Andrew McConnell’s genre-defining dining room comes of age, and is as buzzy as ever
It invented the Melbourne wine-bar-slash-restaurant game, and remains a standard-bearer of great service, fantastic wine and exciting share plates. ⌘ Read more
who invented negative chickens? 🐔turns out that question helped invent negative numbers. ⌘ Read more
Tokyo wants you to wear shorts to work. Say no
By Gearoid Reidy
Japan has long relied on innovation to beat the heat. From the invention of sensu fans that could be folded up into a kimono in the Heian era more than 1,200 years ago, to parasols, which in recent years have found users among men as well as women, the country has learned to adapt. ⌘ Read more
L’infernal triomphe des formulaires fiscaux
Comme le disait fameusement Benjamin Franklin, rien n’est certain sinon la mort et les impôts. Cependant, la mort n’exige pas qu’on remplisse un formulaire avant d’y passer. L’impôt, lui, est une certitude doublée d’une invention spécifiquement humaine, sadique et bureaucratique : le formulaire fiscal. Pendant que ces lignes sont écrites, les contribuables français transpirent en silence […] ⌘ Read more
Nintendo Tries To Obtain Touchscreen-Specific Patent On Monster Capturing
Nintendo is trying to secure a touchscreen-specific monster-catching patent that could be relevant to Palworld Mobile. Japan’s patent office has initially rejected the application for lacking an inventive step over prior art, but the company could appeal or amend the claims. Games Fray reports: The Japan Patent Office (JPO) has no … ⌘ Read more
An Entire Wikipedia That’s 100% AI Hallucinations
“Every link leads to an entry that does not exist yet,” explains the GitHub page for a Wikipedia-like site called Halupedia. “Until you click it, at which point an LLM pretends it has always existed and writes it for you, in the deadpan register of a 19th-century scholarly press…”
Every article is invented on demand. The footnotes are also lies… The hardest problem with an infi … ⌘ Read more
An update on KDE’s Union style engine
Arjen Hiemstra has published
an article on the status of the Union project: a
single system to support all of KDE’s technologies used for styling
applications.
The work on Union’s Breeze implementation has progressed to the
point where it is very hard to distinguish whether or not you are
running the Union version. We have also tested with a bunch of
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The iPhone That Never Was
In 1990, three former Apple employees launched a company that epitomized the Silicon Valley dream. What they invented looked like an iPhone—more than a decade earlier. The device never came to be. ⌘ Read more
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@lyse Turns out, this actually was a little machine once (small netbook): https://movq.de/blog/postings/2011-04-28/0/POSTING-de.html And then I moved the whole installation to a different laptop later. I love that you can easily do that on Linux.
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, nice! I never was brave enough to try to move the OS to a different machine, always reinstalled from scratch. :-S
A mate also had this or a very similar white Samsung netbook. I remember typing on that thing was no fun at all for me, never hit the single right key. :-D
I’m not a fan of netbooks, there’s not remotely enough screen space for my taste. I always had 15 inch notebook. Sure, they are way heavier, but I can actually get work with them done. And yes, glared screens are an invention right from the devil himself. Completely stupid.
Security review of Plasma Login Manager (SUSE Security Team Blog)
SUSE’s Security Team has published a detailed\
blog post on their recent review of the Plasma\
Login Manager version 6.6.2,
which was forked from the SDDM display\
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AV1’s Open, Royalty-Free Promise In Question As Dolby Sues Snapchat Over Codec
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) was invented by a group of technology companies to be an open, royalty-free alternative to other video codecs, like HEVC/H.265. But a lawsuit that Dolby Laboratories Inc. filed this week against Snap Inc. calls all that into question with claims … ⌘ Read more
Canada’s Immigration Rejected Applicant Based On AI-Invented Job Duties
New submitter haroldbasset writes: Canada’s Immigration Department rejected an applicant because the duties of her current job did not match the Canadian work experience she had claimed, but the Department’s AI assistant had invented that work experience. She has been working in Canada as a health scientist – she has a Ph.D. in the i … ⌘ Read more
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Tim Berners-Lee Wants Us To Take Back the Internet
mspohr shares a report: When Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web in 1989, his vision was clear: it would used by everyone, filled with everything and, crucially, it would be free. Today, the British computer scientist’s creation is regularly used by 5.5 billion people – and bears little resemblance to the democratic force for humanity he intended.
Since Berner … ⌘ Read more
Your colleague that’s happy to do the mundane parts of work: AWS announces frontier AI agents
In Las Vegas, AWS’s re:Invent 2025 conference showcased AI that doesn’t just assist, but acts autonomously, highlighting a profound shift in enterprise technology. ⌘ Read more
An AI-Generated NWS Map Invented Fake Towns In Idaho
National Weather Service pulled an AI-generated forecast graphic after it hallucinated fake town names in Idaho. “The blunder – not the first of its kind to be posted by the NWS in the past year – comes as the agency experiments with a wide range of AI uses, from advanced forecasting to graphic design,” reports the Washington Post. “Experts worry that without properly … ⌘ Read more
‘Fish Mouth’ Filter Removes 99% of Microplastics From Laundry Waste
“The ancient evolution of fish mouths could help solve a modern source of plastic pollution,” writes ScienceAlert.
