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Thursday April 3, 2025. 08:30 PM
Gastrointestinal mayhem struck the luxury Cunard Line ship Queen Mary 2, on which 224 passengers and 17 crew members are battling norovirus. The Centers for Disease Control reports that the ship is en route from Southampton, England to New York and on to the Caribbean. —...
A 38-year-old gentleman posing as a doctor in New York tried to flee the country after one of his procedures left a woman in critical condition. But he didn't get very far when police arrested him at John F. Kennedy International airport with an unused ticket to Colombia in...
Turmoil has engulfed the republic. Yesterday, President Trump announced worldwide tariffs on imports, described as reciprocal but in fact based on the balance of trade with each territory. The peculiar formula and other oddities, such as tariffs on trade from uninhabited...
Apple’s leadership is no doubt scrambling to identify a silver lining (if there is one) as the storm of US President Donald J. Trump’s punishing range of global tariffs rains heavily across the company’s supply chain. Even Apple’s attempt to mitigate the impact...
In Brazil buying a pair of children's sunglasses requires an elaborate bargaining ritual complete with coffee service and multiple sales staff, as London School of Economics professor Christopher Sandmann discovered during a family vacation. Writing on The Holdup Problem,...
Over 39 million API keys, credentials, and other secrets leaked onto GitHub’s platform last year, but an update to its scanning tool could help stop that. The widely used cloud-based version-control platform automatically blocks ‘several secrets every minute’ from...
If you're uncomfortable with grocery prices and the state of the U.S. economy in general, get used to it. Donald Trump's Commerce Secretary just predicted when things will turn around: not next week, not next month, not this summer… 'That's a whole lot of growth, and you're...
Here's the opening paragraph from Europe's break-up letter with its insufferably redpilled friend, USA: 'Thank you for Andy Warhol. Thank you for the Big Mac and the iPhone. Thank you, too, for Francis Ford Coppola, for Stanley Kubrick and Quentin Tarantino. — Read the rest ...
Famed director David Cronenberg weighed in on the controversy surrounding the use of AI in the Oscar-nominated film “The Brutalist.” He made these remarks during a wide-ranging conversation with longtime collaborator and composer Howard Shore, as well as Jon Burlingame, last...
During South Korea's brutal winter of 2010, frustrated glove-wearing smartphone users learned that they could use sausages instead of their finger. This hack became so popular that one sausage manufacturer reported a 40% spike in sales, as BBC's 'The Secret Genius of Modern...
Address-space isolation may well be, as Brendan Jackman said at the beginning of his memory-management-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, 'some security bullshit'. But it also holds the potential to protect the kernel from ...
Intentional or not, Fox News had a sense of grim humor today when the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture tried to paint a rosy picture of Donald Trump's unpopular new tariffs. 'It's a whole new world based on Liberation Day yesterday,' Brooke Rollins told Fox host Maria...
Cloud and development operations (devops) teams are under constant pressure to do more, faster. They have outdated systems to update and manage, new systems to build, and requests from business units who need their support. It’s a velocity problem, and IT departments often ...
Entire lives are still uprooted, and a simple donation can go a long way toward helping with the relief efforts for the Los Angeles wildfires. Yesterday, while doing some paperwork at the DMV, my father, who lives in LA, talked with a gentleman who had lost his home in the...
With fraud on the increase and more sophisticated attack methods being used, payments company Visa is turning to AI to help businesses and financial institutions fight back. It's introducing ARIC Risk Hub, developed by Featurespace -- a company recently acquired by Visa --...
The kernel must often step through the page tables of one or more processes to carry out various operations. This 'page-table walking' tends to be performed by ad-hoc (duplicated) code all over the kernel. Oscar Salvador used a memory-management-track session at the 2025...
Version 1.86.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include support for trait upcasting, the ability to index multiple elements of HashMaps and slices mutably, and a number of stabilized APIs.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (expat), Debian (chromium, commons-vfs, firefox-esr, php-horde-editor, php-horde-imp, and thunderbird), Fedora (corosync, firefox, nextcloud, and suricata), Mageia (curl and upx), Oracle (emacs, fence-agents, freetype, kernel,...
According to a new study, 76 percent of tech leaders say that AI will make their existing low-code/no-code tools more efficient instead of replacing them altogether. The survey from App Builder, with third-party research firm Dynata, finds use of low-code and no-code tools...
German software developer SoftMaker GmbH has released FreePDF 2025, a free PDF editor for Windows PCs. It’s a cut-down version of SoftMaker’s commercial FlexiPDF editing tool that contains a subset of the basic editing features found in the developer’s $100 product....
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