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Friday May 20, 2022. 07:41 PM
MINISFORUM is a computer manufacturer that has been cranking out a lot of mini PCs lately. Its machines are looked upon favorably by many consumers that prefer diminutive desktops. Not only are its computers well-made and small, but often quite powerful too. These machines...
Although a silverback gorilla could take out a rodent with just its thumb, an affectionate gorilla was caught on video (below) gently petting a groundhog at the zoo. And even more incredible, the groundhog didn't run off in fear, but seemed to enjoy the giant creature's...
The United States Secret Service is a federal law enforcement agency tasked with hiring prostitutes, drunkenly colliding into White House barriers, being fooled by con artists, and enticing minors to engage in sexual activity. There was a report today that the Secret...
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With access to abortion about to disappear in places across the nation, next up is access to birth control. Trump-endorsed candidate for representative to the Michigan legislature Jacky Eubanks steps right out and says she thinks people should not be having sex unless it is...
Development teams are being forced to 'shift left'-- under pressure from the business to move more and more work closer to the design and development phase, earlier in the process. The idea is to catch bugs earlier, before they turn into costly production outages, and should ...
Meet this sage gentleman who wants to set the record straight once and for all. Donald Trump, he explains, is the sitting president and is in power. When he asked why gas prices are going up under God-Emperor Trump's watch, the very stable genius has a very reasonable...
America simply has too many guns. Two men broke into a spontaneous gun battle at a Montebello, California 7-11. The gunmen employed Stormtrooper aim, folks dive for cover and it is a miracle no one was hit. Police are looking for tips from the public. — Read the rest
Ted Cruz said that $8 billion in economic aid to Ukraine is 'crap.' 'There's also in the bill about $8 billion dollars that goes to the government of Ukraine for economic assistance — I think that's crap,' the Texas Senator spouted on his podcast. — Read the rest
The final session in the memory-management track at the 2022 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management and BPF Summit (LSFMM) was run remotely by James Gowans and David Woodhouse. It was titled 'user-space control of memory mappings', with a subtitle of 'letting guest...
California's march towards an EV future is facing a challenge, California's power grid can barely keep the state running during Summer peak months. California will need to teach people when to charge, and invest in huge infrastructure upgrades. Yahoo: Globally, the number...
As TSLA's stock value plummets, Twitter is calling for him to buy the company at the price he agreed to, and accusations of sexual harassment have been dragged into the light, Elon 'Pedo Guy' Musk has doubled down and challenges his accuser to describe what she saw! — Read...
As the memory-management track at the 2022 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management and BPF Summit (LSFMM) neared its conclusion, Mike Kravetz ran a session remotely to talk about page sharing with hugetlbfs, which is a special filesystem that provides access to huge...
A driver in Paris picked a fight with a delivery cyclist over the rules of the road. But, apparently in a hurry, decided to end the altercation by simply driving over the person's bike and dragging its crushed remains as they continued on with their day. — Read the rest
An out-of-work gentleman in Japan thought he got lucky when the government accidentally sent him a Covid relief check meant for his town. So lucky, in fact, that rather than give it back, or at least steal it for living expenses while looking for another job, he fed most of...
The numerous correctness problems with the kernel's get_user_pages() functionality have been a fixture at the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management and BPF Summit (LSFMM) for some years. The 2022 event did not break that tradition. The first-day discussion on page...
In recent years cyberattacks have evolved from being the preserve of individual hackers to something much more serious, carried out by organized criminals and even nation states with the aim of espionage and financial gain. This makes the process of investigating and...
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (kernel), Debian (ark, openldap, and thunderbird), Fedora (freetype and vim), Oracle (.NET 5.0,.NET 6.0,.NET Core 3.1, container-tools:3.0, glibc, kernel, rsync, and subversion:1.10), Scientific Linux (kernel), SUSE (dcraw,...
Thanks to increased use of computers and mobile phones almost every crime now has some form of digital element. This has put a strain on the police's ability to investigate effectively and inevitably led to delays. West Midlands Police in the UK has become the first to...
David Letterman was an institution when I was a kid. Even though his show had a more significant legacy, I never found Jay Leno funny or exciting. Letterman, on the other hand, just made sense to me. His detached sarcasm and dry one-liners were instrumental in forging my...
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