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Monday May 6, 2024. 11:06 PM
The MAGA geniuses who oversee the One Star State of Texas claim to revere religious freedom. So why, then, is the U.S. Justice Department suing the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) for refusing to allow an employee to wear a head covering due to her religious...
Republican former Lieutenant Governor of Georgia Geoff Duncan has endorsed Joe Biden for President. In a scathing op-ed piece in the Atlanta Journal, Georgia's former Lt. Gov. made it clear and in no uncertain terms that he would not be voting for Donald Trump. — Read the...
TL;DR: Carry your music anywhere with a TREBLAB HD77 Outdoor Speaker that's designed to be waterproof, shockproof, and on sale for $59.99. You've got your driving playlist, your workout tunes, your lofi beats to relax and study to, but what do you listen to when the party...
An anonymous reader shares an essay: Software designers refer to 'the good enough principle.' It means, simply put, that sometimes you should prioritise functionality over perfection. As a relentless imperfectionist, I'm inclined to embrace this idea. I gave this newsletter...
Daniel Stenberg has posted a report about the recent curl up conference about curl development. It was held over two days in Stockholm. The report has short summaries of the talks with links to the recordings. curl up is never a big meeting/conference but we have in the...
Shell sold millions of carbon credits tied to CO2 removal that never took place [non-paywalled link] to Canada's largest oil sands companies, raising new doubts about a technology seen as crucial to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. FT: As part of a subsidy scheme to...
Decentralization is great until everyone wants to grab data from your web server Updated Mastodon has pushed back an update that's expected to fully address the issue of link previews sparking accidental distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.…
In response to a dramatic 78 percent increase in data breaches from 2022 to 2023, Proton is launching Pass Monitor, a new security feature within its password manager designed to bolster the protection of user data. Last year alone, over 3,205 data breaches jeopardized the...
A council has provoked the wrath of residents and linguists alike after announcing it would ban apostrophes on street signs to avoid problems with computer systems. From a report: North Yorkshire council is ditching the punctuation point after careful consideration, saying...
On Tuesday, May 14th at 11 AM PST, eWeek will host its monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be Optimizing Generative AI, and it will be moderated by James Maguire, eWEEK’s Editor-in-Chief. In this TweetChat, held on the X platform, experts will share practical advice about...
CIO.com (a sister publication) had an intriguing story about ChatGPT and a potential conflict with the European Union’s GDPR rules. The sad reality is that although the story accurately describes the EU issue, the GDPR kerfuffle amounts to barely a rounding error when it ...
'Used in a pro-social way, it's got terrific benefits to society. But, I don't know how you make sure that happens' Video You can add Berkshire Hathaway chief Warren Buffett to the list of folks worried about the implications of artificial intelligence on society.…
Google is streamlining the process of setting up two-factor authentication (2FA). From a report: Instead of entering your phone number first to enable 2FA, you can now add a 'second step method' to your account such as an authenticator app or a hardware security key to get...
You can play Supergiant’s hotly anticipated roguelike right now—if you’re a PC player.
'Cell, with Prisoner at Crank-Labour, In the Surrey House of Correction', from Henry Mayhew's 'London Labour and the London Poor', 1851. In the grim confines of 19th century British prisons, wardens sought ever more sadistic ways to punish inmates through forced labor. —...
Seven years behind schedule, this month Starliner will send two astronauts to space on a mission for NASA. The troubled company still has lots of catching up to do.
As graduating students began to file in for their commencement ceremony at Ohio State University yesterday, an attendant fell from the stadium stands to their death. But, as horrified as some of the attendants and graduating students who witnessed it were, the graduation...
During a live home shopping segment in Brazil, a host touted a pressure cooker that clearly lacked some vital safety features. He cracked it open mid-cook and scalding liquid erupted everywhere, instead of shouting or at least admitting that the pressure cooker was a...
Most 'fleece' is just extruded plastic filament and its use in clothing is, according to clothing company Patagonia, a serious source of pollution. Washing them results in microplastic soup, which then heads into the sewers and hence to the seas. During laundering, a single ...
And you thought consumer electronics suffered from depreciation The Cheyenne Supercomputer, a 5.34 peak PFLOPS behemoth that was once one of the fastest systems in the world, has just been sold at auction for $480,085. …
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