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Sunday December 14, 2025. 12:50 AM
The funk/pop/soul/klezmer band Vulfpeck played its second sold-out Madison Square Garden show on September 13 and on Thursday posted video of the entire performance on YouTube. I was at the show—I've been attending Vulfpeck's NYC performances for nine years—and it...
'Rap battles between two or more larger-than-life characters' is now a whole genre on YouTube, but Epic Rap Battles of History is one of those rare cases where the original is still the best. Sure, they may only drop two videos a year in a good year, but every bit of...
Titanfall 2 is, without exaggeration, one of the best online shooters ever made. Not that that's a high bar, but still! Switching between scrappy, agile pilots with full 360-degree movement and lumbering battle mechs that trade mobility for overwhelming firepower was such a...
I've found my new favorite animal on the internet! Meet Roo-bee (aka Roo), an adorable six-year-old goat who was born with severe congenital deformities and who came to Black Goat Farm and Sanctuary as a newborn with badly deformed front legs. — Read the rest The post This...
A few days ago, McDonalds Netherlands posted an absolutely horrid Christmas ad generated by AI. Link to the Boing Boing article by Rob Beschizza here. McDonald's has released an AI-generated Christmas adThe studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while ...
Here's a fun math problem for a Saturday afternoon: You've got 100 kg of potatoes that are 99% water. You leave them out overnight and they dry slightly, becoming 98% water. How much do they weigh now? If you guessed somewhere around 99 kg, congratulations — you're wrong....
Saturday December 13, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Give your entire system an overhaul with this Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows & Windows 11 Pro Bundle, now just $39.97 (reg. $418.99). Louisa May Alcott said it best: it takes two flints to make a fire. — Read the rest The post Save 90% with this MS...
TL;DR: The 2025 Complete ChatGPT Skills Business Mastery Bundle is just $24.99 (reg. $197)—a sharp, low-cost way to upgrade how you write, plan, ideate, and communicate at work. If your goal for 2026 is to stop dabbling in AI and start using it like someone who gets...
In April 2022, artist Steph Maj Swanson asked an AI image generator to produce something as far from Marlon Brando as possible. After a couple of iterations, the system started generating the same woman over and over: an older figure with hollow eyes and triangular patches...
The ability to write kernel code in Rust was explicitly added as an experiment — if things did not go well, Rust would be removed again. At the 2025 Maintainers Summit, a session was held to evaluate the state of that experiment, and to decide whether the time had come to...
There’s a new Haiku monthly activity report, and this one’s a true doozy. Let’s start with the biggest news. The most notable development in November was the introduction of a port of the Go programming language, version 1.18. This is still a few years old (from 2022; the cu...
Alpine Linux maintainer Ariadne Conill has published a very interesting blog post about the shortcomings of both sudo and doas, and offers a potential different way of achieving the same goals as those tools. Systems built around identity-based access control tend to rely...
Just-released Visual Studio Code 1.107, the latest version of Microsoft’s popular code editor, introduces multi-agent orchestration, a new feature that allows developers to use GitHub Copilot and custom agents together to speed up software development tasks. Released...
Friday December 12, 2025. 11:27 PM
Unix has been enormously successful over the past 55 years. It started out as a small experiment to develop a time-sharing system (i.e., a multi-user operating system) at AT&T Bell Labs. The goal was to take a few core principles to their logical conclusion. The OS bundled...
OpenAI has released GPT-5.2, claiming significant gains in the AI model’s ability to complete real-world business tasks to an “expert level” compared to GPT-5.1, released in November. The new model, available in Instant, Thinking, and Pro performance tiers, offers...
OpenAI has released GPT-5.2, claiming significant gains in the AI model’s ability to complete real-world business tasks to an “expert level” compared to GPT-5.1, released in November. The new model, available in Instant, Thinking, and Pro performance tiers, offers...
TL;DR: Get lifetime access to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows at 82% off. It doesn't matter how many times you tell yourself that Black Friday sales aren't as good as they used to be — missing them still feels like a loss. — Read the rest The post Why...
The future of work on the factory floor just got a lot more hands. China’s home-appliance giant Midea Group has revealed what may be one of the most unusual robots to hit the manufacturing world: a six-armed humanoid machine on wheels. And it’s built to take on complex...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.18.1, 6.17.12, and 6.12.62 stable kernels. Each contains important fixes; users of those kernels are advised to upgrade.
Ghost Robotics, a Philadelphia-based developer of rugged quadruped robots, has launched a new Manipulator Arm for its Vision 60 Quadruped Unmanned Ground Vehicle (Q-UGV). This addition gives the all-weather “robot dog” the ability to interact with and adapt to its environmen...
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