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Saturday October 11, 2025. 11:25 AM
When you visit a new website in a browser like Google Chrome, you may see a small prompt near the address bar asking whether you want to allow notifications. It’s easy enough to click “allow” in the moment, but not always easy to find where to turn those notifications...
Friday October 10, 2025. 11:16 PM
What if you are forced to use Windows, but want to use a real operating system instead? You could use WSL2 to use Linux inside Windows, but what if FreeBSD is more your thing? It turns out someone is working on making FreeBSD usable using WSL2. This repository hosts...
A lot of open source projects are struggling what to do with the “AI” bubble, and Fedora is no different. This whole past year, the project’s been struggling to formulate any official policies on the use of “AI”, and LWN.net’s Joe Brockmeier has just done an amazing job...
TL;DR: Get this refurbished 13' 2GHz i5 MacBook Pro with four Thunderbolt 3 ports for just $429.97 (reg. $1,999). You don't need to daydream about owning a MacBook Pro — you can snag one now, and for a steal. This refurbished 2020 Apple MacBook Pro 13' with Touch Bar and f...
Constantly digging through folders, menus, and dialog boxes to find files or launch programs is a serious pain and can slow down even the speediest of Windows users. Quick Access Popup 12 has arrived, offering a faster way to launch folders, documents, apps, and websites...
OpenAI’s text-to-video app Sora has reached over one million downloads in less than five days, according to Sora boss Bill Peebles on X. Peebles said the milestone came faster than ChatGPT’s initial launch, despite Sora’s invite-only rollout and it currently only being ...
In one of the most profoundly American police standoffs imaginable, a man in Washington allegedly set fire to his own apartment, fled from police with a car full of fireworks, meth, and lighter fluid. The culprit eventually surrendered after officers delivered him a Dairy...
The two iconic slackers of 1990s MTV fame learn that AI might do their homework, and one day wipe out humanity. They're rooting for it. ChatGPT and the Great Cornholio have more in common than you might guess. Previously:• The 'Beavis and Butt-Head' trailer looks...
For 30 cents, you can buy 250 grams of salt at any supermarket — a price so low it's easy to forget this now-cheap mineral sustained entire civilizations. In this interview, Naomi Duguid, author of The Miracle of Salt: Recipes and Techniques to Preserve, Ferment, and...
A distraught family shared the story of Customs and Border Patrol entering their home without permission and murdering their dog. Unsurprisingly, the CBP agent responsible attempted to hide and refused to share his identification. The son answered the door and, while he...
An interview with the Portland Chicken, one of the most visible inflatable heroes of the 'War in Portland,' explains their absurdist assault on the false reality of an 'Antifa Army' engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the pigs from ICE. Can you put into words what that...
The Trump administration has launched what it calls a 'whole-of-government approach' against antifa, with officials from the FBI, Justice Department, and Homeland Security promising to work together to go after its members. At what MSNBC describes as a 'bizarre gathering,'...
Forty-four years after Ronald Reagan fired more than 11,000 striking air traffic controllers, in a union-busting act of bravado, reshaped federal labor policy, and left the FAA chronically understaffed, the ghosts of that decision are on the radar screens once again. — Read t...
Our friends at Laughing Squid have shared filmmaker Steve Bustin's new documentary on SantaCon, tracing how a small San Francisco art prank snowballed into an international, booze-fueled holiday ritual. The documentary, which was was directed by Seth Porges of Class Action...
This guy has a pet giant centipede, and he might be the bravest man on planet Earth. This pet is not for the faint of heart. It's longer than the man's forearm, about as wide as a hot dog, has a ton of tiny little wiggling legs, and makes me want to hide under my blankets. —...
TL;DR: Make losing your wallet a thing of the past with the KeySmart SmartCard with Wireless Charging (3-Pack) — just $74.97 (reg: $119.97) until October 12! Ever lost your wallet and thought, 'I wish there were a tracking app for this'? — Read the rest The post Meet the...
In Aarhus, Denmark, the main library in town is often filled with the sound of a giant tubular bell called Gongen. The bell rings multiple times a day for a sweet reason. Atlas Obscura explains that the ringing of the bell signifies that a child has been born at the hospital ...
At the Linux Security Summit Europe (LSS EU), Scott Constable and Sebastian Österlund gave a talk on an enhancement to a control-flow integrity (CFI) protection that was added to the kernel several years ago. The 'FineIBT: Fine-grain Control-flow Enforcement with Indirect...
Here's a fun collection of vintage robot halloween costume photos shared by GotWeird on Instagram. All of these delightful costumes are DIY. It looks like so much love and creativity went into each one. I love all of the different robot styles in these photos. — Read the...
Jason Kottke made a graphic showing how YouTube's progress bar has changed in the 20 years since it launched in 2005. I don't think I even noticed the latest, and if I were asked to recreate it from memory I would crudely Figmatize the 2008-2010 version, old enough to be at...
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