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Tuesday January 14, 2025. 08:48 PM
The Mastodon project has announced that founder Eugen Rochko will be transferring 'key Mastodon ecosystem and platform components (including name and copyrights, among other assets)' to a new non-profit organization: Practically Mastodon will remain headquartered in and...
In recent months, we’ve talked twice about FM Towns, Fujitsu’s PC platform aimed solely at the Japanese market. It was almost entirely only available in Japanese, so it’s difficult to explore for those of us who don’t speak Japanese. There’s an effort underway to recreate it...
Hey, Xi: Zài jiàn! The FBI, working with French cops, obtained nine warrants to remotely wipe PlugX malware from thousands of Windows-based computers that had been infected by Chinese government-backed criminals, according to newly unsealed court documents.…
Spokane, Washington police arrested Dan D. Phelps, 53, for allegedly trying to shoot his roommate Daniel Perkins. Phelps is legally blind and hit his friend, Joey Anselmo, instead. The bullet hit Anselmo in the knee, just above his prosthetic leg. LIKE BOING BOING BUT...
Nearly three-quarters of all known bacterial species have never been studied in scientific literature, while just 10 species account for half of all published research, according to a new analysis published on bioRxiv. The study of over 43,000 bacterial species found that E. ...
Watt's the problem? Not enough energy to win the arms race? US President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed an executive order that aims to ensure American AI leadership doesn't lag because of shoddy energy infrastructure.…
TuxFamily is a French free-software-hosting service that has been in operation since 1999. It is a non-profit that accepts 'any project released under a free license', whether that is a software license or a free-content license, such as CC-BY-SA. It is also, unfortunately,...
Given the power of the PDF engines in current desktop Web browsers, Thomas Rinsma created a version of Tetris that can be played within a PDF itself: PDFTRIS LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The idea came about when Rinsma 'realized...
In today's computers, when we switch a transistor from 0 to 1, we charge it up (requiring energy), and when we're done, we discharge it, losing all that energy as heat. It's like filling a bucket with water only to immediately dump it out. — Read the rest The post...
As Trump-pick for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth dodges questions on everything from drinking on the job and cheating on his wives to invading Greenland, one of his bumbling sidesteps really sticks out: he cannot answer whether or not he would shoot protestors if Donald...
More than 150 Nobel and World Food prize laureates have signed an open letter calling for 'moonshot' efforts to ramp up food production before an impending world hunger catastrophe. From a report: The coalition of some of the world's greatest living thinkers called for...
Jon Stewart finds the GOP response to Los Angeles' devastating wildfires lacking basis or compassion. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Wildfires have regularly burned California for far longer than the name 'California' has been applied to...
Attorney Jennifer Scullion on allegations of algorithmic suppression of competition Interview Price fixing – an agreement between competitors to set price levels – has been illegal under the US Sherman Antitrust Act since 1890.…
Attorney Jennifer Scullion on allegations of algorithmic suppression of competition Interview Price fixing – an agreement between competitors to set price levels – has been illegal under the US Sherman Antitrust Act since 1890.…
Programmers have found ways to run the 1993 first-person shooter Doom on an array of unexpected platforms, and now a PDF file joins that list. Developer ading2210's DoomPDF project shows the game operating within a document format primarily designed for static content...
At a glanceExpert's Rating Pros Local storage eliminates subscription fees Easy setup and intuitive app AES-128 encryption ensures secure data storage Cons Limited to 8 Reolink cameras (and only Reolink cameras) Limited compatibility with older or 4G Reolink cameras...
Smart glasses attracted a lot of attention at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show, with a range of devices on display that combine lightweight frames with functionality such as heads-up displays and AI-powered assistants. These contrast with the mixed-reality...
The ptrace() system call allows a suitably privileged process to modify another in a large number of ways. Among other things, ptrace() can intercept system calls and make changes to them, but such operations can be fiddly and architecture-dependent. This patch series from...
Fewer giant contracts, but many more smaller ones, in bit barn feeding frenzy Datacenter merger activity soared to new heights in 2024, with $57 billion in deals closed over the 12 months. If you're looking for a reason, you guessed it: anticipated gains around generative...
Adobe has brought collaboration to Photoshop, allowing users to work together on an image editing project in much the same way a team could work on a Microsoft 365 document or one within Google Workspace. Adobe calls this “Live Co-Editing” and the company is opening up a ...
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