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Tuesday December 30, 2025. 11:00 PM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Mac Bauer is fast, but the city's trams, weighing more than 100,000lbs and traveling at a maximum speed of nearly 45mph, should be far faster than him. And yet as of late December, in head-to-head races against...
TL;DR: Get the productivity powerhouse Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows with a free suite of training courses for just $34.97, or 85% off the $239.99 regular price. Do you have an older Windows machine that needs a new shot at life? — Read the rest The post...
The ITSM outfit would join Oracle, Comcast, and Netflix in installing bunk beds in the corner office ServiceNow’s amended employment contract with CEO Bill McDermott extends his time with the company into the next decade, but also provides possible next steps for the...
Two cybersecurity professionals who spent their careers defending organizations against ransomware attacks have pleaded guilty in a Florida federal court to using ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware to extort American businesses throughout 2023. Ryan Goldberg, a 40-year-old incident...
The global airline industry is on track to post an all-time profit high of nearly $40 billion in 2025, according to trade group IATA, surpassing the pre-pandemic 2019 figure of $26 billion, but carriers are still managing a net margin of just 4% -- roughly $7.90 per...
The solution? Lock up the screens and read to your kids If you're thinking of plopping your infant in front of a screen to get some peace and quiet, you might want to reconsider - higher screen exposure in infancy was linked to longer decision times later on and higher...
A simple idea, handsomely done: Epilogue's SN Operator, a USB dock that accepts Super Nintendo carts. It comes with an emulator app (though you can use all the popular ones) and is compatible with Windows, MacOS and Linux. From the website: Play iconic SNES® titles with...
After 5 seasons and about 50 hours of television, Stranger Things ends this week. Netflix dropped the trailer for the finale: 'I need you to fight, one last time.' As Vecna prepares to destroy the world as we know it, the party must put everything on the line to defeat...
A study by a Singapore government agency has found that children exposed to high levels of screen time before age two showed brain development changes linked to slower decision-making and higher anxiety in adolescence, adding to concerns about early digital exposure. From a...
You didn't think you'd get to enjoy your time off without a major cybersecurity incident, did you? A high-severity MongoDB Server vulnerability, for which proofs of concept emerged over Christmas week, is now under active exploitation, according to the US Cybersecurity and...
An anonymous reader shares a report: The French government on Dec 30 postponed a ban on plastic throwaway cups by four years to 2030 because of difficulties finding alternatives. The ban was meant to start on Jan 1. But the Ministry for Ecological Transition said the...
It turns out that sloths do fart after all. Zoologist and founder of the Sloth Appreciation Society, Lucy Cooke, once gave a delightful TED talk about sloths. She defended the notably unhurried creatures against the disparaging words of a Spanish conquistador who said...
After more than three decades of service, New York City's iconic MetroCard is about to retire, as December 31, 2025 marks the final day commuters can purchase or refill the gold-hued plastic cards that replaced subway tokens back in 1994. The Metropolitan Transportation...
SoftBank has finally written the check. A $40 billion gamble is now fully funded. SoftBank Group has completed its previously announced roughly $40 billion investment in OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, fulfilling the largest private tech funding commitment in history. As...
I have the saddest news to share. One of my favorite internet animals, Cindy the Baboon, died over the weekend. She was 31 years old, and lived a wonderful life filled with lots of love from her human and animal family. — Read the rest The post Cindy the Baboon dies at age...
How often do you hear the name Atari in the news nowadays? For many, the last noteworthy thing the historic* gaming company did was bury close to a million unsold games in the harsh New Mexico desert, which feels about as close to a death rattle as a corporation can get. —...
Everyone has that one friend who spends more time in tanning salons than they do sucking the marrow out of their work week lunch hours. Their skin's about the same color as the leather seats in a 1978 Chrysler Cordoba. — Read the rest The post Tanning beds are worse for you...
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