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Friday March 14, 2025. 02:01 PM
For many years now, Linux users looking to block ads have needed to piece together a mixture of browser extensions, DNS-based filtering, and network-wide tools (such as Pi-hole). While these solutions certainly help, none of them offer complete system-wide protection. Yeah,...
Watch a trio break the world record for the most water drunk from a straw by doing forward flips over the cup. Manlio Massaro, Emanuele Nacca and Luciano Tartaglione achieved this incredible feat together on the set of Lo Show Dei Record, in Milan, Italy, on 7 March 2024....
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (iniparser, thunderbird, trafficserver, and xorg-x11-server), Mageia (opensc), Oracle (.NET 8.0,.NET 9.0, gcc, kernel, and libxml2), Red Hat (firefox, grub2, and krb5), Slackware (libxslt), SUSE (amazon-ssm-agent, bsdtar, build,...
Watch a mesmerizing video of a chain link fence being made. The fence is 'knit' together using metal wire that gets twisted with a machine. Watching the machine twist the metal back and forth is so satisfying. Here's a little history about the chain link fence. — Read the re...
Elemind, a startup founded by MIT researchers, has developed an electroencephalogram (EEG) headband that emits acoustic stimulation aligned with people's brainwaves to help them fall asleep faster. Link to an article by Zach Winn in MIT News is here. Elemind's team believes ...
I wonder why Xbox is losing the console war so handily. Could it be because it's working on everything but its actual consoles? Case in point: Xbox's new 'Copilot for Gaming,' which is supposed to 'save you time' and 'help you get good.' — Read the rest The post Xbox...
On this week's episode of the excellent podcast 'Disney Dish,' Disney journalist and entrepreneur Len Testa (Touring Plans) describes a Maya Archaeology conference he recently attended, 'Maya at the Mouse,' in which Disney imagineers presented their current plans for the...
The most important decision in global technology is being made by a single UK judge in a small room, a decision happening in near-total privacy with no transparency at all. What’s at stake is the use of data encryption, personal privacy, and the huge risk of being forced...
Q and Z (formerly at Panix) is a hidden pillar of the old web, converting text to appear to be upside-down, in a
Passwords are an essential part of our digital lives, yet many people still use weak or simple combinations of letters and numbers that can be cracked in just a few seconds. A new report from Safety Detectives, based on analysis of a 2.5TB database containing passwords...
Max Fosh may be reaching terminal levels of silly. As one of the few actually funny YouTube pranksters remaining, Fosh has become his best friend's grandfather, grown fish from supermarket caviar, and served insects to food critics, but now his particular brand of silliness...
Mochi the mountain tapir—one of only three of the critically endangered creatures in the entire United States—celebrated his 26th birthday last month! Mochi lives at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, CO, which is one of only two zoos in the United States...
A Toronto LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) has denied that it recently displayed Wayne Gretzky Estate-brand wine bottles with altered labels. Photos of the supposed labels—which disparage the Canadian former NHL star because of Gretzky's embracing of Trump—appeared ...
If you've been around for a minute, you may remember Twitch Plays Pokemon, a social experiment turned genuine phenomenon that tasked thousands of people with collectively beating a single game of Pokemon Red. The project spawned dozens of successors and even got a nod from...
Increasing amounts of regulation are creating an issue for businesses as they seek to ensure compliance whilst still delivering on their core activities. This is leading many to boost the size of their security teams. We spoke to Jay Trinckes, CISO of Thoropass, who believes ...
If you haven’t read Joseph Heller’s masterpiece, Catch-22, I highly recommend you do. The Catch-22 in the novel is this: “A combat pilot was crazy by definition (he would have to be crazy to fly combat missions) and since army regulations stipulated that insanity...
Intel’s appointment of semiconductor veteran Lip-Bu Tan as CEO marks a critical moment for the company and its enterprise customers. With rising competition from AMD, Arm-based chips, and RISC-V alternatives, Intel faces mounting pressure to defend its x86 dominance. While ...
Llama, a family of sort-of open-source large language models (LLMs), was introduced in February 2023, and has been updated periodically ever since. Llama shook up the world of LLMs, which had previously been dominated by ever-larger closed-source models from OpenAI and...
It seems that the already convincing 'we are not happy with JD' at Kennedy Center was merely loud but not deafening because Trump's reorganization may be killing attendance. The most interesting thing about people booing JD and Usha Vance at the Kennedy Center is how empty...
Before the End is a new documentary by director Jeff Finn exploring the persistent conspiracy theory that The Doors lead singer Jim Morrison faked his own death at age 27 on July 3, 1971. The generally accepted and rather tragic tale is that Morrison drank himself death and...
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