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Monday May 6, 2024. 08:15 PM
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. …
LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy nods to a long-suspected fan theory: Jar Jar Binks as the Sith mastermind. A new LEGO Star Wars program streaming on Disney+ will take What-If to a new level and mix up all the Star Wars tech in LEGO Style. — Read the rest The post LEGO...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–VT), still going strong at age 82, announced today that he's running for another Senate term. In an 8-minute video (see below) posted on X, Sanders wrapped his candidacy announcement with pledges he is known for, including his continued promise to...
For decades, conflict has been a part of hip-hop culture. The ongoing diss-track battle between Kendrick Lamar and Drake proves how much digital space has transformed rap beefs into an industry.
A new breed of audiobook is taking over digital bookshelves -- ones narrated not by professional voice actors, but by artificial intelligence voices. It's an AI audiobook revolution that has been turbo-charged by Amazon. From a report: Since announcing a beta tool last year...
Tesla's layoffs expanded over the weekend with staff involved in software, service and engineering all reporting that they'd gotten their pink slips. The 10 percent workforce reduction announced earlier by CEO Elon Musk is, Electrek's Fred Lambert writes, closing in on 20...
Microsoft is taking a break from testing new Copilot AI features within Windows, which may mean that the company has settled on some ideas that it may eventually roll out to the majority of Windows users. Microsoft announced the change in plans on Friday, as part of the...
In some aspects, such as in gaming, the Linux desktop has made enormous strides in the past few years. In others, such as accessibility, things have stagnated. At Open Source Summit North America (OSSNA), Matt Campbell spoke about the need for, and an approach to,...
Accused of stealing data after losing his job A cybersecurity expert could face a 20-year prison sentence after being accused of trying to extort a multinational IT infrastructure services biz to the tune of $1.5 million.…
South Dakota's Trump-worshipping governor, Kristi Noem, has angered folks of all political persuasions with her grisly tales of murdering her own pets. And now, the GOP is paying the price — literally. As reported in Salon, a recent fundraiser hosted by the Jefferson...
AlmaLinux 9.4 is officially available for download here. Closely aligned with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.4, it reinforces its status as a robust, open-source enterprise Linux solution. This latest version is built directly from RHEL's openly available source code and...
Poor countries must demonstrate clearer accounting and transparency to back up their calls for trillions of dollars of climate finance, the president of global climate negotiations has said. From a report: Mukhtar Babayev, the ecology minister of Azerbaijan, who will lead...
Like a breath of fresh air, Apple will now seek to shift negativity aside as it fights back against months of doom-laden speculation and regulatory inhibition. For the rest of the year, the Empire strikes back. This fight back has already begun, as the world’s best...
Other People's Words, by Lissa Soep, has me finding memories of loved ones in unexpected places and times. What if the great love of your life is friendship? In their twenties, Lissa Soep and her boyfriend forged deep friendships with two other couples—Mercy and...
An international coalition of police agencies have resurrected the dark web site of the notorious LockBit ransomware gang, which they had seized earlier this year, teasing new revelations about the group. From a report: On Sunday, what was once LockBit's official darknet...
Donald Trump Jr has a lot of frantic energy, rarely makes sense, and reminds The Daily Show of a cokehead. The entertainment industry, where they have a lot of experience with cocaine, never portrays cokeheads as nice people. I wonder why that is? — Read the rest The post T...
In her upcoming, No Going Back, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem claims to have met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, staring down the 'little tyrant' with the same resolve she developed as a children's pastor. But appearing on Face the Nation yesterday, Noem went back...
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