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Thursday March 27, 2025. 01:57 AM
'I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library,' wrote Jorge Luis Borges. I've visited NYC's Morgan Library & Museum, above, and it is most certainly paradisiacal. Smithsonian magazine has shared many others in this collection and I want to collect them all!...
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According to the Financial Times, Fidelity Investments is in advanced stages of developing its own stablecoin. Binance reports: The Boston-based financial services giant plans for the token to serve as a form of digital cash, according to the report, which cites two people...
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Serbian activists toppled a dictator by turning him into a carnival game, proving that mockery can be a powerful weapon against authoritarianism. In Belgrade during the late 1990s, young protesters placed a barrel painted with President Slobodan Milosevic's face on a busy...
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The Trump Administration's 'SignalGate' leak of war plans only gets worse and worse. German news site DER SPIEGEL reveals that private data, including mobile phone numbers and passwords, of U.S. security officials included in the Signal chat have been exposed online. — Read...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet, written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols: Despite the minor delay, Linux 6.14 arrives packed with cutting-edge features and improvements to power upcoming Linux distributions, such as the forthcoming Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42. The...
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Hey suckers who thought switching to diet soda would help curb those cravings — science has some deliciously ironic news for you! Turns out your brain isn't falling for that zero-calorie sleight of hand. In fact, it's getting even hangrier about it. — Read the rest The...
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Fortune reports that over 4 million Gen Zers are currently not in education, employment, or training (NEET), with experts blaming a broken educational system and 'worthless degrees' for failing to deliver on promises of career readiness. From the report: While some Gen Zers...
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A Sydney man's quest to collect every element on the periodic table went wrong when he ordered plutonium samples online, triggering a major hazmat incident and potential jail time. Emmanuel Lidden, 24, now faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to breaching...
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Without Elon Musk at his side, Donald Trump fell flat on his face at a press briefing today. In fact, the befuddled president proved to be the most clueless commander-in-chief in U.S. history, knowing absolutely nothing about his administration's recent national security...
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TL;DR: Outfit any computer with two Microsoft must-haves with the Ultimate Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows Lifetime License and Windows 11 Pro Bundle, now only $54.97 (reg. $438).  What if we told you it only takes $55 to make an old computer feel new again? —...
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TL;DR: Code like Steve Jobs with assistance from Microsoft Visual Studio Professional, the first 64-bit IDE that's now discounted to only $27.97 (reg. $499) through March 30. Here's a scenario every coder understands: Imagine spending literal hours debugging your software,...
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Wednesday March 26, 2025. 11:50 PM
The U.S. has added 80 entities to its export blacklist to prevent China from acquiring advanced American chips for military development, including AI, quantum tech, and hypersonic weapons. The Verge reports: More than 50 of the new entities added to the list are based in...
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Why lease space that can't power or cool 120kW racks - or the next-gen 600kW monsters? Comment Microsoft has walked away from negotiations to lease two gigawatts worth of datacenter capacity in the US and Europe, and has deferred and cancelled other datacenter leases,...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: After years of decline, the number of applications to the country's two-year MBA programs rebounded in 2024 -- rising 19%, according to a survey by the Graduate Management Admission Council. The pandemic saw a blossoming of new ways to...
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Six Centuries of Type & Printing is a handsome volume from Glenn Fleishman (previously) about the history of the technology culminating in what you most likely looking at right now: letters on a screen. They used to take bits of metal dipped in sticky colored liquid, then...
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Microsoft has unveiled Hyperlight Wasm, a virtual machine “micro-guest” that can run WebAssembly component workloads written in a multitude of languages including C and Python. Introduced March 26, Hyperlight Wasm serves as a Rust library crate. Wasm modules and...
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VMware has sued industrial giant AG Siemens's US operations for alleged use of unlicensed software and accused it of changing its story negotiations. From a report: The case was filed last Friday in the US District Court for the District Delaware. VMware's complaint [PDF]...
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An overwhelmed black Lab who had just given birth to 14 puppies was in an emotional quandary. 'She wanted to be with me in bed like we sleep every night,' her owner explained. On the other hand (or paw, as it were), 'she also knew her babies needed her.' — Read the rest ...
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So F-18 launch times, weapons, drone support aren't classified now... who knew? Updated The Atlantic's editor-in-chief who was inadvertently added to a Signal group in which the US Secretary of Defense, Vice President, and others discussed secret military plans has now...
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University of Maryland has announced its 2025 commencement speaker: an 'environmental advocate, best-selling author, Peabody Award winner' and a 'champion of creativity, kindness and believing in the impossible.' He is also green. 'Nothing could make these feet happier than...
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