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Monday February 3, 2025. 06:13 PM
Forget laptops. If you want a powerful yet affordable computer and you don’t need portability, then what you really need is a mini PC. Right now, you can snag this crazy Beelink SER8 mini PC for $479 on Amazon, a massive discount from its original $749. This is a special...
Passengers aboard a United Airlines flight were forced to evacuate right before takeoff in Houston, Texas yesterday after the plane's engine caught fire. In a montage video circulating online, black smoke billows out from under a wing as one person in the plane says, 'Oh my...
Netflix's fantastic series, which brought The Karate Kid to streaming, will hold one last All-Valley Under 18 Karate Tournament. WANT BOING BOING IN YOUR EMAIL BOX? CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT BOING BOING! What started out as a fantastic homage to the Valley turned out to...
I think it’s fair to say that people are frustrated with Google these days between the deluge of advertisements and AI-powered results of questionable utility. Normally, swearing at your computer only helps in a placebo effect, but it turns out that throwing in an F-bomb...
Peter Tripp Akemann avoids jail, will pay 'Super Scooper' repair costs and is ordered to help with LA's wildfire recovery A Culver City, California resident has admitted to crashing his drone into a 'Super Scooper' firefighting aircraft battling the Los Angeles wildfires....
The exponential rise in microplastic pollution over the past 50 years may be reflected in increasing contamination in human brains, according to a new study. From a report: It found a rising trend in micro- and nanoplastics in brain tissue from dozens of postmortems carried...
By the time that Linus Torvalds released 6.14-rc1 and closed the merge window for this development cycle, some 9,307 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the mainline repository — the lowest level of merge-window activity seen in years. There were, nonetheless, a...
Is there such a thing as too much storage space? We don’t think so! And that’s why we’re always excited to see the SK Hynix Beetle X31 go on sale, as it’s one of our favorite high-speed portable SSDs. Right now, you can get the 512GB Beetle X31 on Amazon for $40....
With Windows 10 set to reach its end of life later this year, Microsoft has been taking every opportunity to heavily push Windows 11 as the only upgrade path for users. The latest operating system share figures from StatCounter show the message is getting through -- slowly...
Matthias Clasen has written a short update on a GTK hackfest that took place at FOSDEM and what's coming in GTK 4.18. This includes fixes for pointer sizes in Wayland when fractional scaling is enabled, removal of the old GL renderer in favor of the GL renderer introduced in ...
Astract Japan has launched a crowdfunding campaign for its new mini-mouse CapacMouse Pro (spotted by Tom’s Hardware). As of this writing, the campaign has already reached its funding goal several times over. The CapacMouse Pro is the size of a car remote and can fit on a...
According to a recent blog post, a new update is being rolled out to Windows 11 Insiders (Build 26120.3073) that adds a bunch of fixes and improvements, including a Copilot button in Microsoft Paint. Clicking the Copilot button will expand a drop-down menu with all the...
OpenAI has filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to trademark hardware products under its brand name, signaling potential expansion into consumer devices. The filing covers AI-assisted headsets, smart wearables and humanoid robots with communication...
Even if you’ve done a great job looking after your devices, chances are you will have a few much-loved USB cables that look worse for wear. Fraying or breaking cables will mostly work when you need them to, which makes it easy to fob them off as a problem to be sorted out...
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This is the only version of the anointing of the Orange Menace that I have seen. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! This is likely far more entertaining and easier to stomach than watching footage or clips from the inauguration. — Read the rest...
As the end of support for Windows 10 draws ever closer, Microsoft is taking subtle steps to convince users to buy new hardware. For example, one entry about bypassing the Windows 11 TPM 2.0 hardware lock was quietly removed from a support page (spotted by Neowin). Microsoft...
The European Union is backing a major AI initiative, OpenEuroLLM, in a bid to counter the dominance of Silicon Valley and China in artificial intelligence. The initiative is being led by Jan Hajič, a computational linguist at Charles University in Czechia, and Peter Sarlin, ...
U.S. Representative Zoe Lofgren has introduced a bill that would allow courts to block access to foreign websites primarily engaged in copyright infringement. The Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act would enable rightsholders to obtain injunctions requiring large Internet...
I gave up on Civ a few versions back: the historical features and flourishes didn't evoke 'guide human civilization' as a game any more for me. Just more themed elaborations of complicated game systems I didn't have time to figure out. — Read the rest The post Civilization...
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