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Tuesday November 26, 2024. 06:08 PM
Brazil’s antitrust body has joined a chorus of regulators to demand that Apple permit external payment methods in iOS apps. It’s just the latest page in an ongoing story, but might be enough to break this camel’s backbone. What this means, at the risk of stating...
Relying on a chart from USA Today and a Reader's Digest article on weird things the government spends money on, Elon Musk's analysis can only be intended to distract. Either corporations can pay their fair share, or we can start cutting the military budget. — Read the rest ...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Digital hardcore duo Machine Girl, with the late-October release of their new album MG Ultra still echoing, is making heir way across the United States. At Saturday's San Francisco show, the packed crowd ...
Anthropic today released a new open source protocol to let all AI systems, not just its own, connect with data sources via a standard interface. Model Context Protocol (MCP), the company said in its announcement, lets developers build secure two-way connections between...
Arch Linux is popular as a base for other Linux distributions; examples of Arch-derivatives include EndeavourOS, Manjaro, Parabola, and SteamOS. There's one small problem: the control files used to describe how to build packages for Arch Linux have no stated license. That...
As if travel during Thanksgiving week wasn't hectic enough, planes collided at Boston's Logan International Airport on Monday — not once but twice. First, at around 11:00 a.m., an American Airlines flight that had just landed from London got too close to a Frontier...
A new analysis found that 10 percent of the biggest newsletters on the Substack publishing platform likely use AI-generated content in some capacity, and 7 percent of the newsletters “significantly rely” on AI content. The analysis was conducted by GPTZero, whose AI...
Mozilla has announced the release of Firefox 133.0. Notable in this release is the addition of a new anti-tracking feature, Bounce Tracking Protection, which detects trackers based on redirect behavior and automatically purges their cookies and site data to thwart tracking....
Israel has earned its reputation as “the startup nation,” with one startup for every 1,100 citizens. Now Israeli AI companies are leveraging this innovation-driven culture to achieve remarkable progress, as highlighted in a recent report. Israel’s Long View is Yielding ...
JavaScript is the name of the most popular and widely-used programming language. Due to a series of historical absurdities, such as the decision to name it after Java, a completely different language, JavaScript is now also a trademark registered to Oracle. — Read the rest ...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (pypy3), Fedora (chromium, cobbler, and libsoup3), Oracle (kernel), SUSE (glib2, govulncheck-vulndb, javapackages-tools, xmlgraphics-batik, xmlgraphics- commons, xmlgraphics-fop, libblkid-devel, opentofu, php8, postgresql,...
Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Christmas bring millions of shoppers online with attractive discounts and limited time offers, but of course they also create ideal conditions for cybercriminals to exploit unwary bargain hunters. A new report from Fortinet's...
John Alfred Tinniswood (previously at Boing Boing) died Monday at 112. He was the world's oldest man. His family said Mr Tinniswood's final day was 'surrounded by music and love'. Mr Tinniswood, who was born on 26 August 1912, the same year the Titanic sank, became the UK's ...
Smaller businesses lack the tech resources of larger ones so it's common practice that they not only allow employees to use their personal mobile phones to complete work tasks but in many cases actively expect them to. Research carried out by OnePoll for SME security...
Telephone scammers may have found their match in Granny Daisy, a new human-like artificial intelligence capable of interacting with human callers and boring them to tears. Trained to fool scammers into thinking they’re talking to a real grandmother, Daisy answers calls...
The latest of some 5,780 exoplanets so far discovered outside our own solar system is described as a 'young' planet that may develop into a super-Earth: a world compositionally similar to our own but much larger.'Astronomers got lucky,' writes Mark Kaufman. — Read the rest ...
Berlin developer O&O Software has rolled out O&O DiskImage 20 Pro, offering Windows users imaging and file backup in a single application. While version 20 is a relatively minor release, it does at least continue O&O’s commitment to providing lifetime licenses for its...
The German National Tourist Board has unleashed Emma, an AI travel influencer, to promote the country’s scenic landscapes and cultural treasures. Marketed as a cutting-edge innovation in tourism marketing, Emma promised to reshape how travelers experience Germany...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! And if not, it's certainly a contender. Put the neon-green Cyberbeast out of your mind and feast your eyes on the Cyberdoge, a unique meeting of Elon Musk's terrible cars and Elon Musk's ancient taste in ...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! See a tiny and ethereal looking Peruvian Dragon mantis swaying back and forth on a person's hand. When full grown, this mantis is relatively large. The females typically grow up to 4–5 inches (10–12...
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