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Thursday November 13, 2025. 04:46 PM
Springfield is now a playable map in Fortnite, Simpsons style, and shockingly, the Ned Flanders NPC is racking up an impressive body count. Fortnite's Simpsons update has taken a bizarre turn as Ned Flanders becomes the game's most unlikely killing machine. — Read the...
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JD Vance has decided that ibuprofen is a cultural crossroads, declaring common pain relief beneath him. Much like experts, science, and books, the Vice President finds Advil 'useless.' In a peculiar demonstration of stoicism, Vance says he will not take it for a sore back,...
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The Smart Light Database tracks the options and makes it easy to sort products by wattage, color rendering index, temperature, brightness and other factors of aesthetic, thereapeutic or professional relevance. It was recently updated to include lightbulbs. Also reviewed are...
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I'm thoroughly enjoying this story of the unusual but heartwarming relationship a man has developed with a tiny jumping spider named Earl. Lucky for us, the human in this unlikely pair, Ben Newell, who runs Worcester Terrariums, has documented it all and posted it online...
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Only a few months ago, Google announced it was going to require that all Android applications – even those installed outside of the Play Store – had to be verified. This led to a massive backlash, and it seems our protests and complaints have had effect: the company...
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Ever ran into issues using sysupgrade on OpenBSD because /usr ran out of space? OpenBSD developers are trying to address this issue. Firstly, Stuart Henderson (sthen@) modified the installer to increase free space prior to installing. […] Theo de Raadt...
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Valve announced a few new devices yesterday. There’s a new Steam console, which is essentially just a tiny PC with SteamOS installed – think of it as a Steam Deck without a display. Second, Valve finally released a new Steam Controller to go with the Steam console, which has...
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New research from the Zimperium zLabs team reveals a sharp rise in mobile threats tied to the holiday shopping season. The report shows that mishing (mobile phishing) remains the most widespread and effective mobile attack vector. Smishing messages and fake delivery alerts...
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In 1865, a blue whale washed ashore in Askin Bay near Göteborg, Sweden. The whale wasn't rescued—instead, August Wilhelm Malm, a taxidermist and curator at the Gothenburg Museum, purchased it for preservation and display. Today, this remains the world's only taxidermied...
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Many distributions provide support out of the proverbial box for Flatpak packages, but Fedora is unusual in that it also provides, and defaults, to its own repository of Fedora-built Flatpaks. This has been a source of confusion for Fedora users, who expect to get the...
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The Senate has criminalized an industry that it legalized seven years ago. Buried in last week's government funding bill was language that will shut down America's $2.8 billion hemp market and eliminate over 300,000 jobs. A quirk in the 2018 Farm Bill allowed manufacturers...
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After a weird teaser that saw the series move to space, perhaps a little too fast, full details and a complete cast list for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie have finally been revealed with the release of a full-length trailer. — Read the rest The post Brie Larson joins Super...
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A problem with colored pencils is that, like the good watercolor pigment inks, certain colors fade quickly. Lightfastedness is, therefore, a key selling point: 'our pencils won't fade,' declares one popular manufacturer. Sarah Renae Clark tested various brands and found that ...
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The AI wave is translating into an increased number of AI agents in the workplace, which equates to a surge of both non-human identities (NHIs) and agentic identities. This is resulting in an urgent focus for CIOs and CISOs on identity threats and recovery. New research from ...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and firefox-esr), Fedora (firefox, rubygem-rack, skopeo, and webkitgtk), Mageia (perl, perl-CPAN, perl-HTTP-Tiny, perl-Data-Entropy, perl-FCGI, perl-File-Find-Rule, perl-YAML-LibYAML, python-tornado, python-urllib3,...
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Colletto Fava is a hill located near the small village of Artesina in the commune of Frabosa Sottana, Italy. In 2005, a group of artists created a giant pink bunny and installed it on the top of the hill. The bunny has a wide-open mouth, as if it's letting out a big...
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In 2011, Wired reporter Andy Greenberg thought Bitcoin could keep users completely anonymous. But at the 2025 Bitwarden Open Source Security Summit, he said, 'I slowly realized I was totally wrong about Bitcoin. It was actually the opposite of untraceable.' — Read the rest ...
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OpenAI says The New York Times wants it to hand over 20 million private ChatGPT conversations from December 2022 to November 2024. OpenAI claims that the Times is seeking examples of people using ChatGPT to circumvent The Times' paywall. OpenAI's security chief calls it...
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Artificial intelligence has redefined what it means to lead in IT, with 63 percent of IT leadersreporting that their roles have evolved due to advances in AI. A study, from IT management platform Atera, finds today’s IT leaders are increasingly responsible for driving...
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The last penny rolled off the press at 3:47 PM yesterday at the US Mint in Philadelphia, watched by US Treasurer Brandon Beach and a handful of mint workers. After 238 years, the one-cent coin officially died of economic inefficiency — it cost nearly four cents to make...
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