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You have already read 0%Do you love Linux because of its user-friendly, exceptionally secure, heavy-duty, and open-source, making it easy to customize and maintain? If so, you’re not alone.It is no wonder that Linux has captured the lion's share of the IT market. Business leaders and IT decision makers have poured their trust into Linux and prefer it for almost every business use case, and today, ZDNet reports that 96.3% of the top web servers run on Linux. The downside is that attacks on Linux are steadily rising, as cybercriminals have come to recognize the OS as an increasingly viable...

In the parallel universe of last year’s Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Dr. Demento encourages a young Al Yankovic (Daniel Radcliffe) to move away from song parodies and start writing original songs of his own. During an LSD trip, Al writes “Eat It,” a 100% original song that’s definitely not based on any other song, which quickly becomes “the biggest hit by anybody, ever.” Later, Weird Al’s enraged to learn from his manager that former Jackson 5 frontman Michael Jackson turned the tables on him, changing the words of “Eat It” to make his own parody, “Beat It.” This got...

Wrinkles, crinkles and sags are just a few signs of aging that most men and women (even Botox buffs) can expect to see creep up on their faces as the years turn into decades. But rather than merely bracing themselves for the radical, yet predictable maturation of their physique, one specialist argues that middle-aged adults who are able to see what they will look like in 20 years might be motivated to make healthier and wiser decisions for the future. “The ability to time travel — albeit in our own minds — can help us manage our emotions and improve...

When 16-year-old Shreya Nallamothu from Normal, Illinois, scrolled through social media platforms to pass time during the pandemic, she became increasingly frustrated with the number of children she saw featured in family vlogs. She recalled the many home videos her parents filmed of herself and her sister over the years: taking their first steps, going to school and other “embarrassing stuff.” “I’m so glad those videos stayed in the family,” she said. “It made me realize family vlogging is putting very private and intimate moments onto the internet.”

A former investigative journalist with ABC News and father-of-two girls has been sentenced to six years in jail after he was found guilty of possessing child porn. James Gordon Meek, 53, was sentenced to 72 months in prison after he was caught sending and receiving sexually explicit content involving prepubescent minors while visiting South Carolina in 2020. Federal prosecutors had initially pushed for the disgraced journalist to receive between 12 and a half and 15 years. Meek joined ABC News' Washington bureau as an investigative producer in 2013 and was based in Virginia returned to Virginia with an iPhone containing...

Researchers have pioneered a technique for swiftly and efficiently reconstructing the full quantum state of entangled particles, utilizing advanced camera technology to visualize the wave function of two entangled photons in real time. The innovative method is exponentially faster than previous ones, taking minutes or seconds instead of days, and holds the potential for advancing quantum technology by enhancing quantum state characterization, quantum communication, and quantum imaging techniques. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A new technique based on advanced camera technology demonstrates a rapid and efficient way to reconstruct the full quantum state of entangled particles. Researchers from the University of Ottawa, working together...

"I REALIZE IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN OVERNIGHT, BUT THE LITTLE THINGS — REACHING UP TO MY CHIN, BEING ABLE TO TOUCH MY OTHER HAND, RUB MY CHEEK WHEN I HAVE TO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "It was a Sunday afternoon," Keith Thomas, a 45-year-old Long Island native, told us of his accident. "I dove into the wrong side of the pool, and I blacked out." The next thing he knew, Thomas says, he was being airlifted to a nearby hospital; it was July 2020, just a few months into the pandemic, and he'd badly broken his neck at the C4 and C5...

Video sharing platform TikTok said it has uncovered and shut down a covert influence operation targeting Ireland. The network had 72 accounts and more than 94,000 followers. TikTok said the operators of the accounts posted divisive views in a bid to intensify social conflict. The details are contained in a report submitted to the European Commission by TikTok as part of an EU Code of Practice on Disinformation. […] “The individuals behind this network created inauthentic accounts; hyper-posted content with divisive views related to nationalism in Ireland, Japan, Russia, and Taiwan,” TikTok said. They also “hyper-posted comments with similar low-quality...

Software company Unity's plan to charge game developers is met with a bitter backlash, which insiders say will severely harm the firm's reputation.Their language was salty and the message was clear: Game developers believed their livelihoods were under threat and they were not going to accept it. Unity, a US company whose software is used to create and run thousands of games including smash hits like Pokemon GO and Genshin Impact, announced on Sep 12 new fees for developers. The firm was going to charge 20 cents every time a Unity-backed game was installed on any device, a move that...

The Raspberry Pi 5 arrives in October with both a leap in performance and an incremental price rise. But will you be able to get your hands on one?Originally aimed at hobbyists and educators, the Raspberry Pi has evolved into a serious bit of kit over the years despite its diminutive size. The latest generation has continued that evolution into a machine that can chew through most productivity workloads while retaining many of the expansion options beloved by its customers. However, elements have also been dropped, and the architecture remains more evolutionary than revolutionary.First, the good news. Performance is impressive...

