US President Donald Trump announced via social media on Monday plans to issue an executive order eliminating mail-in voting and electronic voting machines, calling instead for paper ballots and hand counts. Trump wrote that,”…the States are merely an ‘agent’ for… Continue Reading →
What if you made a social network out of RSS? Then your blogroll would be the list of people you follow. Their updates would show up in a reverse chronologic list of posts that would look like something from Bluesky… Continue Reading →
Sometimes I go longer than I intend without writing an updated version of our PC building guide. And while I could just claim to be too busy to spend hours on Newegg or Amazon or other sites digging through dozens… Continue Reading →
A new study by Anthropic and AI safety research group Truthful AI has found describes the phenomenon like this. “A ‘teacher’ model with some trait T (such as liking owls or being misaligned) generates a dataset consisting solely of number… Continue Reading →
The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday, in a split decision, held that the US government’s mass layoffs of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFBP) employees, as part of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), are… Continue Reading →
Discover Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, now available for download! Experience the power of Linux Kernel 6.14 and enhance your computing with this latest release. The post Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS Is Now Available for Download Powered by Linux Kernel 6.14 appeared first… Continue Reading →
Sixty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that married couples have a constitutional right to use contraception. Griswold v. Connecticut, decided in 1965, made it illegal for states to outlaw birth control for spouses – a right that would not… Continue Reading →
Today’s links Maga’s boss class think they are immune to American carnage: They’re in for a surprise. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Paradox of choice (screens); Perpetual Lenovo crapware; Trump’s Solicitor General: “bribery is legal”; Marvel’s… Continue Reading →
Young listeners are accelerating audio and video consumption, with an Economist/YouGov poll finding 31% of Americans aged 18-29 using faster-than-1x playback versus 8% among those 45 and older, as Apple, Spotify, newspapers’ audio, Netflix, and YouTube expand speed controls, including… Continue Reading →
Microsoft has made “Pull Print” for Universal Print generally available, letting users authenticate at any registered printer to release queued jobs and reducing the chance that confidential pages sit unattended. The feature, also called “Universal Print Anywhere,” supports two modes:… Continue Reading →