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Thursday November 6, 2025. 08:21 PM
Wait, what? The term 3.5 inch floppy disc is in fact a misnomer. Whilst the specification for 5.25 inch floppy discs employs Imperial units, the later specification for the smaller floppy discs employs metric units. The standards for these discs are […] all of which specify...
Redox keeps improving every month, and this past one is certainly a banger. The big news this past month is that Servo, the browser engine written in Rust, has been ported to Redox. It’s extremely spartan at the moment, and crashes when a second website is loaded, but it’s a...
On the new MacOS 26 (Tahoe), Apple has mandated that all application icons fit into their prescribed squircle. No longer can icons have distinct shapes, nor even any fun frame-breaking accessories. Should an icon be so foolish as to try to have a bit of personality, it...
Plus 2 new critical vulns - patch now Cisco warned customers about another wave of attacks against its firewalls, which have been battered by intruders for at least six months. It also patched two critical bugs in its Unified Contact Center Express (UCCX) software that...
AI labs are paying skilled professionals hundreds of dollars per hour to train their models in specialized fields. Companies like Mercor, Surge AI, Scale AI and Turing recruit bankers, lawyers, engineers and doctors to improve the accuracy of AI systems in professional...
Nerds of a certain age may remember a game called Desert Bus. Released (and then quickly canceled) for multiple platforms in 1995, Desert Bus was the monotonous brainchild of Penn & Teller. It was the highlight of an infamously bad collection of minigames called Smoke and...
Government agencies would also have to report losses due to automation. ai-pocalypse A bipartisan pair of US Senators has introduced a bill that would require companies and government agencies to report AI-related layoffs, and it couldn't come at a better time. October jobs...
Some say good government is less government. Others have a different point of view. But the least you should be able to expect from any kind of governance is that following one law doesn’t force you to break another. That is, unless you’re Apple and the laws are made in ...
American manufacturing's postwar boom from the 1940s through the 1970s resulted from conditions that cannot be recreated, a story on WSJ argues. Global competitors had been destroyed by war. Energy was cheap. Unions could demand concessions without fearing job losses to...
This $400 set comes with minifigures of the complete Next Gen crew, including Picard, Riker, and Wesley Crusher’s portable tractor beam.
Scallops have dozens of tiny eyes lining the edge of their shells. These aren't your run-of-the-mill eyes, though. They're more like little mirrors that can actually form images. Their eyes can pick up shadows or sudden changes in light, giving them a heads-up when a...
Rockstar says it fired staff for leaks, but the IWGB accuses the GTA maker of union-busting Rockstar Games denies claims that it fired several employees over their union activity, insisting that it sacked the team members for leaking confidential information.…
After 35 years of weekly publication, Tom the Dancing Bug (featured every week here on Boing Boing) is finally getting its complete archival treatment. Clover Press launched a Kickstarter campaign on October 28 to fund the first two chronological volumes of cartoonist Ruben...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com, is asking Automatic.CSS -- a company that provides a CSS framework for WordPress page builders -- to change its name amid public spats between Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg and...
As the old adage goes, one does not simply walk into Mordor… unless one has ten free hours and access to Lord of the Rings Online. Fans have long debated the actual distance of Frodo and Sam's epic journey from Bag End to Mount Doom, but I'm genuinely surprised it took this...
Counterfeiter failed to conjure a credible claim, appeals court rules A convicted identity thief has lost his appeal against Uncle Sam after claiming federal agents destroyed a seized hard drive containing cryptocurrency worth more than $345 million.…
The day started with a Dirty Dr. Pepper. Tulsa will do that to you. I didn't have a plan for my visit and it started with rain. I dodged puddles in the parking lot at the Wildflower Cafe, a spot that the wonderful Josh Fadem had pushed on me. — Read the rest The post Tulsa'...
Intuit has introduced an all-in-one Agentic AI-driven consumer platform that combines Credit Karma and TurboTax into a single system to deliver year-round control of personal finances. The company says this unified platform will help users manage credit, debt, wealth...
I love watching kind human and toucan specialist Brock Afentul lovingly care for the toucans that are lucky enough to be introduced to the toucan sanctuary he runs, which is the first and only rescue and sanctuary of its kind in the United States. — Read the rest The post...
Tinder dating app's new 'Chemistry' feature uses artificial intelligence to rifle through your camera roll, supposedly to learn your interests and personality so it can handpick your soulmate. Nothing says romance like handing a Silicon Valley algorithm the keys to your...
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