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Tuesday December 16, 2025. 06:04 PM
On February 19, 1994, Gloria Ramirez arrived at Riverside General Hospital in California with late-stage cervical cancer and severe heart palpitations. Within minutes of staff drawing her blood, people started dropping. A nurse noticed an ammonia smell from the blood tube...
The hosts of the Daily Show all sat down in the same place to discuss the shocking trainwreck that was 2025, and we've still got two weeks to live through. Every day, the news gets worse, and TDS never runs out of material. — Read the rest The post The Daily Show recaps...
iPTF14hls is a star that refuses to follow the rules. Discovered in September 2014, it was supposed to be a typical supernova —explode once, dim in about 100 days, leave behind a neutron star or black hole. Instead, it kept exploding for over 1,000 days, fluctuating in...
As the Trump Administration lowers fuel-economy standards and encourages Americans to reconsider the station wagon, Ford has announced it will absorb a $19.5 billion hit to profits in an effort to move back in time. Ford Motor said Monday that it would scale back plans to...
In this episode of eSpeaks, host Corey Noles sits down with John Matthews, Industry Strategist for Healthcare and Life Sciences at Teradata, to explore how AI and modern data strategies can help healthcare organizations deliver faster, more personalized, and more connected...
A millisecond used to be a big deal for the world's quickest traders. A dispute over huge trading profits at one of the world's largest futures exchanges shows they now think a million times faster [non-paywalled source]. From a report: The controversy is about an arcane...
Moe anthropomorphism is the Japanese art of turning absolutely anything — countries, diseases, operating systems, warships — into cute anime girls. For instance, there's an erotic game where you date home appliances, including a washing machine. The trend exploded...
In a stretch of gruesomely preventable disasters in the late 80s and early 90s, Cobalt 60, a highly radioactive isotope used in industrial radiography, cancer treatment, and sterilization of medical equipment, did none of those things and instead irradiated people,...
From 1867 to 1974, cities across America enforced what are now called 'ugly laws' — ordinances that made it illegal for anyone 'diseased, maimed, mutilated, or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object' to appear in public. — Read the rest The...
And parades its latest trio of Nemotron models Nvidia burnished its open source credentials this week after buying the company behind the veteran Slurm scheduler and announcing a slew of open source AI models.…
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Rhino Linux is an Ubuntu-based distribution which offers a rolling-release upgrade approach. the project's latest snapshot improves on its Lomiri interface support and makes Lomiri available for its PINE64...
It’s the time of year again when industry executives like to peer into their crystal balls and try to predict what the future might hold. We’ll kick off this year’s roundups with a look at quantum, something which has been hovering on the edge a major breakthrough for...
The glasses-shaped face computers that tech companies have been building for years now face an identity crisis, and their makers can't agree on what to call them. Meta has asked a journalist to refer to its Ray-Ban glasses as 'AI glasses' to distinguish them from Google...
TL;DR: Save on two laptops in one with a Refurbished Lenovo 300e Chromebook (2018) for just $79.99 (Reg. $284.99) We're all iPad kids in a way. Glued to multiple devices at once, it's difficult to tear our eyes from our various screens. — Read the rest The post One laptop,...
As holiday deliveries pile up, Alabama has decided the answer to stolen packages is not less inequality or actual economic support, but a new law that turns repeated package theft into a felony, carrying up to 10 years in prison. Nothing says 'community safety' like throwing ...
Trump's Chief of Staff Susie Wiles blamed Elon Musk's Hitler fandom on drug use. Then Wiles said she didn't. Then the tape rolled. According to the New York Times' Peter Baker, Wiles characterized Musk's behavior as irrational, brought up his drug use, and described being...
Back in 2017 I wrote about a technique for creating closures in C using JIT-compiled wrapper. It’s neat, though rarely necessary in real programs, so I don’t think about it often. I applied it to qsort, which sadly accepts no context pointer. More practical would be...
Google is turning up the volume on Gemini. This week, the company rolled out an upgraded version of Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio, introducing smoother conversations, improved instruction handling, and live speech translation to a broader range of users and products. The...
The traditional signals that employers used to evaluate entry-level job candidates -- college GPAs, cover letters, and interview performance -- have lost much of their value as grade inflation and widespread AI use render these metrics nearly meaningless, writes The...
Any computing device will inevitably get a custom operating system – whether based on an existing operating system or something entirely custom – and of course, Kobo e-readers are no exception. QuillOS is an Alpine Linux-based distribution specifically developed for the...
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