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Tuesday February 4, 2025. 07:40 PM
Autonomous vehicle company Cruise will lay off about half of its 2,100 employees and remove several top executives, including CEO Marc Whitten, as parent company General Motors shifts away from robotaxi development to focus on personal autonomous vehicles. The cuts come two...
Waffle House is now adding a.50 surcharge on every single egg you order. Two eggs sunny side up? That'll be a buck extra. Three egg Spanish omelet? Ka-ching! $1.50 additional. Blame the bird flu. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? — Read the rest The post Waffle House ...
According to a new policy document from Meta, the Frontier AI Framework, the company might not release AI systems developed in-house in certain risky scenarios. The document defines two types of AI systems that can be classified as either “high risk” or “critical...
Enjoy Atlas Obscura's list featuring 13 places that have cannonballs stuck in them. Usually, when a cannonball is launched it will destroy the area of the building that it hits. There have been many instances, though, where the cannon ball becomes lodged in its target...
Far-right, ultraconservative, misogynistic, anti-immigrant white supremacist performance artists, The Proud Boys, have lost the commercial rights to their logo and name. In December 2020, the Proud Boys vandalized a church in Washington, DC, and burnt its Black Lives Matter...
Recently, the world record for 'Fastest Limbo Skating Under Poles' was achieved by Shristi Dharmendra Sharma. This involves a series of horizontal, descenting poles that look humanly impossible to pass under. The fact that someone is able to do this on skates is amazing. —...
Firefox 135 debuts today, with (what else?) AI built right into the browser. Unlike Microsoft Edge and Copilot or Brave’s own Leo AI chatbot, Firefox isn’t investing in its own AI capabilities. Instead, the company is building in AI access to third-party chatbots such as ...
Kearns, Utah police charged Ashton Jonathan Mann, 23, with manslaughter after he allegedly shot and killed his friend. The two men were stoned on weed and messing with their guns in the garage. That's when Mann's friend bragged that he 'can dodge a bullet.' — Read the rest ...
When’s the last time you did some PC spring cleaning? All those unused and unnecessary files that have built up over the years could be slowing down your system and even making your data vulnerable to prying eyes. You have to optimize all that. One of the easiest way to do ...
Panasonic will cut its costs, restructure underperforming units and revamp its workforce as it pivots toward AI data centers and away from its consumer electronics roots, the company said on Tuesday. The Japanese conglomerate aims to boost profits by 300 billion yen ($1.93...
We regularly review the latest smart locks–deadbolts, most often–reporting our impression on their design, installation process, daily use, their related mobile app, and more. What we can’t tell you is how well the lock will withstand years of exposure to the elements, ...
While two men in Utah were getting stoned over the weekend, one told the other he was able to dodge bullets. And unfortunately, 24-year-old Ashton Jonathon Mann decided to test his friend's superpower — shooting and killing him in the process. — Read the rest The post...
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French scientist and balloonist Gaston Tissandier published this image of a 'swimming apparatus' in his book Les Récréations Scientifiques in 1883. The book is full of similarly amusing illustrations of his ideas, experiments and inventions. I wish I could take a ride on...
It doesn't matter that it's a Tuesday night, or that it's cold by LA standards. The online tickets for RRR sold out three weeks ago and the standby line is 15 people deep. During the winter months this line winds from the Vidiots hallway to the lobby, just past the wall of...
If you’re in the market for a new gaming monitor, you don’t have to choose between speed, panel quality, and a good deal anymore. Fast monitors with IPS panels, combining gaming performance and color accuracy, are easier than ever to find at lower prices. Take this...
Jeff Xu has been working on a patch set that makes certain mappings in a process's address space impossible to change, sealing them against tampering. This has some potential security benefits — mainly, making sure that someone cannot relocate the vsyscall and vDSO...
Researcher says ecosystem's auto-caching is a net positive but presents exploitable quirks A security researcher says a backdoor masquerading as a legitimate Go programming language package used by thousands of organizations was left undetected for years.…
Snapdragon X Series processors redefine what modern portable computing can be by delivering both extensive battery life and unparalleled performance on a single processor. With up to 12 Oryon CPU cores, up to 4.6 TFLOPS of power from the onboard GPU, and 45 TOPS for AI...
Remote and hybrid work has become a major component of how many industries operate. But staying productive wherever you’re working demands cutting-edge tools that deliver both power and portability – all without the added anxiety of limited battery life. Snapdragon...
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