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Wednesday April 24, 2024. 01:01 PM
John Lennon played a 12-string Framus 'Hootenanny' acoustic guitar in the movie 'Help!' George Harrison used it on Norweigan Wood. It later disappeared for almost sixty years but was recently rediscovered in an attic in the UK and will soon go up for auction. — Read the...
The US Senate voted to pass a bill that could see TikTok banned within a year, pitching creators and businesses dependent on the platform into an uncertain future.
If your mentions, inboxes, and DMs are blowing up with hateful comments, here are the technological and psychological tools you need to weather the storm.
It's been an unnerving time to be an airline passenger, especially on a Boeing in a window seat. We don't have the golden parachutes that the Boeing execs are getting! But there is one airline that might have a slight safety edge. — Read the rest The post Irish national...
A new study from Barracuda Networks finds just 43 percent of organizations surveyed have confidence in their ability to address cyber risk, vulnerabilities, and attacks. The findings also show that many organizations find it hard to implement company-wide security policies...
International Energy Agency points out obvious: Infrastructure needs to meet demand The International Energy Agency (IEA) is reminding governments to match the continued rapid growth of electric car sales with infrastructure improvements.…
An AI PC is the next big thing in PCs…or so a lot of companies would have you believe. But what is an AI PC, why should you buy one, and what — if anything — does an AI PC offer? While those answers are evolving over time, we can tell you what we know right now. The short...
At a GlanceExpert's Rating ProsGood speedsFree version availableStreaming supported serversConsExpensiveNo independent auditSome privacy issuesOur VerdictHotspot Shield is a good-quality VPN with some of the fastest speeds I’ve ever seen from a VPN. It also has a slick deskto...
The four-day work week was unthinkable, except in science fiction, as recently as five years ago. But one of the many things the COVID-19 pandemic taught us is that the structure of the workplace can change significantly and still be viable. That realization has opened the...
Linus has released 6.9-rc5 for testing. But if you ignore those oddities, it all looks pretty normal and things appear fairly calm. Which is just as well, since the first part of the week I was on a quick trip to Seattle, and the second part of the week I've been doing a...
One of the most common forms of cyberattack is credential stuffing, using exposed details on different sites to exploit the fact that people frequently reuse passwords. Proton Mail is introducing a new Dark Web Monitoring feature that will alert customers if their...
Please do JOIN THE INNER HIVE and get each week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic at least a day before publication! Plus other exclusive content like process pics, more comics, contests, insider info, puzzles, puns, admissions of error, dog photos, and juicy gossip! — Read the...
Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, is a technique for enhancing the output of large language models by incorporating information from external knowledge bases or sources. By retrieving relevant data or documents before generating a response, RAG improves the generated...
Okian Warrior writes: For $10,000, you can now get a flamethrower mounted on a robotic dog. Just load the webpage and scroll down. I saw this on the news today. *Definitely* we need to have a conversation about where AI is going. The robot, called the Thermonator, is...
Decades after her dad’s iconic sports car time-traveled into movie history, Kat DeLorean wants to build a modern remake. There’s just one problem: Someone else owns the trademark on her name.
Internal emails suggest that the company continued to provide gunshot data to police in cities where its contracts had been canceled.
Back in the 19th century, if the United States or some other military power wanted to bend a smaller country to its will, it would often display its might with a show of force, sending a fearsome display of gunboats just offshore its target. The naval display usually made...
Has there ever been something as simultaneously invaluable and irritating as our modern-day device notifications? All the beeps, bloops, and blorps our various gadgets send our way serve an important purpose, of course — at least in theory. They keep us attuned to our...
YouTuber Max Fosh has made the rounds here at Boing Boing a couple of times, and not for nothing. Whether it's hiring the SAS for a game of paintball or working as an Uber Eats deliveryman on horseback, he's often up to something as bizarre as it is creative- and this time...
Parents of littles, rejoice! Your multitasking dreams have been answered with the laughable convenience of the KIDSCLEANCAR (yes, they insist on the all-caps), on Amazon for a couple of C-notes. Now, while Junior is busy pretending to be a race car driver in his...
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