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Thursday June 26, 2025. 06:10 PM
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth avoided a simple question about the U.S. strikes on Iran by attacking his own former colleague, Fox Pentagon reporter Jennifer Griffin. 'You've been about the worst,' he scolded. Griffin, a decades-long national security correspondent for Fox...
The 2025 Hackaday Pet Hacks Challenge winners have been announced, and they range from the most innovative to the most practical. From Fytó, which gamifies plant care, to TinyML meets dog training, which combines a remote dog feeder with machine learning for positive...
TL;DR: The Canyon Pro Plan for optimizing your job search is available now for the new low price of $39.99 after using code CANYON20 at checkout. Mess of a market or not, applying to jobs is a numbers game. For recent graduates, it can feel daunting to keep going, but that's...
By alif_abdulrahman - Costasiella Kuroshimae, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41894580 The post Leaf sheep: the adorable sea slug that looks like a tiny succulent and can photosynthesize appeared first on Boing Boing.
When I first floated the idea of writing this review, one of my friends, in all their infinite wisdom, reminded me that there's no shame in knowing what I like. But you know what? I'm still frustrated. I'm frustrated that Hideo Kojima, for all his pretentiousness, for his...
Pierre Cusa's ambient.garden is an algorithmic audio landscape with lovely low-poly visuals to go with the music. Trees represent instruments and join the chorus as you draw close and pass by. Click or drag to move, or head in on autopilot. — Read the rest The post Listen...
A peculiar pyramidal shape, devised by mathematicians, always comes to rest on its base, slowly and uncannily righting itself when placed on other sides. The object confirms John Conway's longstanding but unproven conjecture regarding the stability of tetrahedra. The...
Denis Villeneuve, director of cold and classy science fiction epics, is a perfect pick to take on Amazon's forthcoming James Bond movie. He will direct, Amazon MGM announced, and the film should hit screens in 2027. There's no word yet on who will replace outgoing star...
The Trump family business, not to be mistaken for the United States Federal Government, has walked back claims that their MVNO's golden phone is made in America. When the Trump Organization launched the Trump Mobile wireless carrier, it also launched a flagship phone called ...
Getting this one backwards, as it's usually Scooby and the gang who pull the mask off the bad guy, a masked bad guy dressed up as Scooby-Doo. Strange things were afoot at the Quick Stop, as a burglar disguised as a beloved cartoon character robbed a convenience store. — Read...
This excellent YouTube video demonstrates how some amazing early Hollywood camera tricks were done. Stunts by Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Charlie Chaplin are still astounding today. As a kid, I assumed most of these were stop-the-camera mid-filming and restart again ...
Wednesday June 25, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Get Microsoft Office Pro 2019 and Microsoft Windows 11 Pro for just $45.97 (reg. $428) with this bundle deal. Getting things done requires the right tools to make it happen, but all too often, those tools come at a frustrating, recurring cost. — Read the rest The...
War Thunder is a free-to-play military vehicle combat game with a passionate fan base. So passionate that players occasionally share classified information to win an online argument about a vehicle in the game. A player recently shared a page from the NATOPS (Naval Air...
'In every local newspaper, there would be long lists for resort hotels in the Poconos or in certain parts of the Catskills, and they would just simply have the word 'restricted, '' recalls the late legendary MAD magazine artist Al Jaffee about life in mid-century America. —...
An automated welfare fraud detection system in Australia falsely accused hundreds of thousands of innocent people of theft, leading to multiple suicides and costing taxpayers $1.8 billion in settlements. As reported in Don Moynihan's analysis, from 2016 to 2020 the...
GOP folkhero Kyle Rittenhouse has vanished into thin air. The trigger-happy 22-year-old — who as a teen in 2020 crossed the Wisconsin state line and killed two protestors at a Black Lives Matters event with an AR-15 rifle — was working at a gun shop in Florida earlier...
Trillions of insects are being boiled alive in taxpayer-funded facilities that promised to save the planet but are actually making things worse. The insect farming industry sold us a dream: environmentally-friendly protein that would help feed the world. But according to...
I recently listened to a fascinating Supernatural podcast episode about the Lead Masks Case, an unsolved mystery involving two electricians who may have been trying to contact extraterrestrials. Two Brazilian electronics technicians died mysteriously on a hilltop in 1966,...
A hydraulic riddle from The Magician's Own Book, published in 1857, challenges readers to connect three fountains to three houses without any pipes crossing. The Fountain Puzzle A is a wall, B C D three houses, and E F G, three fountains or canals. — Read the rest The...
Big 'Edward Coristine' Balls, the teenage DOGE enforcer who became a symbol of Elon Musk's campaign to demolish Federal government, has reportedly left his role there. 'Edward Coristine resigned yesterday,' a White House official tells WIRED. Coristine received full-time...
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