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Apple asked a court Friday to dismiss its three-year-old hacking lawsuit against spyware pioneer NSO Group, arguing that it might never be able to get the most critical files about NSO's Pegasus surveillance tool and that its own disclosures could aid NSO and its increasing...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Haiku is an open-source operating system, currently in beta development, that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the Be Operating System (BeOS), Haiku aims to become a fast, efficient, and...
OpenAI said its project Strawberry has graduated to a new family of large language models (LLMs) that the company has christened OpenAI o1. The new family of models, which also includes an o1-mini version for cost efficiency, according to the company, can be differentiated...
A lumen is equivalent to the light produced by a birthday candle as viewed from a foot away. The Imalent MS32 flashlight is like a birthday cake for a 200,000-year-old. It's brighter than 100 car headlights. It costs $750, weighs 6.6 lbs, and comes with a rechargeable...
In the 1980 classic splatterpunk film Friday the 13th, the eerie musical motif that haunts the film's tense moments was as crucial to the atmosphere as the suspenseful plot itself. Yet, the killer, Mrs. Voorhees, doesn't appear until the final scenes, leaving composer Harry...
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) has agreed to invest €688,800 to improve the security, stability, and functionality of Samba. The investment will take place over three years and will be managed by SerNet, a company that employs several Samba core developers and offers...
“It’s as if television, media, and filmmaking are becoming manifest destiny in the wrong ways,” says Maya Cade, founder of the Black Film Archive. “And there's nothing sadder.”
Putting on a weird display, ever whining cry-baby, adjudicated rapist and convicted felon Donald J. Trump complained that people call him, and weird guy JD Vance, weird. Have to hand it to the Orange Menace after humiliating himself on National TV during and after the...
Annapurna Interactive's entire gaming staff has resigned from the company following a leadership dispute, according to a Bloomberg report. From a report: The report, which IGN can confirm based on conversations with our own sources, states that Annapurna Interactive...
The Biden Administration is expected to drop a new report offering details on how Russian intelligence operates RT. It baffles me how the American right came to love and respect Russia for how it governs. RT is Russian state propaganda. I remember seeing story after story...
'Face It, Tiger' is the newest single from the Roland High Life, the indie rock band I started with some friends back in the mid-'00s. It's actually the first decent song we ever wrote as a band, and it's one of the only songs from that first iteration of the band that we...
Without the H2 chip, Apple’s flagship headphones bizarrely can’t do key things its basic buds now can.
US health officials say they don’t know how a patient in Missouri contracted bird flu.
Fourteen fake electors who signed certificates falsely claiming that Trump had won their states' electoral votes are going to serve as electors again for the 2024 election. 'Four years ago, what have been known as ''ake electors' gathered in seven mainly swing states where...
The Bluestreak cleaner wrasse was already considered unique. It is the only fish on the exclusive list of animals that have passed the 'mirror test,' which includes humans over 18 months old, other primates, dolphins and whales, elephants, and ants. The mirror test is a...
United Airlines said that it will outfit its entire fleet with Starlink internet service, aiming to keep fliers loyal by offering zippier, more reliable browsing and downloads that the carrier expects will mirror what travelers are used to on the ground. From a report:...
Ethnobotanists have long studied how Indigenous peoples use plant medicines in ways that are more advanced than Western science. Turns out, it isn't just native peoples who may hold secrets to treating a variety of diseases but also animals in remote regions. — Read the rest...
Solar arrays are massive... but it's the transistors onlookers are really worried about NASA's Europa Clipper is now less than a month from its October 10 launch, and the US space agency has shown off the spacecraft's giant solar arrays. However, concerns persist over how...
Huge palaces appear on the map in Sid Meier’s Civilization VII. We see beautiful gardens, soldiers patrolling, and the pharaoh Hatshepsut walking up the palace steps guarded by huge statues of Anubis. This is a different Civ feel, one with the charm of Anno 117. A city is ...
I was waiting at the intersection of Fletcher and N. San Fernando near Atwater Village in Los Angeles yesterday, when a man holding a large white cross emblazoned with the stenciled words 'Jesus Saves' sauntered into the intersection. He was wearing a white dress shirt and...
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