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On April 19, 1943, Albert Hofmann, a chemist working at the Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz, swallowed 240 micrograms of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and had the first intentional acid trip in history. Hofmann had first synthesized the compound five years earlier...
TL;DR: Protect your belongings when you get three slim Bluetooth KeySmart SmartCard trackers with this bundle for just $89.99 (reg. $119.97). Thieves are sneaky, but you're sneakier still when you slip a virtually undetectable KeySmart SmartCard into your wallet. Shaped like ...
The final session in the memory-management track of the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit was a brief, last-minute addition run by Kalesh Singh. The kernel's readahead mechanism is generally good for performance; it ensures that data is...
Adding tracepoints to some kernel subsystems has been controversial—or disallowed—due to concerns about the user-space ABI that they might create. The virtual filesystem (VFS) layer has long been one of the subsystems that has not allowed any tracepoints, but that may be ...
When it comes to storage, flashy gimmicks really aren’t necessary nowadays. Look, most people simply want a reliable way to carry data without fuss or frustration. With that said, TEAMGROUP has announced two new products -- the compact X2 MAX portable SSD and the S5 USB...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (graphicsmagick and libapache2-mod-auth-openidc), Fedora (giflib, mod_auth_openidc, mysql8.0, perl, perl-Devel-Cover, perl-PAR-Packer, perl-String-Compare-ConstantTime, rust-openssl, rust-openssl-sys, trunk, and workrave), Mageia...
Chris Dalla Riva analyzed Chord Progressions in 680k Songs. You may not be surprised to learn that popular music deploys a lot of major triads. His newsletter, Can't Get Much Higher, is all about data and music. Chordonomicon. I couldn't get the word out of my head. —...
Much like Tim Robinson before him, Kyle Mooney's time as a cast member on Saturday Night Live was odd – his awkward, intentionally so-bad-it's-good approach to comedy led to him eventually gaining the nickname Kyle 'Cut For Time' Mooney outside of a few standout appearances....
The first real trailer for Fantastic Four: First Steps promises to finally free this particular superhero team from their cursed history on the big screen – and doesn't even look to contain any AI, unlike the marketing we've gotten in the runup to this large-scale reveal. —...
One may mail potatoes simply by writing the destination on the potato, weighing the potato, then paying the appropriate postage. The potato will be conveyed thence to its destination by the hardworking men and women of the United States Postal Service. — Read the rest The po...
In this footage, a world record is claimed by building an elaborate Jenga tower on top of a single block. The record, achieved by Abbetjes Meindert de Boer, consists of 3,132 Jenga blocks stacked on the single foundation block. He built this incredible Jenga tower in St. —...
Water striders are fascinating little monsters. These insects, famous for their ability to walk on water, have always captivated me. This video taught me that they're carnivorous, and catch their prey in a brutal-looking way. Water striders use the surface tension of...
The Dotson Runway Graves are a unique part of the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport in Georgia. These graves are the final resting places of Richard and Catherine Dotson, 19th-century farmers who originally owned the land now occupied by the airport. Their graves...
According to a leaker in contact with 404 Media, Peter Thiel's spooky private intelligence company, Palantir Technologies, has taken on a significant role in assisting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with locating individuals destined for deportation. Given recent...
Did you know that before a pop-up book becomes fully alive with color and art, it passes through a ghost phase? I didn't either, until I got to see one for myself. As the artist-in-residence at Willis Wonderland, I've had the pleasure of seeing some truly incredible projects ...
Six-hundred-forty-three in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 and 11 on the Microsoft Store and elsewhere in the past seven days. The Windows 11 Snipping Tool is getting improved OCR support. The...
James Gunn is describing the second season of Peacemaker as 'one of his favourite things ever.' As Peacemaker season one was one of my favourite things ever, this statement excites me. According to GamesRadar, there's finally a date to focus that excitement on: August 25th....
Are you confused about what President Donald J. Trump is doing with tariffs? Join the crowd; we all are. But if you’re in charge of buying PCs for your company (because Windows 10 officially reaches end-of-life status on Oct. 14) all this confusion is quickly turning into...
Apple and Google know that smart glasses will replace the smartphone as the main device people use the most, according to recent news. And the two leading smartphone platform makers don’t want Meta to own the future of mobile computing, but they know Meta is leading the...
The latest revision to the PCI DSS standard for protecting payment data, PCI DSS 4.0.1, was announced last year and came into force last month. But what do these new requirements mean for businesses? We spoke to Simon Wijckmans, CEO at web security platform c/side, to find...
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