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Monday April 21, 2025. 04:34 PM
A study published in Political Psychology—now there's a name for a journal—found that authoritarian people are 'primed' for conspiracy beliefs. Bearing in mind that not all conspiracy theories are false, a 'rich literature' of research connects such beliefs to stable...
Chroma is a colorblindness simulator Ubisoft uses in game development, and the company has made it available for public use after 'several years of internal use and development.' It depicts Protanopia, Deuteranopia, and Tritanopia using filters. 'Over the past few years,...
Ask a Linux enthusiast who created the Linux kernel, and odds are they will have no trouble naming Linus Torvalds—but many would be stumped if asked what the first Linux distribution was, and who created it. Some might guess Slackware, or its predecessor, Softlanding Linux...
Bipedal robots ran 13.1 miles alongside human runners at a half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday. A divider seperated the two on parallel courses, but it was not apparently necessary. The day went well for meat and machine athletes, though many did not make it to the finish...
Global alcohol consumption has entered what appears to be a permanent decline, with total volume peaking at 25.4 billion liters in 2016 and falling approximately 13% since then, according to data from market research firm IWSR. Per-capita consumption has dropped dramatically ...
Earth Day is tomorrow, and it is a time to reflect on how we treat the planet we all share (until Elon Musk colonizes Mars, at least). While some people mark the day by picking up trash or planting a tree, there’s another simple yet powerful way to help the environment...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (erlang, fig2dev, shadow, wget, and zabbix), Fedora (chromium, jupyterlab, llama-cpp, prometheus-podman-exporter, python-notebook, python-pydantic-core, rpki-client, rust-adblock, rust-cookie_store, rust-gitui, rust-gstreamer,...
After the election, Target joined other retailers in making a show of ditching the 'DEI' programs aimed at improving employment prospects and conditions for black people, women, the disabled, veterans and other minorities. But Target isn't Tractor Supply, and its shoppers...
Pete Hegseth shared operational details of a forthcoming attack on Houthis in Yemen in a Signal chatroom—a scandal that made a fool of him and exposed the insecure and evasive communication preferences of Trump officials. But that was just one of the chatrooms he was...
A new report from Zafran Security shows that enterprise risk management is shifting from volume to value, and from patching everything to fixing what matters most. The study, carried out by Foundry MarketPulse, reveals that only one in 50,000 vulnerabilities actually pose a...
The first latin American to lead the Catholic Church is dead at 88. Pope Francis, lately ailing but who only yesterday addressed crowds for an Easter Sunday service, died at 07:35 local time. The BBC collects accolades and tributes as mourners gather at the Vatican. — Read...
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Are you an IT security leader? Cool. Your job might be about to get a lot harder. Someone (ahem, Elon, DOGE, Congress...) is trying to slash the budget and headcount for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). You know, the part of the government that...
Wrangling your data into LLMs just got easier, though it's not all sunshine and rainbows Hands On Getting large language models to actually do something useful usually means wiring them up to external data, tools, or APIs. The trouble is, there's no standard way to do that - ...
There's old-fashioned cooking and then there's this. Mersu is the oldest known dessert in human history, being discovered on – of all things – a shopping receipt from ancient Mesopotamia. Tasting History with Max Miller, a show dedicated to resurrecting recipes from ages...
AI and machine learning tools have had an important role in software development for many years, helping to drive efficiency and automation. The new generation of AI tools has the potential to supercharge this transformation, bringing even greater improvements to efficiency, ...
Canadians churn out close to 70% of the world's maple syrup. That's a lot of buckets nailed to a lot of Canadian maple trees. Americans are crazy for the stuff. According to the CBC, in 2024 alone, folks in the United States gobbled up $450 million worth of the stuff. — Read...
Years on from the alien-themed Season 7, Fortnite is getting subjected to a space invasion once again: this time, from a galaxy far, far away. The Marvel-themed season last year must have worked out quite well, because Disney is double-dipping once more with the Star...
Every other week, it feels like I stumble across another terrible custom Cybertruck job, each uglier and more subtly pathetic than the last. Surpassing even the eye-burning neon green of the legendary Cyberbeast is… whatever this thing is called. The Cyberdumpster, maybe? —...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transitioning from an emerging technology to a business mainstay. While many businesses are already reaping the benefits of strategic AI implementation, others are adopting AI solutions without first considering how to integrate the tools...
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