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Thursday February 13, 2025. 02:00 AM
TL;DR: Want your paycheck to stretch farther while grocery shopping? Find better value by joining Sam's Club with this 1-year membership that comes with Auto-Renew, now just $20 (reg. $50). You've seen all the stories and headlines—people are panicking over grocery and gas...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: BPF load-time checking; IRQ suspension; Rust for Linux; Rewriting coreutils; Selfish contributors; emlearn. Briefs: RfL policy; OpenWrt 24.10.0; Arti 1.4.0; LibreOffice 25.2; OpenInfra; Plasma 6.3; Attacks on Codeberg;...
Mowi is apparently the world's largest producer of farmed salmon. At least they were, until 27,000 of their fish escaped off the coast of Norway. Now they're offering a $45-per-fish bounty for their safe return. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? — Read the rest The po...
In 'Soy Right ascendent' Max Read describes the shift in Trumpdom away from the old MAGA tribe of angry dads and obsessed moms toward the 'Soy Right' of sexist techbros, whiny contrarians and meme Nazis. This group, he points out, is what evolved out of Gamergate, and its...
Wednesday February 12, 2025. 11:07 PM
Police in San Carlos Park, Florida are searching for a fellow drove his lawnmower into multiple mailboxes on a residential street. His antics were caught on video, below. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! 'It was egregious, absolutely...
TL;DR: Save 50% on the NanoPhone through February 23, the ultra-tiny smartphone that'll make you think twice about your current phone. Has reducing your nightly doomscroll binges been on your 2025 resolution list? It's tough—we really love our TikTok binges,...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed on February 12 that ChatGPT’s next model upgrade will be GPT-4.5. Following that, the company will release the much-anticipated GPT-5 as a mixture of models including OpenAI o3—a slightly different form than expected—in a timeframe Altman ...
A new feature film about paranormal radio pioneer Art Bell may be on the horizon. Apparently Paul Giamitti (John Adams, The Holdovers, Sideways) is attached to play Bell who died in 2018. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! — Read the rest...
Karoline Leavitt attacked AP News today for ignoring the new regime's demand that the Gulf of Mexico now be called the 'Gulf of America.' The snippy Press Secretary then took it a step further, referring to the original name itself as a 'lie.' — Read the rest The post Creepy...
Trump Administration cronies have got the formula down. If they want to cancel a legitimate government program or anything else, just label it fraud or DEI. Fraud is a thing, however, proving it is not necessary in Trumpistan. DEI is a policy that means 'we want to hire...
Congressperson Robert Garcia (D-CA) followed in the tradition of his committee Chairperson Marjorie Taylor Greene and entered a dick pic into the congressional record. This time, it's a photo of 'President' Musk. Recalling the time of Marge's weird battle with Hunter 'Now...
In an era where generative AI (GenAI) is reshaping how we work, learn, and create, a new study raises an important question: Is AI enhancing our critical thinking skills or quietly eroding them? A fascinating paradox has emerged — participants with greater confidence in AI ...
The Codeberg development forge has recently been subject to sustained attacks resulting in, among other things, abusive email being sent to the site's users. The organization has now put up a description and a defiant response: Extreme right forces actively target members...
At the Grand Palais, leaders from nearly 100 countries convened with tech giants such as Google, Meta, and OpenAI for the Paris Artificial Intelligence Action Summit. Co-hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the event sought...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth might have a Harvard degree (that he doesn't want you to know about), but that didn't stop him from mangling e pluribus unum — the original national motto that appears on the Great Seal of the United States. — Read the rest The post Pete...
I love the idea of specialized writer decks, fail at using them productively, and am always a sucker for the next one. The latest Pomera—a range of monochrome word processors no larger than a usable clamshell keyboard—is coming and it looks very sleep and handsome. —...
In a possible landmark statement for AI companies pleading fair use to train their models, a judge has revised a 2023 opinion that sided with an AI aggregator over Thomson Reuters. Reuters News, which Thomson Reuters owns, revealed the decision on Tuesday. So far, tech...
While large language models and the expensive hardware they require are all the rage now, other areas of artificial intelligence work within much more constrained hardware environments. At FOSDEM 2025, Jon Nordby presented his open-source machine-learning inference engine...
Making a graphics processing unit with 1.8 terabits of memory bandwidth, 24,576 CUDA cores, 768 tensor cores and 192 ray-tracing cores, capable of produding 1636.76 gigatexels per second? Easy! Pushing 500 watts down 18 gauge braided wire without burning the house down? —...
Unelected bureaucrat Elon Musk has managed to get his hands on the private data of millions of federal employees, prompting the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to file a lawsuit seeking immediate intervention. Through his hilariously-named Department of Government...
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