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Sunday September 14, 2025. 01:18 AM
Paramount and Comcast's NBCUniversal are joining Microsoft in telling employees 'they could face consequences if they don't return to the office more frequently,' reports the Washington Post: NBCUniversal sent a memo to its employees telling them to return to the office four ...
Last week Steam and other major storefronts crashed, reports the Guardian, including Nintendo's eShop, PlayStation Store and Microsoft Store. They were all 'unable to cope with the demand for Hollow Knight: Silksong, the long-awaited sequel to the critically acclaimed 2017...
Saturday September 13, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Unlock a whole new world with these Mini Night Vision Binoculars for just $89.99 (Reg. $159.99). There are so many things I thought would be way more relevant as a kid: quicksand, hidden waterfalls, and the knowledge that you have to pee on a jellyfish sting. — Read...
The first time I learned about UTF-8 encoding, I was fascinated by how well-thought and brilliantly it was designed to represent millions of characters from different languages and scripts, and still be backward compatible with ASCII. […] Designing a system that scales to...
Finland's second-largest university has announced new research suggesting that heart attacks could be an infectious disease. [T]he research found that, in coronary artery disease, atherosclerotic plaques containing cholesterol may harbor a gelatinous, asymptomatic biofilm...
It was 'little more than empty fields' five years ago — but it's now 'a vast, heavily guarded complex stretching for 210 hectares (520 acres),' reports the Guardian, 'the frontline of a multibillion-dollar criminal fraud industry fuelled by human trafficking and brutal violen...
'The United Arab Emirates wants to compete with the U.S. and China in AI,' writes Gizmodo, 'and a new open source model may be its strongest contender yet. 'An Emirati AI lab called the Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) released K2 Think on Tuesday, a model that...
Databricks finds itself in an awkward situation following the departure of Naveen Rao, its head of artificial intelligence, as rivals like Snowflake, Teradata, and hyperscalers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, intensify their push to develop offerings for building...
At the Museum of Appalachia, in Clinton, Tennessee you can see an Angel Crown, also known as a Death Crown or Feather Crown. This unusual-looking object is a round, entangled swirl of feathers found inside a down pillow. Its significance comes from Appalachian folklore,...
The Washington Post notes that past research 'indicates that exercise helps some cancer survivors avoid recurrence of their disease.' But a new study 'offers an explanation of how, showing that exercise changes the inner workings of our muscles and cells, although more study ...
Listen, it's been a rough and weird one. 3,000 terrible things are happening at any given time, and opening up the internet will immediately expose you to all of them with no warning. On occasion, my brain will crave this for some ungodly reason, but today, my brain, acting...
In the 1960s, San Marco, Texas, hosted the Submarine Theatre — an underwater show. It featured Aquamaids (mermaid performers), a swimming pig named Ralph, and a nightmarish underwater clown, Glurpo — the Texas Archive of the Moving Image has some vintage film clips of...
Hey, remember the Virtual Boy? Of course you don't, because the 3D video game console was completely terrible, widely considered one of gaming's greatest failures. The company revealed that Nintendo Switch Online subscribers can now experience this notorious 1995 flop...
Nintendo has officially announced a sequel to their blockbuster animated film, and they're taking Mario to the cosmos. During yesterday's Nintendo Direct presentation, the company revealed 'The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,' surprisingly skipping over the 'Super Mario Sunshine'...
For a company so famously litigious to the point where they've begun indebting people for life, it sure is interesting that Nintendo's next big Pokémon game is going to be a Minecraft ripoff. Unfortunately, no one is big enough to sue them with impunity, which every second...
Microsoft is by no means a stranger to nagging its customers in one way or another – usually with the intention of parting people from their money. In a somewhat unusual move, the company has used the latest preview builds of Windows 11 to introduce a way to pester...
'Freelance developers and entire companies are making a business out of fixing shoddy vibe coded software,' writes 404 Media, interviewing one of the 'dozens of people on Fiverr... now offering services specifically catering to people with shoddy vibe coded projects.' Hamid...
In the wake of MSNBC's firing of Matthew Dowd for daring to admit a noted racist conspiracy theorist was 'divisive,' you'd think Fox News would be tossing Brian Kilmeade to the curb for demanding homeless people be slaughtered. Kilmeade is an islamophobe, says non-white...
Five years on, the luxury watch brand's bright idea is still being copied.
In 2015 Kim Dotcom answered questions from Slashdot's readers. Now CBS News reports on 'the latest chapter in a protracted 13-year battle by the U.S. government' to extradite Finnish-German millionaire Kim Dotcom from New Zealand: A New Zealand court has rejected the latest...
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