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Tuesday November 4, 2025. 05:30 PM
A few years ago, I wrote about Brett Maupin's strangely satisfying and relaxing horse hoof cleaning videos, through which he introduced the public to the world of farriery. My algorithm has recently begun delivering videos of various bovine podiatrists demonstrating how...
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Trust me bro, says GitHub Copilot. And programmers just... do Developers who 'pair code' with an AI assistant stand to learn as much as they do in traditional human-human pairings, but also show a less critical attitude toward their silicon-based partner’s output,...
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A Tennessee sheriff so deep in the Charlie Kirk kool-aid he's lost the plot, tossed a retired cop in jail for the crime of quoting MAGA cult leader Donald Trump. Sixty-one-year-old Larry Bushart Jr. spent five weeks behind bars and faced a $2 million bond after sharing a...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Before the potential of the internet was appreciated around the world, nations that understood its importance managed to scoop outsized allocations of IPv4 addresses, actions that today mean many users in the rest of the world are more...
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TL;DR: Microsoft Windows 11 Pro + The Essential Windows 11 Pro Course is available for only $19.97 (MSRP $237) until Nov. 16 at 11:59 p.m. PT. As of October 2025, Microsoft has phased out support for Windows 10. That means no more software updates, technical support or...
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I don't think it's controversial to say that the best horror icons are the simple ones. Michael Myers is a big guy with a knife. Jason is a big guy with a machete. Leatherface is a big guy with a chainsaw. — Read the rest The post Why horror icons work best when they're...
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Good news for anyone who thought the shooting range was too safe! New testing shows that every pull of the trigger inside an indoor range sends a concussive shock wave into your skull. The bigger the gun, the bigger the brain smoothie. — Read the rest The post Shooting...
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Version 6.18 of the Incus container and virtual-machine management system has been released. Notable changes in this release include new configuration keys for providing credentials to systemd, BPF token delegation, VirtIO support for sound cards, the ability to export ISO...
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Denny's, home of ungenerously-portioned American breakfasts, is being acquired and taken private by a consortium of investors led by the private equity firm TriArtisan Capital Advisors. The deal, worth $620 million including debt, will end the diner chain's long run as a...
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A three-foot Raggedy Ann doll named Annabelle is touring America in a van, drawing thousands of paranormal enthusiasts willing to pay fifty dollars to stand near what they believe is one of the world's most haunted objects. The doll, quarantined by paranormal investigators...
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Liable for sexual assault and many times accused of sexual assault, MAGA cult leader Donald Trump is threatening to punish his 'beloved first home' of New York City if voters don't elect an accused sexual predator, because apparently, that's his idea of leadership...
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Norges Bank Investment Management votes against excessive award, automaker's share price skids Norway's sovereign wealth fund has opposed Tesla CEO Elon Musk's proposed $1 trillion share award, which the carmaker's board says is necessary to retain him.…
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“I can’t, for the life of me, figure out why we are still so rigid and moderating everything when we have nothing to lose for the first time,” a Democratic digital strategist tells WIRED.
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Imagine running a business that depends on cloud services, only to have your account suspended three times in six months, each time for mysterious 'policy violations' that nobody can explain. That's what happened to Andrew Ayer, founder of SSLMate, whose kafkaesque battle...
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AWS today announced Fastnet, a subsea fiber-optic cable that will link Maryland's Eastern Shore to County Cork, Ireland. The project marks Amazon's first wholly-owned subsea cable system after previously participating in similar ventures through consortiums. The cable will...
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AI systems are only as dependable as the data and validation that lies behind them. Yet many organizations struggle to test AI models comprehensively across languages, regions, and use cases. That’s why crowdsourced testing platform Testlio is launching a new, end-to-end...
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You probably wouldn't want to catch a flight from Grand Theft Auto V's Los Santos International, and not just because of the violent psychopaths zooming around on hover bikes. Did you know they don't even label their runways correctly?! I didn't, and it's likely no one did...
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Julia is a modern programming language that is of particular interest to scientists due to its high performance combined with language features such as Lisp-style macros, an advanced type system, and multiple dispatch. We last looked at Julia in January on the occasion of...
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Agon by AOC has announced the first QD-OLED gaming monitors in its AOC GAMING range. The 27-inch Q27G4ZDR and Q27G4SDR introduce OLED panel technology to AOC’s entry-level gaming line, combining QHD resolution with high refresh rates aimed at competitive players. Both...
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Dick Cheney, who served four Republican presidents and became one of the most powerful and controversial vice presidents in American history as an architect of the post-9/11 war on terror, died at 84. His family said he died from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and...
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