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Sunday December 14, 2025. 04:44 AM
The R programming language 'is sometimes frowned upon by 'traditional' software engineers,' says the CEO of software quality services vendor Tiobe, 'due to its unconventional syntax and limited scalability for large production systems.' But he says it 'continues to thrive at ...
This week System76 launched the first stable release of its Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment. Announced in 2021, it's designed for all GNU/Linux distributions — and it shipping with Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS (based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS). An anonymous reader shared this report...
Ariadne Conill is exploring a capability-based approach to privilege escalation on Linux systems. Inspired by the object-capability model, I've been working on a project named capsudo. Instead of treating privilege escalation as a temporary change of identity, capsudo...
This week the Free Software Foundation honored Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, and Govdirectory with this year's annual Free Software Awards (given to community members and groups making 'significant' contributions to software freedom): Andy Wingo is one of the co-maintainers of GNU...
In 1985, a 29-year-old Tokyo woman named Mariko Aoki wrote to a Japanese magazine called Book Magazine with an embarrassing confession: for years, walking around bookstores had inevitably made her need to rush to the bathroom. The editors published her letter thinking it was ...
Elagabalus became Roman emperor at 14, was assassinated at 18, and managed to pack more scandal into those four years than most rulers achieve in a lifetime. His grandmother, Julia Maesa, orchestrated his rise to power in 218 CE through an army revolt, and she'd orchestrate...
Bobby Leach was not a man who feared death. A former Barnum and Bailey Circus performer, he once watched a stuntman die while attempting a 150-foot dive into a 5-foot pool — then successfully did the dive himself. He owned a restaurant near Niagara Falls, where he'd brag...
They had me at 'Orville Peck as Vega,' honestly. Fighting games are a notoriously difficult beast to adapt — all characters, no plot — but that hasn't stopped people from trying. This newly announced Street Fighter movie marks the third attempt at bringing the...
This Christmas, let us celebrate with one of comedy's all-time classics: Al Jaffee's 'If Kids Designed Their Own Xmas Toys' from Mad Magazine issue #76, January 1963 (on sale November-December 1962). Jaffee's genius lay in presenting children's crude toy drawings, then...
Watch bikers speed down the Mountain of Hell in France, a race notorious for its treacherous terrain. This footage captures over 1,000 riders charging down the mountain in what may be the world's most chaotic mountain bike race. Despite its ominous name, the Mountain of...
We recently brought you news of the 'peanut butter man' running wild on Purdue University's campus. He was actually slathered in sunflower seed butter, but the original moniker stuck. Now it's time for Purdue's peanut butter man to step aside — there's a new peanut butter...
The funk/pop/soul/klezmer band Vulfpeck played its second sold-out Madison Square Garden show on September 13 and on Thursday posted video of the entire performance on YouTube. I was at the show—I've been attending Vulfpeck's NYC performances for nine years—and it...
'Rap battles between two or more larger-than-life characters' is now a whole genre on YouTube, but Epic Rap Battles of History is one of those rare cases where the original is still the best. Sure, they may only drop two videos a year in a good year, but every bit of...
Titanfall 2 is, without exaggeration, one of the best online shooters ever made. Not that that's a high bar, but still! Switching between scrappy, agile pilots with full 360-degree movement and lumbering battle mechs that trade mobility for overwhelming firepower was such a...
I've found my new favorite animal on the internet! Meet Roo-bee (aka Roo), an adorable six-year-old goat who was born with severe congenital deformities and who came to Black Goat Farm and Sanctuary as a newborn with badly deformed front legs. — Read the rest The post This...
A few days ago, McDonalds Netherlands posted an absolutely horrid Christmas ad generated by AI. Link to the Boing Boing article by Rob Beschizza here. McDonald's has released an AI-generated Christmas adThe studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while ...
Here's a fun math problem for a Saturday afternoon: You've got 100 kg of potatoes that are 99% water. You leave them out overnight and they dry slightly, becoming 98% water. How much do they weigh now? If you guessed somewhere around 99 kg, congratulations — you're wrong....
'The entire java.applet package has been removed from JDK 26, which will release in March 2026,' notes Inside Java. But long-time Slashdot reader AirHog links to this blog post reminding us that 'Applets Are Officially Gone, But Java In The Browser Is Better Than Ever.' This ...
Saturday December 13, 2025. 11:17 PM
A Utah-based startup announced last week it used AI to locate a 250-degree Fahrenheit geothermal reservoir, reports CNN. It'll start producing electricity in three to five years, the company estimates — and at least one geologist believes AI could be an exciting...
TL;DR: Give your entire system an overhaul with this Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows & Windows 11 Pro Bundle, now just $39.97 (reg. $418.99). Louisa May Alcott said it best: it takes two flints to make a fire. — Read the rest The post Save 90% with this MS...
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