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Wednesday April 23, 2025. 11:58 PM
I came to the U.S. in the early 2000s and was a technology journalist within the decade, so everything from before then I find packed with intrigue and mystery and, sometimes, bafflement. Today I learned about the raccoons who made computer magazine ads great, dredged from...
Ryan Coogler’s horror movie has shattered box office records—and the myth that audiences don’t care about original stories.
A Japanese bus driver just learned that the price of a $7 theft is exactly $84,000 in pension benefits. As reported in Mainichi, the case, which ended up in the Supreme Court this month, centers on a 58-year-old Kyoto City Bus driver who pocketed a 1,000-yen ($7) bill...
Discord CEO and co-founder Jason Citron is stepping down from his leadership role at the company and being replaced by Humam Sakhnini, a former executive from Activision Blizzard. 'Citron will remain on Discord's board of directors, and fellow co-founder Stanislav...
When Pete Hegseth isn't openly chatting on Signal about war plans in Yemen, the Defense Secretary is keeping busy at the DOD with another urgent matter: converting a Pentagon room into a glitzy makeup studio. 'The renovation that was initially planned was estimated to cost...
Elon’s not the only one sounding the alarm over the AI giant’s cash grab A group of AI heavyweights and ex-OpenAI staffers are urging the attorneys general of California and Delaware to block the ChatGPT shop's latest restructuring into a for-profit corporation. …
Meta has expanded both the feature set and availability of its Ray-Ban smart glasses. Notable updates include live translation with offline support through downloadable language packs, the ability to send messages and make calls via Instagram, and conversations with Meta AI...
TL;DR: Host the best movie nights on the block this summer with the $119.97 CinéMini portable projector. You've never had a movie night as good as the one you'll get with the CinéMini, the CES-featured portable projector that creates up to a 200' display anywhere. — Read...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Monday, the State Bar of California revealed that it used AI to develop a portion of multiple-choice questions on its February 2025 bar exam, causing outrage among law school faculty and test takers. The admission...
Our friend (and frequent Boing Boing contributor) Rusty Blazenhoff just released an invaluable guide for planning a trip to Japan. 'What I Wish I Knew Before Going to Japan' is a detailed brain dump of practical tips, cultural insights, and hidden gems discovered during her...
One of the strong points of Linux has always been how solid the experience of installing and managing software is. Contrarily to what happens in the Windows and macOS world, software on Linux is obtained through something called a package manager, a piece of software that...
Perforce has updated its Puppet Enterprise Advanced platform for devsecops to offer more advanced remediation options with the goal of reducing risk in an era of AI-powered security threats. Announced on April 22, the 2025.2 release of the platform fosters greater...
ChatGPT maker to join line of suitors if Chocolate Factory forced to offload browser OpenAI's head of product for ChatGPT has flung the company's hat into the ring as a potential suitor for Google's Chrome browser should the search giant be forced to divest itself of the...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Bernhard Rosenkränzer has announced the release of OpenMandriva Lx 6.0, a major update of the project's independently-developed distribution that started as a fork of Mandriva Linux back in 2013. 'The...
Now that AI is invading classrooms and homework assignment, students need to learn reasoning more than ever Students are increasingly turning to AI to help them with coursework, leaving academics scrambling to adjust their teaching practices or debating how to ban it...
An anonymous reader shares a report: For two years, ChatGPT has been OpenAI's cash cow. But by the end of the decade, the company has told some potential and current investors it expects combined sales from agents and other new products to exceed its popular chatbot, lifting ...
Before there were Instagram thirst traps or Twitter main characters, there was Mary MacLane — a 19-year-old from Montana who wrote the horniest, most scandalous memoir of 1902, about wanting to bang both Napoleon and Satan, lusting openly after her female teacher, and...
A mystery thief and a critical CVE involved in crypto cash grab Many versions of the Ripple ledger (XRPL) official NPM package are compromised with malware injected to steal cryptocurrency.…
The latest buzzy concept in the world of AI is now transcending its initial hype. Advances in Agentic AI are accelerating the development of autonomous business systems, building upon progress in machine learning. Acting as an independent ‘agent’, the technology can make ...
Nintendo has filed a request for subpoena in California's Northern District Court to compel Discord to reveal the identity of user 'GameFreakOUT,' the alleged source of last year's extensive Pokemon leak. The company is demanding the name, address, phone number, and email of ...
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