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Tuesday February 18, 2025. 08:03 PM
United States patent number 6,469 is for 'buoying vessels over shoals.' Granted on May 22, 1849, the concept involves equipping large boats with 'india-rubber cloth, or another suitable waterproof fabric' on the hull as inflatable floats. If a boat became stranded, these...
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Attempts to challenge the power of Elon Musk and his DOGE team to close down government departments have hit an unexpected complication: according to the White House, the entrepreneur is not even in charge of the operation. That surprising claim was made in court papers...
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The SANS Institute is calling on cybersecurity professionals and ethical hackers to develop open-source AI security solutions in its AI Cybersecurity Hackathon, which runs from Feb. 15 to March 15; the competition offers a $3,500 grand prize and a total prize pool of...
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California's Fifth Appellate District Court has unanimously ruled the owner of a Bakersfield, California, bakery who refused to sell a wedding cake to a same-sex couple in 2017 has broken the law. While the bakery owner, Cathy Miller's, lawyer attempted to portray her...
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The weak-kneed members of NYU's College Republicans of America chapter forced their president to resign after she told Vanity Fair that Barron Trump was 'an oddity on campus.' 'He's sort of like an oddity on campus. He goes to class, he goes home,' Kaya Walker said on the...
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Police busted two men outside of Grant Parish Detention Center in Colfax, Louisiana for allegedly attempting to deliver contraband to inmates. Their plan was to launch the items over the prison wall using an air cannon. 'This was not something that was homemade,' said Grant...
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Abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock's drip paintings may not be entirely abstract. According to new research from UC San Diego psychiatrist Stephen Stahl and colleagues, Pollock likely suffered from bipolar disorder. They tie this posthumous diagnosis to the likelihood...
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Looks like somebody's not a team player! Denise Cheung — described by Reuter's as 'the top federal prosecutor who supervised criminal cases at the Washington, D.C. U.S. Attorney's office — just rage-quit her job because she wouldn't help Trump grab back a measly $20...
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Under normal circumstances, the United States government would not be meddling in the prosecution of an accused international sex trafficker and would let the law of the land in the countries where the accused sex trafficker purportedly violated the law handle it. — Read the...
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If the idea of emulating a PC on a Nintendo Entertainment System sounds like a torturous exercise in proving Turing completeness and the very opposite of fun, console yourself with knowledge that it's the oldest PC. Behold NES86. The goal of this project is to emulate an...
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Remember YouTube Multiplier, which played multiple YouTube embeds at once? The logical next step is here: the YouTube Sequencer, which allows users to play YouTube videos like drum samples, arranging them into loops. Have you ever hit the number keys while watching...
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New video of yesterday's Delta Air Lines crash shows fire bursting from the plane right after it touched down at the Toronto Pearson Airport. We then see the burning plane — which had just come in from Minneapolis with 80 people on board — taxi down the runway for a...
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Someone on Reddit asked ChatGPT to forecast America's future under continued Trump policies, and it reads like a horror novel written by George Orwell after binge-watching Handmaid's Tale. The AI laid out a progression from democracy to corporate autocracy through the...
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'Border Czar' Tom Homan is unhappy that Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reminds people of their rights, so he is hoping someone will declare that illegal. Trump stooge Tom Homan has taken to the Fox News airwaves to complain about a Congressperson explaining to...
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Adoption of SASE, or secure access service edge, is accelerating -- especially, according to IDC, at organizations of over 1,000 employees, while it’s estimated the global SASE market will grow from last year’s $1.83 billion to over $17 billion by 2033.  The business...
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Target is learning that its efforts to please Donald Trump and the GOP have done nothing to improve its bottom line while generating worse 'real consequences,' reports Ariel Messman-Rucker for Yahoo Finance. It is beset by lawsuits and its share price is going nowhere good....
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The Reproducible-openSUSE project has announced that it has created a usable version of openSUSE with 100% reproducible packages. [Bernhard] Wiedemann took on this 4-month-long project to create a fork of openSUSE that has 100% bit-reproducible packages. So far ring0 (aka...
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A new report from Fortanix finds that 97 percent of companies block or restrict GenAI usage, and 89 percent of the respondents believe that such controls on usage are successful. However, the same report -- based on a survey of 1,000 executives -- reveals that 95 percent of...
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If you need to connect multiple displays, you'll be pleased to know that Plugable has just released the USBC-MSTH3, a new USB-C hub designed for that very purpose. The hub uses Multi-Stream Transport (MST) technology, which allows users to spread their Windows desktop across ...
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Kernel developers have been working to convert various internal interfaces to use folios; while this process has been progressing, there is still the occasional regression introduced by the change. In December 2024, it was discovered that installing a Flatpak application...
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