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Wednesday May 28, 2025. 08:54 PM
Natas Kaupas is the artist behind some awesome decks, the star of 80s and 90s skate movies, and one of the most innovative street skaters ever. Real Skate Stories shares an awesome documentary: I ran across this video not long after directing a friend to the Natas 720...
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So much for buttering up ChatGPT with 'Please' and 'Thank you' Google co-founder Sergey Brin claims that threatening generative AI models produces better results.…
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Japanese police referred five individuals and a company to prosecutors last week for allegedly operating a website that published detailed movie plots without permission from rights holders. The Miyagi Prefectural Police Headquarters and Minamisanriku Police Station sent the ...
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Data analytics and risk management biz says software dev platform breached, not itself LexisNexis Risk Solutions (LNRS) is the latest big-name organization to disclose a serious cyberattack leading to data theft, with the number of affected individuals pegged at 364,333.…
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If you're looking for a natural way to improve your sleep, research points to an enjoyable solution: sex before bedtime. A new study from Central Queensland University found that on nights when participants had sex or masturbated, they experienced less nighttime wakefulness...
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Bad cars are lemons. Good cars are peaches. There's a special kind of lemon that appears on the surface to be a peach, which Uri Bram calls an 'internally bruised peach.' On his Atoms vs Bits blog, he cites three examples: if you meet someone implausibly attractive and also ...
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The world faces an 80% probability of breaking another annual temperature record within the next five years, according to a forecast released Wednesday by the World Meteorological Organization and the UK Meteorological Office. The projections, derived from more than 200...
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Latest kernel includes 14,612 changesets, Penguinistas been busy Over the holiday weekend, Linus Torvalds released the latest Linux kernel – signalling the end of the line for 486-class chips.…
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David Lynch's collection of stuff will be sold at a live auction in Los Angeles of June 18. It's going to be a mob scene. Take a look at the catalog of 450 items. I want his La Marzocco GS/3 Home Espresso Machine ($2,000-$3,000)! — Read the rest The post David Lynch estate...
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A fairly comprehensive look at the early personal computer culture reveals that from 1975 through early 1977, personal computers remained 'almost exclusively the province of hobbyists who loved to play with computers and found them inherently fascinating,' according to newly ...
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The GNU C Library (glibc) is the core C library for most Linux distributions, so it is a crucial part of the open-source ecosystem—and an attractive target for any attackers looking to carry out supply-chain attacks. With that being the case, securing the project's...
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Japan Post has launched a 'digital address' system that links seven-digit combinations of numbers and letters to physical addresses. From a report: Under the system, users can input these seven-digit codes on online shopping websites, and their addresses will automatically...
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Open source in-process OLAP system launches rival to Iceberg and Delta Lake table format, and more With a combined market value of around $150 billion, Snowflake and Databricks have divergent visions on how to get customers' analytics and machine learning tools to their...
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According to former staffers and a deposition, Nancy Mace has allegedly used her tech background to deploy bots across social media—and asked staffers to surreptitiously post on her behalf.
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Sex, slavery, and rebellion collide in Raging Clouds, a lush graphic novel that reimagines 16th-century Holland as a powder keg of female desire and defiance. Korean artist Yudori makes her English-language debut July 15 with this Fantagraphics hardcover about Amélie, a...
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The recent surge in cyberattacks is pushing cyber insurers toward a fundamental reassessment of premium pricing, Bloomberg reports, with industry analysts warning of an impending 'inflection point' that could reshape the market. Marks & Spencer's impending $404 million hit...
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Take-Two’s latest 10-K report has removed any mention of supporting social justice and LGBT+ rights, as more industries fall in line with President Donald Trump’s anti-DEI agenda.
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Mahé Tardy led two sessions about some of the challenges that he, Kornilios Kourtis, and John Fastabend have run into in their work on Tetragon (Apache-licensed BPF-based security monitoring software) at the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. The ...
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Project shutdowns at Mozilla are not encouraging, though Another month, another new version of Firefox, with several handy changes. The future is less certain, though.…
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Several months ago, a beloved stuffed animal from the La Farge Branch of the Santa Fe Public Library disappeared. Clifford the Big Red Dog, a mainstay of the children's play area, was missing, and the library's young patrons missed him enormously. — Read the rest The post...
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