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Friday June 20, 2025. 07:16 PM
A woman driving in the rain notices a long black snake in the road and worries it will be run over. So she stops her car and tries to guide the slithering creature to safety. But as the old saying goes, no good deed goes unpunished, and in this case, her good deed goes from...
A new filesystem was the topic of a session led by Zach Brown at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF). The ngnfs filesystem is not a 'next generation' NFS, as might be guessed from the name; Brown said that he did not think about...
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) reports on the alarming trend of journalists and activists being summoned to court in Georgia simply for criticizing government officials on social media. The article details how more than a dozen journalists,...
French satellite operator plans capital raise backed by state and key investors including Bharti Satellite biz Eutelsat is looking to raise €1.35 billion ($1.55 billion) to grow its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) network to take on Starlink and benefit from anticipated growth in...
A teenage actress from California just joined a club that usually only includes kings, duchesses, and medieval warriors — she's been knighted by the Vatican at age 19. Sydney Thackray, an actress and musician, knelt before a bishop in a centuries-old Roman cathedral this...
A United Nations study has found a sharp global divide on attitudes toward AI, with trust strongest in low-income countries and skepticism high in wealthier ones. From a report: More than 6 out of 10 people in developing nations said they have faith that AI systems serve the ...
A bizarre hoax that captivated America in 2009 gets a fresh examination in 'Trainwreck: Balloon Boy,' premiering July 15. The documentary revisits the day when Richard Heene called 911 claiming his six-year-old son Falcon was trapped inside a homemade flying saucer that had...
Q1 revenue jumps to $11.7B, with 400 and 800 GbE driving the spike The long-dormant market for datacenter network switches is booming thanks to AI.…
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suggested on X that a high-pressure nitrogen tank failure was behind the explosion of the company's massive Starship rocket.
X11 is very far from dead – no matter if some want it to be Comment Considerable new activity is happening both in the established X.org X11 server and around its new fork, Xlibre.…
Four prominent tech executives, including Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth, have joined a special U.S. Army Reserve unit where they'll serve as lieutenant colonels without completing basic training. As reported in Steven Levy's Plaintext newsletter, the executives are part of...
A slim 23-vote margin in the House of Parliament today gave approval to assisted dying in England and Wales. Terminally ill adults may soon legally end their own lives with medical assistance, though the bill first faces scrutiny in the House of Lords. — Read the rest The po...
BrianFagioli writes: In a move that could quietly wreak havoc across the Windows ecosystem, Microsoft is purging outdated drivers from Windows Update. The company claims it is doing this for security and reliability, but the result might be broken hardware for users who rely ...
This adorable baby opossum named Ellie will melt your heart. Baby Opposums are some of the most joy-sparking little critters I've seen. Known as joeys, these tiny marsupials are full of surprises from the moment they're born. Baby opossums, like their marsupial cousins the...
... And then promptly deletes comment. Optimism or an opportunity? Or perhaps both French cloud business, OVHcloud, claimed yesterday that it is in discussions with the European Commission (EC) regarding a possible migration to a sovereign cloud – in an X post that has...
In early 1900s Paris, a young medium named Eva Carrière claimed she could manifest spirits from her body in the form of ghostly ectoplasm. A fan named Baron von Schrenck-Notzing spent four years documenting what he believed were genuine supernatural phenomena. — Read the...
Britain's public broadcaster issued a legal threat to U.S. AI company Perplexity, which the BBC claims scraped its website to train language models. How did it get caught? Because it's reproducing the text of BBC News stories verbatim. The BBC has written to Perplexity,...
Semicolon usage in British literature has declined from once every 205 words in 2000 to once every 390 words today, representing a nearly 50% drop, according to analysis commissioned by language learning company Babbel. The punctuation mark appeared once every 90 words in...
I've been using Proton's family of digital tools for a decade. I started back when all the company offered was Protonmail and stayed on with them as VPN, online storage, calendar and access to an encrypted word processor were added to what I get for my annual subscription...
Red Dye No. 3 has been banned for use in cosmetics and topical drugs since 1990. So why is it still in our food? This video deep dives into Red 3, and the use of dangerous dyes in everyday products. Red 3 can cause some pretty unpleasant side effects, yet it's everywhere: in ...
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