The XM4 are over four years old, but they still sound great for the money. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge A couple of months ago, we saw the Sony WH-1000XM4 drop to $129.99, which was an absolute steal for the last-gen noise-canceling headphones. That deal predictably sold ou … | Continue reading
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As readers who love pigs get ready to shop and cook for something other than ham to serve for Christmas/Kwanzaa… Here’s what happens when elite New Englanders try to play Redneck for a Day and deep-fry a turkey (ABC): WESTON, Conn (WPIX) – A home in Connecticut was destroyed over … | Continue reading
Tyler Johnson cleverly embedded an Insta360 into an exercise wheel to get a unique underside view of a cat running the circle. | Continue reading
Although sunscreen does help protect our skin from the sun's harmful UV rays, it isn't designed to keep that skin cool. An experimental new sunscreen does that very thing, however, while maintaining an SPF rating of about 50. Continue Reading Category: Wellness & Healthy Living, … | Continue reading
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Santa didn't take drugs; he was drugs. With Christmas approaching, it's time to revisit the enchanting concept of Psychedelic Santa involving psychoactive mushrooms and the shamanic rituals of the indigenous Sámi people … | Continue reading
Technology procurement directly influences business success. The equipment you procure will determine how your teams deliver projects and contribute to your success. So what does being “well-equipped” look like in the world of Linux laptops? In this blog, we’ll lay down the best … | Continue reading
Key Takeaways: Microgrids speed power availability and deployment of freight truck charging Specific charging challenges face microgrid deployment that must be overcome There are federal, state, and non-profit organizations that can assist As previous articles have made clear, mi … | Continue reading
Meet the little buggie that’s going to take the nation Down Under, up and over. This is the ‘Roo-ver’, Australia’s first major contribution to robotic space exploration as the first Lunar rover ever launched by the prosperous country. A consortium of 21 different private firms, u … | Continue reading
Scientists have developed a new 3D concrete printing method that captures carbon, enhancing the material’s strength and sustainability. This innovation significantly reduces the construction sector’s carbon emissions by incorporating CO2 directly into the concrete, promising a gr … | Continue reading
Bridges Link Sharing For anyone who collects and shares links regularly, Bridges Link Sharing is a great tool to increase productivity by making the process easier. If you are collecting a list of apps to share on Reddit or links for a blog post, news letter or bibliography, this … | Continue reading
Online gambling has grown exponentially in recent years, offering convenience and accessibility to millions of players worldwide. However, this growth has also led to the proliferation of unlicensed casinos, which… The post The Risks of Using Unlicensed Casinos appeared first on … | Continue reading
Pricing calculator for creator economy platforms. For instance, if you have a newsletter with 1000 subscribers that pay $5/mo, Substack will cost you $500/mo, Patreon $400/mo, Ghost $19/mo, Beehiiv $39/mo, Ko-fi $6/mo, Buttondown $29/mo. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.or … | Continue reading
Run A run launches a child process in a new bash within bash, so variables last only the lifetime of the command. This is why launching Python environments doesn't use run. ./list-things.sh Source A source is the current bash, so variables last beyond the running of a script. Th … | Continue reading
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! A fellow worshipping at a temple in Tamil Nadu, India accidentally accidentally dropped his iPhone into the donation box. When he asked officials at the Arulmigu Kandaswamy temple to return the phone, they politely refus … | Continue reading
Illustration by Hugo Herrera / The Verge The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is suing Walmart and payroll service provider Branch Messenger for alleged illegal payment practices for gig workers. The bureau says Walmart was opening direct deposit accounts using Spark d … | Continue reading
A game I like to play with any AI chatbot is to persuade it to break its narrative frame. Here I’m thinking mainly of the character-based chatbots. For example here’s Psychologist at character.ai (signed-in only). Psychologist is for "helping people improve their behaviors and re … | Continue reading
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The Justice Department has published the criminal complaint against Dmitry Khoroshev, for building and maintaining the LockBit ransomware. | Continue reading
In 2024, I came to grips with the fact that I’ll never be an E Ink-first reader. Most of my reading is web-based, and I like having all of my reading-adjacent apps available too much to use a Kindle, Boox Palma, or other reading-first device regularly. That’s why I was immediatel … | Continue reading
From horror breakouts like Terrifier 3 to big blockbusters like Dune: Part Two, here are our picks for the best movies of 2024. | Continue reading
