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A vast digital trove of over 10,000 historical children's books is available for free browsing and download at the University of Florida's Baldwin Library. The collection includes centuries of children's literature, with emphasis on Victorian-era works. Newcastle University...
Say hello to a year's support, but bid goodbye to Pocket The latest Mozilla Firefox is trickling out – and it's an Extended Support Release (ESR).…
Visit coffee shops in different places around the world in this video. A coffee drink is ordered in nine countries, and we get to watch it through the customer's point of view. Each coffee drink is captioned, indicating its name and ingredients. — Read the rest The post...
A good reminder not to download apps from non-vendor sites Unknown miscreants are distributing a fake SonicWall app to steal users' VPN credentials.…
Microsoft will offer free Windows 10 security updates through October 2026 to consumers who enable Windows Backup or spend 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points, the company said today. The move provides alternatives to the previously announced $30-per-PC Extended Security Update...
A crafty parrot named Sweet Pea figured out how to get a treat after being told she could not have one — and all it involved was a bit of theatrics. 'Last night, Sweet pea started limping! I totally panicked,' her human says in a TikTok video, which shows the cockatoo...
Image from Public Domain The post How marionettes became tools of protest in European theater appeared first on Boing Boing.
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. eXybit Technologies has announced the release of RefreshOS 2.5, the latest stable release of the project's beginner-friendly, desktop Linux distribution based on Debian 12, with KDE Plasma 5.27 as the preferred ...
OpenAI has designed features that would allow people to collaborate on documents and communicate via chat within ChatGPT, The Information reported Tuesday. The features would pit OpenAI directly against Microsoft, its biggest shareholder and business partner, and Google,...
Version 140.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Changes include more control over vertical tabs, a dialog to add custom search engines, improvements to translation performance, and more.
Drones are dropping pods containing thousands of mosquitoes in the forests of Hawaii. To a mosquito magnet, this is a nightmare scenario, but it is all for a good cause. The mosquitoes are actually on a rescue mission. For millions of years, there were dozens of species of...
Another OEM has decided we're now in the agentic AI age HPE Discover 2025 In another sign that AI agents have taken over the enterprise zeitgeist, the theme at HPE Discover this year is all about cramming the automated workflow bots anywhere they'll fit, whether or not...
By Pnapora - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30117262 The post From protest to tourist delight: How 250 tiny gnomes took over this Polish city appeared first on Boing Boing.
Republican-led states that often champion fiscal conservatism and small government are the biggest beneficiaries of federal spending, according to a new MoneyGeek analysis of Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis data. Seven of the ten states most dependent on...
While the startup has won its “fair use” argument, it potentially faces billions of dollars in damages for allegedly pirating over 7 million books to build a digital library.
With prices high and the rest of the 5000 series out the gate, NVidia's forthcoming 5050 graphics cards might be a sweet spot for gamers looking for new features at an old-school price. At $249, it comes in $50 less than the 5060, with availability by August. — Read the rest...
A street camera in Lower Manhattan is doing more than just streaming video — it's using artificial intelligence to analyze how New Yorkers are dressing and moving through the summer heat. The system, dubbed 'Weather Watching' on walzr.com, counts pedestrians and tracks...
China's advantages in developing AI are about to unleash a wave of innovation that will generate more than 100 DeepSeek-like breakthroughs in the coming 18 months, according to a former top official. From a report: The new software products 'will fundamentally change the...
Ah, to have all the childlike naivete of a Sony Interactive Entertainment executive. You may remember Concord, the $400 million hero shooter Sony put all its chips on. It received extensive marketing, and it (rather optimistically) got a whole episode of the animated...
TL;DR: Rosetta Stone offers a lifetime subscription to learn all 25 of their languages for $179.99 (regular $399). If your days are studded with meals of cacio e pepe, tteokbokki, sashimi, or pierogis, you may want to expand your language knowledge to match your palate. —...
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