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Thursday August 21, 2025. 06:22 PM
Model and body-art enthusiast Nero Daikokudo has set an official world record for the largest conch flesh tunnel, stretching the cartilage piercing in the middle of each ear to 3.8 cm (1.5 in). Unlike the more common stretched earlobe, the conch tunnel threads through dense ...
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A builder named Xing created a fully functional miniature subway system for his cats. The scaled-down transit system includes everything you'd find in a real subway: a detailed station platform, trains with sensor-activated doors that open and close automatically, and even a ...
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The restartable sequences feature, which was added to the 4.18 kernel in 2018, exists to enable better performance in certain types of threaded applications. While there are users for restartable sequences, they tend to be relatively specialized code; this is not a tool that ...
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Latest Windows Insider Build puts time and language options in Settings Microsoft has continued its efforts to nudge users toward the Windows Settings app from the venerable Control Panel, with language and time settings making the jump.…
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A federal appeals court rejected T-Mobile's attempt to overturn $92 million in fines for selling customer location information to third-party firms. From a report: The Federal Communications Commission last year fined T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon, saying the carriers...
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What testing is happening before changes hit production? Microsoft had a midweek meltdown on Wednesday as a chunk of its productivity suite fell out of the cloud.…
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The era of software without embedded AI assistants is increasingly ending as Adobe launches Acrobat Studio, adding collaborative AI workspaces to the 32-year-old PDF format. The new platform allows users to upload multiple documents into 'PDF spaces' where personalized...
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Energy-starved countries on the continent have reluctantly turned to coal and gas for decades. Cheap Chinese solar panels are now finally changing the calculus.
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TL;DR: The AI Magicx: Lifetime Subscription (Rune Plan) is $59.97 (MSRP $972) until Sep. 7 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Without creative and technical skills, it can be tricky to get a business or project going, especially with that tight start-up budget. — Read the rest The post Take...
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Vole.wtf is among the best sites on the web. When I read its latest presentation, VTV, describe itself as 'the worst and weirdest novelty songs ever created,' I knew immediately which examples of late twentieth century British light entertainment would serve a load-bearing...
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President Donald Trump says his administration will not approve solar or wind power projects, even as electricity demand is outpacing the supply in some parts of the U.S. From a report: 'We will not approve wind or farmer destroying Solar,' Trump, who has complained in the...
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Everything a criminal needs for targeted attacks exposed, but telco insists 'no critical data compromised' A significant data theft at Orange Belgium has opened hundreds of thousands of its customers to serious cybersecurity risks.…
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A complete shutdown of encrypted web traffic isolated China from the global internet for 74 minutes Wednesday morning, blocking citizens from accessing foreign websites and disrupting international business operations that depend on secure connections to offshore servers....
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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (libarchive, mingw-sqlite, pki-deps:10.6, and tomcat), Debian (chromium and firefox-esr), Fedora (python3.6 and suricata), Oracle (go-toolset:rhel8, kernel, libarchive, mingw-sqlite, tomcat, and xterm), Red Hat (kernel),...
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Artificial intelligence is making insider threats more effective according to a new report which also shows that 53 percent of respondents have seen a measurable increase in insider incidents in the past year. The survey, of over 1,000 cybersecurity professionals, from...
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A woman working for New York mayor Eric Adams' re-election campaign handed a news reporter more than $100 in cash, in an envelope inside a bag of chips. The reporter, Katie Honan, reported it. Winnie Greco, a former city hall aide to the mayor, was suspended from the...
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Feds say Mirai-spawned botnet blasted 370K attacks before AWS and pals helped yank its servers RapperBot, a botnet-for-hire blamed for hundreds of thousands of DDoS attacks, has been yanked offline by the Feds, who also hauled in its alleged Oregon-based mastermind.…
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A new survey from Gurucul in collaboration with Cybersecurity Insiders finds that 87 percent of respondents are deploying, piloting or evaluating AI-powered SOC tools, but only 31 percent are using them across core detection and response workflows. The study, based on...
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If you want to wake up with the sun but aren’t a morning person, these bedside devices can simulate a sunrise whenever you want to rouse for the day (and a sunset too).
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I recently replaced my dead Logitech MX Keys (which I see lasted 5 years from the date of my review) with the mini version of the same keyboard, and the one thing I'm missing is the Page Up/Down/Home/End block. It's also absent on the Magic Keyboard and I don't want a...
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