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Tuesday February 4, 2025. 07:05 PM
Kearns, Utah police charged Ashton Jonathan Mann, 23, with manslaughter after he allegedly shot and killed his friend. The two men were stoned on weed and messing with their guns in the garage. That's when Mann's friend bragged that he 'can dodge a bullet.' — Read the rest ...
While two men in Utah were getting stoned over the weekend, one told the other he was able to dodge bullets. And unfortunately, 24-year-old Ashton Jonathon Mann decided to test his friend's superpower — shooting and killing him in the process. — Read the rest The post...
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French scientist and balloonist Gaston Tissandier published this image of a 'swimming apparatus' in his book Les Récréations Scientifiques in 1883. The book is full of similarly amusing illustrations of his ideas, experiments and inventions. I wish I could take a ride on...
It doesn't matter that it's a Tuesday night, or that it's cold by LA standards. The online tickets for RRR sold out three weeks ago and the standby line is 15 people deep. During the winter months this line winds from the Vidiots hallway to the lobby, just past the wall of...
Jeff Xu has been working on a patch set that makes certain mappings in a process's address space impossible to change, sealing them against tampering. This has some potential security benefits — mainly, making sure that someone cannot relocate the vsyscall and vDSO...
One of a handful of “independent” iOS app stores in Europe has begun the distribution of a porn app, advertising it as “Apple Approved.” The app isn’t approved by Apple, and the biggest app available on the AltStore is Epic’s child-focused Fortnite game. Fortnite ...
Believe it or not, in the flash drive world, USB-A models are still the most common. Yes, folks, despite USB-C being far superior, consumers have been slow to adopt flash drives with the better connector. Thankfully, companies are still producing USB-C flash drives despite...
A small desk plaque reading 'Be kind to everyone' became contraband in a federal intelligence agency last week — confiscated during a late-night sweep by Elon Musk's DOGE squad as they purged offices of anything resembling diversity initiatives, according to Mother Jones....
While I am a huge fan of steaming music for convenience, vinyl will always have a special place in my heart. You see, I have spent countless hours in record stores shopping for hip-hop on vinyl. Believe it or not, many of the records in my vast collection are not even on...
Yesterday, everyone was complaining that The New York Times was ignoring the takeover of government by Elon Musk and the college-age cronies he claims it's illegal to name. Today, it's covering it—with language that makes it sound like the best thing that's ever happened...
Earlier incarnations of The Fantastic Four were not hits, but this time, Marvel has Pedro Pascal playing Reed Richards. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! This is a fifth shot at a Fantastic Four movie. — Read the rest The post Rich guy's...
Version 135.0 of the Firefox web browser has been released. Changes include more languages for the translations feature, increasing roll-out of the credit-card autofill and AI chatbot features, and (perhaps most welcome): Firefox now includes safeguards to prevent sites...
Micah Toll bought a load of cheap electric excavators from China. By buying a shipping container-worth of them he got the price down to less than a well-used diesel skid steer—and they look like an amazing amount of fun. You might remember Toll from the $1700 mini electric ...
Analysis of close to one million operational technology (OT) devices by Claroty's Team82 research group finds that 12 percent contain known exploited vulnerabilities (KEVs), and 40 percent of the organizations analyzed have a subset of these assets insecurely connected to...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (openjdk-17), Fedora (chromium, fastd, ovn, and yq), Mageia (libxml2 and redis), Oracle (gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good), Red Hat (buildah, bzip2, galera, mariadb, grafana, keepalived, libsoup, mariadb:10.11,...
A drunk teacher who fell over repeatedly in a school pool after swigging from a wine bottle has been banned from the profession for at least two years, reports the BBC. 'The conduct of Mr Knight fell significantly short of the standards expected,' conclude investigators. —...
Natalie Cochran, a West Virginia pharmacist who killed her husband by poisoning him with insulin, was found guilty of first-degree murder and faces life in prison. Michael Cochran, 38, died in 2019; she didn't want him to find out about her $2m Ponzi scheme. — Read the rest ...
Forget Windows 12, AR OS 2 is everything we want Microsoft's next operating system to be - and more
A new Cloud Risk Exposure Impact Report from ZEST Security shows that 62 percent of incidents are directly related to risks the security team had previously identified, researched fixes for, and had open tickets for remediation in the backlog. The survey of over 150 security ...
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