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Wednesday September 3, 2025. 10:40 PM
After years of requests, Instagram is finally releasing a dedicated iPad app on September 3rd... 'But it will be slightly different than the mobile app users are accustomed to,' reports The Verge. From the report: Most significantly, the iPad app will open directly to a feed ...
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President Trump is frightened of windmills. He has ordered his administration to launch a coordinated effort across multiple federal agencies to slow or stop offshore wind development, citing concerns ranging from health issues to national security threats. His initiative,...
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When AI runs recruiting, the winning move is using the same bot Job seekers who use the same AI model to compose their resumes as the AI model used to evaluate their application are more likely to advance through the hiring process than those submitting human-written...
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FBI Director Kash Patel says there's nothing fishy going on with his purchase of Krispy Kreme stock, even though Krispy Kreme is under FBI investigation. According to NOTUS, K$H (Patel's preferred nickname) acquired up to $50,000 in Krispy Kreme stock in May, purchasing at a ...
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Surprise! Missing artwork looted by the Nazis turned up in photos for a real estate listing in the seaside town of Mar de Plata. The for-sale notice revealed what is believed to be the Ghislandi painting in the house of Friedrich Kadgien, a financial adviser to Adolf...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Over the Labor Day weekend, Cloudflare says it successfully stopped a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps). This came only a few months after Cloudflare...
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TL;DR: Turn your smartphone into a telescope that can see the moon, bright deep sky objects, and even the sun with the Hestia telescope, which you can get right now for $239.99, or $59.01 off the $299 regular price. If you've ever tried to capture the magic of a full moon...
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The things people do with Bethesda games scare me a little. If remaking them from the ground up isn't enough, what about putting them into other games entirely? An Elden Ring modder has done just that, putting the entirety of The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind into Elden Ring,...
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Definitely sucks, but I'll take a year of Prime for $15.
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The controversial Data Privacy Framework (DPF) agreement between the EU and the US has been upheld after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) General Court rejected a high-profile legal challenge that would have struck it down. “The General Court dismisses an action for...
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The first one's always free - or at least deeply discounted for the first year Not wanting to miss the opportunity to grow its federal footprint, ServiceNow has signed a deal to offer the US government discounts on its latest AI innovations. …
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Comparing life-saving science to 'slavery,' Florida's surgeon general is lifting all vaccine mandates in the State. Sadly for the rest of us, people travel to and from Florida all the time. The state's top health official, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, likened...
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Visitors at Hersheypark, Pennsylvania, were jolted into panic this week when a young boy wandered onto the monorail tracks high above the midway. A video records the boy walking along the elevated rail, growing distressed as onlookers shout conflicting instructions — some...
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Grandpa Puddin' Brains is once again telling stories about a magical river from the Pacific Northwest, and imagining that most people had fire suppression sprinklers in their homes. The second coming of the Orange Menace began on January 20th, 2025, nine days after the...
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It's been about 50 years since Will Crowther began work on Adventure, and the genre's come a long way since. The 31st annual Interactive Fiction competition is underway, with finalists ready to be judged. Anyone can be a judge: 'just play and rate at least five games by...
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Version 2025.9 of the Home Assistant home automation system has been released. Changes include a new experimental dashboard that is eventually meant to become the default, a number of tile-card improvements, a reworked automation editor, several new integrations, and more.
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Since 2019, fans have eagerly awaited Team Cherry’s next game, which is out this week. In the meantime, they got creative.
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World's largest foundry operator joins Samsung and SK Hynix, which recently lost their validated end-user status The Trump administration terminated the world's largest foundry operator's validated end-user (VEU) status this week in an apparent bid to push Taiwan...
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U.S. workers are becoming more stressed about their rising personal debts and financial health, a Bank of America survey showed. From a report: Of the respondents polled by BofA, 47% of employed people said they had a sense of financial well-being, dropping from 52% at the...
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Alberta's conservative government just discovered that banning books about authoritarian control might make you look authoritarian. As reported in the Guardian, Premier Danielle Smith had to slam the brakes on her shiny new book ban after librarians dutifully started pulling ...
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