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Sunday June 1, 2025. 05:00 PM
TL;DR: Get one year of powerful online protection from McAfee Total Protection for just $13.99 (reg. $119.99). Cybercriminals don't need to break down your door — they slip in through your Wi-Fi, snag your personal info, and disappear without a trace. — Read the rest The...
In December it looked like NASA's next administrator would be the billionaire businessman/space enthusiast who twice flew to orbit with SpaceX. But Saturday the nomination was withdrawn 'after a thorough review of prior associations,' according to an announcement made on...
Get your pictures off your phone and in front of your loved ones with these WIRED-tested digital picture frames.
Eero mesh systems are popular and easy to use, but the product lineup is confusing. Here’s how to choose the right one for your home.
If you’re in pursuit of your next PR, the durable Nice Rocc palm-cooling device can lower your core body temperature fast.
A 21-year-old's startup got a $500,000 investment from Y Combinator — after building their web site and prototype mostly with 'vibe coding'. NPR explores vibe coding with Tom Blomfield, a Y Combinator group partner: 'It really caught on, this idea that people are no longer...
If conversations are slow to load and Gmail’s search seems sluggish, you can speed things up by tweaking some settings and doing some routine maintenance.
Rose Yu has drawn on the principles of fluid dynamics to improve deep learning systems that predict traffic, model the climate, and stabilize drones during flight.
For less than the cost of a round of drinks, a plasticized Boston Dynamics fever dream could be yours too.
'How does it feel to be replaced by a bot?' asks the Guardian — interviewing several creative workers who know: Gardening copywriter Annabel Beales 'One day, I overheard my boss saying to a colleague, 'Just put it in ChatGPT....' [My manager] stressed that my job was safe....
With over 200 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by population. Now it's testing a program that will allow Brazilians 'to manage, own, and profit from their digital footprint,' according to RestOfWorld.org — 'the first such nationwide initiative in...
Earlier this month the 'Create New Issue' page on GitHub got a new option. 'Save time by creating issues with Copilot' (next to a link labeled 'Get started.') Though the option later disappeared, they'd seemed very committed to the feature. 'With Copilot, creating...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. A new stable release of PorteuX, a Slackware-based Linux distribution that means to be fast, small, portable, modular and immutable, is now available. PorteuX 2.1 introduces the brand-new 6.15 Linux kernel and...
The managerials running Target made a show of ditching its diversity and inclusion programs to please Donald Trump. Unfortunately for the company, Target has a distinctive customer base at odds with those politics: foot traffic is down sharply in an ongoing boycott and the...
Venerable vernacular photography collector Robert Jackson's latest collection on Flashbak is a wunderkammer of weird vintage snapshots. Of course, what makes this set so wonderful is that each square frame is odd on its own but scrolling through them one after another...
Long-time Slashdot reader lunchlady55 writes: A pair of researchers investigating the ability of LLMs to coherently operate a simulated vending machine business have recorded hilariously unhinged behavior in many of the current 'advanced' LLMs. The LLMs were equipped with...
Saturday May 31, 2025. 11:43 PM
Boing Boing contributor Dustin 'UPSO' Hostetler has just published the 18th issue of his magnificent long-running print 'zine Faesthetic, a visual wunderkammer of art, illustration, and design!. Printed in an edition of 100, each with hand-signed cover art by Tristan...
Journalists from Der Spiegel and Danwatch were able to use proxy servers in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia to circumvent network restrictions and access documents about Russia's nuclear weapon sites, reports Cybernews.com. 'Data, including building plans, diagrams,...
TL;DR: Give your PC a tune-up with a lifetime license to Ashampoo WinOptimizer 27, now just $9.99 (reg. $50). Want to make an old PC feel like new again? You don't have to spend a fortune on a new device — just give it a tune-up with Ashampoo WinOptimizer 27. — Read the...
A U.S. federal judge has decided that free-speech protections in the First Amendment 'don't shield an AI company from a lawsuit,' reports Legal Newsline. The suit is against Character.AI (a company reportedly valued at $1 billion with 20 million users) Judge Anne C. Conway...
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