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Tuesday March 26, 2024. 04:30 AM
BrianFagioli shares a report from BetaNews: Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu operating system, has announced a significant extension to the support lifecycle of its long-term support (LTS) releases. The new paid Legacy Support add-on for Ubuntu Pro...
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Starting today, the captivating landscapes and vibrant cities of Kazakhstan are just a click away, thanks to the addition of the Central Asian nation to Google Street View. Now, users can traverse the snow-capped mountains, the shores of the Caspian Sea, and the futuristic...
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Tobias Mann reports via The Register: The land surrounding a nuclear power plant might not sound like prime real estate, but as more bit barns seek to trim costs, it's poised to become a rather hot commodity. All datacenters are energy-hungry but with more watt-greedy AI...
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Points out scofflaw crypto outfit needs a license The Philippines Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ordered the nation's National Telecommunications Commission to block access to cryptocurrency exchange Binance, for the simple reason that platform doesn't have a...
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A top executive from the crypto exchange Binance has escaped custody in Nigeria after being arrested for allegedly destabilizing the country's national currency. The Associated Press reports: Nadeem Anjarwalla, the regional manager for Binance in Africa, 'fled Nigeria using...
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A Kansas City Chiefs fan is suing Rep. Tim Burchett after the Tennessee Congressman falsely accused the man of being an 'illegal alien' who was responsible for last month's mass shooting at the Super Bowl victory parade. Denton Loudermill, a father of three from Johnson...
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Earlier today, the U.S. and U.K. accused hackers linked to the Chinese state of being behind 'malicious' cyber campaigns targeting political figures. The U.K. government also blamed China for a 2021 cyberattack that compromised the personal information of millions of U.K....
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Doing the rounds online is this document, purported to be a 'Do Not Stop' list of truck stops considered too risky by L Brands, generally known as Bath & Body Works. No-one raiding all that strawberry and mint hand lotion in Pennsylvania, obviously. — Read the rest The post ...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge, written by Nilay Patel: Today, I'm talking to Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky Social, which is a decentralized competitor to Twitter, er, X. Bluesky actually started inside of what was then known as Twitter — it was a...
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TL;DR: If you need to look at data for a work project, you need Microsoft Visio Professional 2021 for Windows. All diagrams and charts are easy with this tool! While it usually costs $249, you can get it now for $24.97. — Read the rest The post Get a top-rated Microsoft...
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Ugly Avatar will generate an amusingly crudely-drawn 'ugly' portrait for you to use online. It's by Xuan Tang (唐煊), a postgraduate student at University of California San Diego. With this I realize that you can do this sort of thing again now without it being sucked into ...
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Could end-to-end lasers keep long training jobs on track? Networking biz Coherent unveiled an optical circuit switch designed to support high-density AI clusters at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference on Monday.…
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In Aryo Toh Djojo's new exhibition Unseen Realities, the Los Angeles-based artist invites us to bear witness to extraordinary phenomena and unknown (unknowable) experiences. The show runs until March 30 at Stems Gallery in Paris. 'Unseen Realities, Toh Djojo's augural solo...
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A SWAT team in St. Louis County mistakenly raided the home of Brittany Shamily and her family, based on the inaccurate tracking of stolen AirPods by the 'FindMy' app. The family is suing for damages stemming from embarrassment, unreasonable use of force, loss of liberty, and ...
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What happens when you put hundreds of people in the same room for a group singalong? Pure magic! That's exactly the energy Pub Choir in Australia nailed with their 1600-person rendition of Radiohead's 'Creep.' [via Kottke] This video is from October 2022 (hence the...
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Monday March 25, 2024. 11:59 PM
If you plan to watch the total solar eclipse, consider playing 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' during the event. Why, you ask? Because, interestingly, the lengths of the song and the eclipse are almost identical. This is not the radio edit. — Read the rest The post Why you...
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The Concorde, one of only two supersonic commercial airliners ever manufactured, took its last flight in November of 2003. Its Russian competitor, the Tupolev Tu-144, only flew with passengers for seven months, although it continued to be used for commercial flights and...
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On The Price Is Right, the excitement of being called to come on down could potentially overrule any bladder control. 'They had a system in place in case someone peed their pants,' says Mike Richards, former producer of The Price Is Right. — Read the rest The post The...
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The FTX bankruptcy estate has raised $884 million by selling the majority of its Anthropic shares to two dozen institutional investors. 'The sale of the Anthropic shares is a big win for the FTX estate, which pledged in January to pay back the defunct exchange's customers...
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In 2019, a viral video captured an encounter between Nicholas Sandmann, a Kentucky high school student wearing a 'Make America Great Again' hat, and Nathan Phillips, a Native American activist, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. As reported by USA Today, 'A video of...
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