Meta Quest 3 - Mixed Reality for All? The Meta Quest 2 was a virtual reality headset, and while the Meta Quest 3 can do that, it differs by having cameras that allow your content to exist in the same world you do. It does this with two dedicated color sensors and a depth sensor that will allow you to do things like previewing furniture in your room. Meta Quest 3 will also support Xbox Cloud Streaming. That doesn't mean that everything on Xbox Game Pass will be VR, but instead it's taking the Apple Vision Pro approach, projecting a...

ONEI have a domain with an email address. Let's call it Joe@Smith.com. This email forwards to, say, Joe@gmail.com.Is there a way to set up the email so anything sent to it (e.g., Ann@Smith.com, dhoie@Smith.com, etc.) is similarly forwarded?Back in the early 2000s, I had a web host that did that for me. My email acted like *@Smith.com so that I could use any name or misspelling and it would forward.But I don't think GoDaddy allows that. They want me to create a separate email for each name (and charge for it). But their site is so complicated, it's hard to...

Man, this is great stuff, I don't care what race you are. Miss Universe Zimbabwe — that's in Africa, y'all — is a white woman, and the internet is not happy. Well, at least the half of the internet that's always crying about something. They're mad. That's Zimbabwe native Brooke Bruk-Jackson, and while she doesn't look the part, she is now the representative for Zimbabwe in this year's Miss Universe competition. She's beautiful and so were all the other candidates, but what's really got the internet upset is the fact that she's white. Because apparently you can't be white and...

* The military MK 15 Phalanx Close-In Weapon System tracked the aircraft with its powerful six-barrel 20mm cannon as crew members laughed * It followed the passenger plane, believed to be a Boeing 737 for a few seconds before it powered down and lowered its weapon, to the relief of the sailors * The MK 15 Phalanx is a powerful weapon that is designed to defend military ships automatically and can fire up to 4,500 rounds per minute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A US Navy anti-aircraft system was spotted training its sights on a passenger plane in the sky as sailors laughed and...

IT has been claimed for a long time that boys are inherently better at mathematics than girls, and this has led to intense debate on the issue. According to gender stereotypes in mathematics, girls are less confident in their arithmetic skills and experience greater anxiety and this eventually lowers their test scores. However, it is important to rely on scientific evidence and extensive research to determine whether this stereotype has any basis in reality. Is it true that men have an advantage in learning mathematics? Experts and research have found that there are only slight differences in the maths performance...

There’s an increasing chasm dividing the modern web. On one side, the commercial, monopolies-riddled, media-adored web. A web which has only one objective: making us click. It measures clicks, optimises clicks, generates clicks. It gathers as much information as it could about us and spams every second of our life with ads, beep, notifications, vibrations, blinking LEDs, background music and fluorescent titles. A web which boils down to Idiocracy in a Blade Runner landscape, a complete cyberpunk dystopia. Then there’s the tech-savvy web. People who install adblockers or alternative browsers. People who try alternative networks such as Mastodon or, God...

We are thinking about staying in the Greenwood Village/Tech Center of Denver overnight on a road trip. Generally, I try to avoid Communist controlled cities, but there is a reason I need to be in southeast Denver briefly. I'd appreciate advice on avoiding the worst the city has to offer including traffic, crime and stoners.

China-owned TikTok is reportedly testing a new feature that integrates Google Search within its app, a development that experts believe could significantly boost traffic and ad revenue for both the fanatically leftist American tech giant and its Chinese communist counterpart. Business Insider reports that TikTok, the Chinese social media giant, is in the testing phases of a pioneering partnership with Google, aiming to enhance its search features. This integration was discovered by app researcher Radu Oncescu, who noted that some searches conducted within the TikTok app now present an option to extend the search on Google. This feature directs users...

Very obviously I agree with the analysis: There is a massive amount of people and institutions jumping from one grift to the next to the next. But that’s not necessarily new: Especially when it comes to investments it’s just natural to follow the hype, to try to ride the wave wherever it leads you to get the next payday. Everybody can probably name a few people who have embraced that paradigm fully. People who effortlessly shift from “web3 is the future” to “I will explain to you why ‘AI’ will replace you”, people who get fame by talking about self...

On Sunday afternoon, it was announced an F-35 fighter jet valued at an estimated $100 million was missing. The US Marine Corps announced that the pilot of the F-35 had safely ejected from the jet but asked for the public’s help in locating the missing $100 million aircraft. Collin Rugg of Trending Politics shared a video showing the location of the crash. Along with the video, he wrote: “The debris field of the F-35 jet has been released after it was located in a field in Williamsburg County, South Carolina. The crash site was about 80 miles from Joint Base...