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The lone volunteer maintainer of libxml2, one of the open source ecosystem’s most widely used XML parsing libraries, has announced a policy shift that drops support for embargoed security vulnerability reports. This change highlights growing frustration among unpaid...
rou2exOS is a 64-bit DOS-like operating system (OS). The system is mainly written in Rust, but some portion of x86 assembly is used as well (inline + freestanding code for the stage2 kernel loading). ↫ Blog post about rou2exOS at blog.vxn.dev It can do basic VGA...
The Linux kernel is seeing a steady accumulation of Rust code. As it becomes more prevalent, maintainers may want to know how to read, review, and test the Rust code that relates to their areas of expertise. Just as kernel C code is different from user-space C code, so too...
For years, Comixology was the place for digital comics. In 2014, the company was sold to Amazon. Despite some initial optimism about the e-commerce behemoth putting its considerable weight behind the growth of digital comics, Amazon was a poor caretaker. The URL...
Giulia Gotti's 'A day in the life of a bottle collector' is a behind-the-scenes look at how bottle collectors from Romania and West Africa prop up Denmark's Roskilde Festival's image of progressive idealism. Roskilde's marketed image is a utopian space, with no mention of...
A woman driving in the rain notices a long black snake in the road and worries it will be run over. So she stops her car and tries to guide the slithering creature to safety. But as the old saying goes, no good deed goes unpunished, and in this case, her good deed goes from...
A new filesystem was the topic of a session led by Zach Brown at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF). The ngnfs filesystem is not a 'next generation' NFS, as might be guessed from the name; Brown said that he did not think about...
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) reports on the alarming trend of journalists and activists being summoned to court in Georgia simply for criticizing government officials on social media. The article details how more than a dozen journalists,...
A teenage actress from California just joined a club that usually only includes kings, duchesses, and medieval warriors — she's been knighted by the Vatican at age 19. Sydney Thackray, an actress and musician, knelt before a bishop in a centuries-old Roman cathedral this...
A bizarre hoax that captivated America in 2009 gets a fresh examination in 'Trainwreck: Balloon Boy,' premiering July 15. The documentary revisits the day when Richard Heene called 911 claiming his six-year-old son Falcon was trapped inside a homemade flying saucer that had...
Four prominent tech executives, including Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth, have joined a special U.S. Army Reserve unit where they'll serve as lieutenant colonels without completing basic training. As reported in Steven Levy's Plaintext newsletter, the executives are part of...
A slim 23-vote margin in the House of Parliament today gave approval to assisted dying in England and Wales. Terminally ill adults may soon legally end their own lives with medical assistance, though the bill first faces scrutiny in the House of Lords. — Read the rest The po...
This adorable baby opossum named Ellie will melt your heart. Baby Opposums are some of the most joy-sparking little critters I've seen. Known as joeys, these tiny marsupials are full of surprises from the moment they're born. Baby opossums, like their marsupial cousins the...
In early 1900s Paris, a young medium named Eva Carrière claimed she could manifest spirits from her body in the form of ghostly ectoplasm. A fan named Baron von Schrenck-Notzing spent four years documenting what he believed were genuine supernatural phenomena. — Read the...
Britain's public broadcaster issued a legal threat to U.S. AI company Perplexity, which the BBC claims scraped its website to train language models. How did it get caught? Because it's reproducing the text of BBC News stories verbatim. The BBC has written to Perplexity,...
I've been using Proton's family of digital tools for a decade. I started back when all the company offered was Protonmail and stayed on with them as VPN, online storage, calendar and access to an encrypted word processor were added to what I get for my annual subscription...
Red Dye No. 3 has been banned for use in cosmetics and topical drugs since 1990. So why is it still in our food? This video deep dives into Red 3, and the use of dangerous dyes in everyday products. Red 3 can cause some pretty unpleasant side effects, yet it's everywhere: in ...
A month of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate normally costs $19.99 through Microsoft, but you can grab a 1-month membership for just $16.99 — and these codes are stackable, so that you can lock in three months at the lower rate. With rumors swirling about a possible price hike, now's...
A pigeon lays an egg in a barn owl nest box, and complete anarchy ensues. Despite the title of this video, I was completely unprepared for the level of drama this wayward pigeon caused. A pigeon enters the nest box, already occupied by seven owlets of various sizes. — Read...
In an age of language learning models and chatbots, passing the Turing test is light work with most correspondents. But the first such machine to win the imitation game was ELIZA, programmed in the mid-1960s by Joseph Wiezenbaum at MIT. — Read the rest The post Rebuilding...
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