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jeudi 1 mai 2025, 16:55
As of today, May 1, Xbox fans are seeing higher prices across the board -- on consoles, controllers, and even some first-party games. You see, Microsoft has quietly rolled out changes with little warning, pointing to “market conditions” and “rising development...
The Boox Mira Pro is a 25-inch, 3200×1800 16:9 monitor with HDMI ports, a USB-C port and DisplayPort. It has a handsome metallic finish, if rather thick bezels. Two qualities set it apart from other external displays. First, it uses E Ink Keleido 3, a color e-ink panel that...
As you'll already know, today is World Passkey Day and the FIDO Alliance has released an independent study of over 1,300 consumers across the US, UK, China, South Korea, and Japan to understand how passkey usage and consumer attitudes towards authentication have evolved. The ...
OpenAI has rolled back an update to GPT-4o in order to prevent sycophancy, the flowery language the generative AI may use to praise users. The “overly supportive but disingenuous” responses flourished because “we focused too much on short-term feedback, and did not...
The out-of-memory (OOM) killer has long been a scary and controversial part of the Linux kernel. It is summoned from some dark place when the system as a whole (or, more recently, any given control group) is running so low on memory that further allocations are not possible; ...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (expat, fig2dev, firefox-esr, golang-github-gorilla-csrf, jinja2, libxml2, nagvis, qemu, request-tracker4, request-tracker5, u-boot, and vips), Fedora (firefox, giflib, and thunderbird), Mageia (imagemagick), Red Hat (thunderbird), ...
Apple’s salad days are over. The company sits on the precipice of reinvention, and may become even more inward-facing in response to a damning US court judgement that may yet see it face criminal charges for contempt of court. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has...
A couple of years ago, Popkin here at Boing Boing wrote about the 'Phone of the Wind,' a beautiful phone booth created by Itaru Sasaki as a way to help him grieve a family member who had died from cancer. Sasaki installed the first iteration of the Wind Phone—an old...
PC World's Michael Crider reports that Office is now so slow to load that 'Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup.' The 'Startup Boost' function, soon to be available, frontloads the suite's apps so they are ready to use—at whatever cost to performance results from ...
The first day of May has numerous competitors for its patronage. It's May Day, of course, and it's International Labor Day, and apparently it's Global Love Day. Since 2013 it's also been World Password Day -- created by Intel to highlight concerns around digital security. As ...
This past weekend was the fifth annual European Gull Screeching Championship, where 60 seagull enthusiasts from 14 different countries competed with their finest seagull screeching talents to see who would be crowned the winner. According to CNN, the contest, which has been h...
Microsoft had an early software hit when it released Office for Windows 3.0 nearly 35 years ago. The graphical user interface got users away from command-line interfaces and into a new world of productivity. Since then, the company has kept up with the changing way people...
A federal judge found that Apple wilfully refused to comply with the ruling in a 2021 antitrust case and ordered it to loosen rules on the App Store. Fortnite and Unreal Engine maker Epic Games had sued to force the company to allow third-party payment systems and to limit...
Join me in sending an enthusiastic 'happy birthday!' wish to Julio, Maryland Zoo's cute-as-can-be southern three-banded armadillo ambassador, who recently turned 17! The cute little armored fellow celebrated with a birthday 'cake' that was created to look like a termite mound...
Hirox made a 108-billion pixel scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring to market its high-resolution imaging hardware. Above, the glint of light on the pearl; below, a crack in the glint of light, and finally the glint of light in three dimensions. — Read the...
A Tasmanian short-beaked echidna named Adelaide recently turned 56, and the video footage from her birthday party is bringing me joy! She was presented with a beautiful cake that *looked* to be chocolate with purple frosting—but it was really made out of some of...
For once, 'Florida man' makes his fellow Floridians proud. Seventy-year-old Doug Hay was sitting in his living room when he heard a crash outside. When he and his wife went outside to investigate further, they found a bald eagle downed in the lake outside their home, and...
You may remember Buckshot Roulette, an indie horror game that made quite the splash by swapping out Russian roulette's typical revolver for a shotgun loaded with a variety of shells. Although the grimy industrial aesthetic (not to mention the grimy industrial soundtrack)...
ChatGPT, the favorite digital sycophant of thousands of tech bros, has been turned into a little too much of a doormat. Every AI model under the sun is apparently too woke nowadays, a complaint OpenAI has apparently taken notice of and corrected for. — Read the rest The...
Nearly 80 percent of IT professionals responding to a new survey rank governance as 'extremely important,' underscoring the fact that while organizations are eager to innovate, they still want to do so responsibly The study by API management firm Gravitee looks at the use of ...
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