A White House official has added a ninth U.S. telecommunications company to the list of telecoms breached in a Chinese hacking campaign that impacted dozens of countries. [...] | Continue reading
Oxygen treatment decreased cell activity but failed to enhance metabolic function in patients with diabetes. Researchers at the University of Missouri are investigating therapies that target specific cells associated with cardiovascular and metabolic disorders, including high blo … | Continue reading
Not only will the project provide electricity to over half a million homes, but it's also creating hundreds of jobs. Officials share update on massive wind farm set to power over 600,000 homes — and it could save residents billions in utility costs first appeared on The Cool Down … | Continue reading
After vast parts of Vientiane were destroyed when Siamese armies sacked the city in 1827, the original city pillar shrine of the Laotian capital was lost. But not too long ago, archaeologists discovered fragments of the original site dating back to the fourth or fifth centuries. … | Continue reading
Consisting of rustic little villages, Tōno City in Iwate Prefecture is known for its associations with The Legends of Tōno, a collection of folk tales published in 1910 by folklorist Kunio Yanagita. It includes many ghost stories and legends involving local yōkai, most notably th … | Continue reading
They don't call jawbreakers "jawbreakers" for nothing, as one 19-year-old Canadian student painfully learned when she tried to bite down on the large candy ball. "Has anyone else ever wondered if a jawbreaker can actually break your jaw?" Javeria Wasim asked on a TikTok video, he … | Continue reading
The “robotaxi revolution” has been hyped for about a decade. Many see it as never coming. Many see it as just around the next corner. The fact of the matter is: robotaxis are already in operation. However, that’s still at a rather small scale. The “revolution” part would be when … | Continue reading
Dwight Garner in the New York Times: Percival Everett’s first novel was published in 1983. How long ago was that? It was same year Madonna, R.E.M. and Metallica released their first albums. Much of the world has only recently begun to catch up with him. His current renown, a long … | Continue reading
AI is abundant, but people are good at recognizing when an image has been created using the technology. | Continue reading
I’ve shared animator Nick Murray Willis’ videos before — he takes snippets of sound & dialogue from sports commentary & movies and creates context-shifted animations from them. For instance, in the two videos above with football (soccer) commentary, a commentator’s chant of “Mess … | Continue reading
Laura Loomer and other MAGA faithful who are critical of Musk have lost their verification checkmarks. | Continue reading
Image: Warner Bros. If you’ve been waiting patiently to see how Matt Reeves’ story for The Batman continues once the reboot’s sequel arrives, you’ll have to wait a little longer. It was once set to open October 2nd, 2026, after an initial delay caused by the Hollywood writers’ st … | Continue reading
Gamer urges YouTube to change DMCA takedown process to end copyright abuse. | Continue reading
South Korean superstar Lee Byung-hun gets to flex his acting muscles a lot more in the Netflix show's new episodes. | Continue reading
The winning submission to a high school essay contest, written by Mallory Valis, described as "a 16-year-old from Toronto", starts this way: Bro, this intro is high-key gonna slap. Just let me cook. Oh wait, I should be more formal. Uhh. . . . Henceforth I commence my righteous t … | Continue reading
An AI experiment that transforms The Beatles' 1965 album Rubber Soul into Motown-style arrangements, reimagines all 14 tracks from the 1965 album. "It's like a Pandora's box has been opened," wrote one of the 130,000+ viewers, capturing the mix of wonder and worry in the comments … | Continue reading
The ways a sweater is folded, stretched or rumpled determines how it settles into one of several resting meta-states. | Continue reading
A matrix of squid bone and cotton cellulose offers a low-cost, scalable solution to global microplastic poisoning according to a new study from China. Attempting to find a material that would address all common concerns with microplastic filtration, the scientists’ cotton-squid s … | Continue reading
Love a train wreck. The post The Worst Shoes on the Runway in 2024 first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
"Accurately map wildfires to within 180 feet of their origin." Researchers develop low-cost system to detect wildfires within seconds of ignition: 'Very overwhelming for fire departments' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The GoodTask for iOS and Mac giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Leonardo Sousa Jamin Barton Chris Sto You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear anything! But I didn’t win! If you didn’t … | Continue reading
After its predecessor was bereft from delays, an exciting sequel is repeating the pattern. | Continue reading
Jieyu Zheng and Markus Meister at Science Direct: This article is about the neural conundrum behind the slowness of human behavior. The information throughput of a human being is about 10 bits/s. In comparison, our sensory systems gather data at ∼109 bits/s. The stark contrast be … | Continue reading
Like a little boy who lost his daddy at the carnival, a confused Donald Trump wandered around the internets, looking for Elon Musk. But rather than send a private message to his superior, he seems to have accidentally broadcast it on Truth Social. — Read the rest The post Confuse … | Continue reading
