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mercredi 27 novembre 2024, 23:18
Recently, I’ve been moving away from macOS to Linux, and have settled on using KDE Plasma as my desktop environment. For the most part I’ve been comfortable with the change, but it’s always the small things that get me. For example, the Mail app built into macOS provides an...
A three-year fight to help support game preservation has come to a sad end today. The US copyright office has denied a request for a DMCA exemption that would allow libraries to remotely share digital access to preserved video games. ↫ Dustin Bailey at GamesRadar This was...
A Chesapeake Bay beachcomber found most of a casket that contained most of a skeleton. A Maryland Beachcomber found the remains of a coffin and a person partially submerged in the Chesapeake Bay. After law enforcement took a look, the Beachcomber decided to dig it up,...
Firefox, the web browser that once disrupted Microsoft’s dominance, has turned 20. Officially launched on November 9, 2004, Mozilla’s browser quickly gained attention for introducing features like tabbed browsing and extensions, offering a fresh alternative in an era...
There have been some past rumblings on the internet about a capacitor being installed backwards in Apple’s Macintosh LC III. The LC III was a “pizza box” Mac model produced from early 1993 to early 1994, mainly targeted at the education market. It also manifested...
Turkey is famously bland and made worse when cooked unevenly. Spatchcocking the bird won't magically make it tasty, but it will cook the bird faster and better. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Spatchcocking comes from some English-ism around...
Imagine if your house key could display a tiny work of art every time you used it. That's essentially what Victor Villas has achieved with computer security keys, turning a standard technical tool into something visually pleasing. When you connect to a remote computer...
This year, Leslie Jones' management of family Thanksgiving is more appropriate than ever. Years ago, I was a guest at a tragic family Thanksgiving, so I know Leslie Jones gets it right. I am lucky that my family largely shares the same opinions on things like equality or the ...
Vasco Pedro, CEO of the Lisbon-based startup Unbabel, delivered a provocative forecast at the Web Summit in Lisbon when he said human translators may no longer be needed within three years. The statement came in parallel with the launch of Widn.AI, Unbabel’s new AI-powered ...
SNL's famed 'More Cowbell' sketch is in the news because people need to remember something funny. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Two interesting pieces of news hit my feed today, both about one of Saturday Night Live's most famous sketches,...
AI privacy concerns are growing as artificial intelligence becomes more widespread, raising issues about how data is collected, used, and protected. While AI can increase efficiency and improve workflows, it also introduces risks such as data security and illegal use. Many...
For the past two or three weeks, upstart social network Bluesky has been attracting large numbers of new users every day, a crowd that quite evidently includes many Apple device users — the app has at times topped Apple’s App Store charts in the run-up to Thanksgiving...
An Australian police officer who tased a 95-year-old woman in May 2023 was convicted by a jury Monday of her manslaughter. Kristian White, 34, shot Clare Nowland in her care home in Cooma after the elderly woman 'roamed the facility' with a steak knife. — Read the rest The p...
Researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 recently found two security vulnerabilities in Google’s Vertex AI platform that may have exposed sensitive machine learning (ML) models to malicious attacks. Malicious actors could have used these vulnerabilities to exploit...
As Black Friday approaches, online shoppers face more than just deals this year—they’re also up against highly sophisticated AI-driven Black Friday scams. Cybersecurity provider McAfee reports that three in five Americans are more worried this year about holiday scams...
Version 8 of the Ubuntu-based elementary OS has been released. This release includes a rewritten Dock, new window-management features, improvements in the installation and initial setup procedures for visually impaired users, as well as a new Secure Session mode: In the...
In recent years the concept of Black Friday has spread beyond the US thanks to the web, such that millions around the world now go online at this time of year in search of bargains. But are the deals on offer really all they seem? A new report from Smartproxy suggests that...
TL;DR: Hop on this early Black Friday offer on the CARSULE pop-up tent that attaches to your car, now over 20% through December 1. Gift shopping for outdoor enthusiasts can be tricky, especially if you aren't looking to give another national park mug or hand warmer packs. — R...
AWS re:Invent, one the premier events in the cloud industry, serves as a platform for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to introduce new services, capabilities, and enhancements to its extensive portfolio. The 2024 event kicked off on Monday, December 2, with a live event in Las...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Christmas in Middle-Earth is the infectious musical brainchild of actor/musicians Brendan Dalton. A one-time Blue Man, Dalton used his free time during the height of pandemic life to compose an...
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