xkcd 1970: Name Dominoes
Lay out dominoes legally; the dominoes have people names, not numbers. Source link
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These are the two Verizon alternatives I most recommend to people
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority For those that don’t know, I spend the vast majority of my time at Android Authority reviewing carriers, as well as general news and features around them. I’ve used a large percentage of the US carriers, including Verizon and several of its biggest prepaid partners. For most people, I wholeheartedly […]
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Nintendo shares a vintage SNES commercial starring Paul Rudd as he reprises the role for Switch 2
Nintendo surprised us with a little blast from the past this weekend, uploading a 34-year-old Super Nintendo commercial featuring Paul Rudd to its YouTube channel — and it’s released a sequel for the Nintendo Switch 2. Rudd appears in the Switch 2 promo wearing the same outfit he wore back in 1991, but this time […]
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This spa’s water is heated by bitcoin mining
“I thought, ‘That’s interesting—we need heat,’” Goodman says of Bathhouse. Mining facilities typically use fans or water to cool their computers. And pools of water, of course, are a prominent feature of the spa. It takes six miners, each roughly the size of an Xbox One console, to maintain a hot tub at 104 °F. At […]
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Rogue npm Packages Mimic Telegram Bot API to Plant SSH Backdoors on Linux Systems
Apr 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananLinux / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered three malicious packages in the npm registry that masquerade as a popular Telegram bot library but harbor SSH backdoors and data exfiltration capabilities. The packages in question are listed below – According to supply chain security firm Socket, the packages are designed to mimic node-telegram-bot-api, […]
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How to make your images in Markdown on GitHub adjust for dark mode and light mode
GitHub supports dark mode and light mode, and as developers, we can make our README images look great in both themes. Here’s a quick guide to using the element in your GitHub Markdown files to dynamically switch images based on the user’s color scheme. When developers switch to GitHub’s dark mode (or vice versa), standard […]
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Generating components, not tokens
On today’s episode, Ben and Ryan chat with Laly Bar-Ilan, Chief Scientist at Bit. Source link
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Distill Hiatus
Over the past five years, Distill has supported authors in publishing artifacts that push beyond the traditional expectations of scientific papers. From Gabriel Goh’s interactive exposition of momentum, to an ongoing collaboration exploring self-organizing systems, to a community discussion of a highly debated paper, Distill has been a venue for authors to experiment in scientific […]
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Nvidia vows to continue making products for Chinese market
Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, said in an interview broadcasted by CCTV that his company will continue supplying competitive products for the Chinese market going forward. Huang noted the importance of the Chinese market for Nvidia, emphasizing that it is crucial for the company to continue offering both datacenter and gaming products for the […]
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