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A man walking in the snow faced a terrifying encounter with a massive polar bear. Moments after spotting each other, the bear charged. The man acted quickly, jumping onto a nearby snowmobile and speeding away as the bear pursued at full speed. — Read the rest The post Snowmo...
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The Unfinished Projects Release Forms booklet provides slips (and carbon copies, for your or others' records) permitting one to emotionally let go of an incomplete project. [via Matt Round] Have you ever worked on a creative project for a long time, and realized you can't...
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Shawn Webb has published a status report on work to provide basic support in FreeBSD for userland components written in Rust. We introduced a new BSD makefile, located at share/mk/bsd.rust.mk, that enables building a Rust application during buildworld. As of this writing,...
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Image from Wikipedia The post Fur-bearing trout: the bizarre folklore fish covered in fur (and the weird truth behind it) appeared first on Boing Boing.
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Watch a carnivorous plant devour a helpless little gummy bear in this timelapse video. The King Sundew (Drosera regia) plant in the video seems to eat a pretty decent amount of the gummy bear, but leaves the top half of it behind, looking liquified and gooey. — Read the rest...
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The Super Nintendo World portal in Universal Orlando's new theme park Epic Universe is the only portal of the four (five, if you count the central hub, Celestial Park) that is essentially a dupe of an already existing area, although a plussed-up one. — Read the rest The...
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Neurologyca has launched a new multi-modal AI platform called Kopernica that introduces emotional context to machine intelligence. Described by the company as a “first-of-its-kind,” Kopernica uses real-time data from facial expressions, vocal tones, and behavioral...
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In late March, version 78.0.1 of Setuptools — an important Python packaging tool — was released. It was scarcely half an hour before the first bug report came in, and it quickly became clear that the change was far more disruptive than anticipated. Within only about five ...
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TL;DR: Save 50% on this self-meditation app that helps you relieve stress and unwind after long days. Created by award-winning hypnotherapist Darren Marks, the app mimics real-life sessions with guided meditations that target stress, confidence, sleep, and more Features...
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The New Orleans Police Department secretly used AI for live, real-time facial recognition and tracking — a move that likely violated a municipal ordinance — according to an exclusive investigation by The Washington Post.  The Post described this as the first known...
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A study published in Nature Astronomy posits that Jupiter was significantly larger earlier in its history and its more powerful magnetic field greatly influenced the formation of the solar system. 'Our ultimate goal is to understand where we come from, and pinning down the...
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A new report from CyCognito highlights critical security vulnerabilities across cloud-hosted material, revealing that one in three easily exploitable vulnerabilities or misconfigurations are found on cloud assets. Though uncommon, critical vulnerabilities (CVSS 9.0 or...
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Heather Donahue, star of low-budget horror classic The Blair Witch Project, was famously misled by ominous symbols on trees. Now she lives in rural Maine and has upset a landowner there by marking trees with orange paint signifying a public easement in the woods. — Read the...
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Ben Collins, CEO of the revived The Onion, is profiled by Chris Murphy for Vanity Fair. He has interesting ideas on how to succeed in the whitewater rapids of modern media, and he's proving them in print and online. Instead, Collins has focused on getting The Onion the...
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Windows 7 Reloaded improves Windows 11 by replacing the centered Start menu and taskbar
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Runtime AI defense platform Operant AI is launching Woodpecker, an open-source, automated red teaming engine, that isn't for the birds but aims to make advanced security testing accessible to organizations of all sizes. As organizations increasingly adopt complex...
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The Chicago Sun-Times printed a summer reading list of books which only made things harder for readers, because most of them didn't exist. Worse, the newspaper (one of America's largest dailies) was initially unable to explain itself: 'We are looking into how this made it...
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At its annual developer conference, Google presented groundbreaking AI innovations that go far beyond mere product updates. Rather, they outline a future in which artificial intelligence is no longer just a tool, but an omnipresent, proactive companion. Here are the most...
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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0, avahi, buildah, compat-openssl10, compat-openssl11, expat, firefox, gimp, git, grafana, libsoup, libxslt, mod_auth_openidc, nginx, nodejs:22, osbuild-composer, php, redis, redis:7, skopeo, thunderbird, vim,...
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