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Tuesday April 15, 2025. 01:52 AM
Watch this incredible footage of a herd of African elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park creating an 'alert circle' during the 5.2 magnitude earthquake that occurred on Monday morning in southern California. The footage was posted on the Park's Instagram, with the follow...
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There’s a small house ( ⌂ ) in the middle of IBM’s infamous character set Code Page 437. “Small house”—that’s the official IBM name given to the glyph at code position 0x7F, where a control character for “Delete” (DEL) should logically exist. It’s cute, but a little...
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An AI coding tool called Cursor has done what most startups only dream of — attracting more than one million users without any marketing budget, driven purely by word of mouth. Cursor, developed by a small 60-person startup called Anysphere, is rapidly becoming one of the...
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Microsoft has released.NET Aspire 9.2, a new version of the company’s cloud-ready stack for building distributed applications that features dashboard enhancements, including a resource graph, and publishers, new tools that help developers write code to package and deploy...
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Companies of all sizes are finding it increasingly difficult to differentiate between real and fake job applications — and much of the challenge is due to AI. Generative AI tools can easily be used to create headshots, mimic voices, and even fabricate credentials; in...
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The effort to ensure that open-source software is reproducible has been gathering steam over the years, and gaining traction with major Linux distributions. Debian, for example, has been working toward reproducible builds for more than a decade; it can now produce official...
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Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former executive who served as Meta’s Director of Global Public Policy, testified before Congress on April 9 regarding the company’s alleged involvement in aiding China’s advancement in the AI race — posing a threat to U.S. national interests....
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After years of internal use, Ubisoft has open-sourced Chroma -- a real-time colorblind simulation tool. This accessibility software is designed to help developers better serve the 300 million people around the world who live with color vision deficiencies. Originally...
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Attention trauma enthusiasts: Ari Aster, cinema's favorite merchant of psychological damage, is back to ruin your summer with Eddington, a contemporary Western featuring the most emotionally unstable cast ever assembled. Hereditary was bone-chilling. Midsommar was one of...
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TL;DR: Learn ASL with The All-in-One American Sign Language Bundle, filled with 13 courses for just $14.97  — less than $2 a course — now until April 27. Have you been wanting to learn sign language but don't know where to start? — Read the rest The post Learn ASL for le...
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Monday April 14, 2025. 11:47 PM
It's happening. Although many predicted that Nintendo would jack up the already controversial price of the Switch 2 thanks to Trump's tariffs — preorders are currently suspended in the US, likely so they can figure out what pricetag they can get away with – it seems Sony...
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At a White House ceremony honoring the college football champions, clown and Vice President of the United States JD Vance somehow breaks the trophy. Just watch. This is a comedy of errors: JD Vance just broke apart the College Football Playoff National Championship...
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If you watched my previously-recommended documentary about ocean-crossing Polynesians, here is a terrific book with even more detail on navigational techniques and education, canoe design, and even an amazing MacGyver-worthy use for a coconut. Tom Davis's autobiography...
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Yep. I regret to inform you all that, as of January 2025, I am a Mac user: I bought a Mac. I have betrayed the penguin. […] So, how did such an icon of early 2000s Apple fall into my grubby hands? Well, it all started with the Wii U. I’m not joking. ↫ Loganius That’s one...
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Donald Trump didn't seem to realize he was on camera when he told the president of El Salvador to make more prisons, this time for Americans. 'Home-growns are next,' Trump told Nayib Bukele, who visited him in the Oval Office today. — Read the rest The post Americans "are...
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To argue that Objective-C resembles a metaphysically divine language, or even a good language, is like saying Shakespeare is best appreciated in pig latin. Objective-C is, at best, polarizing. Ridiculed for its unrelenting verbosity and peculiar square brackets, it is used...
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Sebastien de Castell's 'The Malevolent Seven' takes the 'ragtag bunch of ne're do-wells doing good' theme of a legendary Western and applies it to a wonderfully built fantasy world. Mercenaries are jerks, but the Gods are bigger ones. Spellcaster Cade Ombra is a...
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OpenAI has just thrown a serious wrench into the AI landscape with the release of three new models: GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano. They’re dramatic improvements over GPT-4o, raising the bar for what AI can actually do. If Elon Musk wasn’t already nervous about...
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Even less secure than the Russian-compromised Signal app, Mike Waltz and his team are reportedly using personal Gmail accounts to share various sensitive and potentially exploitable information. It seems that Team Trump prioritizes circumventing rules regarding document...
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