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Wednesday January 15, 2025. 01:21 AM
A change to the Linux 6.13 kernel contributed by a Microsoft engineer ended up changing Linux x86_64 code without proper authorization and in turn causing troubles for users and now set to be disabled ahead of the Linux 6.13 stable release expected next Sunday. ↫ Michael...
Futurism is declaring this onset of 'Slopaggeddon,' search rapidly becoming dominated by AI slop that doesn't answer our questions. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! AI slop and SEO have come together to ruin the credibility of Google Search. —...
Tuesday January 14, 2025. 11:58 PM
They tried to keep it from prying eyes, but several people did notice it: Google made a pretty significant policy change regarding the use of fingerprinting by advertisers. While Google did not allow advertisers to use digital fingerprinting, the company has now changed its...
When Mike Goldman offered $5,000 to anyone who could compress a randomly-generated file of their chosen size in early 2001, he thought his money was perfectly safe. After all, it's mathematically impossible to compress truly random data. But Patrick Craig spotted a loophole...
This lovely creature is Bathynomus vaderi, an isopod newly named after Darth Vader for obvious reasons. A crustacean in the order Isopoda, which also includes wood lice, Bathynomus vaderi can reach almost a foot in length and weigh more than two pounds. — Read the rest The p...
Rescue workers in Peru are desperately searching for what may be as many as seventeen miners trapped in a collapse caused by an assault led by rival miners. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! In what sounds like claimjumping with intent to kill,...
A talented corgi named Dash used to spend his days hurling toys at his humans. Until he took up the piano and became a busker in New York City. Playing tunes on a pet-size piano, the pup now keeps busy drawing a large crowd at Central Park and other outdoor spaces as he...
The dissociative 'psychedelic' drug Ketamine has shown to be helpful at relieving depression in zebrafish. The new scientific study by Harvard researchers could increase our understanding of how ketamine works in the human brain to alleviate depression and eventually lead to ...
You'd think six years would be enough time to scrub down a meat factory infested with insects and mold, but when it comes to Boar's Head deli meats, the slime and stink keep on a comin'. The black mold, rancid smells, and other unsanitary conditions found at the Jarratt,...
Enterprise computers are often the ugly ducklings of the PC world, viewed as dull, slow and less feature-rich than their consumer counterparts. But vendors at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show launched a selection of business machines (alongside their consumer...
OpenAI is doubling down on its vision for AI in the U.S., unveiling its economic blueprint, “AI in America.” This document outlines strategies to spur AI development, regulate the technology, and maintain America’s edge over global competitors like China. The release...
As AI evolves at breakneck speed, its more complex models demand increasingly staggering amounts of computational power. Because the computational requirements of AI models grow exponentially as they scale, traditional processors struggle to keep up. They require excessive...
Famed automaker Mercedes-Benz is taking in-car navigation to a whole new level. The luxury car company announced on Monday the expansion of its strategic partnership with Google Cloud to bring conversational AI capabilities to its MBUX Virtual Assistant, powered by Google...
The Mastodon project has announced that founder Eugen Rochko will be transferring 'key Mastodon ecosystem and platform components (including name and copyrights, among other assets)' to a new non-profit organization: Practically Mastodon will remain headquartered in and...
In recent months, we’ve talked twice about FM Towns, Fujitsu’s PC platform aimed solely at the Japanese market. It was almost entirely only available in Japanese, so it’s difficult to explore for those of us who don’t speak Japanese. There’s an effort underway to recreate it...
Spokane, Washington police arrested Dan D. Phelps, 53, for allegedly trying to shoot his roommate Daniel Perkins. Phelps is legally blind and hit his friend, Joey Anselmo, instead. The bullet hit Anselmo in the knee, just above his prosthetic leg. LIKE BOING BOING BUT...
TuxFamily is a French free-software-hosting service that has been in operation since 1999. It is a non-profit that accepts 'any project released under a free license', whether that is a software license or a free-content license, such as CC-BY-SA. It is also, unfortunately,...
Given the power of the PDF engines in current desktop Web browsers, Thomas Rinsma created a version of Tetris that can be played within a PDF itself: PDFTRIS LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The idea came about when Rinsma 'realized...
In today's computers, when we switch a transistor from 0 to 1, we charge it up (requiring energy), and when we're done, we discharge it, losing all that energy as heat. It's like filling a bucket with water only to immediately dump it out. — Read the rest The post...
As Trump-pick for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth dodges questions on everything from drinking on the job and cheating on his wives to invading Greenland, one of his bumbling sidesteps really sticks out: he cannot answer whether or not he would shoot protestors if Donald...
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