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Monday September 9, 2024. 06:46 PM
Beleaguered Boeing has conceded a 25% pay raise and many other concessions in an agreement union leaders say is 'the best contract we've negotiated in our history.' After successfully landing its uncrewed due to safety issues, Starliner, Boeing has also managed to keep its...
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'Insider wrongdoing' to blame for security breach Avis Rent A Car System has alerted 299,006 customers across multiple US states that their personal information was stolen in an August security breach.…
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Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) cases have been reported in five U.S. states this year, including a fatal case in New Hampshire last month. The rare mosquito-borne illness, which has no known cure, kills 30-40% of those infected and often causes permanent neurological...
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AppSumo is a marketplace where software developers and other entrepreneurs can launch their products, giving special offers to early adopters. Many AppSumo deals offer lifetime licenses, so you can throw in your support for an up-and-coming product and be rewarded with a...
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Many projects struggle with attracting and retaining contributors; Debian is no different in that regard. At DebConf24, Carlos Henrique Lima Melara and Lucas Kanashiro gave a presentation about efforts that the Brazilian Debian community has made to increase participation....
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Scientists have found that massaging tartrazine—aka 'Yellow 5,' aka the food dye used in Doritos—into the skin of mice can temporarily make the mice transparent. The Washington Post explains that in a recent study, researchers found that about five minutes after applying ...
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Donald Trump is already promoting outlandish conspiracies ahead of Tuesday’s presidential debate with Kamala Harris.
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The Mashco Piro, an Indigenous tribe in the Peruvian Amazon, have had almost no contact with the outside world and we should leave them alone. Unfortunately, logging companies are now operating just miles from their home. The Mashco Piro have been frequently emerging from...
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Abstract of a paper by Clifford Asness of quant investor AQR Capital: Market efficiency is a central issue in asset pricing and investment management, but while the level of efficiency is often debated, changes in that level are relatively absent from the discussion. I argue ...
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Criminals with plenty of time on their hands may now have credit card details Around 1.7 million people will receive a letter from Florida-based Slim CD, if they haven't already, after the company detected an intrusion dating back nearly a year.…
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I love niche museums that are dedicated to one specific thing. The Mississippi Spoon Gallery, which came onto my radar through Atlas Obscura, is a lovely collection of over 10,000 spoons, both new and old. They say they are the world's largest souvenir spoon collection on...
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Retroid's Pocket Mini and Pocket 5 gaming handhelds come with official support for Linux, including Armbian and the all-in-one retrogaming distro Batocera. I love the little 4:3 AMOLED display on the Mini–what's the largest OLED in that aspect ratio you can buy? — Read the...
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One of the best and easiest ways to upgrade your home entertainment system is to get a Fire TV Stick, and now’s a great time to do it because the Fire TV Stick 4K Max is now just $40 on Amazon. That’s a notable 33 percent discount off its usual $60 price tag, and this is ...
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DoorDash has teamed up with Magnolia Bakery to offer an exclusive new flavor of its well-known Banana Pudding: Peanut Butter with Chocolate Chunks. This flavor, which includes peanut butter swirls, chocolate chunks, and chocolate cookie pieces, is available exclusively...
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American support for banning Tik Tok has collapsed, according to data released by Pew Research, falling from 50% to 32%. Meanwhile, opposition to the ban has gone up from 22% to 28%. Those who are not sure are up to 39% from 28% last year. — Read the rest The post Support...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Italy-based app company Bending Spoons, which owns Evernote and Meetup, is planning to lay off 75% of the staff of file transfer service WeTransfer, TechCrunch has learned. Bending Spoons acquired the Dutch company in July for an...
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Salsa's final act: Reminding us it was the humans all along The European Space Agency (ESA) has bid farewell to the Cluster II spacecraft with a final set of commands to show that engineers are indeed human.…
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Neowin reports that Mozilla has decided to extend support for the Firefox browser on older versions of Windows. The original plan was to end support this September, but that’s been postponed to 2025. According to the Firefox release calendar, the version of Firefox that...
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TL;DR: This HP EliteBook 840 G6 is the laptop upgrade you never knew you needed, now available for $299.99 (reg. $499)! Aw, come on! Your clunky dinosaur-age laptop is already dying within 10 minutes of you sitting down at your favorite café. — Read the rest The post It's...
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Japanese government has also earmarked $6.4B for the project Japanese chip upstart Rapidus has only worked on its 2nm wafer fab in Hokkaido for a year, yet the company is reportedly already seeking ¥100 billion ($699 million) in additional funding for the project.…
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