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Thursday August 14, 2025. 03:54 AM
A survey conducted by polling group YouGov found that 6% of Britons have a nemesis: a personal arch-enemy or (to quote one especially relevant definition) the 'infliction of retribution as manifested by an appropriate agent.' A further 17% previously had a nemesis but not...
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Wednesday August 13, 2025. 11:06 PM
Election denier and now US Attorney for the District of Columbia says the hero of the resistance who threw a Subway sandwich at Trump's Federal cops occupying Washington, DC has been charged with a felony. 'So President Trump has vowed to make D.C. — Read the rest The po...
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TL;DR: Right now, this MacBook Air is only $200 (reg. $999). Not everyone needs a brand-new, top-of-the-line laptop to get things done. If you're mostly writing papers, browsing the web, binging shows, or powering through emails, this MacBook Air will hold its own and then...
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Everest Mystery has become a new favorite YouTube channel. Thom Pollard was the cameraman for the famous 1999 expedition that found George Mallory's body. His knowledge of the mountain, the mountaineers, sherpas, and tourists seeking to summit Everest is fascinating. Even...
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We removed ads from OSNews. Donate to our fundraiser to ensure our future! The Hurd, the collection of services that run atop the GNU Mach microkernel, has been in development for a very, very long time. The Hurd is intended to serve as the kernel for the GNU Project, but...
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An art thief used several aliases to acquire UCLA library cards that allowed him to check out and steal historic manuscripts from China. If you fail to return a library book, there is a fine; however, if you return a fake book and the librarians never check, you may be able ...
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The entire JD Vance interview on Katie Miller's podcast is a desperate attempt to humanize not only Vance but the whole cabinet of weirdos. Katie Miller reveals that her husband, Stephen Miller, only eats mayonnaise — PatriotTakes
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Artist Barry McWilliams is transforming vintage European book pages into mysterious symbols and abstract drawings, offering the collected works as a limited-edition zine through Kickstarter. The project, titled 'Shapes, Symbols, and Sigils,' features hand-drawn artwork...
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Popular coffee expert James Hoffmann recently acquired an unusual piece of cinema history: a 1970s Velox Minibar electric espresso maker that belonged to legendary director David Lynch. But after testing it, he's decided to give it away. The vintage coffee maker, purchased...
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A new kind of savings account built to stop fraud before it starts is now available nationwide. Fort Knox Bank’s High-Security Savings Account, developed by Austin Capital Bank, removes passwords entirely and uses biometric identity verification with proprietary...
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A new kind of savings account built to stop fraud before it starts is now available nationwide. Fort Knox Bank’s High-Security Savings Account, developed by Austin Capital Bank, removes passwords entirely and uses biometric identity verification with proprietary...
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The original owner of Pebble is peddling Pebbles once again. Let's have a bit of a history lesson. Nerds of a certain age will recall the Pebble smartwatch. It was a gloriously simple piece of tech that scores of eager programmers worked hard to push to the limits of its,...
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NGINX has announced the preview release of the nginx-acme module, which adds native support to NGINX for the Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol: NGINX's native support for ACME brings a variety of benefits that simplify and enhance the overall...
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Black tentacles writhing from a rabbit's face might sound like science fiction, but it's reality for Colorado residents encountering cottontails infected with a bizarre virus. These unsettling transformations, reported by Yahoo News, are caused by shope papillomavirus, which ...
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Version 1.25 of Go has been released. Notable changes include support for generating debug information in the DWARF 5 format, 'container awareness' when setting the maximum number of CPUs to be used, and a new testing/synctest package with support for testing concurrent code....
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Nothing says 'failing upward' quite like deporting your own citizens and getting rewarded with a monster budget increase. Between 2015 and 2020, ICE managed to boot at least 70 actual American citizens out of their own country — and those are just the ones they'll admit...
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Microsoft is betting hard on recruiting AI talent from Meta, Business Insider reports, with an internal list of the developers and researchers at the rival firm who are at the top of Microsoft’s wish list. To succeed, Microsoft has put in place a new process and set aside...
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If you've ever tried to remove your personal information from the internet, data brokers are making that task deliberately harder by hiding their deletion request pages from Google searches, a new investigation reveals. The Markup and CalMatters found 35 data broker...
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Apple’s continued success in the enterprise isn’t just the happy consequence of a series of lucky accidents; it’s happening because — while masked by its consumer-focused marketing machine — the company pays close attention to what business customers need. ...
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If you're a prisoner looking for an escape route, just ask to be transported via Sea-Tac International Airport. Last night, a New Mexico man became the second prisoner this year to become a fugitive while being escorted through the Washington airport. — Read the rest The...
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