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Tuesday May 27, 2025. 04:52 PM
This video gives us the answers to a question I've been secretly wondering for years. Where did office jargon come from? Why do we use phrases like 'circle back later' or 'just looping you in'? I've always wondered if there's some secret manual that contains all the cringey...
This video explains how 19th century French physicist Jules Antoine Lissajous used tuning forks to map out two-dimensional shapes, called Lissajous curves, that uniquely correspond to every musical interval, the difference in pitch between two notes. Musician Reuben Levine...
When most people are too late to hop aboard their means of transportation, they typically have to accept the fact that their plane, train, or in this case, a cruise ship, is going to leave without them. The gentleman in this video wasn't going to give up without a fight,...
If you feel like your devices are constantly watching you, you're not alone. This video from Wired shows how our smart devices spy on our lives. It also tells us what we can do to minimize and control the information that is collected by our smart devices. — Read the rest T...
Kyle Barr reports that the $300 Feno smart toothbrush is 'the worst thing I've ever shoved in my mouth.' The gob-filling mouthpiece cleans every one of your chompers simultaneously. He says it works, but he didn't like the experience one bit: it 'made my entire head shake...
PowerA is entering the Nintendo Switch 2 era with a batch of officially licensed accessories. The most exciting of the bunch is a wired controller featuring Hall Effect sensors. Now, it might be a little disappointing that these controllers are wired rather than wireless....
Salesforce has agreed to buy Informatica in an $8 billion deal as a way to quickly access far more data for its AI efforts, it said Tuesday. Steve Fisher, President and CTO of Salesforce, made the argument for how this acquisition helps customers of both companies: “Truly...
Behold Nick Gillard's pico-mac-nano, a tiny and functional replica of the original Apple Macintosh. Only 62mm tall, it's created with a Raspberry Pi Pico and a a 2-inch LCD panel. The final size was always going to be determined by the LCD panel which needed to be able to...
A new report from Orchid Security shows nearly half of enterprise applications violate basic credential-handling guidance, with 44 percent undermining centralized identity provider (IdP) policies and 40 percent falling short of widely accepted identity-control standards....
Version 25.05 of the NixOS distribution has been released. Changes include support for the COSMIC desktop environment (reviewed here in August), GNOME 48, a 6.12 kernel, and many new modules; see the release notes for details. (Thanks to Pavel Roskin).
Francesca Gino is a professor at Harvard Business School whose career was derailed after evidence of data fraud was exposed in her work—a doubly-humiliating circumstance given that she teaches ethics there. The university released a damning report, she sued in response,...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, libsoup, and python-tornado), Debian (libavif and pgbouncer), Red Hat (gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, mingw-freetype and spice-client-win, and webkit2gtk3), SUSE (firefox, govulncheck-vulndb, and...
Jensen Huang's keynote at GTC 2025 has again been a real show. It gave insights on the future of AI, quantum computing, self-driving cars, etc. But I couldn't help but notice one big absence though: blockchain. AI, especially with the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs)...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added observability support to its managed Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless service to help enterprises monitor the health of their database fleet and troubleshoot issues around it. Observability of databases is crucial for enterprise stakeholders,...
As concerns around the economy have risen in the US, the number of full-time employees doing side work or gig jobs has reached record highs. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 8.9 million Americans, or 5.4% of the civilian workforce, now hold more than one ...
In 2005, Leeroy Jenkins gained notoriety in the gaming world as a hapless World of Warcraft player immortalized in a viral video. Leeroy single-handedly wrecked a carefully planned mission by charging headfirst into danger, shouting his name in a spur-of-the-moment battle...
Last year, I wrote about the 10 ways generative AI would transform software development, including early use cases in code generation, code validation, and other improvements in the software development process. Over the past year, I’ve also covered how genAI impacts...
In 2005, Leroy Jenkins gained notoriety in the gaming world as a hapless World of Warcraft player immortalized in a viral video. Leroy single-handedly wrecked a carefully planned mission by charging headfirst into danger, shouting his name in a spur-of-the-moment battle cry. ...
Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) has quickly risen to become one of the most popular architectures when building AI assistants, especially in scenarios where combining the power of language models with proprietary information is key. Integrating an external knowledge...
Having Windows installation images is handy; they can be used to reinstall your operating system, but they are also useful when creating virtual machines. Microsoft is concerned about their safety, however. Pointing to 'a Microsoft Defender protection gap' that exists in the ...
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