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StarDict is a GPLv3-licensed cross-platform dictionary application. It includes dictionaries for a number of languages, and has a rich plugin ecosystem. It also has a glaring security problem: while running on X11, using Debian's default configuration, it will send a user's...
Apple Intelligence will lean heavily into Apple’s existing work with App Intents and Shortcuts integrations. The app services App Intents provide will be combined with Apple Intelligence and supported by what your device knows about where you are, what you need and the...
Hey! Remember last month when the Department of Homeland Security thought it'd be awesome to use South Park to advertise their push to hire more ICE agents? Man, what a burn after Trump and his tiny peen were featured in the cartoon series' season opener. — Read the rest ...
Given how shitty AI is making the Internet nowadays, it's almost refreshing to see an actual human making it worse. It's like having a favorite Bond villain — you don't like their evil plans, but you can at least appreciate the vast intricacy of them. — Read the rest The p...
James Ensor (1860–1949) spent nearly his entire life in Ostend, Belgium, living above the family shop that sold carnival masks. In the 1880s he turned his back on the realist style that had first brought him recognition and began conjuring a far stranger world: grotesque...
theodp writes: The New York Times reports from the CS grad job-seeking trenches: Growing up near Silicon Valley, Manasi Mishra remembers seeing tech executives on social media urging students to study computer programming. 'The rhetoric was, if you just learned to code, work ...
Nvidia has developed a generative AI (genAI) model to help robots make human-like decisions by analyzing surrounding scenes. The Cosmos Reason model in robots can take in information from video and graphics input, analyze the data, and use its understanding to make...
The platypus is an iconic, unique, and threatened species. They have rubbery duck bills, webbed feet, venomous spurs on their hind legs, tails like beavers, and lay eggs, despite being mammals. Human activity is destroying their habitat, but they are nocturnal and...
I have a deep affection for mechanical Hamilton Field Watches. During my first career, I wore one to work every day. Like any good field watch, it was small, stayed out of my way until I needed to know the time, was super easy to read, day or night, and never got caught on...
But it can contest if it lands up in 'Category 1,' and the move hurts operations, says judge Wikipedia today lost a legal battle against the UK's tech secretary to tighten the criteria around the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA), as it seeks to exclude itself from the strictest...
I recently discovered a social media site that sits at the perfect intersection of all of my current core needs and desires: laughing through my pain, learning things despite my strong urges to just sit and eat cookies all day, and expressing my existential angst in this...
I know, I know, webcomic recommendations are a dime a dozen, especially around here. I promise Dolmistaska is really good, though. It's hard to describe the premise of something so off-the-wall in a way that makes sense, but I'll try anyway for your sake: Dolmistaska follows ...
In this captivating time-lapse, grapes turn into raisins. The grapes are dipped into saltwater and then hung up to dry. The process takes 40 days, and we get to see them transform. The raisins in this time lapse look a bit different than the store-bought ones. — Read the...
The 6.17-rc1 prepatch was released by Linus Torvalds on August 10; the 6.17 merge window is now closed. There were 11,404 non-merge changesets pulled into the mainline this time around, a little over 7,000 of which came in after the first-half merge-window summary was...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (jackson-annotations, jackson-core, jackson-databind, jackson-jaxrs-providers, and jackson-modules-base and libxml2), Debian (distro-info-data, gnutls28, modsecurity-crs, and node-tmp), Fedora (chromium, incus, perl,...
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced Monday he will step down to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors, with Microsoft restructuring the subsidiary's leadership rather than appointing a direct replacement. Microsoft developer division head Julia Liuson will oversee GitHub's...
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced Monday he will step down to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors, with Microsoft restructuring the subsidiary's leadership rather than appointing a direct replacement. Microsoft developer division head Julia Liuson will oversee GitHub's...
Making a bit of a FOSS with Virtual Environment update Viennese virtualization veteran Proxmox has updated its hypervisor and its storage offering to new, Debian 13 versions.…
The American automaker is spending billions on a radical reinvention of EV manufacturing, aimed squarely at taking on Chinese competition and Tesla.
Over the years, we’ve seen a good number of interfaces used for computer monitors, TVs, LCD panels and other all-things-display purposes. We’ve lived through VGA and the large variety of analog interfaces that preceded it, then DVI, HDMI, and at some point, we’ve...
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