The 7 Coolest Mathematical Discoveries of 2024, including “the biggest prime number yet, a new formula for pi, mysterious patterns in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and even a whole new kind of shape”. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org → | Continue reading
Congratulations to our nation's most prestigious media outlets, who are currently locked in a thrilling race to see who can normalize Trump's fascism with the most cowardly headlines! NBC took an early lead with their masterful "House Republicans say Liz Cheney should be investig … | Continue reading
A groundbreaking discovery by an international team of astronomers has revealed a completely new class of cosmic X-ray sources. Led by researchers from the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw, this finding, published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, is shedding … | Continue reading
EFF has spent this year urging governments around the world, from Canada to Australia, to abandon their reckless plans to introduce age verification for a variety of online content under the guise of protecting children online. Mandatory age verification tools are surveillance sy … | Continue reading
The phrase “move fast and break things” carries pretty negative connotations in these days of (Big) techlash. So it’s surprising that state and federal policymakers are doing just that with the latest big issue in tech and the public consciousness: generative AI, or more specific … | Continue reading
The EFF-chaired Electronic Frontier Alliance (EFA) has had a big year! EFA is a loose network of local groups fighting for digital rights in the United States. With an ever-increasing roster of allies across the country, including significant growth on university campuses, EFA ha … | Continue reading
You may have noticed (or not) that if an app is pinned to the Ubuntu Dock you don’t see a shortcut for it in the applications grid. This approach is by design to avoid duplication since the dock is always visible (by default) so those app shortcuts are always in reach – each app … | Continue reading
Dear reader of our blog, surely by now you know the format: as we approach the end of the year, we look back on our work, count our wins, learn from our misses, and lay the groundwork strategies for a better future. It's been an intense year in the fight for reproductive rights a … | Continue reading
George Steiner at The Guardian: Boyle’s treatment of Goethe’s readings and uses of Kant would make for a tidy monograph in itself. As would Boyle’s analysis of Goethe’s studies and experiments in optics, in the meaning and structure of light. The conclusions drawn were erroneous, … | Continue reading
Need something to stream as the year comes to an end? The io9 staff suggests a few of our favorites that flew under the radar. | Continue reading
12-27-24 Call done, should be an easy contract to get in, and get in quick. Haven’t touched CCNA […] | Continue reading
The planet experienced record-breaking heat in 2023. Scientists uncover natural phenomenon that significantly exacerbated last year's record-high temperatures: 'This is such a complex beast' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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The big news in Earth science this year was all about climate change, with extreme weather, flooding and drought attributed to warming. Scientists also warned about much worse to come if we don't rein in carbon emissions. | Continue reading
From taste tests to saucy, scientific deep dives, these are the Serious Eats IG posts you loved (and trolled) the most this year. | Continue reading
Image: Getty Do Kwon, the co-founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency firm Terraform Labs, will be extradited to the US to face federal fraud charges, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The Montenegro Ministry of Justice announced the decision on Friday, which comes more than one y … | Continue reading
I’ve got high blood pressure at the moment. My doctor wanted to keep an eye on it. It’s tricky as one blood pressure reading isn’t particularly useful. You need a whole bunch of readings over time, and that’s pretty hard to do unless you’re taking the measurements at home. So, I … | Continue reading
The House Hippo—an adorable miniature hippopotamus domesticated in Canada and the U.S.!—set out to teach cable TV viewers a lesson in identifying fake news a generation ago. The hippo was portrayed with the use of modified stock footage: video from "various sources" was rotoscope … | Continue reading
Some interesting stats in Mastodon’s 2023 report. Patron donors have dropped over the last couple of years, but total donations are up because of larger, single donations. Makes me wonder if the future of financing Mastodon might be more commercial offerings, like paid hosting or … | Continue reading
“Architecton is an epic, intimate, and poetic meditation on architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction — and offer hope for survival and a way forward.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org → | Continue reading
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: And the brain can be made into a fancy candlewax! Today's News: | Continue reading
Hola amigo, It’s December, and as the year wraps up, I’ve been doing some thinking. You know, the good ol’ “let’s reflect on everything” end-of-year vibe. Today I wanted to share 9 of my biggest learnings from 2024 (and my goals for 2025): 1- Stop playing the blame game There’s t … | Continue reading
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