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Thursday April 17, 2025. 08:55 PM
Nairobi police nabbed two Belgian teenagers for wildlife piracy. Apparently they were caught with 5,000 ants—not in their pants but packed in test tubes at a guest house where they were staying. Lornoy David and Seppe Lodewijckx, 19, told a judge they were just collecting...
Does this sound familiar? It’s Wednesday night, you’re scrolling through rows and rows of movies and shows, nothing catches your eye, and suddenly it’s 25 minutes later, and you still haven’t picked something to watch. Netflix may have come up with an interesting new solution...
OpenAI has released o3 and 04-mini, two reasoning AI models designed to be extra good at programming, math, and science and that can use images to “think,” according to Engadget, This means that users can upload sketches or diagrams, for example, and even if they are of...
Researchers have detected what appears to be the strongest ever sign of life on another planet. The researchers from the University of Cambridge and colleagues announced this week that a massive planet named K2-18b, located 120 light-years from Earth, contained chemical signa...
At least six people, including students, were rushed to the hospital this afternoon after a shooter opened fire at Florida State University. The gunman started shooting inside the university's Student Union around noon, reports NBC News, and the campus went into lockdown...
Data lake vendor Onehouse on Thursday released Open Engines, a new capability on its platform which it says provides the ability to deploy open source engines on top of open data. Available in private preview, it initially supports Apache Flink for stream processing, Trino...
The Wall Street Journal reports that Vietnam is rushing approval of a new Trump resort and buying Starlink as part of a plan to stave off Trump's tariffs. Negotiating new trade deals takes time, and just buying some more US-made goods, while kissing Trump's posterior, is a...
Canonical has announced the arrival of Ubuntu 25.04 -- 'Plucky Puffin.' This latest interim release introduces a number of updates across the desktop, as well as developer tools, and improved hardware support, with a focus on boosting performance and improving the user...
The Department of Homeland Security is really crushing it at their job lately, if their job is being spectacularly wrong about who's American. Dr. Lisa Anderson, born in Pennsylvania (which last time we checked was part of the United States), got an email from DHS ordering...
Rejoice, America! The dog-killing DHS head Kristi Noem has finally nabbed that most dangerous of criminals: a Japanese Mormon computer science nerd who was near someone who was extra good at catching fish one afternoon. Brigham Young University Ph.D. candidate Suguru Onda...
Things are getting serious regarding Apple security. This shouldn’t really surprise you, given the normalization of chaos we’re enduring, as confusion always makes people more vulnerable. It’s easier to be hoodwinked into clicking that particular malware link when...
When it comes to mountain SOS calls, the UK broke two records in 2024, and officials are pointing fingers at social media and map apps. England and Wales earned their high scores for receiving SOS calls from risky locations every single day last year — the first time ever ...
In a fun read, VelvetShark attempts to decipher why most AI companies have opted for a logo reminiscent of the human sphincter. I would guess that humans like to anthropomorphize everything, and an AI that pumps put crap needs to look like something that pumps out crap. —...
Media often has problems stating the obvious, but CNN has no difficulty placing blame for spiking mortgage rates: 'President Donald Trump's scattered approach to tariffs and an escalating trade war with China.' The average rate on a standard, 30-year fixed mortgage was...
Version 25.04 ('Plucky Puffin') of the Ubuntu Linux distribution has been released. This release includes Linux 6.14, GNOME 48, APT 3.0, and introduces a Arm64 desktop ISO to install Ubuntu Desktop on Arm64 systems. This is an interim release, with support through...
A 500-year-old oak tree that survived the Spanish Armada, two World Wars, and centuries of British weather just met its match: a panicked middle manager at a mediocre roast dinner chain. As the BBC reports, the head honchos at Mitchells & Butlers — proud owners of Toby Carv...
A financial analyst notes that DOGE has created significant disruption, but very little actual government savings have been realized. Noting the 'promises vs. the realities' of DOGE, MSN analyst Steve Rattner points out that while there has been a lot of noise, a lot of...
Atari's 1200XL should have been a success of the 8-bit home computing era: modern, compact, designed to compete with the breakout Commodore 64, and good-looking to boot. But it was a fiasco, writes Paul Lefebvre, due to poor compatibility with Atari 400/800 software and a...
Republican state legislators in Idaho find the Pride flag flying over nearby Boise City Hall offensive, so they passed an unenforceable law that the Mayor is ignoring. Idaho's Attorney General has demanded that Boise's Mayor remove two flags from City Hall under the rule of ...
Alaska's Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski said the quiet part out loud, admitting that she and her GOP colleagues 'are all afraid.' 'We are all afraid,' she said on stage at The Foraker Group's annual leadership summit in Anchorage, after someone in the audience had asked...
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