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Tuesday February 4, 2025. 05:28 PM
Believe it or not, in the flash drive world, USB-A models are still the most common. Yes, folks, despite USB-C being far superior, consumers have been slow to adopt flash drives with the better connector. Thankfully, companies are still producing USB-C flash drives despite...
Two federal workers, citing reports that Elon Musk’s associates are operating an illegally connected email server at OPM, seek a restraining order.
The X3D variants of AMD’s Ryzen CPUs quickly shot to the top of the list for gamers building desktop PCs. So it was only a matter of time before AMD tried drizzling some of that special 3D V-cache sauce on laptop CPUs, too. The second-gen “Fire Range” 9955HX3D model...
A small desk plaque reading 'Be kind to everyone' became contraband in a federal intelligence agency last week — confiscated during a late-night sweep by Elon Musk's DOGE squad as they purged offices of anything resembling diversity initiatives, according to Mother Jones....
While I am a huge fan of steaming music for convenience, vinyl will always have a special place in my heart. You see, I have spent countless hours in record stores shopping for hip-hop on vinyl. Believe it or not, many of the records in my vast collection are not even on...
Um, does anyone wanna switch seats? Palantir CEO Alex Karp says one of his aims when building the controversial spy‑tech company was to 'power the West to its obvious innate superiority.'…
Yesterday, everyone was complaining that The New York Times was ignoring the takeover of government by Elon Musk and the college-age cronies he claims it's illegal to name. Today, it's covering it—with language that makes it sound like the best thing that's ever happened...
The proportion of people being diagnosed with lung cancer who have never smoked is increasing, with air pollution an 'important factor,' the World Health Organization's cancer agency has said. From a report: Lung cancer in people who have never smoked cigarettes or tobacco...
Earlier incarnations of The Fantastic Four were not hits, but this time, Marvel has Pedro Pascal playing Reed Richards. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! This is a fifth shot at a Fantastic Four movie. — Read the rest The post Rich guy's...
Nvidia’s newest RTX 50-series graphics cards have been hot, hot, hot, selling out within minutes upon launch. And though our reviews of the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 spotted some big flaws, especially in the former, no doubt anyone who managed to get their hands on one is...
Version 135.0 of the Firefox web browser has been released. Changes include more languages for the translations feature, increasing roll-out of the credit-card autofill and AI chatbot features, and (perhaps most welcome): Firefox now includes safeguards to prevent sites...
Micah Toll bought a load of cheap electric excavators from China. By buying a shipping container-worth of them he got the price down to less than a well-used diesel skid steer—and they look like an amazing amount of fun. You might remember Toll from the $1700 mini electric ...
It’s a bad time to be in the market for a new graphics card. (“When is it not?” shouts a heckler from the back row.) When the amazing RTX 5090 and the considerably-less-amazing RTX 5080 launched last week, it took less than an hour for Nvidia’s newest GPUs to sell...
Contact info and partial payment details may be compromised US food and grocery delivery platform Grubhub says a security incident at a third-party service provider is to blame after user data was compromised.…
Analysis of close to one million operational technology (OT) devices by Claroty's Team82 research group finds that 12 percent contain known exploited vulnerabilities (KEVs), and 40 percent of the organizations analyzed have a subset of these assets insecurely connected to...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (openjdk-17), Fedora (chromium, fastd, ovn, and yq), Mageia (libxml2 and redis), Oracle (gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good), Red Hat (buildah, bzip2, galera, mariadb, grafana, keepalived, libsoup, mariadb:10.11,...
A drunk teacher who fell over repeatedly in a school pool after swigging from a wine bottle has been banned from the profession for at least two years, reports the BBC. 'The conduct of Mr Knight fell significantly short of the standards expected,' conclude investigators. —...
Chris Anderson, who transformed TED from a small conference into a global platform for sharing ideas, announced today he's stepping down after 25 years at the helm. The nonprofit's leader is seeking new ownership through an unusual open call for proposals. Anderson told...
Psst. Do you know what apps and services are connected to your Google or Apple account? Yes, that’s right—your online accounts may be linked to third-party apps, websites, and/or services. Think eBay, Reddit, Pinterest, and a number of other consumer sites. And not just...
Suspect, still at large, said to back concept that 'code is law' New York feds today unsealed a five-count criminal indictment charging a 22-year-old Canadian math prodigy with exploiting vulnerabilities in two decentralized finance protocols, allegedly using them to...
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