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Wednesday October 23, 2024. 11:30 AM
According to the latest global estimates, up to 400 million terabytes of data are created every single day. However, unlike the past, where users were happy to delete data once they felt it was no longer required, today’s data rarely gets deleted anymore, which is creating ...
Everyone knows that a prime number is one that cannot be made by multiplying other whole numbers together. This deceptively simple attribute hides a world of complexity that has engaged mathematicians ancient and modern. This quality of primes also has essential applications ...
Python is powerful, versatile, and programmer-friendly, but it isn’t the fastest programming language around. Some of Python’s speed limitations are due to its default implementation, CPython, being single-threaded. That is, CPython doesn’t use more than one hardware...
The manufacturing of physical objects is largely understood, mostly because the same thing is being produced over and over. If you are cranking out widgets, the process is orderly, repeatable, and possibly even perfectable. You can find and improve the worst bottleneck...
Managing WhatsApp contacts has proved to be a frustrating friction point for many users, and Meta has just announced that it is taking steps to simplify things. As well as making it possible to add contacts via the web interface and Windows app, soon it will be possible to...
Quarter Pounders served in McDonald's restaurants were the reported source of an E. Coli outbreak that has killed one diner, and Reuters now reports that dozens more are sick across the U.S. In Colorado alone 26 people are ill after eating them, according to the Centers for...
The processor in the Game Boy Advance, the ARM7TDMI, has a weird characteristic where the carry flag is set to a “meaningless value” after a multiplication operation. What this means is that software cannot and should not rely on the value of the carry flag after...
When I think about bhyve Live Migration, it’s something I encounter almost daily in my consulting calls. VMware’s struggles with Broadcom’s licensing issues have been a frequent topic, even as we approach the end of 2024. It’s surprising that many customers still...
At the Snapdragon Summit today, Qualcomm is officially announcing the Snapdragon 8 Elite, its flagship SoC for smartphones. The Snapdragon 8 Elite is a major upgrade from its predecessor, with improvements across the board. Qualcomm is also changing its naming scheme for its ...
Donald Trump is all out of steam, as he has proven this month with a multitude of last-minute cancellations, including interviews with NBC, CNBC, and 60 Minutes. And the tired 78-year-old ex-president — who fell asleep at a campaign event in Michigan on Friday after...
In just 90 days, a pair of young scammers went from plotting in Discord chats to living in multi-million dollar mansions, thanks to the largest cryptocurrency theft from a single victim in U.S. history. The accused fraudsters, Jeandiel Serrano, 21, and Malone Lam, 20, posed...
Developers are shifting from code-first to API-first thinking when it comes to software development, according to the newly released 2024 State of the API Report from API platform provider Postman. Released October 15, the sixth-annual report is based on a survey of more...
TL;DR: Save 50% on this Ninja Dragon smart drone that comes with obstacle avoidance, gesture control, and photo and video abilities! Have you ever dreamed of getting a drone? You're not alone. It's so cool seeing all the drone footage on YouTube and Instagram, and there's...
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a food safety alert for E.Coli after one person was killed and ten others hospitalized after eating McDonald's Quarter Pounders. Nearly 50 others reported illnesses across ten states, with most cases in Colorado and ...
I commented on Lobsters that /tmp is usually a bad idea, which caused some surprise. I suppose /tmp security bugs were common in the 1990s when I was learning Unix, but they are pretty rare now so I can see why less grizzled hackers might not be familiar with the problems. I...
Actor Bradley Whitford returned to his hometown of Madison, Wisconsin, to campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz. The 'West Wing' and 'The Handmaid Tale's' star took especial delight in going over Donald Trump's vile resume. Whitford suggested that...
Perhaps one of the more surprising changes in the 6.12-rc4 development kernel was the removal of several entries from the kernel's MAINTAINERS file. The patch performing the removal was sent (by Greg Kroah-Hartman) only to the patches@lists.linux.dev mailing list; the change ...
Tuesday October 22, 2024. 11:12 PM
Matilda Campbell was hiking in New South Wales, Australia's Hunter Valley when she dropped her mobile phone between two boulders. Campbell slipped and fell into a tight crevice where she was stuck, upside down, for seven hours. Rescue workers first winched out a 1,100...
TL;DR: Upgrade your oral care with LIVFRESH Molecular Teeth Cleaning, now $59.99 (reg. $149). My last bill from the dentist left a cavity in my wallet. Here's how I'm helping make sure that doesn't happen again. I started using LIVFRESH, a product line designed to provide...
Rudy Giuliani probably didn't think he'd end up disbarred, destitute, and despised at age 80. But he should have realized that's what happens to people who try to help Donald Trump. They get squeezed like grapefruits until they're desiccated husks, then tossed in the gutter. ...
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