“Inspired by these natural filtration systems, scientists in Germany have invented a way to remove 99 percent of plastic particles from water. It’s based on how some fish filter-feed to eat microscopic prey.”
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With RAM crazy prices being what they are, I guess my PC is gonna be stuck on 16GB RAM for some time. I originally bought the DDR4 16GB kit for like $49 AUD, and I thought I'd just buy another 16GB or more later down the track (this was like a year and a half ago), thinking it would be similarly priced or even cheaper...
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@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club
Steps to world domination:
- “Invent” “AI” (by using other people’s data).
- Get people hyped about it and ideally hooked on it.
- Only provide it as a cloud service. But hey, if you want to, you can run it locally!
- Buy all hardware available on the market, so that nobody but you can build more systems.
- All PCs of consumers and competitors are too weak now and can’t be upgraded anymore.
- Everybody depends on your cloud service! Win!
All of that is possible because corporations don’t have a “conscience” in capitalism. Nobody forces the RAM manufacturers to sell all their stuff to just one or two buyers, but since the only goal of that manufacturer is to make money, they do it.
Camera Makers Went Weird in 2025 - and That’s Exactly What the Shrinking Industry Needed
The camera industry shipped 6.5 million interchangeable lens cameras last year – a 50% decline from 2010’s peak – yet 2025 may have been the most creatively ambitious year in nearly two decades of digital photography. DPReview’s Richard Butler argues that this year’s releases displayed “invention, … ⌘ Read more
Parece que o debate na rádio com “todos os candidatos” afinal são só os “todos os candidatos apoiados por partidos com representação parlamentar” - a RTP talvez consiga explicar qual é a representação parlamentar do PPM, que é o único partido que apoia o Goveio e Melo, que eu saiba, e para compensar vão fazer outro “para os restantes” (Humberto Correia, André Pestana e Manuel João Vieira, visto que o Gouveia e Melo foi promovido mesmo na distinção que a RTP inventou e não existe formalmente). Já na TV vai haver um com todos mesmo todos - parece que é suposto dizermos “vale mais pouco que nada”.
Amazon Pitches AI Tools as Co-Workers While Axing Jobs
Amazon used its annual re:Invent cloud conference in Las Vegas to pitch a vision of the workplace where AI agents serve not as tools but as “co-workers” and “teammates,” even as the company proceeds with eliminating roughly 14,000 corporate jobs in its second major workforce reduction in recent years.
AWS CEO Matt Garman predicted on stage that autonomous “frontier agent … ⌘ Read more
Can This Simple Invention Convert Waste Heat Into Electricity?
Nuclear engineer Lonnie Johnson worked on NASA’s Galileo mission, has more than 140 patents, and invented the Super Soaker water gun.
But now he’s working on “a potential key to unlock a huge power source that’s rarely utilized today,” reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. [Alternate URL here.]
Waste heat…
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NVIDIA Releases CUDA 13.1 With New “CUDA Tile” Programming Model
NVIDIA just released CUDA 13.1 for what they claim is “the largest and most comprehensive update to the CUDA platform since it was invented two decades ago.” The most notable addition with the CUDA 13.1 release is CUDA Tile as a new tile-based programming model… ⌘ Read more
US Patent Office Issues New Guidelines For AI-Assisted Inventions
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued new guidelines outlining when inventions created with the help of AI can be patented. From a report: USPTO Director John Squires said on Wednesday in a notice set to be published Friday, that the office considers generative AI systems to be “analogous to laboratory equipment, computer software, res … ⌘ Read more
Dairy ‘disrupter’ who invented spreadable butter in 70s wins science award
An 86-year-old dairy farmer claims this year’s Dairy Science Award for his spreadable butter invention in the early 70s. ⌘ Read more
The forgotten women of quantum physics
Physics has a reputation for being dominated by men, especially a century ago, as quantum physics was just being invented – but there have been so many women who helped shaped the field since its inception ⌘ Read more
Is a deadly asteroid about to hit Earth? Meet the man who can tell you
When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, who invented the scale, tells New Scientist about his 50-year career in planetary defence ⌘ Read more
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@bender Kaboom! Hahaha, I did not think of that at all, thanks for pointing it out, mate! :'-D
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Also thanks mate! 🥰
In fact, it’s a great little invention
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@lyse LOLz! Way to destroy @prologic's newest playground! :-P
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@bender@twtxt.net Kaboom! Hahaha, I did not think of that at all, thanks for pointing it out, mate! :‘-D
But let me clarify just in case: I honestly do not want to bash this project. In fact, it’s a great little invention. It’s just that I’m not conviced by the current user interface decisions. Anyway, web design isn’t right up my alley. I just wanted to add some fun. And luckily, at least someone liked it so far. :-)
‘Most of it is good’: Tim Berners-Lee on the state of the web now
The man who invented the web is aware of the many issues it faces, from problematic social media use to the rise of unfettered AI. He also has a plan to remedy the situation ⌘ Read more
I’d like to speak to the Bellcore ManaGeR
I love it when I discover – usually through people smarter than I – an operating system or graphical user interface I’ve never heard of. This time, we’ve got Bellcore MGR, as meticulously detailed by Nina Kalinina a few weeks ago. I love old computers, and I enjoy looking at old user interfaces immensely. I could spend a whole evening on installing an old version of MS Word and playing with it: “Ah, look, how cute, they didn’t invent scrollbars just … ⌘ Read more
10 Inventors Who Died Before Seeing Their Creations Succeed
In the course of time, inventors, engineers, clever thinkers, and business-minded individuals have propelled humanity forward. Their unique ideas and remarkable creations have helped improve mankind and make society more seamless in countless ways. These advancements have ranged from incremental improvements to monumental leaps—and they span industries and inventions from medical breakthroughs to technological marve … ⌘ Read more
