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Thursday January 2, 2025. 03:00 PM
I'll give the Musk/Cybertruck fanboys one thing: their devotion seems to know no limits. Enter the 24 karat gold-plated Tesla Cybertruck, which has been on display as part of a holidy shopping promotion at the Gold Souk Extension, a massive shopping center in Dubai, UAE. —...
Wake the kids, phone the neighbors. The Top Ten Tom the Dancing Bugs of 2024 has been announced. As 2025 starts, might you SIGN UP FOR THE INNER HIVE and you'll get each week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic at least a day before publication? — Read the rest The post Tom...
Want to utterly wipe a drive? ShredOS will do it for you. Install it to a USB stick, boot from said stick, and let it annihilate all those ones and zeroes. READ BOING BOING AD-FREE! ShredOS is a USB bootable (BIOS or UEFI) small linux distribution with the sole purpose of...
In painting apps, color gradients are calculated within abstract color models, apparently without any particular care for how humans see or what humans expect. If you've ever felt you could see 'Photoshop colors' in the dull and stodgy hues of a digitally-colored comic book...
The Facebook group Death Stairs is dedicated to staircases likely to murder those who set foot on them. Though there is a variety of subgenres—consider ultramodernist glass stairs with no railings or risers, for example, or the DIY witch stairs of an amateur carpenter's...
The Wombles are Britain's counterpart to the Smurfs, the Gnomes, the Trolls, and so on: in the 1960s and 1970s, every European country had its own cast of counterculture-influenced yet eminently franchisable creature cultures. The Wombles are hedgehog-like characters who...
'Can it run Doom?' is a clever way of reminding us that everything, from toasters to tealights, are general-purpose computers underneath the polypropylene. Though Doom in the browser is nothing new, Doom in a captcha in a browser as a test of humanity is a potentially...
Rudy Giuliani—formerly America's Mayor and lately Donald Trump's startlingly disgraced lawyer—will not be able to keep a list of witnesses hidden until a legal hearing next month that could strip him of his Florida condo. Giuliani is on the hook for a $148m defamation...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was once the fresh face of the Liberal party there, winning three elections on center-left platforms despite a string of scandals. His popularity faded slowly, then suddenly: in recent months the bottom has fallen out in his polling,...
Jocelyn Wildenstein, the Swiss socialite who became famous later in life for extreme cosmetic surgery that gave her a catlike appearance, died Wednesday. She was 79 or 84 years old, depending on the source, and suffered a pulmonary embolism. 'Her most enduring project,'...
Apple launched its highly anticipated Vision Pro “spatial computing” headset last Feb. 2 amid significant hype — and hopes it could finally push virtual or mixed reality into mainstream use. But with a price tag of $3,499 and a staggered rollout to countries outside...
Large language models (LLMs) like the OpenAI models used by Azure are general-purpose tools for building many different types of generative AI-powered applications, from chatbots to agent-powered workflows. Much of the work needed to get the most out of these off-the-shelf...
It is one now quarter of a century since you were expected to turn your computer off before midnight, like a digital Gremlin. The stickers may still be found on eBay for reasonable prices. The stickers' authenticity can hardly be guaranteed; if you still have a Packard Bell...
TL;DR: Save 44% on this MagSafe power bank with five other ports during our New Year's sale. Happy New Year! How are you celebrating? If you're setting some resolutions, consider adding this one: never running out of battery again with the coolest power bank you've ever...
Wednesday January 1, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Power up anywhere with this 2-in-1 keychain wireless charger for $16.97, now on sale with free shipping. Compact keychain design makes it easy to carry and perfect for on-the-go charging Designed specifically for all series of Apple Watches, offering seamless...
Starting a new year often comes with the urge to make a change, and if you’re tired of the quirks and constraints of Windows 11, Nobara 41 Linux might be exactly what you need in 2025. It’s a Linux distribution that builds on Fedora 41, tailored to provide a smoother,...
While some people are focused on new and trendy languages, José Marchesi has, instead, gifted the world with a GCC front end for the Algol 68 language. This WIP is a GCC front-end for Algol 68, the fascinating, generally poorly understood and often vilified programming...
TL;DR: Streamline all the tedious tasks you have to complete this year with help from 1minAI's collection of almost all the major AI models, now only $29.97 (reg. $234). When AI first came out, we were a little worried it would take a lot of people's jobs. — Read the rest ...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (python-django and python-tornado), Fedora (libxml2), and Red Hat (python-virtualenv and python36:3.6).
It’s the calm before the storm. Today, on New Year’s Day, we have a brief moment to pause and prepare — and set ourselves up for success. From a tech perspective, that means taking the time to clean up and optimize your smartphone setup. That way, when the inevitable...
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