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Sunday August 3, 2025. 03:43 AM
It's a cultural milestone. Fiverr just released an ad mocking vibe coding. The video features what its description calls a 'clueless entrepreneur' building an app to tell if an avocado is ripe — who soon ends up blissfully singing with an avocado to the tune of the cheesy...
Remember, it's all synthesized 'anthropomorphizing'. But with that caveat, Science News reports: In populations of simple software agents (like characters in 'The Sims' but much, much simpler), having 'guilt' can be a stable strategy that benefits them and increases...
The women-only app Tea now 'faces two class action lawsuits filed in California' in response to a recent breach,' reports NPR — even as the company is now boasting it has more than 6.2 million users. A spokesperson for Tea told the CBC it's 'working to identify any users...
Saturday August 2, 2025. 11:37 PM
Security isn’t exactly a strong point of X11, and improving it is one of the main reasons why Wayland is such a vast improvement over X11. Just one of the many examples of X11 being inherently insecure is that keyloggers are entirely trivial on X11, because keylogger...
Sure, a big part of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom's appeal is the sense of quiet loneliness. You're tossed into this ravaged world overtaken by nature that's only just started to rebuild, making you feel isolated against a sprawling natural backdrop. — Read the...
I hate the ongoing, AI-powered enshittification of the Internet so much. Privacy is on the way out, and freedom of expression isn't too far behind it. Any kind of tech support is basically useless, and there's a 50/50 chance that any given person you reach out to online is...
Every year, hundreds of rhinos in South Africa are killed for their horns. Fake horns, embedded cameras, and aggressive enforcement have all been used in an effort to combat poaching. Conservationists now have a new tool in the anti-poaching toolkit — radiation. — Read the...
In my quest to document every gimmick account on the Internet, I've rarely come across something as patently bizarre as JAV Titles. With Elon Musk's grand Twitter experiment collapsing into a neo-Nazi-filled hellhole, we've entered something of a Wild West of posting as...
Patchwork is a 64-bit monolithic NON-POSIX operating system for the x86_64 architecture that rigorously follows a “everything is a file” philosophy. Built from scratch in C it takes many ideas from Unix, Plan9, DOS and others while simplifying them and sprinkling in some...
TL;DR: Your DVD collection deserves a glow-up. DVDneXtCOPY DVD Ripper lets you rip, convert, and edit DVDs (even the stubborn protected ones) into over 1,000 digital formats—for just $29.99. Chances are, your DVD shelf is looking more like a dusty museum exhibit than a...
The Washington Post reports: In early July, a wasp nest with a radiation level 10 times what is allowed by federal regulations was found inside the grounds of a sprawling Cold War-era nuclear site in South Carolina that today partly serves as a storage area for radioactive...
After an 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Russia, 'weather authorities leapt into action,' reports SFGate, by modeling the threat of a tsunami 'and releasing warnings and advisories to prepare their communities...' But some residents of Hawaii, Japan and North America's West...
There's now an 'influx' of startups fightging wildfires, reports the Washington Post. 'More than 100 new wildfire-related technologies have launched in the U.S. and around the world since 2023, according to Lori Moore-Merrell, who served as U.S. fire administrator during the ...
'The July 2025 results of the Steam Survey were posted a few minutes ago,' Phoronix reported last night, 'and show a healthy 0.32% increase to put the Linux gaming marketshare at 2.89%.' That's a recent high in percentage terms and while Steam saw around 3% in the early days ...
After it began 'peering into the distant universe' in 2022, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope 'has discovered a rash of 'little red dots',' reports Science magazine. There's 'hundreds of them, shining within the first billion years of the 13.8-billion-year-old universe, so...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Slackware-based PorteuX project has published a new release, version 2.2, which introduces several changes to the kernel and includes a fix for Xfce not locking the desktop properly. 'In Xfce current there...
In Shanghai at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (which ran until Tuesday), the Chinese government 'announced an international organization for AI regulation and a 13-point action plan aimed at fostering global cooperation to ensure the technology's beneficial and ...
TL;DR: Get lifetime access to Cleaner Kit Premium for iOS and reclaim space with AI-powered photo cleanup, video compression, inbox decluttering, and more—all for $29.99. So, you've got a 256GB iPhone, and 252GB of it is memes, blurry selfies, and 37 nearly identical...
The vehicle 'once led the Space Shuttle down the runway at Edwards Air Force Base,' The Drive reported in 2022, noting it was won in an auction for $21,061 (beating 18 other bidders). 'I just figured the NASA brand combined with Airsteam hip seemed like a can't lose...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Silicon Valley's AI talent war just reached a compensation milestone that makes even the most legendary scientific achievements of the past look financially modest. When Meta recently offered AI researcher Matt Deitke...
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