called ChatGPT Pro. Users can pay $200 a month for almost unlimited access to ChatGPT’s tools, and an exclusive new AI model.
VEKOS is an experimental operating system written in Rust that focuses on verification and security at its core. This is the first alpha release (v0.0.1) that demonstrates the basic architecture and key features of the system. ↫ VEKOS GitHub page Hobby and experimental...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! UPDATE: Following outrage, Anthem has announced they are halting the plan described below. (CNN) Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield announced that early next year in certain states, it will 'target the number ...
When you join the face-eating leopard party, well… you know. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! After supporting their guy, the United Steelworkers union is shocked to hear that President-elect Trump is vowing to block a plan to save US Steel in Pit...
Google has introduced a new family of PaliGemma vision-language models, offering scalable performance, long captioning, and support for specialized tasks. PaliGemma 2 was announced December 5, nearly seven months after the initial version launched as the first...
Whether you’re looking to pick up an affordable laptop for an elementary student or something more powerful for college life, we’ve got several options to choose from right here. But finding the right laptop for your studies can be difficult and overwhelming, which is...
Project includes hundreds of millions of loonies for a national supercomputing facility Canada is one of the latest nations to catch the sovereign AI bug and plans to invest $2 billion CAD ($1.42 billion USD) to bolster the nation's domestic compute capacity by funding the...
I’ve been a keyboard nut for a long time. I build mechanical keyboards on my own, soldering iron and all. And I love the excessive way you can customize them, with wireless or wooden keycaps, or all sorts of crazy stuff. But there’s a trend I’ve spotted lately that I...
The Solana JavaScript SDK 'was temporarily compromised yesterday in a supply chain attack,' reports BleepingComputer, 'with the library backdoored with malicious code to steal cryptocurrency private keys and drain wallets.' Solana offers an SDK called '@solana/web3.js' used...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The FBI is seeking help investigating several large mystery aircraft flying over New Jersey in recent weeks. Video below. 'Witnesses have spotted the cluster of what look to be drones and a possible...
An Illinois woman driving at 2:00 a.m. Monday night frantically called 911 when she realized that her brakes weren't working. To make matters worse, she was driving downhill. 'I'm 20-weeks pregnant, I cannot die today,' the panicked driver told the dispatcher, perhaps aware ...
AI-generated content accounted for less than 1% of the disinformation fact-checkers linked to political elections that took place worldwide in 2024, according to social media giant Meta. The company cited political elections in the United States, Great Britain, Bangladesh,...
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