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Saturday January 18, 2025. 10:18 PM
A new law is being considered by New York's state legislature, reports a local news outlet. 'if passed, will require anyone buying a 3D printer to pass a background check. If you can't legally own a firearm, you won't be able to buy one of these printers...' It is illegal to ...
Google says it has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript, the widely used programming language to make web pages interactive, in order to use Google Search. In an email to TechCrunch, a company spokesperson claimed that the change is intended to “better protect”...
A county transit police detective fed a poor-quality image to an AI-powered facial recognition program, remembers the Washington Post, leading to the arrest of 'Christopher Gatlin, a 29-year-old father of four who had no apparent ties to the crime scene nor a history of...
We’ve got a new Dillo release for you this weekend! We added SVG support for math formulas and other simple SVG images by patching the nanosvg library. This is specially relevant for Wikipedia math articles. We also added optional support for WebP images via libwebp. You...
Node.js, the popular JavaScript runtime, is moving to stabilize type stripping, a feature that allows developers to execute TypeScript files without source maps or additional configuration, speeding up the development process. The Node.js runtime was fitted with type...
Atlanta Public Works killed an unhoused person with a city vehicle during a camp clearing. While tragic, it sounds like the agency doesn't even know what happened. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The man died as the Atlanta Department of Public ...
America's Federal Trade Commission has been 'raising antitrust concerns' about them for years, reports NBC News. The latest? America's three largest drug middlemen 'inflated the costs of numerous life-saving medications by billions of dollars over the past few years, the FTC ...
Is it 1984? Are you trying to port a BASIC ap–sorry, program–from Microsoft BASIC to the newfangled Locomotive BASIC? Well, here's the chart for you. A note on this scan indicates it was inserted in the September 1984 issue of Personal Computer World, the first U.K. — Read...
'The next great space telescope will study distant galaxies and faraway planets from an orbital outpost about a million miles from Earth,' writes the Washington Post. 'But first it has to be put together, piece by piece, in a cavernous chamber at the NASA Goddard Space...
'Scientists have just resurrected 'ELIZA,' the world's first chatbot, from long-lost computer code,' reports LiveScience, 'and it still works extremely well.' (Click in the vintage black-and-green rectangle for a blinking-cursor prompt...) Using dusty printouts from MIT...
Akihabara News — Nintendo has officially announced the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2, confirming that the highly anticipated successor to the original Nintendo Switch will hit the market later in the year. The announcement came via a first-look trailer, which provided...
From the New York Post: Generation Z's recent foray into the corporate world has been an eye-popping escapade plagued by their 'annoying' workplace habits and helicopter parents accompanying them on interviews. Now, newcomers to the 9-to-5 grind are inflicting a fresh new...
Security feature widens out to more Windows 11 users, including those at home Microsoft is trying a new way of enabling Administrator Protection in Windows 11. The latest Windows Insider Canary build adds a setting that removes the requirement for IT admins to activate the...
The food-beauty crossover is suddenly everywhere. It is the allure of nostalgia, the pull of meme culture, and the sticky-sweet scent of capitalism wafting through the air—and we are eating it up.
This high-end OLED comes with wireless connectivity for clean lines in fancy rooms.
I had to check the date when reading this press release from General Mills to ensure that it wasn't April 1st. It is not April Fools Day, and Progresso Soup Drops are an actual product. The chicken soup-flavored hard candy drops come in an ersatz soup can with the tagline...
If you've never heard the massive pipe organ at London's Royal Albert Hall at full power, now's your chance—and boy oh boy, are you in for a treat! And when it's played by organist Anna Lapwood, Director of Music at Pembroke College (Cambridge) and Associate of the Royal...
Mike Mignola is back, and this time, the Hellboy creator is inviting us into a wholly new universe of eerie, whimsical, and darkly enchanting folktales. Mignola's Bowling With Corpses and Other Strange Tales From Lands Unknown introduces a fantasy world bursting with gods,...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Bumble founder and executive chair Whitney Wolfe Herd, who stepped down as CEO at the beginning of 2024, is returning to the post in mid-March. Former Slack CEO Lidiane Jones, who succeeded Herd, has resigned for 'personal...
Firefighting planes are dumping water from the ocean on the Los Angeles fires, but using saltwater is typically a last resort.
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