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Monday October 7, 2024. 05:41 PM
How can you tell if someone is MAGA? Besides believing in a wide variety of fairy tales and conspiracy theories that any eight-year-old would write off as being ridiculous, MAGA folk have an irksome habit of threatening to kill people who don't share their delusional...
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Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days starts tomorrow, but we’ve already spotted the best Prime Day deals on products we’ve tested and loved.
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Wordle has lost some of its charm under the New York Times' tutelage and editor Tracy Bennett's curation. There was an unfortunate period two years ago with numerous 'themed' words, essentially giving you a hint, like FEAST on Thanksgiving. Players objected, and themed...
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doc1623 writes: Advocacy groups behind a so-called suicide capsule said Sunday they have suspended the process of taking applications to use it -- which numbered over 370 last month -- as a criminal investigation into its first use in Switzerland is completed. The president...
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Elgato’s Stream Deck (not to be confused with Valve’s Steam Deck) is popular among game streaming pros, podcasters, and anyone who just wants a bank of neat little customizable LED buttons that activate various stuff on their “battlestation.” The Stream Deck Pedal is ...
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In the early 1980s, the now-acclaimed comic creator Frank Miller released his first creator-owned work—a weird cyberpunk samurai adventure called Ronin, about a sentient AI in a dystopian future that accidentally resurrects an ancient Japanese warrior and the demon who...
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Milton, lumbering eastward through the gulf of Mexico, has grown into a category 4 storm on its way to Florida—a state still in recovery after Hurricane Helene tore through it 10 days ago. It's expected to become category 5 before it lands and locals are bracing themselves ...
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Over at Reddit's r/NoStupidQuestions, a redditor asked: 'I read a post on here a while ago that said that the CIA has a class for their agents about how to look less American when in other countries so they don't stand out as much. — Read the rest The post American tourist...
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Optical communications not just for night owls NASA's Deep Space Optical Communication (DSOC) technology demonstration has notched up another performance milestone as it approaches a year in space.…
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TL;DR: Save 84% on a CreditReady AI lifetime subscription that helps you improve your credit score. Ah, your first credit card. When the store clerk asked if you wanted to sign up to 'Save 10% on your purchase today?' and you said, 'Hell yes!' — Read the rest The post Your c...
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If you want a versatile productivity laptop, HP’s Envy 2-in-1 is on sale at Best Buy with an impressive $400 discount. Down from $1,050 to just $650, this is a bargain price for what’s essentially the ideal laptop for getting stuff done day in and day out. Featuring a...
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Linux distribution antiX-23.2, dubbed “Arditi del Popolo,” has been released. If you’re already on antiX-23 or antiX-23.1 there is no need to reinstall. This update is all about cleaning things up and keeping things running smoothly, staying true to the antiX tradition ...
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OpenAI is blowing through money faster than it can boil lakes, is crowded by well-funded and cutting-edge competitors, and has yet to shape its AI tech into the revolutionary products implied by boss Sam Altman's ambitious prognostications. But big institutional investors...
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Amazon will likely eliminate around 14,000 corporate jobs by early next year as part of ongoing efforts to reduce costs, according to a note Morgan Stanley sent to clients that Slashdot has reviewed. Brian Nowak of Morgan Stanley estimated Amazon could cut approximately...
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A “Hackintosh” is a standard PC that’s modified to run Apple’s proprietary macOS (or OS X) operating system. It was a popular pastime back when Apple was using Intel chips in its laptops and desktops, though it’s fallen off now that Apple is on self-built Arm...
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Version 4.20 of the RPM Package Manager (RPM) has been released. Major changes in this release include a new plugin to prevent filesystem and network access by scriptlets, the BuildSystem directive for declaring the build system to be used by packaged software, and more. LWN ...
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Did you know that Windows stores data based on your usage behavior? This data ends up in MRU lists, which stands for Most Recently Used. These are recently opened documents, launched programs, and frequently used folders. We’ll show you how to remove this data. It’s...
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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (go-toolset:rhel8 and linux-firmware), Arch Linux (oath-toolkit), Debian (e2fsprogs, firefox-esr, libgsf, mediawiki, and oath-toolkit), Fedora (aws, chromium, firefox, p7zip, pgadmin4, python-gcsfs, unbound, webkitgtk, znc,...
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According to some Microsoft Word users, the Office software is apparently deleting files after saving — not the kind of behavior you want when doing important work, and not the kind of bug you’d expect from a company as established as Microsoft. Microsoft has officially...
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Just don’t call it an alternative to RISE with SAP SAP has developed an alternative way of shifting customers' legacy systems running on Microsoft's SQL Server database to the cloud, a method that is outside of its preferred RISE with SAP program.…
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