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Monday September 30, 2024. 11:20 PM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: It will soon be illegal for public and private universities in California to consider an applicant's relationship to alumni or donors when deciding whether to admit them. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a ban on the...
TL;DR: You might not need a reason to buy another laptop, but this 11.6-inch Lenovo Chromebook is only $59.99 (reg. $149)—that's 60% off! It seems like whenever we treat ourselves to new tech, we need a very good reason to shell out the cash. — Read the rest The post Do...
When Valve took its second major crack at making Steam machines happen, in the form of the Steam Deck, one of the big surprises was the company’s choice to base the Linux operating system the Steam Deck uses on Arch Linux, instead of the Debian base it was using before. It...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Mazda recently surprised customers by requiring them to sign up for a subscription in order to keep certain services. Now, notable right-to-repair advocate Louis Rossmann is calling out the brand. He points to several moves by Mazda as...
Newsom doesn't want Golden State to lose its golden goose California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed a controversial AI bill, tho don't assume it was necessarily a final win for the tech industry. …
A man in Maine says he is 'extremely lucky to escape with only a few bumps & bruises' after coming face to face with a bull moose. And by the look of the elk, who stares down the man with a wide, terrified side-eye, the man is also lucky to be alive. — Read the rest The...
More American workers are seeing their compensation tied to performance metrics, a shift from traditional fixed salaries. A 2024 survey by Alexander Group found 28% of over 300 companies are incorporating incentive pay into new roles, extending a practice once limited to...
Mummies found near China's Tarim Basin were buried 3,600 years ago with snacks for the afterlife. A decade after archaeologists discovered the mummies in an ancient cemetery belonging to the Xiaohe people, scientists used DNA analyze to identify the specific food. — Read the...
No one really wins when a troll, sorry, assertion entity scores a victory A Delaware jury has determined that Amazon Web Services infringed two networking patents and now owes the current patent holder $30.5 million. …
An anonymous reader shares a report: Udemy, an e-learning platform with more than 250,000 online classes, recently announced that it would train generative AI on the classes that its users contribute to the site. Not only were class teachers automatically opted in to having...
Necromolds ($60, two players, ages 9 and up) is a devilishly fun tabletop wargame where you make and field armies of monstrous golems cast from clay. If you've been looking for a game that introduces younger players to the world of miniature tabletop wargaming, this is a...
Who wants to join his so Solid crew? After fifteen years of fighting to make the web safer and more accessible, the World Wide Web Foundation is shutting down.…
Tathagata Roy has been working to make the Coccinelle tool that is used (among other things) to automate the refactoring of C code work on Rust code as well. Roy gave a presentation at Kangrejos about that work, including the creative approaches necessary to work with...
Some owners of Tesla’s electric pickup truck paid for the feature when they purchased it last fall—and now it’s starting to kick in.
DirecTV has agreed to acquire struggling rival Dish Network, creating a satellite TV behemoth with nearly 20 million subscribers. The complex transaction, announced Monday, involves private equity firm TPG acquiring a majority stake in DirecTV from AT&T for $7.6 billion....
A couple from Wales got a little too easy on an EasyJet flight last March, handily getting themselves arrested as soon as the plane touched down. And last week, they were ordered to financially compensate the disgusted passengers who happened to catch them in the act. — Read...
Reddit has implemented new restrictions on moderators' ability to alter community visibility settings, the social media platform announced Monday. Moderators must now obtain admin approval before switching subreddits between public, private, or NSFW status. The move comes in ...
It seems like everyone is obsessed with sassy baby pygmy hippopotamus Moo Deng—including me! If you can't get enough of the squishy, bite-y baby, there's now a 24-hour livestream where you can check in on her whenever you want! If you're way out of the loop,...
Linus Torvalds released 6.12-rc1 and closed the 6.12 merge window on September 29; at that point, 11,260 non-merge change sets had been pulled into the mainline for the 6.12 release. That is the lowest number of merge-window changes since 5.17-rc1 in January 2022, which broug...
In a scene straight out of a surrealist dream, live crabs escaped from a passenger's bag on a New York City subway train, causing a kerfuffle caught on video. The Independent reports that footage of the incident, shared by Instagram account Subway Creatures, has racked up a...
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