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Friday February 7, 2025. 08:01 PM
GitHub is once again pushing the boundaries of AI in software development. In its latest update, GitHub Copilot introduces Agent Mode — a preview feature that redefines how developers interact with code editing tools. Agent Mode is designed to autonomously plan, execute,...
In the below video, researchers enjoy a delightful dance with ExBody2, a humanoid robot developed by UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, MIT, and Nvidia. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! This demonstration isn't just a waltz in the park though....
Who has ever heard of a fascist regime with a free press? Nobody, including President Elon Musk and sidekick Donald Trump, who in separate posts this morning called for reporters from The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post to be 'fired immediately!' — Read the rest ...
Archaeologists excavating a Neolithic tomb in Jeruslaem found the remains of an ancient shaman who lived 9,000 years ago. This particular mystic may have been granted her position as a spiritual leader because she had six fingers on her left hand. — Read the rest The post...
Infamous comic book artist Rob Liefeld is over Marvel — for real this time, not like that time he split from the company in the 90s to help launch Image Comics. In a recent episode of his podcast Robservations, Liefeld opened up about the apparent mistreatment he felt at...
A six-foot chunk of ice fell from the sky and tore through the metal roof of a home in Palm Coast, Florida on Monday. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! 'A chunk of ice that is size of a person could cause tremendous injury be fatal,'...
BBC reports that Google had to scramble to fix its big Super Bowl advertising campaign for the company's Gemini AI tool. To show off the capabilities of the tool, Google used the Gemini AI to produce hyper-localized commercials highlighting each of the 50 US states. — Read...
OpenAI has updated the “chain of thought” feature of its o3-mini AI model to make it easier for users to understand how it thinks. This comes in the wake of the release of DeepSeek-R1, a rival reasoning model that also shows the thought process behind its responses....
In 1985, Austrian winemakers faced a problem: Their wines weren't sweet enough for the German market's taste. Rather than adding corn syrup like normal criminals, they mixed in diethylene glycol, aka antifreeze. The chemical made wines taste sweeter and fuller-bodied while...
In its limited wisdom, the deeply unpopular UK government has decided to break privacy for the entire world, slamming Apple with a top secret order that demands blanket access to personal data. Apple must create a “back door” to enable surveillance, according to The...
TL;DR: Get a 1-year BJ's Club Card membership for just $20 (reg. $60) and enjoy massive discounts on groceries, gas, and more. We all know grocery shopping is expensive, and filling up your gas tank these days feels like a high-stakes financial decision. — Read the rest The...
The BPF verifier is charged with the challenging task of ensuring that a BPF program is safe for the kernel to run before that program is loaded. Among many other concerns, the verifier must ensure that any kfuncs (kernel functions that have been exported to BPF programs)...
In 1914, Marian and David Fairchild published Book of Monsters. This fabulous book features early macro photographs of creepy crawlies. The couple found innovative ways to photograph dead bugs from their backyard, transforming these everyday creatures into close up...
My new favorite thing to look for at online markeplaces is photos of people trying to sell their mirrors. Many people find hilariously awkward ways to hide their own reflection while taking a photo of the mirror. Other people simply accept the fact that they're going to be...
The Public and Private Life of Animals (1877) by J. Thomas is a satirical book about animal life from the 19th century. My favorite thing about this book are the incredible illustrations. I can't get over how beautifully drawn and compelling they are. — Read the rest The...
I've never seen a person who looks more like the Statue of Liberty than London-based musician Su Krikken. It's truly uncanny—Su looks like she could have been the actual model that ol' Lady Liberty is based on. Krikken shared a funny video on her Instagram explaining...
If you're the kind of person who's ever wondered, 'What the hell happened to Glenn Greenwald?' or 'Damn, I liked Matt Taibbi during the Iraq War, but what happened?,' then Eoin Higgins' new book, Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left ...
If you're feeling overwhelmed and defeated by the flurry of awfulness coming out of the Trump/Musk Regime, here are two terrific resources that provide two things I'm desperately needing right now: (1) up-to-date, true news about what's actually happening in various agencies ...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (openjdk-17), Fedora (firefox, FlightGear, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-latest-openjdk, and SimGear), Mageia (gstreamer), Red Hat (firefox, kernel, kernel-rt, libsoup, and python-jinja2), SUSE (bind, curl, dcmtk, etcd, ...
I love baby animals, and there's almost no lil' critter cuter than a sea otter pup. And they're even more ridiculously delightful when they're frolicking in the snow—which they otter-ly adore! The Vancouver Aquarium recently posted footage of sea otter pups Luna and...
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