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Tuesday August 19, 2025. 01:54 AM
Go 1.25, the latest version of the Google-developed open source programming language, has been released. The update brings new capabilities including an experimental garbage collector that improves performance, a fix for a compiler bug that could delay pointer checks, and a...
England has declared a 'nationally significant' water shortage as reservoirs dropped to 67.7% capacity, their lowest levels in at least a decade. The UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology warned of exceptionally low river flows while groundwater continues dwindling across the...
With Trump acting on every impulse his melting brain provides him with, the militarized takeover of Washington DC that has seen hordes of armed federal agents searching the streets for anyone engaging in wrongthink has almost been tragically easy to forget about. — Read the...
It is no secret that Windows 11’s dark mode is undercooked, to put it mildly. While modern parts of the operating system support dark mode and they look fantastic with it, plenty of commonly used UI surfaces and legacy parts are still stubbornly light. Those include common...
More than 60 years after first demos of this tech, Kairos will bring it back to Oak Ridge Oak Ridge, Tennessee, could be home to a molten salt reactor once again if Google-backed Kairos Power has its way.…
High accuracy scores come from conditions that don't reflect real-world usage Facial recognition technology has been deployed publicly on the basis of benchmark tests that reflect performance in laboratory settings, but some academics are saying that real-world performance...
Google is managing to achieve what Microsoft couldn’t: killing the open web. The efforts of tech giants to gain control of and enclose the commons for extractive purposes have been clear to anyone who has been following the history of the Internet for at least the...
Monday August 18, 2025. 11:53 PM
Meet the new COPILOT function Microsoft, in its ongoing effort to AI-ify every product it has, is now adding it right into the cells of Excel. Available on Monday to beta users of Microsoft 365 Copilot, a new COPILOT function allows you to task Redmond's AI with performing ...
In 1965 animator Chuck Jones adapted a short picture book called The Dot and The Line: a romance in lower mathematics as a 9-minute cartoon. It follows a rigid blue line who adores a carefree red dot; she, however, swoons for a swaggering squiggle. — Read the rest The post W...
A WIRED review of a now deleted Twitter account that used the screen name “Dr. Erwin J. Antoni III” shows it posted conspiratorial content about the 2020 election, Covid-19, and Jeffrey Epstein.
Got a particle accelerator? Here’s your tritium startup idea Tritium is ridiculously rare, incredibly expensive, and central to most fusion energy reactor designs. If research out of Los Alamos National Lab proves to hold true, it might soon become easier to obtain.…
TL;DR: Get these AI Smart Camera Recording Sunglasses and see the world in a brand new way for just $69.99 (Reg. $99.99). For a while, smart glasses seemed like something out of a science fiction movie. But here they are. Bad news: most of them are pretty uncool. — Read the...
The JetBrains blog presents the results of the eighth annual Python Developers Survey, carried out in partnership with the Python Software Foundation. This year, 51% of all surveyed Python developers are involved in data exploration and processing, with pandas and NumPy...
If you’re interested in developing for and programming on MS-DOS and other variants of the venerable operating system, SuperIlu has collected the various tools and applications they use and like for this very task. In case you’re wondering who SuperIlu is – they are the devel...
In the most recent issue of the free Recomendo newsletter, my friend Kevin Kelly wrote about his new guide, called Everything I Know About Publishing and Self-Publishing. Kevin knows what he's talking about: 'In my professional life, I've had several bestselling books...
A week ago we talked about focus stealing prevention on KDE and Wayland, and this time we have a similar article, but detailing GNOME’s approach instead. Many of the underlying mechanisms are the same, of course, but since GNOME uses a different window manager, the details...
Just a friendly heads up: several hand soaps on sale out there have been recalled. Washing your hands with them to prevent bacterial infections and other nasty things can lead to… bacterial infections and other nasty things. According to NBC Chicago, DermaRite Industries...
If you ever hit Morocco, take a 40-minute cab ride from the city of Meknes, and you'll find yourself standing in front of the ruins of the Berber-Roman city of Volubilis. While the area around the city has been inhabited since Neolithic times, the Romans and the local Berber ...
Inside a Turkish hotel room, Frank winces as he turns a key inserted into the metal bracket on his thigh, forcing apart rods in his surgically broken femurs. Each excruciating turn promises to make him a millimeter taller, as reported in The Guardian. — Read the rest The...
Spy vs spy in the chips Comment Chinese state media called the US an aspiring 'surveillance empire' over its proposed use of asset tracking tags to crack down on black-market GPU shipments to the Middle Kingdom.…
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