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Friday April 12, 2024. 04:06 PM
Twitter recently imposed blue checkmarks, previously assigned only to people paying to use the site, on all users meeting a certain threshold of paid followers. And soon users assigned blue checkmarks will no longer be able to hide them.
Dirk Mueller has posted a lengthy analysis of the XZ backdoor on the openSUSE News site, with a focus on openSUSE's response. Debian, as well as the other affected distributions like openSUSE are carrying a significant amount of downstream-only patches to essential...
Mexico's colonial-era National Palace is home to a large number of feral cats and an official declaration now provides for their feeding and care. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador assigned them the status of state assets, the first animals to receive a...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (rust, trafficserver, and upx), Mageia (postgresql-jdbc and x11-server, x11-server-xwayland, tigervnc), Red Hat (bind, bind9.16, gnutls, httpd:2.4, squid, unbound, and xorg-x11-server), SUSE (perl-Net-CIDR-Lite), ...
Four people were arrested in Los Angeles and Orange counties in California when police busted a retail theft ring and seized $300,000 worth of Lego stolen from area stores. The suspects were involved in stealing the Legos from stores like Target, Home Depot and Lowe's and...
Civil asset forfeiture allows police to take cash, vehicles and even houses from people without charging them. They get to keep the proceeds, and it's difficult to challenge in court. Studies show that more property is taken this way than is stolen by burglars, and now...
Beavers are a keystone species and are also pretty cute. However, they have not always been appreciated as they should be. In 1948, after residents complained about beaver-related damage, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game decided to take action. Thankfully, they decided...
For the last few months, I've been working on a fun new project—a kid-friendly music-themed fantasy adventure podcast called Musicland Stories. The first 12-episode season was written by Bob Proehl, author of the Nobody People superhero book series, with two episodes by...
Pelicans are large water birds found on every continent except Antarctica. Some species can reach up to 11.5 feet in length. Their large bills and gular pouches set them apart from most other birds. They are considered opportunistic feeders, meaning they eat almost anything...
Watch ants drink from a drop of red nectar in a captivating video on the 'Crazy Ants' YouTube channel. Nature and art overlap as the timelapse shows the nectar bubble decreasing in size until it's all been ingested. It's pretty cool to see the color of the nectar show...
Discord has shut down the Discord servers for the Nintendo Switch emulators Suyu and Sudachi and has completely disabled their lead developers’ accounts — and the company isn’t answering our questions about why it went that far. Both Suyu and Sudachi began as forks of...
DwarFS is a read-only file system with a focus on achieving very high compression ratios in particular for very redundant data. […] DwarFS also doesn’t compromise on speed and for my use cases I’ve found it to be on par with or perform better than SquashFS. For my primary use...
Now that you’re used to seeing co-workers, family, and strangers at coffee shops, offices, and planes using the oblong USB-C connector, it’s time to see just what this promising standard can do today and tomorrow. As we approach its 10th birthday, the USB-C plug is now...
At its annual Intel Vision conference, CEO Pat Gelsinger laid out an ambitious roadmap that includes generative artificial intelligence (genAI) at every turn. Intel’s hardware strategy is centered around its new Gaudi 3 GPU, which was purpose built for training and running ...
The desktop/laptop market has been pretty quiet for several years. Windows carved out its dominant space, and despite repeated claims that it would happen, Linux never really emerged as a challenger on the desktop. The Apple Mac proved to be a solid if pricier alternative,...
One of my favorite Android features right now is something that’s simultaneously new and familiar. It’s Circle to Search — a clever concept that came out for Google’s Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro phones along with the Galaxy S24 earlier this year and is now in the midst...
Five-hundred-and-ninety in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 and 11 on the Microsoft Store and elsewhere in the past seven days. The Moment Update 5 for Windows 11 is finally here for most users. It is...
Conversations around artificial intelligence and the threat it poses to humanity have been building for years. The launch of ChatGPT (or generative AI) nearly a year ago thrust the issue to the forefront of the global agenda. Discussions have reached such a fever pitch that...
Just about everyone who has used Windows has at some time complained that it is slow. The sluggish performance of Windows 11 -- in particular the Start menu -- has even been noted by an ex-Microsoft developer who worked on the creation of the operating system. Software...
Artificial intelligence is just about impossible to avoid, and not content with packing Windows with AI-powered features, Microsoft is doing the same with PowerToys. Details are currently a little thin on the ground, but the popular collection of utilities is due to gain a...
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