TIL Harvey Ball came up with the smiley face we all know, in minutes for a Life Assurance Company.
It's supposedly the 50th anniversary of the original design of the iconic image, but its history since then is surprisingly complex with millions of dollars at stake
Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template
Meme generator may have screwed up by using templates in outputs, expert says.
Michigan residents sue AI data center emitting noise 24/7 — company fined for industrial noise ordinance violations, offers to buy homes fr…
Some residents have been there for almost 100 years
FreeBSD Just Removed The Last Of Its GPL-Licensed Code
With a recent change that removed dialog in favor of bsddialog, FreeBSD has now retired the last piece of GPL-licensed code in its base system. Although the impact of this change will be minor for …
Wikimedia Will Not Voluntarily Recognize Union a Supermajority of Its Workers Want
The Wikimedia Foundation waited until immediately after its largest annual conference to say it wouldn't voluntarily recognize its workers' union.
New Parody Site Threatens to Replace CEOs With AI for Tiny Fraction of Their Bloated Salaries
"Introducing the world's first Chief Executive Replacement Engine."
just make a break to see a vacation at Greece video !
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Apple to debut smart glasses in 2027 with focus on privacy: report
The company is said to be taking great care to address the privacy concerns that Meta has faced with its own wearables.
Anthropic: Our position on open-weights models
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on open-weights models
New AI attack can reconstruct typed text from keyboard sounds
A new acoustic side-channel attack that can reconstruct text typed on a laptop by analyzing nothing more than the sound of keystrokes.
Lindy effect - Wikipedia
The Lindy effect (also known as Lindy's law[1]) is a theorized phenomenon by which the future life expectancy of some non-perishable thing, like a technology or an idea, is proportional to its current age. Thus, the Lin…
Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like Reddit
Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like Reddit
Try the New Firefox Design in Nightly – Firefox Nightly News
This past May, we shared our vision for the future of Firefox. Starting today, you can try out the next design evolution of Firefox in Nightly. It's still Firefox, now ...
File Browser is being archived on 2026-09-01
File Browser is winding down and this is the last planned release. The repository is archived on 2026-09-01. After that date there will be no further releases, bug fixes, or security fixes. Existin...
TIL After President Kennedy was shot and arrived at Parkland Memorial Hospital, he was reported to still have a heartbeat, but no pulse or …
Get answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about President John F. Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963.
TIL there's actually a difference between coffin and casket. Coffins are tapered to the body (6 or 8 sides), usually with a separate lid, t…
A coffin or casket is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, for burial, entombment or cremation. Coffins are sometimes referred to as caskets, particularly in American English.
TIL the last convicted Salem witch, Elizabeth Johnson Jr., was officially exonerated in 2022, 329 years after she had been found guilty
Elizabeth Johnson Jr. has been officially exoneratedâthanks to a dogged band of middle schoolers
Game Pass Was Supposed To Save Xbox – Instead, It’s Killing the Company
Game Pass was supposed to be the all-you-can-play subscription service that put Xbox on top after a disastrous generation. Instead, it's a failure that's threatening to ruin the company.
Being a Luddite Is Fun Again
As tech backlash hits the mainstream, the ‘Summer of Ludd’ proves we don’t need social media to hang out and have a good time.
TIL public dancing is banned on some holidays in most state or canton governments in Germany and Switzerland
Dancing bans are legal or religious prohibitions against dancing, which have been applied at various times in various jurisdictions around the world. This article deals with general bans on recreational and artistic dan…
Nvidia and OpenAI in talks for up to $250 billion dollar backstop to fund AI infrastructure plans
The backstop would let OpenAI raise debt for a data center campus in Pike County, Ohio, on the strength of Nvidia's credit.
TIL World’s biggest beer, wine and spirits producers have collectively lost $830 billion in market value over just four years. Changing dri…
A global shift in drinking patterns has wiped out more than US$800 billion from the value of leading alcohol companies.
TIL that the USA only has one plant that produces gun barrels for the M1 Abrams tank, M777 howitzers, and Paladin self propelled howitzers.…
The service believes it could have multiple sources forging cannon tubes within 12 to 18 months.
