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Wednesday September 10, 2025. 08:17 PM
Duke University places the responsibility for Jerry Seinfeld's disgusting comments on Jerry Seinfeld and Chabad of Duke, who hosted him. Pretty telling when the University won't even make a 'we welcome all ideas to be explored, free speech' style comment, instead just...
The usual cadre of scientists who disproved previous findings are stumped If you were ever wondering where you'd be when NASA announced peer-reviewed evidence hinting at extraterrestrial life - long dead, if it existed at all - look around, because this is it.…
Analyst Ben Thompson, commenting on Apple's outlook following the launch of the iPhone 17 lineup: Apple, to be fair, isn't selling the same sugar water year-after-year in a zero sum war with other sugar water companies. Their sugar water is getting better, and I think this...
Mustafa Suleyman says that designing AI systems to exceed human intelligence—and to mimic behavior that suggests consciousness—would be “dangerous and misguided.”
This short video, by a very energetic YouTuber, is packed with fascinating caffeine history, chemistry, and enigmas. A few months ago, I was drinking two pots of pour-over coffee a day. I find myself down to one cup a day today. — Read the rest The post Fascinating...
A Texas A&M professor was fired after teaching about gender identity in a children's literature course, where they showed the 'gender unicorn' infographic. When a student filmed herself objecting that this went 'against President Trump's law,' it led to removals of...
Nearly 100 requirements laid down by 10 separate oversight and advisory groups leave agencies tangled in red tape The US government wants AI in every corner of government, but the unstoppable force of new tech is running into the immovable object of bureaucracy - a growing...
The narrative podcast industry that exploded after Serial's 2014 debut has largely collapsed. Pineapple Street Studios shut down in June after producing hits like Missing Richard Simmons. Amazon dismantled Wondery in August, laying off 110 employees less than five years...
VisiCalc on the Apple II. Lotus 1-2-3 on the IBM PC. Aldus PageMaker on the Macintosh. Deluxe Paint on the Amiga. The computer industry loves a “killer app,” that unique piece of software that compels consumers to purchase new computer hardware just for the...
An upgraded selfie camera with a square sensor, dual camera capture, and 8X optical-like image quality has me excited about the new iPhone 17 models.
'For most of the park's history, Disney was priced to welcome people across the income spectrum, embracing the motto 'Everyone is a V.I.P.,'' writes Daniel Currell in the New York Times. Not anymore. Middle-class families save for years to afford a Disney park vacation, and...
Classes moved to VBA, but upgrading and testing is unavoidable With the end of Windows 10 looming, Microsoft has reminded hard-pressed admins that other critical technologies are on the endangered list, notably VBScript.…
With careful observation and a little knowledge of the startup sequence of an Apple silicon Mac, you can learn a lot about what can and can’t happen during that sequence. This article explains how, with examples from the log of a Mac mini M4 Pro. ↫ Howard Oakley Short...
NASA: After a year's worth of scientific scrutiny, the 'Sapphire Canyon' rock sample remains the mission's best candidate for containing signs of ancient microbial life processes. A sample collected by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero...
Kowloon Walled City was a Chinese enclave in British Hong Kong that neither country felt obliged to govern. As a result, it became lawless and chaotic, an incredible warren of randomly-stacked tower buildings with a 'staggering' population density of more than 1.2 million...
The proprietors of Present & Correct, a wonderful stationery supply store in London, have acquired a remarkable paper clip collection. They said: David Walker has been collecting paper clips from around the world for much of his life. He recently moved into a new home & his...
'Look at these Fools' is a music video by Azimuth Actual. It presents Donald Trump as a leaky pig, Stephen Miller as a Nosferatu cosplayer, Pam Bondi as a B-movie monster, and Kristi Noem as a gun-loving dog killer. — Read the rest The post "Look at These Fools" — music...
An anonymous reader shares a report: South Africa's energy regulator apologized for a 54 billion-rand ($3.1 billion) error in calculating electricity tariffs, a mistake that will be passed on to consumers. The National Energy Regulator of South Africa, which determines what...
There are a large number of ways to configure the 6.16 Linux kernel. It has 32,468 different configuration options on x86_64, and a comparable number for other platforms. Exploring the ways the kernel can be configured is sufficiently difficult that it requires specialized...
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