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Wednesday December 11, 2024. 10:27 PM
When the first people to arrive in Tasmania 40,000 years ago ventured into wilderness at night, they were greeted by what they could only imagine was the sound of demons from hell. The blood-curdling shrieks earned this unique marsupial its demonic name 'Tasmanian devil,'...
The battle between WordPress owner Automattic and WP Engine seemingly struck US federal Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin as rather one-sided, as she ruled against Automattic on Tuesday and granted WP Engine the preliminary injunction it sought. “Judge Martinez-Olguin’s...
Emphasizing a new AI model for the agentic era, Google has introduced Gemini 2.0, which the company calls its most capable model yet. Announced December 11, the Gemini 2.0 Flash experimental model will be available to all Gemini users. Gemini 2.0 is billed as having advances ...
Mozilla has announced that Do Not Track, a feature designed to prevent user tracking online, will be removed with version 135 of the company’s Firefox browser. The decision comes as more and more websites choose to ignore Do Not Track, leaving users with a false sense of ...
California health officials are investigating a potential case of bird flu (H5N1) in a child who became ill after consuming raw milk. The patient, who visited an emergency department in November with fever and vomiting, tested positive for influenza A after drinking raw...
OpenAI's video generation model, Sora, has a very interesting take on gymnastics. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Perhaps in a tribute to early AI image generator's propensity to add extra limbs, fingers, and orifices to things intended to be...
In 1978, a British judge coined what would become one of law's most memorable phrases. While ruling on a trademark dispute between two newspapers, Justice Foster declared that 'only a moron in a hurry' could confuse the Communist Party's Morning Star with the forthcoming...
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 beta was released in mid-November and, if all goes according to plan, CentOS Stream 10 should be released before the end of the year. While nothing is etched in stone just yet, it is a good time for anyone using or targeting RHEL (and...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is taking the world by storm. We are seeing breakthrough tools like ChatGPT, and Google DeepMind scientists even won the 2024 Nobel prize for using AI to better predict and design protein structures. While the possibilities of AI are nearly...
MGM Resorts is clutching their pearls at the Third Circuit because it has been suggested that maybe they shouldn't have sent countless 'pretty please come gamble!' texts to a guy with a gambling addiction. Sam A. Antar is suing MGM Resorts for allegedly exploiting his...
When a family of possums snuck into a house through a kitty door, probably to enjoy some cat kibble, one of the babies got left behind. But without missing a beat, he found a surrogate 'mom' in the shape of a fluffy orange cat named Mr. — Read the rest The post Baby possum...
Nope, not banning guns. The real threat to children is seeing a vibrator at a CVS. A Texas lawmaker is concerned that a child might see a sex toy while shopping at Walmart. You can also buy guns and ammunition at Walmart, but let us tackle the thing used in mass shootings:...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released version 6.6.65 of the kernel: This release only fixes a build regression for openrisc, and a runtime regression for domU guests. If you don't have problems with them, no need to upgrade.
Google has finally unveiled Gemini 2.0, an evolution of its AI models designed to usher in a so-called “agentic era.” Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, has described this as a major leap forward for AI, emphasizing the model’s advanced reasoning, multimodal...
In 1911, French banker Albert Kahn launched an ambitious project to document humanity before modernization changed it forever. His Archives de la Planète would grow to include over 72,000 autochrome photographs and 100 hours of film footage, as Grace Linden explores in her...
Have you ever tried to have a meaningful conversation with a cokehead? LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Convicted felon and nepotism expert Donald J. Trump has named Kimberly Guilfoyle to be his ambassador to Greece. — Read the rest The post...
Apple has released iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2, which means local language access to Apple Intelligence is now available to iPhone, Mac, and iPad users in the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand. (They’ve had to set their language to US English to use...
Luigi Mangione had allegedly planned to use a bomb to kill UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson before settling for a 3-D printed gun. The 26-year-old shooter's spiral notebook, found on him when he was arrested at McDonald's, included a manifesto, as well as a 'to-do list'...
Slave to the attention economy, Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina had an award-winning foster youth advocate arrested for shaking her hand. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Folks who saw the event are shocked, confused, and outraged. —...
In 2004, a French author pulled off what many would consider impossible: writing an entire novel without using a single verb. Michel Dansel wrote a 233-page work called Le Train de Nulle Part (The Train from Nowhere) that eliminates what most consider an essential part of...
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