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Wednesday September 17, 2025. 06:02 PM
Rather than attacking pleasure boats or eating seals, Old Thom spends his days swimming with Atlantic white sided dolphins. No one quite knows why. Orcinus orca, or killer whales, are more likely to eat their smaller whale buddies, rather than join their pod and swim...
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Convicted felon and liable for sexual assault, Donald Trump loves bullying with lawsuits, but this one is sheer lunacy. 'This is a stunningly pathological lawsuit even by Trumpian standards' former prosecutor Ken White joked on Bluesky. 'It reads as if he was holding a...
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Version 49 of the GNOME desktop environment has been released. Changes include new default video (Showtime) and PDF-viewing (Papers) applications, a number of calendar improvements, and updates to the Web, Maps, and Software applications.
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Fascism enthusiast Jesse Watters threatens anyone who calls a fascist a fascist with arrest or ostracism. After a few days of telling us how their murdered white supremacist stood for free speech and everything 'American.' MAGA morons are now working extra hard to limit...
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Ian Jackson has published a blog post summarizing the tag2upload service's first month of handling uploads for the upcoming Debian 14 ('forky') release: We announced tag2upload's open beta in mid-July. That was in the middle of the the freeze for trixie, so usage was fairly...
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While the rest of us are worrying about artificial intelligence stealing our jobs, our intellectual property, or hallucinating bullshit that makes our lie-ridden world just a tiny bit worse, Albania has put a Large Language Model to work in a public office: 'Diella, the...
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Version 2.15.0 of libxml2 has been released. Notable changes include the disabling of Python bindings by default, using Doxygen to generate API documentation, as well as bringing HTML serialization and handling of character encodings more in line with the HTML5...
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Ever since Fellowship of the Ring's release, perhaps the biggest Lord of the Rings talking point (aside from Viggo Mortensen really breaking his toe on that helmet) has been the question of why they didn't just take the eagles to Mordor. — Read the rest The post Lord of the...
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TL;DR: Still paying monthly for Word or Excel? Get a lifetime license to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows plus official Microsoft training for less than $50. If you're still paying a monthly fee to open Word documents and build budget spreadsheets, we...
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Typst is a program for document typesetting. It is especially well-suited to technical material incorporating elements such as mathematics, tables, and floating figures. It produces high-quality results, comparable to the gold standard, LaTeX, with a simpler markup system...
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Apple and Lenovo were the only PC makers to experience any growth in the US desktop and notebook markets in the second quarter. Apple saw the highest year-on-year growth of all PC makers according to Canalys, part of Omdia. That growth is significant: While the industry as...
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A new report shows that 60 percent of organizations use AI in the software testing process, compared to just 30 percent last year, but 80 percent lack in-house AI testing expertise. The study from Applause, based on a global survey of more than 2,100 software development and ...
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Watch a guy slide down a 100 foot trash chute and come out the other end with a giant smile on his face. This looks both extremely fun and unsafe.  This stunt was attempted by a professional, so don't try something like this if you see a trash chute trying to lure you in.  —...
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Systemd v258 has been released with a long list of new features and changes; slice units now have basic workload management features, quotas for tmpfs have been added, the 'systemctl start' command now has a verbose (-v) option, and more. This release also, finally,...
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In October, consumer versions of Windows 10 will stop receiving security updates. Many users who would ordinarily move to the next version are blocked by Windows 11's hardware requirements unless they are willing to buy a newer PC. The 'End of 10' campaign is an effort to...
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There's a few months left before winter turns many of us into hermits. It's the perfect time to visit an outdoor garden before you hunker down for the colder months. Here's a list of 17 outdoor gardens to explore, shared by Atlas Obscura. — Read the rest The post 17...
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Those trying the hotpot at a Shanghai branch of chain restaurant Haidilao may have noticed an unusual piquant note to the flavor on a February day earlier this year: two teenagers had urinated in the soup. Authorities stress there is no suggestion anyone actually consumed...
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New research released today by Claroty looks at the impacts of economic and geopolitical uncertainty on organizations' ability to protect their cyber-physical systems (CPS) environments. Cyber-physical systems are those that overlap the cyber world -- things like industrial...
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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8, kernel, and podman), Debian (node-sha.js), Fedora (firefox, kea, and perl-JSON-XS), Mageia (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-latest-openjdk), Oracle (kernel, libarchive, podman,...
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This hologram ice cream vending machine in Japan goes the extra mile to prepare your cone. The machine displays a real cone through a glass screen after you choose a flavor. Then, hologram cartoon characters appear and look as if they're the ones filling up your cone for...
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