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Sunday August 10, 2025. 01:00 PM
A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture.
Nothing ruins a great night of sleep faster than getting too hot. We slept on a myriad of cooling mattresses to find which ones drew the heat away best.
POS scams are difficult but not impossible to pull off. Here's how they work—and how you can protect yourself.
Decision to use MXFP4 makes models smaller, faster, and more importantly, cheaper for everyone involved Analysis Whether or not OpenAI's new open weights models are any good is still up for debate, but their use of a relatively new data type called MXFP4 is arguably more...
These clamps just might offer the vibrating sensation you've been seeking.
AOL (now a Yahoo subsidiary) just announced its dial-up internet service will be discontinued at the end of September. 'The change also means the retirement of the AOL Dialer software and the AOL Shield browser, both designed for older operating systems and slow connections...
Acting Administrator has selected a lucky orbiter, but won't say which one The NASA acting Administrator has picked a Space Shuttle to move to Houston, and the lucky vehicle is... NASA's not telling.…
Last month Microsoft pledged $4 billion (in cash and AI/cloud technology) to 'advance' AI education in K-12 schools, community and technical colleges, and nonprofits (according to a blog post by Microsoft President Brad Smith). But in the launch event video, Smith also says...
After five months on the International Space Station, four astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule named Endurance, reports Space.com. It was NASA's 10th commercial crew rotation mission: The flight launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ...
It turns out no one was clean on OPSEC DEF CON On Saturday at DEF CON, security boffin Micah Lee explained just how he published data from TeleMessage, the supposedly secure messaging app used by White House officials, which in turn led to a massive database dump of their...
'Linus Torvalds has used his authority to reject the RISC-V architecture changes for the Linux 6.17 kernel,' reports Phoronix: Only on Friday were the RISC-V code updates submitted for the Linux 6.17 merge window. The Linux 6.17 merge window is expected to wrap up on Sunday...
Saturday August 9, 2025. 11:45 PM
'Heather Adkins, Google's vice president of security, announced Monday that its LLM-based vulnerability researcher Big Sleep found and reported 20 flaws in various popular open source software,' reports TechCrunch: Adkins said that Big Sleep, which is developed by the...
A professional trapper had one question about the wild pig he'd found in California. Why was its flesh blue? The Los Angeles Times explains: [California's Department of Fish and Wildlife] is now warning trappers and hunters to keep an eye out for possibly contaminated...
'Benchmarking firm Artificial Analysis found that only five of the top 15 AI models are open source,' reports the Washington Post, 'and all were developed by Chinese AI companies....' 'Now some American executives, investors and academics are endorsing a plan to make U.S....
Quantum sensors can be used in medical technologies, navigation systems, and more, but they’re too expensive for most people. That's where the Uncut Gem open source project comes in.
They haven't built a spacecraft for travelling to our nearest star system. But 'Engineers have designed a spacecraft that could take up to 2,400 people on a one-way trip to Alpha Centauri,' reports LiveScience: The craft, called Chrysalis, could make the 25 trillion mile (40 ...
'General Motors claimed a new world record for EV driving on a single charge,' reports the Verge, 'after a Chevy Silverado EV traveled 1,059.2 miles without recharging its battery.' The potentially record-breaking run took place over seven days on public roads near GM's...
In 2023 a 13-year-old girl 'made an offensive joke while chatting online with her classmates,' reports the Associated Press. But when the school's surveillance software spotted that joke, 'Before the morning was even over, the Tennessee eighth grader was under arrest. She...
'KDE Linux is an all-new desktop Linux distro being developed as a showcase for the KDE desktop project,' reports The Register. 'The project is still in a pre-alpha testing stage, but recently went public on the KDE website. Versions are available to download and try out.'...
'California's biggest electric utilities pulled off a record-breaking test...' reports Semafor, 'during the 7pm-9pm window that is typically its time of peak demand as people come home from work.' Pacific Gas & Electric and other top California power companies switched on...
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