10 Incredibly Specific Oreo Facts You’ll Think About at 2 A.M.
You’ve twisted them, dunked them, and crumbled them into milkshakes—but odds are, you don’t really know Oreos. Behind the world’s best-selling cookie is a labyrinth of marketing manipulation, food science secrets, and flavor experiments so bizarre they’re hidden from the public. These aren’t your standard “Oreo was invented in 1912” trivia tidbits. These are the […]
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Over the past few weeks I've been experimenting with and doing some deep learning and researching into neutral networks and evolutionary adaptation of them. The thing is I haven't gotten very far. I've been able to build two different approaches so far with limited results. The frustrating part is that these things are so "random" it isn't even funny. Like I can't even get a basic ANN + GA to evolve a network that solves the XOR pattern every time with high levels of accuracy. 😞
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@bender@twtxt.net There is no aim. Just learning 😅 That way I can actually speak and write with authority when it comes to these LLM(s) a bit more 🤣 Or maybe I just happen to become that random weirdo genius that invents Skynet™ 😂
10 Normal Items You Didn’t Know Were Once Part of Burial Rituals
We tend to think of everyday objects—pillows, perfumes, makeup—as inventions born from comfort, beauty, or practicality. But dig through the layers of history, and you’ll find that some of these now-ordinary items have surprising ties to ancient burial rites, funerary customs, or corpse preparation. To be clear: not all of these items were originally invented […]
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10 Human Inventions That Are Rewriting the Future
Watching the local news in most parts of the world might lead one to believe that we’re completely surrounded by disaster, conflict, and societal decline. Bad news dominates the headlines because it demands our attention. However, it rarely tells us the full story of what’s happening across the planet. Behind the scenes, countless scientists, engineers, […]
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10 Real Ways Scientists Think Humans Could Evolve Next
Human evolution didn’t stop when we stood upright or invented cities. In fact, it’s still happening—just under new pressures. As technology, climate, medicine, and global lifestyles reshape how we live and reproduce, scientists ask: what’s next? These aren’t science fiction fantasies but real hypotheses based on current evolutionary pressures and long-term trends. Here are 10 […]
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10 Ancient and Obscure Strategy Games from Around the World
Strategy games have been part of human culture for thousands of years. Long before modern board games or digital entertainment, people across ancient civilizations invented clever ways to test their wits, train their minds, and challenge their friends. Some of these games, like chess, Go, and backgammon, survived and are still played today. But many […]
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Invention no 13 in A minor by J.S. Bach - YouTube Soo amazing! 🤩
We invent docker, we invent kubernetes, we invent portainer, why we still not invent solution to migrate data volumes between hosts? :(
Stargazing 4
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Announcing Two New Cloud Native Heroes Challenges
Help us defeat a patent troll claiming methods for “manipulation of complex hierarchical data” and “analysis of hierarchical data” were invented in 2005. We’re excited to launch 2 additional Cloud Native Heroes Challenge contests in which… ⌘ Read more
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Delicious Foods That Were Born from Mistakes and Stubbornness
History is filled with inventions born out of necessity, but some of the world’s most famous foods exist simply because someone felt petty. Whether it was a battle against big corporations, a middle finger to social norms, or just a chef refusing to admit they made a mistake, these foods exist solely because someone wanted […]
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10 Societies with Unconventional Concepts of Time
We like to think of time as an unshakable force, ticking away with military precision in measured increments. But here’s the thing—time, as we know it, is completely made up. Sure, the sun rises and sets and seasons change, but the rigid structure of seconds, minutes, and hours, really, is all a human invention, like […]
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Announcing the second Cloud Native Heroes Challenge
Help us defeat a patent troll claiming “network isolation with cloud networks” was invented in 2017 We’re excited to launch another Cloud Native Heroes Challenge contest in which you can earn swag, a ticket to attend… ⌘ Read more
10 Shocking Facts About the Electric Chair
Since 1887, the electric chair has fascinated and horrified people around the world. The stiff, uninviting planks of wood the chairs are made of have become synonymous with the controversial method of execution. Since its invention, the chair has continued to evolve, for better or worse. Here are 10 things you might not have known […]
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