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Wednesday May 12, 2021. 05:34 PM
If you live in the Scilly Isles off Cornwall, drone deliveries are incoming—a test conducted by the Royal Mail into improving the speed of mail service that currently depends on ferries. There's a big drone that uses airstrips, and a smaller one to distribute individual...
Stable kernels 5.12.3 and 5.11.20 have been released with important fixes throughout the tree. Users should upgrade.
In a recent Wikipedia wormhole binge, I came across an unexpected surprise: that Angie Bowie, former wife of David Bowie and estranged mother of writer/director Duncan Jones, had once procured the rights to Daredevil and Black Widow from Marvel in the mid-1970s, and tried to ...
Back when most everyone listened to music on vinyl, frequently switching between 45 RPM 7' platters and 33 1/3 RPM 12' albums would mean that eventually, you'd forget to flip the speed selector switch on your record player and a song would come on at the wrong speed. — Read t...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (composer, hivex, lz4, and rails), Fedora (chromium, community-mysql, djvulibre, dom4j, firefox, php, php-phpmailer6, python-django, and redis), Mageia (mariadb, nagios, and pngcheck), openSUSE (opera, syncthing, and vlc), SUSE...
Anyone running Windows 10 version 2004 or 20H2 has a new cumulative update to install in the form of KB5003173. The update takes Windows build numbers up to 19041.985 and 19042.985. Cumulative updatse like this are rarely über-exciting, and KB5003173 is no different....
The Consumer Price Index rose 4.2% over last year. The big reason for the inflation, according to CNBC, is the economy is starting to wake up after retreating during the pandemic. The increase in the headline CPI rate was the fastest since September 2008. — Read the rest
Chicago's Tree House Humane Society has deployed 1,000 feral cats onto the city streets to fight the city's rat infestation. Tree House began the annual 'Cats at Work' program a decade ago as an alternative to the use of rat poison that can harm other wildlife. — Read the...
This is your wind speaking, please buckle your seatbelts and prepare for take-off.
The driver in this video is so confident about the self-driving system in his truck that he hops into the sleeper berth behind the front seat. The technology that keeps the truck on course is revealed at the end,
On Friday, this magnificently creepy sea monster washed up on the shore of Laguna Beach, California. According to a post by Crystal Cove State Park authorities, it is most likely a Pacific Football Fish that usually swims in dark ocean depths. — Read the rest
A new report from cloud-native network detection and response company ExtraHop shows that on the fourth anniversary of the WannaCry attack a high percentage of IT environments are still running known vulnerabilities. It shows the continuing use of ill-advised and insecure...
'Donald Trump must be held accountable for his crimes…' former US Army prosecutor Glenn Kirschner says. 'And he will be.' In his tweet, which is part of a longer video posted on YouTube (below), Kirschner, who is also an MSNBC legal analyst, says an investigation into...
Led by Kevin McCarthy, the GOP today removed Liz Cheney from her position as party conference chair over her criticism of former president Donald Trump. Her ousting confirms Trump's continued domination of the Republican party and the fealty of its remaining leaders. — Read t...
In defiance of a Vatican decree stating that the Catholic church cannot bless same-sex marriages, dozens of Catholic priests in Germany will be live-streaming the blessings of several such marriages. When the decree was first announced back in March, over 230 professors of...
Amazon has unveiled the latest updates to its Echo Show smart display line – the new Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 5. The Echo Show 8 is the larger of the two smart displays. The device includes an 8-inch HD adaptive colour screen and is powered by a new octa-core processor....
A large majority of companies that move to multi-cloud environments are not properly configuring their cloud-based services according to a new report from Aqua Security. Over 12 months, Aqua's research team analysed anonymised cloud infrastructure data from hundreds of...
Introduction If you’re looking for the best budget laptop, but unsure of your options, you’ve come to the right place. We have rounded up the best five budget laptops that our team of experts have reviewed in the past couple years, ranking them based on their scores at...
The month of May signifies Better Hearing Month, raising awareness about issues relating to speech and hearing problems. And there’s one contributor to hearing loss you may not have considered: your headphones. In a 2019 report, the World Health Organisation found that...
There is an 'and why' rationale attached to this video explaining 'how to flip a goat' but I'm not sure it's necessary.
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