short horror story in the form of a series of 1999-era screenshots about a Windows screensaver simulating life on an island # | Continue reading
Papers Please/Obra Dinn creator Lucas Pope dropped a surprise spooky free web game inspired by 1980s LED handhelds # | Continue reading
This love-infused tune is part of Julia Kate's recently created string of songs, and the particular one remains special, for it's the most personal song to date. | Continue reading
for the last 19 years, Michael Pusateri has tracked children's Halloween costumes at his front door and published the stats online # | Continue reading
Pixelmator: Pixelmator has signed an agreement to be acquired by Apple, subject to regulatory approval. There will be no material changes to the Pixelmator Pro, Pixelmator for iOS, and Photomator apps at this time. Stay tuned for exciting updates to come. Congratulations to the P … | Continue reading
1243 words. So far. Almost at goal. In meeting. Trying to be more involved, enthusiastic. Two hour meeting […] | Continue reading
a dozen surprise new games released to everyone at the same time on a regular schedule # | Continue reading
look in the direction you want to move, open and close your mouth to go faster # | Continue reading
Pythons have famously cartoonish eating habits, and they might be even better at it than we thought. A new study has found that Burmese pythons can eat even larger prey than was thought mathematically possible. Continue Reading Category: Biology, Science Tags: Animal science, Ani … | Continue reading
In the spring, I’ll be teaching the second semester of our philosophy grad program’s first-year seminar. This is the seminar all PhD students in the philosophy department take together as a cohort during their first year in the program. The fall semester of the seminar typically … | Continue reading
A quick followup on my prior conversation with Theo. During that chat, I talked briefly about a trademark infringer that was also distributing nulled plugins. I said “Not illegal. Legal under the GPL. But they weren’t changing the names. They were selling their customers Pro Plug … | Continue reading
Improvements for the bundled calendar and contact apps, plus welcoming Fantastical to the Windows platform. ($56.99 annual subscription new, free update, 67.2/30.1 MB, macOS 12+) | Continue reading
Maintenance update with improvements for the time and productivity tracking app. ($108/$132/$192 annual subscriptions, free update, 26.8 MB, macOS 10.15+) | Continue reading
This is the tenth part of a fiction serial, in 780 words. The day of the seance saw much activity in the house. A round table had been moved into the small parlour before dinner, and the heavy curtains had been closed. Despite the provision of modern gas lighting that Pomery had … | Continue reading
Web browser gains a couple of macOS-specific improvements. (Free, 153.2 MB, macOS 10.15+) | Continue reading
As usual, she spared no expense. The post Heidi Klum Went as E.T. For Halloween first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
My thanks to 1Password for sponsoring Six Colors this week. The folks at 1Password recently attended the RSA conference in San Francisco and were struck by how infatuated everyone was with the promise of new, shiny solutions to fix new, shiny problems.… | Continue reading
It's a Festivus miracle! The post Rachel Zegler Covers Cosmo With An Actual GOOD Celeb-on-Celeb Interview first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
YAY!!! (Sorry, Yankees fans.) The post Well Played, Jubilant Men in Tight Pants: The Dodgers Win The World Series first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
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Back in the early 1960s, veteran US bike maker Schwinn tapped into the spirit of chopper-style motorcycles for a kids bike called the Sting-Ray. More than a decade later, the company blew up another storm with the similarly-themed Hurricane. Now that model has been reborn as an e … | Continue reading
Pixelmator Team, announcing a shocker: Pixelmator has signed an agreement to be acquired by Apple, subject to regulatory approval. There will be no material changes to the Pixelmator Pro, Pixelmator for iOS, and Photomator apps at this time. … | Continue reading
I heard an interview with the Swedish author Per Hagman. As a new parent, he explained that nights out and similar activities no longer appealed to him. He described it as being "free from freedom". Even though I'm not a parent, I understand the feeling. It's one of the reasons I … | Continue reading
Why is it that some people seem to get over breakups really quickly, and others seem to dwell on them for ages? What turns a breakup into a heartbreak? – Ryan I often wonder what motivates Everyday Philosophy submissions. What made someone ask this question? Why turn to emailing … | Continue reading
