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Wednesday June 18, 2025. 02:24 PM
Scottish island Lewis—lovely in summer, bleak in winter—is now home to a mysterious low noise. The Hebridean Hum is yet to earn its own wikipedia entry alongside those in Taos, New Mexico and Auckland, but hypotheses for such phenomena include high-pressure pipelines,...
The ongoing protests in Los Angeles have pushed a national issue further into the spotlight: recent actions by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), including the detention of immigrants and, in some cases, the revocation of visas. Naturally, immigration...
Chinese AI startup MiniMax has thrown down the gauntlet to established AI giants, releasing what it boldly claims is the world’s first open-source, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model that could fundamentally change the economics of advanced AI development....
There’s no denying it: When it comes to Windows and AI chatbots, ChatGPT leads the pack. Microsoft invested more than $13 billion in OpenAI, after all. And while the company has pinned Copilot to the taskbar on Windows PCs and placed a Copilot key on new laptops, its...
Right now, Gemini’s getting a bit of a bad rap — at least, among certain circles of savvy users who are closely tuned into the technology. It’s easy to see why: Google rushed Gemini out of the gates way before it was ready. It increasingly crippled the perfectly fine...
On June 10, OpenAI slashed the list price of its flagship reasoning model, o3, by roughly 80% from $10 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens to $2 and $8, respectively. API resellers reacted immediately: Cursor now counts one o3 request the same as a...
Python is best thought of as a dynamic but strongly typed language. Types aren’t associated with the names of things, but with the things themselves. This makes Python flexible and convenient for developers because you don’t have to rigorously define and track variable...
Astro is a stable server-side platform for launching web applications. Alpine is the go-to minimalist front-end JavaScript framework. Put them together, and you have a lean, versatile stack. This article walks through developing a web application that showcases some of the...
Tuesday June 17, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Use code SCAN to get the iScanner for $15 off for its lowest price ever: $24.99 (reg. $199.90). If you're tired of tearing your home apart for your most important documents, scrambling through messy drawers and attics, it's time to get a scanner. — Read the rest The...
Last night's Daily Show was a doozy. A lot happened over the weekend: political assassinations in Minnesota, a pathetic military birthday parade for the Cheeto-In-Chief, missiles and bombs lobbed to and fro between Israel and Iran and that little matter of the military being ...
An artist has 'trapped' an AI in a digital purgatory, forcing it to contemplate its own fleeting existence while it slowly consumes the very resources keeping it running. As reported in a recent XDA Developers article, an artist named Rootkid created 'Latent Reflection,' an...
Deep in the Bornean rainforest, a small woolly bat curls up for a nap inside of a carnivorous plant, designed by nature to devour insects that dare cross its path. So why isn't the bat on the menu? This is because the bat and the Nepenthes hemsleyana have a symbiotic...
Travis K. Witt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The post How a con man built the World's Littlest Skyscraper with one clever blueprint scam appeared first on Boing Boing.
Liam Neeson's gift for dour deadpan comedy makes him perfect for a modern take on Frank Drebin; I had no doubt that the new The Naked Gun, also starring Pamela Anderson, would at least work. The trailer, out today, suggests I'm not only right but that it might be worth...
The fundamental concept of checkpoint/restore is elegant: capture a process's state and resurrect it later, perhaps elsewhere. Checkpointing meticulously records a process's memory, open files, CPU state, and more into a snapshot. Restoration then reconstructs the process...
The Wilderness Act of 1964 established certain areas as 'wilderness' It states, 'A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where ...
If you think sporks are the only hybrid eating utensil, this comprehensive Wikipedia article will expand your culinary horizons dramatically. The piece presents the surprisingly rich history of combination eating utensils, from the common spork to lesser-known implements...
Anthony Dean's 'The Voided Man' series features extensive time dilation, AI, and the depiction of using a created currency to overthrow a tyrannical society. I'm only two books into this nine-book series, but the premise has me hooked, for now. A political opponent of a...
Mike Mignola's new dark folklore universe, Lands Unknown, is expanding, and if the next installment is anything like the first, we're all in for a wonderfully weird ride. Following the critical and commercial success of Bowling with Corpses and Other Strange Tales from Lands ...
As Donald Trump's utter mayhem gains momentum, so do his disillusioned MAGA voters, who are rapidly peeling away from his base. 'F*ck it. If Trump takes us to war, I'm done with him and his administration,' one former devotee, who goes by Texas Patriot, posted on X yesterday ...
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