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Wednesday April 30, 2025. 11:53 PM
NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department.
Google is investing in training over 100,000 new U.S. electricians through a $10 million grant, aiming to address a critical labor shortage driven by AI-fueled data center growth and rising electricity demands. Reuters reports: A lack of access to power supplies has become...
Sculpt OS 25.04 has been released, and with it come a number of very welcome and important improvements. What most users will care about the most is the updated version of the Falkon web browser, built atop Qt 6.2.2 and its accompanying qtwebengine release, which in turn is...
Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, and Grindr are rolling out scenario-based training, AI, and other tools to address their users’ lack of romantic experience.
Oligarch's crew makes audits harder, US comptroller general tells Congress The US Government Accountability Office has confirmed it launched audits of Elon Musk's Trump-blessed cost-trimming DOGE unit amid concerns that its access to agency systems may be complicating...
Verdict: There’s no clear-cut winner across all use cases, but after using both of these apps in a head-to-head matchup, Perplexity AI comes out on top for me, thanks to its higher level of accuracy and depth in its answers to research questions. I evaluated Perplexity AI ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Raspberry Pi boards have a combination of surface-mount devices (SMDs) and through-hole bits. SMDs allow for far more tiny chips, resistors, and other bits to be attached to boards by their tiny pins, flat contacts,...
TL;DR: Kick subscription fees to the curb—grab a lifetime license to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows for just $49.97 (reg. $219.99) through June 1. Imagine this: You're Neo. But instead of dodging bullets, you're dodging another monthly Microsoft charge just...
Time for another story from Raymond Chen, about why, in Windows 7, logging in took 30 seconds if you had set a solid colour as your background. Windows 7’s logon system needs to wait for a number of tasks to be completed, like creating the taskbar, populating the desktop...
Caffeine addicts evidently not thrilled to see cafes become walk-in vending machines Starbucks, smarting from disappointing second-quarter earnings, says that trying to replace staff with machines was a mistake.…
In today's episode of 'Make America Deflate Again,' President Trump told Americans to lower their expectations about the economy. As reported by Axios, Trump's solution to potential toy shortages is to pay more and get less: 'Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of ...
Lance Albertson writes that the Oregon State University Open Source Lab, the home of many prominent free-software projects over the years, has run into financial trouble: I am writing to inform you about a critical and time-sensitive situation facing the Open Source Lab....
NIST: Clocks on Earth are ticking a bit more regularly thanks to NIST-F4, a new atomic clock at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) campus in Boulder, Colorado. This month, NIST researchers published a journal article establishing NIST-F4 as one of the...
When Google released the fourth beta of Android 16 this month, many users were disappointed by the lack of major UI changes. As Beta 4 is the final beta, it’s likely the stable Android 16 release won’t look much different than last year’s release. However, that might...
A woman whose pigs killed and by one account 'partially ate' a neighbor was ordered to pay a $200 fine, reports WTRF News from Pataskala, Ohio. Rebecca Westergaard, 74, was found dead outside her home on Mink Street after she failed to meet with family. — Read the rest ...
I have no idea how much relevance this short but informative rundown of how PATH works in Linux has in the real world, but I found it incredibly interesting and enlightening. The basic gist – and I might be wrong, there’s code involved and I’m not very smart – is that Linux...
Impressively long if lacking girth, the Bayeux Tapestry narrates the Norman conquest of England. But how many penises are embroidered therein? Oxford professor George Garnett counts 93 cocks, 88 belonging to horses and the rest to humans. But now Bayeux tapestry scholar Dr...
The majority of the traffic on the web is from bots. For the most part, these bots are used to discover new content. These are RSS Feed readers, search engines crawling your content, or nowadays AI bots crawling content to power LLMs. But then there are the malicious bots....
A DOGE operative has been tasked with using AI to propose rewrites to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s regulations—an effort sources are told will roll out across government.
Roz and Graham Hall from Stockton, England, run the Eagle Ukes YouTube channel. They found that their videos were being ripped off on TikTok—and doing very well there, with millions of views. But they learned to their dismay that TikTok has no particular interest in taking ...
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