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Friday March 28, 2025. 03:22 PM
A devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar and Thailand on Friday, killing at least 23 people and injuring at least 300 others. Dozens more are missing. Buildings in both countries were caught on video completely collapsing. The earthquake was centered in the large...
As we approach the 31st March deadline for compliance with the new PCI DSS 4.0 payment security standard, new data from Cequence Security shows automated fraud is increasing with retailers facing 66.5 percent of all malicious traffic. Using data from real transactions and...
Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
SoftBank Group plans to create industrial parks for AI across the US and is considering an investment of more than $1 trillion, Nikkei reported. From a report: Founder and Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son is expected to visit the US to discuss his ideas for such...
Researchers looked inside the chatbot’s “brain.” The results were surprisingly chilling.
I've posted before about Andrew Hickey's excellent podcast 'The History of Rock and Roll in 500 Songs' but a recent episode is just epic. For song #177 he takes on the old folkloric ditty 'Shortnin' Bread.' You might not think that such a goofy little tune would merit much...
In the past year, AI made great strides in moving past hype, so much so, that it’s hard to recall the early days of AI when the initial value of the technology was questioned. Today, as AI initiatives start to deliver widespread returns, enterprise CIOs are faced with...
I was wondering idly if the chain of lochs and rivers cutting across Scotland made an island of its north, and found this fantastic photograph of the country taken from the International Space Station a few years ago. As you can see, it's not quite an island. — Read the rest...
Headphone jacks are endangered, but they’re not gone. Here are our favorite smartphones that still let you plug and play.
JWST trio awarded IEEE Simon Ramo medal: 'I'm proud of the whole damn team' Interview The team behind the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just scored the Simon Ramo Medal, given by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for exceptional achievement in...
Six-hundred-forty in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 and 11 on the Microsoft Store and elsewhere in the past seven days. Microsoft has fixed a Windows update bug that caused some printers to print...
These 'Specimens of Fancy Turning' from a 1869 book of albumen silver prints look like antique, mystical spirograph toy drawings. These geometric designs were created on the hand or foot lathe'. The book is by Edward J. Woolsey (1803–1872). From The Public Domain review: ...
The weight of expectations is a powerful thing. The original Metroid Prime trilogy, released across the GameCube and Wii, were both Nintendo's first real foray into first-person shooters and excellent examples of the genre, casting you as badass bounty hunter Samus Aran and...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (mercurial and opensaml), Fedora (augeas, mingw-libxslt, and nodejs-nodemon), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable), Red Hat (grafana, kernel, kernel-rt, opentelemetry-collector, and podman), SUSE (apache-commons-vfs2, python3, and...
Lego YouTuber Bricked MC made a video in which he promised his viewers that he would create a build based on their interaction with his channel. For every view of the video, he would add one brick to the build, two bricks for every like, three per comment, four per...
With no new entries in the venerable The Sims series coming out for the foreseeable future (or ever, as long as EA can keep squeezing money out of The Sims 4), challengers to the life-sim throne have begun to emerge. — Read the rest The post Nintendo's Tomodachi Life...
Razer’s svelte 16-inch machine has a powerful GPU in tow and is exactly what you’d want from a gaming laptop.
Many Americans are becoming interested in Greenland right now for no particular reason. Here is a selection of interesting facts about the island territory. Let's get this out of the way first. Greenland is primarily white, not green. The Greenland ice sheet covers 80% of...
That vaccines do not cause autism is well-established. Scientists long ago debunked attempts to link the two, pushed back against the tide of misinformation and conspiracy theory, and countered the false narratives, 'vaccine detox' supplements, therapies, and other grifts....
uninet writes: The same year Apple launched the iPhone, it unveiled a massive upgrade to Mac OS X known as Leopard, sporting '300 New Features.' Two years later, it did something almost unheard of: it released Snow Leopard, an upgrade all about how little it added and how...
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