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Friday May 30, 2025. 10:00 PM
Sigh. Microsoft just can’t leave well enough alone. The company is now injecting formatting features into Notepad, a program that has long been appreciated for one thing -- its simplicity. You see, starting with version 11.2504.50.0, this update is rolling out to Windows...
Struggling database company MariaDB PLC is making further efforts to get back on its feet, good news for enterprises running MariaDB or looking to adopt it. At least, that’s what analysts think after hearing of MariaDB’s announcement that it is acquiring Finnish data...
Starfighters International, already utilizing F-104s as a platform to launch satellites into LEO, looks to acquire some retired South Korean F-4 Phantoms. Wow. What a fantastic use for old planes, and an excuse to keep them flying! The F-4 Phantoms are, perhaps, coming from...
During a keynote speech at the Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, US Vice President JD Vance framed generative AI and cryptocurrency as symbols of a growing ideological divide in the tech industry. Speaking to cryptocurrency advocates and industry players,...
It would appear everyone around convicted felon #47, Donald 'Two Dolls, Five Pencil' Trump, that he is misunderstanding the word transGENIC. Surround yourself with yes people and find yourself misinformed. Also, babble like a child and make up words along the way, and more...
The seventh edition of the Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel Summit (known as 'OSPM') took place on March 18-20, 2025. Topics discussed on the third (and final) day include proxy execution, energy-aware scheduling, the deadline scheduler, and an evaluation...
Guillermo del Toro has been pretty vocal on social media about his love of Toronto over the past few years. Having shot The Shape of Water and, most recently, Frankenstein, in and around Toronto, he's become something of a fixture in the city's downtown core. — Read the rest...
An 88-year-old temple of scientific wonders and glorious oddities is fighting for survival, and they're asking the community of 'Surpies' who love them to help keep the lights on. American Science & Surplus — that magical emporium where you might find mule-branding kits...
Opera Mini was first released in 2005 as a web browser for mobile phones, with the ability to load full websites by sending most of the work to an external server. It was a massive hit, but it started to fade out of relevance once smartphones entered mainstream use. Opera...
Alpine Linux 3.22 is finally here (download), and if you’re tired of bloated operating systems like Windows 11, this release might be the breath of fresh air you’ve been waiting for. While Alpine is still a niche distribution, it’s slowly becoming a viable option for...
As we work half-assed with one hand tied behind our backs on not killing the planet, solar power has become an important part of energy infrastructure solutions around the world. You'll find panels doing their photovoltaic thing on the rooftops of houses and bolted to the...
The United State Library of Congress has a collection of 11,000 of John Margolies's roadside America photographs featuring novelty architecture from 1969-2008. According to Bill Guerriero's excellent new Britannica article, Margolies (1940-2016) would ''rent the biggest,...
The story behind Mount Rushmore is more interesting than Mount Rushmore itself! This YouTube documentary is fascinating. I recall hearing bits and pieces of this story, along with various speculations about Gutzon Borglum, so this video helps tie it all together—gold...
Iowa Republican Joni Ernst thinks people can go without healthcare as we're all going to die eventually, anyway. Showing the empathy we've come to expect of a Republican Senator Joni Ernst pretty much told people to suck it up, when hearing complaints about cuts to...
In a situation familiar to female members of many species, female frogs' calls are rarely heard and, as a result, seldom studied. A team from the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil performed a meta-study on existing research on frog calls. — Read the rest The post Toxic...
'How is it that we live in an era of apparently unprecedented choice and yet almost every film and TV series, as well as a good many plays and novels, have exactly the same plot?' asks Eliane Glaser in Aeon. — Read the rest The post Why every movie and TV show follows the sa...
Teradata has partnered with cloud-based data integration platform provider Fivetran to help joint enterprise customers bring their data stored in multiple locations to the former’s data analytics platform, VantageCloud, to centralize data and metadata for analytics and AI...
Image: Meta Meta is developing extended reality headsets tailored for military use, designed to enhance soldiers’ situational awareness on the battlefield. The devices are expected to support real-time threat detection — such as flagging approaching drones or highlighting...
This cool and spooky video shows what it looks like when a camera is dropped down 93 meters under the ice in Antarctica. PhD student Austin Carter conducted this experiment to collect ice that is estimated to be over 2 million years old. — Read the rest The post Eerie footag...
'The Games and Pleasures of Childhood' is a set of 50 engravings published in 1657 by French engraver Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella (1636-1697). Some of the games depicted in the series are familiar. One drawing shows kids playing paddle ball; another shows four kids blowing...
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