TIL At least 25 of the Snapple "Facts" are false, outdated, exaggerated or inconclusive
Snapple is a brand of tea and juice drinks owned by Keurig Dr Pepper, based in Plano, Texas, United States. Snapple originated as an apple juice first produced in 1972 by Unadulterated Food Products, with the name Snapp…
TIL the 500-year-old tradition of Turkish coffee reading (kahve falı) started in the Ottoman harem not just as magic, but as a clever socia…
Turkish coffee combines special preparation and brewing techniques with a rich communal traditional culture. The freshly roasted beans are ground to a fine powder; then the ground coffee, cold water and sugar are added …
When your vehicle outlives its cloud: What happens next?
Automakers love connected vehicles, but support isn't open-ended.
Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI
In an online discussion post, Alcorn State University history professor Dr. Jason Gibson posed a question that represented part of his students' midterm. It was about the...
Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech
Here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section..."
Scientists Build the First 3D Cloak That Makes Objects Invisible To Heat
A new 3D material can guide heat around complex objects while shielding them from extreme temperatures and infrared detection.
Schools across America are quietly admitting that screens in classrooms made students worse off and are reversing years of tech-first polic…
Millions were spent putting laptops in every student’s hands. Now schools want them back as tech falls short of the miracle solution it was sold as.
Framework 16, one year later
A little over a year ago now I purchased the Framework 16 - a fully repairable and upgradeable laptop. I’ve since then used it as a main device running Linux, Windows, and as a secondary device when running as a home se…
Sony Pushing For All-Digital Future Even Though Only 27 Percent Of Ps5 Users Own Its Digital Edition
Digital games outsell physical releases, but most PS5 owners have paid extra to make sure they still have the option to play both.
Memory chip maker CXMT debuts in Shanghai, up 470% at open and becomes the largest listed company in China
The company's shares soared by nearly 470% in its market debut, as the AI boom drives chip demand.
How Fairphone Moments works on your Fairphone (Gen.6) with /e/OS
Yes! The Fairphone Moments switch works fully with Murena's /e/OS. Customize the side button for privacy, focus mode & more. Learn how to set it up!
Thoughts on "Open" Models: The debate focuses on balancing open and closed models, with cost and geopolitical considerations influencing th…
The open letter on open weights feels familiar yet different...
[Video] Can You Speedrun Subnautica on a Bike?
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Microsoft's Windows 11 push backfired, so it's quietly keeping Windows 10 alive for another year
Microsoft's Windows 11 rollout hit a snag, leading to an unexpected extension of Windows 10's lifespan
Eminent Domain Could Be Used to Seize Your Land for AI Data Centers
Courts have long let utilities seize private property to build transmission lines. Does that hold if the power flows to a single data center?
Claude Shared Chats Were Searchable on Google. Here's Why That Matters
Public Claude shared conversations were discovered in Google and Bing search results, exposing resumes, company projects, and other sensitive information. Learn what happened, why it occurred, and how to protect your sh…
The AI boom's hidden electricity bill — and why you're paying it
"The current system lacks adequate mechanisms," Moody's wrote in a report on PJM, the largest power grid operator in the U.S.
[AIP] Will Be Done v0.10 released: offline-first self-hosted task manager with weekly timeline. Now with checklist!
Offline-first, self-hosted TickTick/Todoist alternative focused on weekly planning. Day columns, project boards, drag & drop, Vim keybindings, and an instant UI without loading spinners. - will...
Unethical conduct in Wikimedia Foundation
What happened?
Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery
A small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.
GrapheneOS duress PIN could land a man in prison
A US man is being prosecuted after allegedly using a GrapheneOS duress PIN to wipe his Pixel during a border search.
Peak social media - The Rise of Anti-Flock Influencers Who Make Things Up for Clout
Instagram influencers are creating fake cease-and-desist letters, making themselves go viral and muddying the waters about mass surveillance.
"When the AI bubble bursts, silver is Eric Sprott's play" Billionaires position themselves for bubble burst. He's not only one positioning …
Silver prices have halved since January, but mining billionaire Eric Sprott is backing the metal, especially if the AI trade falls over.
I revived privacy.sexy, a script builder for debloating your OS
Contribute to Turtlecute33/Privacy.sexy-Revamped development by creating an account on GitHub.
OpenAI launches health bot a day after lawsuit says ChatGPT advice hospitalized a man
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OpenAI's AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B
OpenAI will spend the equivalent of Sweden's GDP on infrastructure through 2030.
An intro to Go for non-Go developers
A brief introduction to Go for programmers who haven't used Go before: Why use it? The standard library. And the language itself.