|
Navigation
Search
Top: En Français
|
The latest geek News
Sunday July 27, 2025. 01:34 PM
NBC News reports: Customers watched in disbelief as Florida police arrested a Chuck E. Cheese employee — in costume portraying the pizza-hawking rodent — and accused him of using a stolen credit card, officials said Thursday.... 'I grabbed his right arm while giving the...
The case of the improbably well-endowed rat Biomedical visualization specialists haven't come to terms with how or whether to use generative AI tools when creating images for health and science applications. But there's an urgent need to develop guidelines and best practices ...
By extending the scope of a key insight behind Fermat’s Last Theorem, four mathematicians have made great strides toward building a unifying theory of mathematics.
'A Chinese mega-constellation of communications satellites is facing serious delays,' reports the South China Morning Post, 'that could jeopardise its ambitions to compete with SpaceX's Starlink for valuable orbital resources.' Only 90 satellites have been launched into low...
The vulnerability-watching 'Zero Day Initiative' was started in 2005 as a division of 3Com, then acquired in 2015 by cybersecurity company Trend Micro, according to Wikipedia. But the Register reports today that the initiative's head of threat awareness is now concerned...
At this weekend's Comic-Con, 'Excitement has been high over the sneak peeks at Tron: Ares and Predator: Badlands,' reports CNET. (Nine Inch Nails has even recorded a new song for Tron: Ares.) A few highlights from CNET's coverage: The Coyote vs. Acme movie will hit theaters...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Dimitris Tzemos has announced the release of Slackel 8.0 'Openbox', a Slackware--based Linux distribution. The new version ships several key package upgrades and some custom utilities: 'This release is...
The 'Chief People Officer' of dataops company Astronomer resigned this week from her position after apparently being caught on that 'Kiss Cam' at a Coldplay concert with the company's CEO, reports the BBC. That CEO has also resigned, with Astronomer appointing their original ...
Saturday July 26, 2025. 11:34 PM
'Google has signed its first partnership with a long-duration energy storage company,' reports Data Center Dynamics. 'The tech giant signed a long-term partnership with Energy Dome to support multiple commercial deployments worldwide to help scale the company's CO2 battery...
Old Book Illustrations is an online archive of, yes, you've guessed it. But they did have a particular genre in mind: Victorian and French Romantic illustrations. 'We are not the only image collection on the web, neither will we ever be the largest one,' the creators write. ...
TL;DR: Learn a new language and unlock new adventures with a lifetime subscription to uTalk on sale for $99.97. Listen, I'm not saying that being able to speak even the most basic phrases in another language is guaranteed to get a happy grandfather to buy you a pretzel, but...
Since 2010 Stack Exchange has run all its sites on physical hardware in New Jersey — about 50 different servers. (When Ryan Donovan joined in 2019, 'I saw the original server mounted on a wall with a laudatory plaque like a beloved pet.') But this month everything moved to...
The world's best human chess player beat ChatGPT, reports Time magazine. Magnus Carlsen posted on X.com earlier this month that 'I sometimes get bored while travelling,' and shared screenshots of his conversations with ChatGPT after he beat the AI chatbot 'without losing a...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Mashable: Google Gemini's coding agent hallucinated while completing a task and then deleted a bunch of code, a GitHub user claims. The frustrated vibe coder is Anuraag Gupta, who goes by anuraag2601 on GitHub. He shared a recent...
George Santos, the conman who briefly served as a GOP congressman representing New York's third district (and the state Democratic Party's incredible indifference to campaigning there) has reported to federal prison to serve his 7-year fraud sentence. The federal Bureau of...
Two years ago, a team of researchers from Tel Aviv University discovered that plants under stress emit sounds above the range of human hearing. They also speculated that other plants and animals might respond to those sounds. The same team has just published a paper in the...
Remember asteroid 2024 YR4 (which at one point had a 1 in 32 chance of hitting Earth, before ending up at 'impact probability zero')? CNN reports that asteroid is now 'zooming beyond the reach of telescopes on its orbit around the sun.' 'But as scientists wait for it to...
Payment processors such as Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and Stripe are extending their control of what you can spend your money on. This authoritarian and censorial trend received more attention this week after they forced software platforms Steam and Itch.io to remove or delist ...
What happens when you ask ChatGPT how to craft a ritual offering to the forgotten Canaanite god Molech? One user discovered (and three reporters for The Atlantic verified) ChatGPT 'can easily be made to guide users through ceremonial rituals and rites that encourage various...
Tesla open its first diner/Supercharger station Monday in Los Angeles, reports CNBC — an always-open two-story restaurant serving 'classic American comfort food' next to 80-charging stalls surrounded by two 66-foot megascreens 'playing a rotation of short films,...
|
25 sources
Current Date
Aug, Fri 22 - 00:33 CEST
|
