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Monday November 17, 2025. 06:45 PM
With the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) under threat and food insecurity among Americans rising, many folks who have the means and who want to help out have been donating to their local food pantry. While food pantries and food banks are not the ultimate...
Swedish engineer and musician Mattias Krantz recently bought an octopus from a grocery store, saving it from becoming someone's dinner. Instead of ending up on a plate, the incredibly lucky (and talented!) octopus, which Krantz named Tako, fulfilled another extraordinary,...
Four US citizens tried it, and the DoJ just secured guilty pleas from all of 'em It sounds like easy money. North Koreans pay you to use your identity so they can get jobs working for American companies in IT. However, if you go this route, the US Department of Justice...
The UK government has been warned that its plan to ban operators of critical national infrastructure from paying ransoms to hackers is unlikely to stop cyber attacks and could result in essential services collapsing. From a report: The proposal, announced by the Home Office...
Citizen scientists can help track the progress of a new population of tortoises in the Galapagos with the Giant Tortoise Initiative on Zooniverse. Finches may have been the key to Darwin's theory of natural selection, but giant tortoises are arguably the symbol of the...
Last week, Amazon and Perplexity had a major falling out when the e-commerce giant sent a sharply worded legal demand letter to the AI company, demanding changes in the way Perplexity’s shopping agent works. The background story is that Perplexity has a function in its...
For better or for worse, the NUMA node is the abstraction used by the kernel to keep track of different types of memory. How that abstraction is used, though, is still an active area of development. Two patch sets focused on this problem are currently under review; one...
Last weekend I was fortunate enough to attend — and perform at — the most magical music festival I've ever experienced, Sidepony Express. The three-day festival has been held (almost) every November in Bisbee, Arizona, since 2012, and while its grown since its early...
Global internet freedom declined for a 15th consecutive year, according to Freedom House's annual report. Semafor: 'Always grim reading,' this year's is particularly sobering, Tech Policy Press noted, with the lowest-ever portion of users living in countries categorized as...
A few days ago, Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream company, announced the winning flavor in his recent campaign to create a dessert to raise awareness about justice for Palestine and to call for 'a permanent peace in Palestine.' — Read the rest The post...
Gary K. Wolf, the creator of Roger Rabbit in his novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? on which the hit 1988 movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit was based, says he has re-gained from Disney full ownership rights to Roger and the other characters from his book. — Read the rest The post...
Hotel cancellation policies have transformed over the past seven years. Travelers once could cancel reservations up until the day before check-in without penalty. That flexibility has largely vanished. The shift began around 2018 when third-party travel-booking sites...
TL;DR: Snag yourself this 13-inch 2024 MacBook Air M3 for just $1,049.99 (reg. $1,499). Everybody knows that the best Black Friday deals happen early. But why wait for those when you can get this refurbished 2024 MacBook Air M3 with two Thunderbolt ports, a headphone jack,...
I know this gets thrown around a lot, but in this case, there was literally a Black Mirror episode about this. With the AI bubble continuing to swell and venture capital-backed tech bros continuing to throw shit at the wall to see what sticks in the vain hope of averting...
Welcome to the venn diagram segment where Japanese anime fantasy and thronesey, ringsy Western realism overlap; they nailed it. The fans seem pleased and anxieties can move to scripting and story issues. Images released on Monday on the Nintendo Today app offer a sneak peek ...
Believe it or not, this isn't an Any Austin thing this time. Game publishers like to throw around the term 'living, breathing world' almost as much as they like layoffs. For my money, though, the game with the best actual claim to that title is still Red Dead Redemption 2. ...
Intelligence officer Summer Worden claimed that her astronaut wife, Colonel Ann McClain, had illegally accessed her bank account from the International Space Station. But a crime so fascinating it might be science fiction turned out to be just that, and Worden has now...
Law enforcement agency’s referral blitz hit gaming platforms hard, surfacing thousands of extremist URLs Europol's Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU) says a November 13 operation across gaming and 'gaming-adjacent' services led its partners to report thousands of URLs hosting ...
Every so often, I stumble across a project that makes me go, 'Yeah, that's really impressive, but why would you spend your limited time on God's earth doing that?' The slow resurrection of Concord, Sony's $400 million flop and the biggest gaming failure in recent memory, is...
An auction of Holocaust artifacts, including letters from the dead and Nazi administative documents, was called off in Germany after complaints from survivors. Poland's foreign minister said the 'offensive' event was a scandal and that he and his German counterpart had made...
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