It turns out that Benjamin Franklin was on to something in 1747

Linux has reached a new milestone in desktop market share. As of July 2024, Linux has achieved a 4.45% market share for desktop operating systems worldwide.

Microsoft said its update wouldn't install on Linux devices. It did anyway.

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ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) has successfully completed a world-first lunar-Earth flyby, using the gravity of Earth to send it Venus-bound, on a shortcut to Jupiter through the inner Solar System.

Family of Jessie Peterson, 31, spent a year searching for her before learning hospital had shipped body to storage facility

Learn what self-supervised learning is and how engineers can use it to train AI models with minimal labeled data. This guide explores key techniques, real-world applications, and the benefits of self-supervised learning in computer vision and machine learning.

A significant backdoor in contactless cards made by China-based Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics allows instantaneous cloning of RFID cards used to open office doors and hotel rooms around the world.

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Heartland Tri-State Bank in Kansas failed after CEO Shan Hanes caused $47 million in wire transfers to be sent to scammers running a pig butchering scheme.

Euclid proved that √2 (the square root of 2) is an irrational number. He used a proof by contradiction. First Euclid assumed √2 was a rational number.

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For decades, extremal black holes were considered mathematically impossible. A new proof reveals otherwise.