The EUreka3D project advances conservation and public access to Cyprus’ Timios Stavros Church through 3D Digitisation The EUreka3D project partner UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at Cyprus University of Technology’s (CUT) Digital Heritage Research Lab (DHRLab) processed … | Continue reading
08:13 I did it. 500+ words already in my latest NaNo effort. First in years. The topic… yes. […] | Continue reading
Lord Clement-Jones: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the cybersecurity risks posed by prompt injection attacks to the processing by generative artificial intelligence of material provided from outside government, and whether any such attacks have … | Continue reading
The headline: “A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a ‘Crime’ to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital.” Nieman Lab spent the last week reporting on crime news now. Of course, we could not cover the entire landscape of news about crime, but we delved into podcasts … | Continue reading
If you had any idea that satellite connectivity isn’t a key part of Apple’s strategy, well, the company’s satellite partner Globalstar has disclosed changes to its deal with Apple, including a new influx of $1.1 billion from Apple tied to capital improvements, and $400 million in … | Continue reading
Extraction of nickel, an essential component of clean energy technologies, needs stronger policies to protect local environments and communities, MIT researchers say. | Continue reading
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Control your smart home devices with the Gemini mobile app on Android Google are adding smart home integration to their Gemini chatbot - so far on Android only. Have they considered the risk of prompt injection? It looks like they have, at least a bit: Important: Home controls ar … | Continue reading
No big deal, just two idiots sitting at a bar, trading rumors and conspiracy theories. Then you remember that one of them has a media platform with millions of followers, and the other could soon be Vice President of the United States. Probably as dense a collection of utter bull … | Continue reading
For the holiday prep nobody talks about. READ MORE... | Continue reading
Alan Turing's theories about computation seem to have a startling consequence, placing hard limits on how fast or slow any physical process in the universe can grow | Continue reading
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DNA analysis suggests Pando, a quaking aspen in Utah with thousands of stems connected by their roots, is between 16,000 and 81,000 years old | Continue reading
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The Diamond Hill is Al Shalliker condensing that ephemerality to its purest form, through delicate songwriting and laying it bare like an open book. And it's a pleasure to read it. | Continue reading
From new marine protected areas in Australia and Portugal to a "revolutionary" hospital for kids in Switzerland and new method to regrow forests with the help of animals: Here's our recap of the most important solutions-focused news from the past month. | Continue reading
Scientists in Canada have demonstrated a promising new device that can purify a gallon of water a day, for just a few cents per gallon. Better yet, it’s made of old tires, and can even generate small amounts of electricity. Continue Reading Category: Environment, Science Tags: Wa … | Continue reading
John O'Nolan: Democratising Publishing Having seen how things worked on the inside for several years, the conclusion I personally came to was that WordPress and Automattic were not truly about democratising publishing, after all. At the same time, I felt the product was becoming … | Continue reading
When I was working, earlier this year, on my article for JSTOR Daily about the origins of the modern usage of the word “soundscape,” statistics briefly reared its characteristically ambiguous head. In the piece I wrote, “The word soundscape was essentially a linguistic nonentity … | Continue reading
Microsoft Research New England is looking for advanced Ph.D. students who are bringing sociotechnical perspectives to analyze critical issues of our time, to apply for our summer internship. They will join a team of social scientists who use qualitative or quantitative, empirical … | Continue reading
Part of existing as an “organic entity” such as a human is that we live our lives by cycles: Day, night. Winter, summer, Growth, decay. Sometimes we’re active, other times we need rest. But algorithms and computers never need rest – they are ‘on’ all the time. In a world that is … | Continue reading
Relationships are a murky business. They deal in high stakes and high emotions and can often feel like sailing a roiling sea with a wildly spinning compass. Every action and every utterance is scrutinized and reinterpreted, and any kind of certainty is squinted at through a glass … | Continue reading
Just under 5 per cent of the Wikipedia pages in English that have been published since ChatGPT's release seem to include AI-written content | Continue reading