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Friday June 20, 2025. 06:42 PM
A bizarre hoax that captivated America in 2009 gets a fresh examination in 'Trainwreck: Balloon Boy,' premiering July 15. The documentary revisits the day when Richard Heene called 911 claiming his six-year-old son Falcon was trapped inside a homemade flying saucer that had...
Q1 revenue jumps to $11.7B, with 400 and 800 GbE driving the spike The long-dormant market for datacenter network switches is booming thanks to AI.…
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suggested on X that a high-pressure nitrogen tank failure was behind the explosion of the company's massive Starship rocket.
X11 is very far from dead – no matter if some want it to be Comment Considerable new activity is happening both in the established X.org X11 server and around its new fork, Xlibre.…
Four prominent tech executives, including Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth, have joined a special U.S. Army Reserve unit where they'll serve as lieutenant colonels without completing basic training. As reported in Steven Levy's Plaintext newsletter, the executives are part of...
A slim 23-vote margin in the House of Parliament today gave approval to assisted dying in England and Wales. Terminally ill adults may soon legally end their own lives with medical assistance, though the bill first faces scrutiny in the House of Lords. — Read the rest The po...
BrianFagioli writes: In a move that could quietly wreak havoc across the Windows ecosystem, Microsoft is purging outdated drivers from Windows Update. The company claims it is doing this for security and reliability, but the result might be broken hardware for users who rely ...
This adorable baby opossum named Ellie will melt your heart. Baby Opposums are some of the most joy-sparking little critters I've seen. Known as joeys, these tiny marsupials are full of surprises from the moment they're born. Baby opossums, like their marsupial cousins the...
... And then promptly deletes comment. Optimism or an opportunity? Or perhaps both French cloud business, OVHcloud, claimed yesterday that it is in discussions with the European Commission (EC) regarding a possible migration to a sovereign cloud – in an X post that has...
In early 1900s Paris, a young medium named Eva Carrière claimed she could manifest spirits from her body in the form of ghostly ectoplasm. A fan named Baron von Schrenck-Notzing spent four years documenting what he believed were genuine supernatural phenomena. — Read the...
Britain's public broadcaster issued a legal threat to U.S. AI company Perplexity, which the BBC claims scraped its website to train language models. How did it get caught? Because it's reproducing the text of BBC News stories verbatim. The BBC has written to Perplexity,...
Semicolon usage in British literature has declined from once every 205 words in 2000 to once every 390 words today, representing a nearly 50% drop, according to analysis commissioned by language learning company Babbel. The punctuation mark appeared once every 90 words in...
I've been using Proton's family of digital tools for a decade. I started back when all the company offered was Protonmail and stayed on with them as VPN, online storage, calendar and access to an encrypted word processor were added to what I get for my annual subscription...
Red Dye No. 3 has been banned for use in cosmetics and topical drugs since 1990. So why is it still in our food? This video deep dives into Red 3, and the use of dangerous dyes in everyday products. Red 3 can cause some pretty unpleasant side effects, yet it's everywhere: in ...
A month of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate normally costs $19.99 through Microsoft, but you can grab a 1-month membership for just $16.99 — and these codes are stackable, so that you can lock in three months at the lower rate. With rumors swirling about a possible price hike, now's...
A pigeon lays an egg in a barn owl nest box, and complete anarchy ensues. Despite the title of this video, I was completely unprepared for the level of drama this wayward pigeon caused. A pigeon enters the nest box, already occupied by seven owlets of various sizes. — Read...
A senior Broadcom executive has defended VMware's controversial licensing changes by arguing that customers complaining about costs simply weren't using the software bundles properly. VMware shifted away from selling perpetual licenses for individual products to subscription ...
Curious about the best thermal brush? Here’s what they can and can’t do for your hair, and which ones are worth buying.
Seizures up 830% since 2021, with devices linked to interference in emergency responses The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is concerned about the rate at which outlawed signal-jamming devices are being found across the US.…
Meta CTO Andrew 'Boz' Bosworth and leaders from OpenAI and Palantir have joined a detachment intended to make the US Armed Forces 'leaner, smarter, and more lethal.'
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