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Tuesday June 17, 2025. 08:44 PM
China's 'little dragons' pose big challenge to US AI firms MiniMax, an AI firm based in Shanghai, has released an open source reasoning model that challenges Chinese rival DeepSeek and US-based Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google in terms of performance and cost.…
Travis K. Witt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The post How a con man built the World's Littlest Skyscraper with one clever blueprint scam appeared first on Boing Boing.
Liam Neeson's gift for dour deadpan comedy makes him perfect for a modern take on Frank Drebin; I had no doubt that the new The Naked Gun, also starring Pamela Anderson, would at least work. The trailer, out today, suggests I'm not only right but that it might be worth...
The fundamental concept of checkpoint/restore is elegant: capture a process's state and resurrect it later, perhaps elsewhere. Checkpointing meticulously records a process's memory, open files, CPU state, and more into a snapshot. Restoration then reconstructs the process...
The Wilderness Act of 1964 established certain areas as 'wilderness' It states, 'A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where ...
If you think sporks are the only hybrid eating utensil, this comprehensive Wikipedia article will expand your culinary horizons dramatically. The piece presents the surprisingly rich history of combination eating utensils, from the common spork to lesser-known implements...
Third time's a charm? Apple has escaped a $300 million patent infringement damages penalty – for now – due to what a trio of judges said comes down to faulty jury instructions.…
An anonymous reader shares a report: Iran's cybersecurity authority has banned officials from using devices that connect to the internet, apparently fearing being tracked or hacked by Israel. According to the state-linked Fars news agency, Iranian officials and their...
Anthony Dean's 'The Voided Man' series features extensive time dilation, AI, and the depiction of using a created currency to overthrow a tyrannical society. I'm only two books into this nine-book series, but the premise has me hooked, for now. A political opponent of a...
Mike Mignola's new dark folklore universe, Lands Unknown, is expanding, and if the next installment is anything like the first, we're all in for a wonderfully weird ride. Following the critical and commercial success of Bowling with Corpses and Other Strange Tales from Lands ...
As Donald Trump's utter mayhem gains momentum, so do his disillusioned MAGA voters, who are rapidly peeling away from his base. 'F*ck it. If Trump takes us to war, I'm done with him and his administration,' one former devotee, who goes by Texas Patriot, posted on X yesterday ...
Amazon's satellite constellation hits another snag as ULA rocket aborts on pad A hardware glitch on United Launch Alliance's (ULA) workhorse Atlas V rocket delayed the launch of the second batch of Project Kuiper satellites.…
Fascinating Horror shares the tragic stories of two individuals whose quest for the ultimate viral video went wrong. Bad ideas. One executed poorly, the other went as one should have expected — if they expected a Desert Eagle.50 cal to shoot through just anything you...
Near Buffalo, across Lake Erie in Port Colborne, Ontario, sits a mind-bending visual phenomenon known as the 'Incredible Shrinking Mill.' This Archer Daniels Midland grain elevator creates a illusion that defies our expectations of perspective. When driving east on Lakeshore ...
Accessibility features and the work that goes into developing those features often tend to be overlooked and are poorly understood by all but the people who actually depend on such features. At Fedora's annual developer conference, Flock, Lukáš Tyrychtr sought to improve...
Marshall Woodruff does not know if he'll recover sight in the eye he nearly lost to LAPD's breaking up of a peaceful 'No Kings' protest last Saturday. I hope there is a deep review of LAPD's body camera footage after this weekend's awful abuse of power. — Read the rest The...
In her new book Bad Company, journalist Megan Greenwell chronicles how private equity upended industries from health care to local news—and the ways workers are fighting back.
You know, for all the love certain creators get around here, it strikes me as weird that some only ever make one appearance. Like, for instance, what's Ordinary Sausages up to? I bet he's still making all kinds of decidedly non-ordinary sausages, like that weirdly...
Hardcoded passwords and path traversals keeping bug hunters in work Security researchers have issued a warning about a pre-authentication exploit chain affecting a CMS used by some of the biggest companies in the world.…
Salesforce will raise prices by an average of 6% across its Enterprise and Unlimited Editions starting August 1, 2025, while simultaneously launching new AI-focused product tiers that significantly expand the cost structure for its platform. The price increases will affect...
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