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Friday January 17, 2025. 03:59 PM
Katie Sylor-Miller's Oh Shit, Git is a good old fashioned blog about Git, the version control system that now dominates development life. Though a marked improvement on the olden days of version control, it is complicated and difficult and harrowing—hence the 'Oh, shit'...
The idea of adding None-aware operators to Python has sprung up once again. These would make traversing structures with None values in them easier, by short-circuiting lookups when a None is encountered. Almost exactly a year ago, LWN covered the previous attempt to bring...
There is no punch in the gut like seeing familiar objects, not just from your childhood but from your 30s, in a museum, like something from King Tut's tomb. The hits keep on coming in the Extinct Media Museum. The museum houses obsolete technology from old-timey hand-cranked ...
Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center of Roanoke recently shared a video of a cute little bird named the 'Virginia Rail' (Rallus limicola) that, surprisingly, makes 'oink' sounds just like a pig. It's unexpected, that's for sure! In their post, they provided some information...
I have some terrible news, friends. If you're a fan of puppies, and of Puppy Songs, those brilliant puppy-themed tunes created by Matt Hobbs that we just cannot get enough of here at Boing Boing, you no doubt know Leni, the adorable black and white Chihuahua with the cutest...
Move over, Pizza Rat, and Escalator Rat, and, yes, even Donut Rat! There's a new Rat Hero in town – Reese's Rat! The adorable little fellow was spotted and captured on video by New Yorker Andrada Roba, who posted the clip to her TikTok. — Read the rest The post Meet...
Six-hundred-thirty in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 and Windows 11 on the Microsoft Store and elsewhere in the past seven days. Next month, Microsoft will install the new Outlook app as part of the...
Support for Microsoft 365 ends along with Windows 10PixieMe/Shutterstock Although Microsoft announced some time ago that Windows 10 will only be supported (free of charge) until October 14, 2025, the switch to its successor Windows 11 is only taking place slowly. According...
The 6.12.10, 6.6.72, and 6.1.125 stable kernels have been released on the expected schedule.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (rsync and tomcat9), Fedora (chromium, mingw-python-jinja2, redict, and valkey), Gentoo (GIMP and pip), Oracle (.NET, fence-agents, ipa, kernel, python-virtualenv, raptor2, and rsync), Red Hat (.NET 8.0 and.NET 9.0), SUSE...
deepin 25 preview is now available here, offering a glimpse into a beautifully designed and highly secure Linux-based operating system that challenges Windows 11. Developed in China, deepin demonstrates how open source software can unite global communities and deliver...
According to new research only 13 percent of businesses are monitoring their AI’s energy consumption despite escalating power demands. The study from SambaNova Systems gathered responses from 2,012 business leaders (1,004 in Europe and 1,008 in the US) finds that 49.8...
Nvidia unveiled a new platform at CES called Cosmos. It’s a world foundation model (WFM) development platform designed to advance and accelerate Physical AI for robots and self-driving vehicles (which are also, in fact, robots). Understanding digital twins and physical AI...
When we talk about Android upgrades, it’s all too easy to miss the forest for the trees. It’s a familiar tale here in the land o’ Googley matters — and with some wacky-seeming changes on the way for Android upgrades in 2025, the myopic musings are only getting...
The world is a pretty unstable place at the moment, which can lead to problems when it comes to making decisions on whether to invest in new technologies -- particularly in the context of a rapidly changing landscape for supply chains. We spoke to Jonathan Barrett, CEO of...
Austria-based data protection and privacy advocating NGO noyb (none of your business) has filed a series of complaints against AliExpress, SHEIN, Temu, TikTok, WeChat, and Xiaomi for violating European general data protection regulation (GDPR). The six firms stand accused of ...
SpaceX's Starship super heavy-lift launch vehicle took off from the company's Starbase in Texas for a test flight. Space.com reports the liftoff and separation were completed as planned, and the booster returned safely to the landing site. However, contact with the Starship...
In this week’s Python Report: Everyone’s favorite snake-named language is getting closer to being everyone’s favorite language, period. We also have a guide to unpacking the power of Python’s abstract base classes, and a tutorial for developers who want to use Cython ...
Let’s imagine a fictional company, Global Retail Corporation, a multinational retail chain struggling with its initial approach to AI integration. They built custom generative AI applications on their cloud provider using OpenAI’s APIs for broader analysis, providing...
Microsoft has been testing a new Windows 11 security feature called “administrator protection” for a few months, and now the company has rolled it out to more users to try out. Currently available to Windows Insiders who are beta testing preview builds of the operating...
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