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Monday January 13, 2025. 04:42 PM
Tired of the constant updates, bloat, and resource demands of Windows 11? Aren't we all? MX Linux could be the perfect solution to your woes, and thanks to its lightweight nature -- especially compared to Windows -- it could make your PC run even faster! The latest version...
A dog was reunited with his lost friend after being separated by the Palisades fire for 5 days. My parents were ordered to evacuate in the face of the Palisades Fire. They grabbed their dogs and dog food; their medications and necessities were less of a concern to them and...
Christophe Meneboeuf asks 'Is the Mac Mini G4 the best classic Macintosh for retro-gaming?' It being among the last pre-Intel machines that didn't come with a built-in display or in a chassis the size of carry-in luggage, this is maybe a rhetorical question—it's great for...
Lead and cadmium, neither good for you, are found in high levels in protein powders. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency identified 'plant-based, organic and chocolate-flavored products' as those with the highest amount, with 47% exceeding California's Proposition 65...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (dpdk, firefox, iperf3, thunderbird, and webkit2gtk3), Debian (firefox-esr, gnuchess, node-mocha, openafs, python-django, and thunderbird), Fedora (libxmp, python-jinja2, suricata, thunderbird, and xen), Mageia (avahi, libjxl,...
Customs officers in Delhi announced that a Canadian man was arrested Thursday 'carrying a crocodile skull' in his bag at Indira Gandhi International airport there. 'The passenger was intercepted during a security check at Terminal 3 of the airport as he was preparing to...
You can’t have failed to notice that certain searches on Google now display AI-generated summaries, known as 'AI Overviews,' at the top of search results. If you ask Google a question, such as “What is Bigfoot?” you will see an instant answer explaining that it is a...
The Linux Foundation has unveiled a new collaborative organization called Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers designed to ensure that open-source projects with connections to Chromium get the necessary resources to be successful. Members of the group include Google,...
Dunkin changed its name to remove the donuts, and now the donuts are gone entirely from the coffee chain in some U.S. states. Snackers can rest assured, though, that it's just a temporary shortage and they'll be back as soon as availability permits. — Read the rest The post...
Adobe has unveiled a new Firefly “bulk create” feature that lets content designers make changes to thousands of images once, automating actions such as resizing assets and replacing backgrounds at scale. Up to 10,000 JPG or PNG images can uploaded to the Firefly Bulk...
The Fairlight CMI was the first widely-available digital sampling synthesizer, a computer-powered installation which defined the sound of countless tracks in the 1980s. Though offering powerful tools to record and shape your own instruments—the point of sampling!—in...
A pair of alleged thieves in Mulberry, Florida, devised and executed the perfect gameplan: while one swept the aisles of $500 worth of cleaning products, the other created a distraction by defecating on the floor. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd reported the incident on...
Sometimes, the intrusive thoughts win, as they did for this awesome lady who decided to climb into the netting machine at a christmas tree farm. As she's climbing though, it seems she realizes 'what did I just get myself into', but she keeps on going while laughing and...
X and Bluesky rival Mastodon has announced plans to transition into a non-profit organization. The decentralized social network is looking to further differentiate it from the competition, and the latest move “affirm[s] the intent that Mastodon should not be owned or...
Back in 1948, this fantastic giant leg stood atop the sign for a Hosiery store in LA. The leg is daintily balanced on its tippy toes, and cut off at the top. This is now one of my favorite vintage store signs I've ever seen a photo of. — Read the rest The post The giant...
One of the innovations that the V7 Bourne shell introduced was built in shell wildcard globbing, which is to say expanding things like *,?, and so on. Of course Unix had shell wildcards well before V7, but in V6 and earlier, the shell didn’t implement globbing itself;...
Apple finds itself starting a new legal battle today, this time in the UK. A class action lawsuit alleges that the iPhone maker has abused its position to overcharge App Store customers. A second prong of the lawsuit alleges that the 30 percent commission fee Apple charges...
The next wave of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption is already under way, as AI agents — AI applications that can function independently and execute complex workflows with minimal or limited direct human oversight — are being rolled out across the tech industry....
Artificial intelligence will be unleashed across the UK to deliver a decade of national renewal under a new plan announced by the government. The Prime Minister has agreed to take forward all 50 recommendations set out in the AI Opportunities Action Plan released last year,...
GraphQL -- in case you haven't heard of it -- is a rapidly rising query and manipulation language for APIs. It's designed to make APIs fast, flexible and developer-friendly, and it moves the complexity of data fetching from the client to the server side. We spoke to Pete...
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