That giant sucking sound you don’t hear is water being evaporated into an increasingly thirsty atmosphere, but also increasing groundwater withdrawals that ultimately end up adding to global sea level rise, to an eye popping degree. Above, from PBS reporting, “This water loss is … | Continue reading
They're in fear for their lives and I don't think the long arm of the law is the problem here The post The Boys Season Five Trailer Teases Its Supernatural Reunion appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Power strips are generally pretty boring. You plug stuff into them, then you try your best to hid the strip along with all of the cables feeding into it. But Genki’s Moonbase is meant to be displayed loud and proud on your desk. The retrofuturism-inspired strip we wrote about at … | Continue reading
I’ve known Appleby-in-Westmorland for years. It’s one of those places that feels like a well-kept secret—the “jewel of the north... | Continue reading
From photographer and videographer Jan Erik Waider, a trio of videos that features the black sand beaches of Iceland from a drone’s vantage point. Captured on Iceland’s south coast where a glacial river meets the Atlantic Ocean. The camera observes the slow interplay of water, s … | Continue reading
The DC-ROMA II is the fastest RISC-V laptop and is odd Inside this Framework 13 laptop is a special mainboard developed by DeepComputing in collaboration with Framework. It has an 8-core RISC-V processor, the ESWIN 7702X—not your typical AMD, Intel, or even Arm SoC … | Continue reading
As much as I’d like to get to every product in-depth review before Christmas, I’m very realistic that isn’t going to happen. I’m trying, but the backlog is real, and the onslaught of new products this past fall has been … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Microsoft really doesn’t care about consoles anymore. | Continue reading
"I would not plant any seed if you don’t know where it came from or what it may be." Homeowner receives warning after mysterious unsolicited package arrives in mail: 'Destroy them' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
OpenAI has turned off some promotional app messages in ChatGPT after users complained that the chatbot was showing them ads. In a post on X, OpenAI's chief research officer, Mark Chen, said that the company is working to improve the experience after showing ChatGPT users in-app m … | Continue reading
Peregian House by Tim Bennetton Architects sits just behind the fore dune at Peregian Beach on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. The site is idyllic, yet challenging, facing both east and west and shaped by strict planning regulations. | Continue reading
The Boys' fifth and final season is headed to Amazon Prime Video on April 8th, 2026. In addition to a release date, Prime Video revealed the trailer for season five during CCXP in Brazil, offering a look at the reunion between Supernatural co-stars Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackl … | Continue reading
The audio experts at Rogue Amoeba are back to sponsor 512 Pixels this holiday season with Audio Hijack, their powerful app for recording any audio on your Mac. Audio Hijack’s tagline is short and sweet: Record any audio. With it, you can save audio from any app, any device, or ev … | Continue reading
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; "Teacher Tom, look how many jewels I have."I peered into her bucket, responding, "That's a lot of jewels." The word "jewels" referred to the colorful florist marbles that she had collected from the playground.Her friend … | Continue reading
Our last 2025 Open Wire – your chance to post any and all woodworking questions and get answers from Chris, me and fellow readers – is this Saturday from around 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Eastern. (And this time, it’ll be mostly Chris during the day, as I’ll be teaching a Dutch tool chest … | Continue reading
Still fresh off of the completion of its own megamerger, Paramount is staging a hostile bidding war in an attempt to disrupt Netflix and Warner Bros.' takeover. | Continue reading
Vroom, vroom! The post Celebs at the Final F1 Race of the Season first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
Developed by UNIMATIC and Los Angeles' Maxfield, the new, all-black Modello Tre U3S-M watch is as much about style as it is about performance. | Continue reading
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 600 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/8 – ISO 640 📍 National Elk Refuge, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, a … | Continue reading
There's a distinct shift in how enterprises are talking about their AI solutions. Speed and flashiness are giving way to steadier, slower, more focused AI strategies for companies, where market fit and proof points are more important than ever. | Continue reading
Today, I’m talking with Willem Avé, who’s head of product at Square. You know Square — it was started by billionaire Jack Dorsey, of Twitter fame, more than 15 years ago, and it got big on the back of that little magnetic reader that plugged into the headphone jack of the iPhone … | Continue reading
"My soul hurts a little every time I throw this jar because it’s so cute and nice quality." Woman shares genius hack using old coffee containers: 'Super smart idea' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
I’ve released a new extension for the Nova editor. It’s called Remove Comments and it …removes comments from the current line, or selected lines, in your code. That’s it! Oh, I’ve tried to support as many comment/syntax formats as I can think of. Sadly it’s not possible to get … | Continue reading
Major character arcs are resolved and victories achieved, but the fate of the world remains in doubt. The post Wind and Truth Reread: Chapters 137-140 appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
What does it mean that three separate China-linked groups all moved on the same SharePoint vulnerabilities at nearly the same time? | Continue reading
A newly proposed explanation for the slipperiness of ice has revived a centuries-long debate. The post Why Is Ice Slippery? A New Hypothesis Slides Into the Chat. first appeared on Quanta Magazine | Continue reading
