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Tuesday January 28, 2025. 05:41 PM
Your four-digit PIN is your secret shield guarding your phone, bank account, and other services — but millions of people are using the exact same code. Of course, 4 digits only allows for 10,000 different PINs, but according to data analyzed by cybersecurity experts and...
'Has anything gotten cheaper?' asks NPR. 'We shopped at Walmart to find the answer.' Spoiler, no, except for grapes, nuts and Ocean Spray. Over and over, I pick up an item just to return it to the shelf because of its higher cost: a bag of Lay's potato chips, a jar of Pace...
TL;DR: Hate AI? Not anymore. Get a lifetime subscription to AI Magicx Rune Plan for $69.99 with code TAKE30 and watch your productivity soar. If you once rolled your eyes at the mere mention of AI, we get it. It felt like such an intrusion at first. — Read the rest The post...
An official in Bend, Oregon, claimed that it cost thousands of dollars to remove googly eyes from public artwork in town. The unlikely sum helped the amusingly-modified objects go viral, and now a culprit has emerged to take credit for some of the work. — Read the rest The p...
Blake Story was shot dead last year in Cleveland, Ohio, but the case against his alleged murderer hangs by a thread after it turned out cops used AI to justify the search warrant that led investigators to the gun. The software explicitly warns users that its output is not...
Dark Horse Comics has just released a hardcover book compiling the four-issue run of 'Space Circus,' a comic book that legendary cartoonist Sergio Aragonés created with writer Mark Evanier in 2000. Posted with the permission of Dark Horse Comics Aragonés, of course is...
Reddit can be an excellent source for answers, but the site's internal search is notoriously unhelpful. Users often go to Google and search for the 'search term Reddit' instead. Bleeping Computer reports that hackers are exploiting this with hundreds of fake Reddit and...
A tiny star burned in China for nearly 18 minutes. Scientists at the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor in Hefei have sustained a fusion reaction for 1,066 seconds — more than doubling their previous record of 403 seconds. The achievement brings...
Apparently, Elon Musk's Nazi salute was a bridge too far even for his AI child. X's Grok AI was previously suspected of harboring the woke mind virus, but now it's gone further pulled a complete 180 on its creator. The first recorded instance of Grok calling Elon a bad...
Donald Trump yet again 'joked' about running for a third term yesterday, asking Speaker Mike Johnson if he was 'allowed' to stay in the White House after his four years are up. (This is an unconstitutional idea that has also been floated by Steve Bannon and Rep. — Read the re...
After Elon Musk's acquisition and the subsequent enshittification of Twitter, which he renamed 'X,' there has been a mass exodus of users from the social media site. In December, the Guardian reported that X had lost 2.7 million users over a two-month period, during which...
When first-class flights and trips to Disneyland show up on a federal energy conservation contract, eyebrows tend to raise. Yet these controversial expenses were just part of a larger dispute that erupted over a 1970s public service campaign meant to help Americans save...
An armed Indiana man and former Capitol 'tourist' who was pardoned by Donald Trump would have been better off had he remained in prison. Instead, 42-year-old Matthew Huttle was shot and killed at a traffic stop after fighting with an officer. — Read the rest The post...
Even though Elon Musk's Nazi salute last week is on video for all to see, CNN's Scott Jennings tried to defend his gesture — associated with Adolf Hitler and white supremacy — as a normal greeting. 'This salute trutherism is outrageous. — Read the rest The post CNN's...
Yesterday I wrote about Privacy Guide's mobile phone privacy and security guide for protesters. Today, Randy Zar, CEO of Faraday pouch manufacturer SLNT wrote: Just want to let you know your cell phone is tracking you regardless if you have it in airplane mode or not. — R...
TL;DR: Save 50% on the VentiFresh Eco Plus, a portable personal air purifier that banishes germs and bad odors for $43.99 (reg. $88). Do you find yourself coughing or struggling with a runny nose when you're in the office? It might be because you're getting sick (yuck), but...
Monday January 27, 2025. 11:56 PM
'I remember specifically getting messaging when I was younger about how you shouldn't have sex on drugs — that it may be the best sex of your life and ruin the rest of your sex life,' says Sura Hertzberg, founder of the print magazine Sex & Psychedelics. — Read the rest ...
Six and a half spins in the air. That's what constitutes a 2340, a dizzying track landed by both a snowboard and skier for the first time on record. At the X Games in Aspen, snowboarder Hiroto Ogiwara of Japan stomped it on Friday while Italian skier Miro Tabanelli achieved...
Mark Zuckerberg recently struck a new pose in hopes of pleasing President Trump, saying Meta would no longer check facts or censor free speech, and blaming other executives for previous policies at the company he runs. Since then, however, the company has struggled to...
The e-ink Pebble watch (reviewed here 12 years ago) was a Kickstarter success story and much-loved by users who still appreciate its stylish simplicity. But it was soon lost to the smartwatch revolution and the company behind it went under in 2016. — Read the rest The post P...
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