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Saturday December 7, 2024. 01:36 AM
The world of Windows application compatibility on Linux has just reached a new milestone. The Wine team has unveiled Wine 10.0-rc1, the very first release candidate for the highly anticipated Wine 10.0. This isn’t just another update -- it’s the beginning of the yearly...
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AI platform provider Clarifai is publicly previewing compute orchestration for AI workloads that the company says works across any AI model on any compute, at any scale. Clarifai said its vendor-agnostic platform could build and orchestrate AI workloads across any hardware...
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For the last several years, Tom Whitwell, has written an annual list of 52 things he's learned that year. He just posted his new one. Here are five samples: There are just 16 trademarked scents in the US, including Crayola crayons, Playdoh, an ocean-scented soft play in...
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Friday December 6, 2024. 11:20 PM
EXiGY rolls up the all of the above experiences into a single package: make games the way they were made in the mid-90s, by dragging and dropping objects into a window, programming some behaviour into those objects, and clicking the Run button. It’s like ZZT with tile...
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Every time a new Redox monthly report comes out, I’m baffled by the fact we’ve apparently rounded another month. They just keep on coming and going, don’t they? And I even turned 40 this 1 December, so it hits even harder this time. I’m now as old as I remember my parents...
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TL;DR: Save 45% on this HD monocular telescope, now available at the Cyber Week price of $22.97 (reg. $54) for only two more days. Are you stumped on what to get for your favorite adventurer this holiday season? You've already gifted them the cushiest hiking boots and...
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Bend, Oregon, disagrees with a local critic who has been improving public art installations with googly eyes. Someone in Bend has been putting big googly eyes on public artworks that appear to need them. The City of Bend, in response, has spent nearly $1500 removing googly...
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Today, we are announcing the availability of Vanir, a new open-source security patch validation tool. Introduced at Android Bootcamp in April, Vanir gives Android platform developers the power to quickly and efficiently scan their custom platform code for missing security...
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OpenAI has officially released its OpenAI o1 large language model (LLM), built for complex reasoning. The company also introduced ChatGPT Pro, a $200 monthly plan that includes unlimited access to OpenAI o1, o1-mini, GPT-4o, and advanced voice conversations. Available in a...
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   LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?   CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Long Island resident Beda Koorey, 76, is a lifelong Trekker. Such a fan of Star Trek that she had vanity license plates on her car emblazoned with NCC-1701, the registration number of the USS Enterprise. ...
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When TikTok owner ByteDance discovered recently that an intern had allegedly damaged a large language model (LLM) the intern was assigned to work on, ByteDance sued the intern for more than $1 million worth of damage. Filing that lawsuit might turn out to be not only...
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Hawk Tuah Girl Hailey Welch's $HAWK shitcoin crashed and burned this week, vaporizing nearly half a billion dollars of investor money in what critics are calling a textbook pump-and-dump scheme. The social media influencer's initially surged 900% on Wednesday, before...
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A couple of pups spotted a field mouse and went berserk, even bonking heads with each other as they frantically chased the little guy around a park. But when the mouse decided to stand her ground, staring her silly pursuers down, the confused doggos didn't know what to do...
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In the wake of the murder of its CEO this week, UnitedHealthcare has come under greater scrutiny for its use of an allegedly flawed AI algorithm that overrides doctors to deny elderly patients critical heathcare coverage. UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot...
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The fine folks at QVC want to let you know that if you are among the million people who bought a pair of 'Temp-tations' oven gloves — which have all the heat protection of wet newspaper — and subsequently scorched the bejesus out of your fingers while removing your tray...
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A compromised release was uploaded to PyPI after a project automatically processed a pull request with a flawed script. The GitHub account 'OpenIM Robot' (which appears to be controlled by Xinwei Xiong) opened a pull request for the ultralytics Python package. The pull...
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   LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?   CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid used in veterinary medicine to knock out huge animals like elephants and rhinoceroses for surgery. It's apparently 10,000 times more stronger than morphine and 100 times ...
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A vulture crashed into the cockpit of a small plane carrying five passengers, gruesomely hanging in front of the pilot's face for the rest of the flight. But the pilot, whose view was partially blocked by the dead bird, remained incredibly calm as he landed the plane at an...
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There's a scene in Quentin Tarantino's 2015 Western, The Hateful Eight, where Kurt Russell grabs Jennifer Jason Leigh's guitar and smashes it against a wooden column. Turns out that wasn't just any old guitar — it was a priceless 1870s Martin acoustic on loan from the...
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   LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?   CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! New analysis of tiny spoons found attached to belts of Barbarian warriors at ancient burial sites suggest that the Roman-era Germanic soldiers snorted stimulants and other drugs to embolden them in...
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