We’re fairly confident that the last day to get your order placed at lostartpress.com in time for Christmas delivery is December 14 (this Sunday). Why 10 days out? Because we’re a small staff and can only pack only so many orders in a day (plus, of course, the carriers are swampe … | Continue reading
I would like to tell you what I learned from a five-year old child about HTML and CSS. It’s funny how explaining something you do almost naturally teaches you about yourself and what you take for granted. That Time I Tried Explaining HTML and CSS to My 5-Year Old Niece originall … | Continue reading
Paramount has launched a $108.4 billion hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, calling Netflix’s $83 billion arrangement to purchase the entertainment giant’s studios and streaming service “inferior.” The Paramount proposal, unlike Netflix’s, would also include the line … | Continue reading
Narrative String Theory is collection all known instances in film & TV of bulletin boards covered with investigatory items, “walls and floors littered with paperwork by obsessives”, and so on. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org → | Continue reading
One of the new additions to the GNOME 49 wallpaper set is Dithered Sun by Tobias. It uses dithering not as a technical workaround for color banding, but as an artistic device. Tobias initially planned to use Halftone — a great example of a GNOME app with a focused scope and a … | Continue reading
MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2025As always, dueling America(s): For the second successive week, the New York Times has performed a substantial service on the front page—on page A1—of its Sunday print editions.For the second straight Sunday, the Times is challenging those of us in Blue Ame … | Continue reading
Do you want to block ads and trackers across all apps on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac — not just in Safari? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock — the ad blocker designed for you. The new App Ad Blocking feature in Magic Lasso Adblock v5.0 builds upon our powerful Safari and YouTube ad … | Continue reading
This easy Vegan Lasagna is a comforting, meatless, dairy-free recipe made with tofu ricotta, lentils, and rich marinara for a flavorful plant-based meal. The post Vegan Lasagna appeared first on Budget Bytes. | Continue reading
"He certainly made great strides in his knowledge over the years." Local 'birdman' documents more than 200 bird species in his community: 'This is where my life sort of began' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
In October 2023, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned that “AI will be capable of superhuman persuasion well before it is superhuman at general intelligence, which may lead to some very strange outcomes.” Two years later, we’re watching those strange outcomes unfold in real time. And in … | Continue reading
In 2026, two forces that have been reshaping media will reach critical mass: the creator-driven information ecosystem and cognitive personalization. News creators Audiences increasingly evaluate individual pieces of information and contributors rather than trusting institutional … | Continue reading
We’re obsessed with trust in journalism. How do we get it? How did we lose it? How can we rebuild it? These are all important questions — questions that drive my own research on the fundamentals and dynamics of trusted spaces and how we might reconnect communities with journalism … | Continue reading
AI has matured from an instrument for efficiency into one that unlocks investigative discovery. The ultimate newsroom function of AI won’t be saving journalists a few minutes on rote tasks; it’ll be helping them uncover stories that would otherwise remain hidden. The promise of A … | Continue reading
Anti-media ideologues like Elon Musk love to deploy disempowering language like “you are the media now” to assist in their long-term project of eroding the media’s institutional authority. But thinking about the media that broke through in 2025, it really was the weird and non-tr … | Continue reading
Every community relies on infrastructure — roads, power grids, water systems. Public media is no different. We’ve spent decades building one of the most remarkable content networks in the world: a constellation of local newsrooms, national shows, and independent creators. But it … | Continue reading
It’s often said that the digital era has bestowed young people’s brains with short attention spans and wired them to seek the thrill of the next pixelated dopamine hit. When it comes to journalism, it’s true that young people have gravitated towards short-form video for their new … | Continue reading
I sincerely hope this is the year journalists will stop being surprised and offended by the negative feelings people have about our work. That posture is short-sighted and not useful. The wide world of journalism (never mind “the media”) includes so many goals, styles, audience s … | Continue reading
It’s taken a long time, but some newsrooms are finally acknowledging that collaboration with other media outlets is worth the long-term investment. And in spite of economic turbulence, newsrooms will continue to pursue and put more funding toward partnerships. Increasingly, newsr … | Continue reading
Documentaries don’t usually draw huge audiences, but Netflix has found a winning recipe with a genre that takes viewers behind the scenes with quarterbacks, race car drivers, and baseball stars. Formula 1: Drive to Survive, now in its seventh season, offers such remarkable access … | Continue reading
In 2026, I can no longer assume that you are experiencing my prediction through these words that I’m writing. Instead, you may grasp the gist of my point through an AI-generated summary, or listen to two fictitious people discuss its implications as a podcast, or even watch a vid … | Continue reading
A remarkable thing happened in sports journalism in October. The day after the most recent sports gambling scandal broke — this one involving NBA head coach Chauncey Billups and player Terry Rozier — some of the coverage’s most pointed critiques focused on sports gambling as an i … | Continue reading
NinjaOne is expanding its endpoint management platform with NinjaOne Remote. The system has been developed from the ground up for businesses and MSPs, with support for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR compliance. NinjaOne Remote integrates fully with the existing NinjaOne platform and … | Continue reading