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Friday December 20, 2024. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Download Microsoft Visual Studio for Windows at $27.97 through December 22 (reg. $499). Visual Studio Professional is your coding headquarters, with everything you need to create websites, apps, games, and more. Use.NET MAUI to create apps that work seamlessly on...
With more and more Linux distributions – as well as the kernel itself – dropping support for more exotic, often dead architectures, it’s a blessing T2 Linux exists. This unique, source-based Linux distribution focuses on making it as easy as possible to build a Linux...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is suing America's three largest banks, accusing the institutions of failing to protect customers from fraud on Zelle, the payment platform they co-own. From a report: According to the suit, which also targets Early Warning Services...
Apple has started pulling its iPhone SE and iPhone 14 models from sale in Switzerland, signaling broader discontinuation across the European Union ahead of new USB-C charging requirements taking effect December 28. The devices, which use Apple's proprietary Lightning port,...
Dell CEO Michael Dell has acknowledged delays in corporate adoption of AI-enabled PCs but remains confident in their eventual widespread uptake, citing his four decades of industry experience with technology transitions. The PC maker's chief executive told Fortune that while ...
Hisense has introduced the HT Saturn Wireless Home Theater System at CES 2025, designed for those who enjoy movies, gaming, and music. Designed to pair with big-screen TVs, particularly those 85 inches and larger, the HT Saturn promises an immersive audio experience with...
From layoffs to the return of Gamergate, video games—and the people who make and play them—had a rough year.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe will make its closest approach yet to the Sun on Christmas Eve, flying within 3.8 million miles of the solar surface and entering its atmosphere for the first time. The spacecraft, which travels at speeds up to 430,000 miles per hour, aims to study...
U.S. retailers are cracking down on free returns as costs spiral out of control, The Atlantic reports. Return rates have more than doubled since 2019, with shoppers expected to send back nearly $900 billion in merchandise this year. Major chains like REI and JCPenney are now ...
Oropouche virus has posed little threat outside South America in the past, but land-use change, the climate crisis, and international travel all appear to be spreading this insect-borne disease to new places.
Editor’s note: On Jan. 3, 2025, WordPress.org staff announced that they were resuming the suspended services. Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on Friday announced a shutdown of almost all services on WordPress.org, the open source project site that’s the home of the...
For 25 years, Robert Shields documented every five minutes of his life with obsessive dedication. The former minister and English teacher from Dayton, Washington produced what may be the world's longest diary— 37.5 million words that filled 91 boxes. Starting in 1972,...
OpenAI has unveiled a new AI model that it says takes longer to solve problems but gets better results, following Google's similar announcement a day earlier. The model, called o3, replaces o1 from September and spends extra time working through questions that need...
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott continued her mission of using great wealth to try and improve the world. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Setting an example we wish all billionaires would follow, MacKenzie Scott tries to use her more than enough ...
Arm is waiting to see if it has won a battle over licensing of its microprocessor designs to Qualcomm that has cast doubt over the immediate future of some of the chip maker’s products. The jury in the US District Court for the District of Delaware spent the week listening ...
Spotify pads playlists with music by unknown artists, and has been accused of generating this music itself or using cheap library music to reduce the amount paid to artists. At Harpers, Liz Pelly, building on reporting by Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, reveals that the...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The first teaser trailer for the new Superman film out July 11 depicts the Man of Steel falling from the sky into the snow, battered, bruised, and bleeding. At a press event attended by Screenrant, the...
U.S. data center power demand could nearly triple in the next three years, and consume as much as 12% of the country's electricity, as the industry undergoes an AI transformation, according to an unpublished Department of Energy-backed report seen by Reuters. The publication ...
A day after Google announced its first model capable of reasoning over problems, OpenAI has upped the stakes with an improved version of its own.
Live TV streaming services are a natural starting point when you’re cutting the cord. These services offer many of the same channels you had with cable or satellite TV, but deliver them over the internet to your smart TV or streaming device. They include cloud-based DVRs...
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