We are excited to introduce the new CodeQL Community Packs, a comprehensive set of queries and models designed to enhance your code analysis capabilities. These packs are tailored to augment… The post Announcing CodeQL Community Packs appeared first on The GitHub Blog. | Continue reading
I recently attended the RSA conference in San Francisco–security’s biggest event of the year– and I was struck by how infatuated everyone was with the promise of new, shiny solutions to fix new, shiny problems.… | Continue reading
The ending of 'Dune: Prophecy' Season 1 changed a big Dune canon detail. But is this really how the Bene Gesseirt Sisterhood created their most famous saying? | Continue reading
For my last technical post of the year (although I can't promise I'll stop blogging!), I wanted to share an interesting workflow I built using Google Gemini and Pipedream. The idea was somewhat simple - how difficult would it be to build a "general purpose" workflow to look for o … | Continue reading
An artist's abstract illustration of cosmic strings. | Continue reading
MIT grad students and their families joined project and construction staff to mark the collaborative effort to plan and create MIT’s newest graduate residence. | Continue reading
"It’s recycling something that we already have an abundance of." Gardener shares creative hack to give a second life to toilet paper rolls: 'What a great idea' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
In July of 1972, the Clark and Walters Circus was making its way through the Midwest when it stopped in the Mississippi River town of Oquawka, Illinois. Since the circus industry was dying, the outfit had liquidated most of its assets, except for its star attraction, an Asian ele … | Continue reading
Two WordPress plugins required by the premium WordPress WPLMS theme, which has over 28,000 sales, are vulnerable to more than a dozen critical-severity vulnerabilities. [...] | Continue reading
This week I’m publishing a recipe for lohikeitto, a classic Finnish salmon soup that goes heavy on dill. It's delicious (and I’m not just saying that because I developed it), but as I poured full-fat heavy whipping cream into a simmering pot of fresh salmon and root vegetables, I … | Continue reading
A holiday light show in Orlando, Florida went awry over the weekend when lit-up drones began dropping out of the sky. "Are they supposed to be falling?" a child asks in footage caught by a spectator at Lake Eola Park. (See video below, posted by Mike Sington.) — Read the rest The … | Continue reading
Zooquest88 shared a very funny compilation of humans learning what would happen if they barked at their respective dogs. | Continue reading
It’s been over a year since I last wrote about what I use, and I’ve been seeing plenty people’s update posts pop up in my feed reader this week, so it’s time to look at my default apps again. There are quite a few changes this year, nothing terribly exciting - I’ve marked these u … | Continue reading
The GaoJing 1-02 imaging satellite burned up over the U.S. in a mesmerizing 'fireball' that some skywatchers mistook for a meteor shower. | Continue reading
Nick Marx & Matt Sienkiewicz at The Conversation: While Jimmy Kimmel cries and Jon Stewart rants, the right wing in the U.S. has successfully depicted itself as the new home for free speech and cutting edge comedy. We explored this development in our book, “That’s Not Funny: How … | Continue reading
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Feedback on my post about Matt Mullenweg over the weekend has been fairly positive. One topic that I wish I had covered: will our opinion change depending on whether the court rules in favor of Automattic or WP Engine? I think it could, but that outcome is a long way off. | Continue reading
Sir Professor Craig Wright M.D., OBE, MBE, Master of Assassins, Inventor of Bitcoin, reportedly "hides" after a judge sentenced him to jail time. The sentence, for contempt, was suspended so long as he follows court orders—but Ars Technica vilely reports that Wright "hides in Asi … | Continue reading
A U.S. federal judge has ruled that Israeli spyware maker NSO Group violated U.S. hacking laws by using WhatsApp zero-days to deploy Pegasus spyware on at least 1,400 devices. [...] | Continue reading
Princeton researchers have unveiled Infinigen, a open-source tool that generates limitless photorealistic 3D scenes using pure mathematical rules – no AI or reliance on models trained on existing videos or images. Unlike traditional 3D generators that rely on existing art assets, … | Continue reading
Adam Engst investigates how macOS 15.2 Sequoia introduced a bug in Apple Software Restore that breaks bootable backups of M-series Macs. He provides guidance for adapting your backup strategy to accommodate a world without bootable backups. | Continue reading
Slitterhead is a beautiful PS3 game dropped through a time portal, and one of the most original games of the year. The post Wait A Second, Slitterhead Rules appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
It’s GP musical chairs season – more VCs are leaving (or being asked to leave) their firms. But what rarely gets discussed in this coverage, or their ‘greener pastures’ blog posts, is the impact upon their portfolio companies. My advice still generally looks like what I wrote in … | Continue reading
While some countries shrug off Trump's threats, Panama appears to be taking him quite seriously. | Continue reading
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The bowstrings were found with wood-and-reed arrows and were used by the first European farmers. | Continue reading