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Friday September 5, 2025. 07:27 PM
The Shell Grotto in Margate, Kent, England, is a mysterious underground passageway adorned with over 4.6 million seashells. This whimsical hideaway was discovered in 1835. Its origins and purpose remain unknown. Theories range from an 18th-century folly to a Phoenician...
I lived in San Miguel de Cozumel, Mexico, for long enough that I got used to the heat. There are a lot of things I miss about living there. The smell of the ocean. The humor and kindness of the people in my neighborhood. — Read the rest The post Cochinita — I still have...
Much of the world favors protecting 30% of the world's land and water for nature by 2030, according to new research that has found overwhelming public support for the goal across eight countries on five continents. The Guardian: Nearly 200 nations agreed in 2022 to set aside ...
Because handing battlefield ID to an algorithm has never gone wrong before, right? The US Army is preparing to deploy a new AI product that promises to automatically identify and track potential targets on the battlefield. However, humans will continue to make life and death ...
A funny thing happened a day after the leaders of China, Russia, and North Korea got together to fingerpaint a picture of a new world order: it was announced on September 4th that the Trump administration will kill funding for security assistance programs that support...
The Diomede Islands — two craggy specks in the middle of the Bering Strait—sit two and a half miles apart but live in different days. Little Diomede, U.S. territory, and Big Diomede, Russian, are split by the International Date Line. — Read the rest The post The...
The city of Fernandina Beach, Florida, knew for more than a year that there were human remains stored in a pirate statue there. Official knowledge of the cremains inside the 50 year-old Peg Leg Pete on Centre Street complicates ongoing discussion about replacing the...
Adult Swim's Smiling Friends is back for a third season, and looks just as ridiculous as ever. It's been a surprise sleeper hit in the past few years for being an example of surreal humor done well — it feels a bit like an adult take on The Amazing World of Gumball for its ...
Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton has warned that AI will concentrate wealth among a small elite while impoverishing most workers. The computer scientist, who pioneered neural network research in the 1980s, told Financial Times that rich people will use AI to replace workers,...
It won't be fully functional for a while, though video Europe's first exascale supercomputer has finally lived up to expectations, despite not being fully complete, as its general-purpose compute cluster is not set to be ready before next year at the earliest.…
Watch a gnarly can of 70-year-old peaches get opened up and dumped out. The old-timey peaches are compared to a new can of peaches. The new peaches look as one would expect (peach-colored and edible). The septagenarian peaches have morphed into a black sludge of...
Lego's new Death Star model is its most punishing set of all time. Fear will keep customers in line: fear of its $1000 price tag. Arriving in our system on October 4, it comes with 9023 pieces and 38 minifigs. When assembled it'll be 28 inches (70cm) tall, 32' inches (79cm)...
It's been called the GTA 6 of indie games, and after all the time it's spent in development and the hype it's built up as a result, it feels hard to agree with that description of 2D bug Soulslike Hollow Knight: Silksong. — Read the rest The post A tiny indie game brought...
Firefox 145 is dumping 32-bit Linux, though Mozilla, the maker of Firefox, had some good news this week for users still clinging to Windows 7 – Firefox ESR 115 support is being extended until March 2026.…
Alphabet's Google was hit with a $3.45 billion EU antitrust fine on Friday for anti-competitive practices in its lucrative adtech business, marking its fourth penalty in its decade long fight with EU competition regulators. From a report: The move by the European Commission...
Panasonic's market value has remained flat at approximately $25 billion over the past decade while rivals Hitachi, Sony and NEC have increased their valuations sixfold during the same period. The Osaka-based conglomerate announced a restructuring plan in May 2025 to...
Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI’s prince of doom, explains why computers will kill us and provides an unrealistic plan to stop it.
Are you ready, kids? *silence* I can't hear you! *silence* Oooooooooo! Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? *complete sustained silence* Enjoy the individually-isolated tracks from the memorable theme from Nickelodeon's classic cartoon Spongebob Squarepants. The accordian ...
TL;DR: Get $110 off a lifetime subscription to Rosetta Stone with code FLUENT — Offer ends Sept. 7 at 11:59 p.m. PT. When I started dating someone from Brazil, I didn't think I'd be learning a whole new language. It started with simple phrases like 'bom dia' and 'tudo...
Like almost all human endeavors, open-source software development involves a range of power dynamics. Companies, developers, and users are all concerned with the power to influence the direction of the software — and, often, to profit from it. At the 2025 Open Source...
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