Ban on junk food ads before 9pm to come into force next year (news.sky.com)
A 9pm watershed on TV junk food advertising will come into force in October 2025, the government has confirmed....
Can anyone identify/ explain this UAV blowing up in a YT short? (youtube.com)
Sorry for using YT shorts. That was just the original source....
I'm all for conservation, but I really have mixed feelings on this one (www.joe.co.uk)
The Fen Raft Spider is roughly the size of an adult male’s hand, and can spin webs as big as pizzas (25cm)....
Boeing factory workers go on strike after rejecting contract offer. (www.voanews.com)
The Once-Dominant Tank Is Getting Humbled on the Battlefield (www.wsj.com)
Of the 31 Abrams tanks the U.S. sent to Ukraine, six have been destroyed, according to Oryx, an independent analyst group that tracks casualties. The rest are now used only occasionally. At $10 million apiece, tanks like the Abrams are not easily replaced. Among other Western tanks sent to Ukraine, 12 of the 18 latest-model...
Russia's Shoigu meets North Korea's Kim in Pyongyang (www.reuters.com)
Before Trump, neo-Nazis pushed false claims about Haitians as part of hate campaign (www.nbcnews.com)
An extremist group that marched in Springfield, Ohio, and demonized Haitian immigrants saw Trump’s mention of baseless rumors at the debate as a victory: “This is what real power looks like.”...
The British are coming, again! Ralph Fiennes, Daniel Craig and Hugh Grant set for Oscars face-off (www.theguardian.com)
On Sunday, the Toronto film festival will hand out its prizes and roll up its red carpet, a week after the Venice film festival did the same. This means only one thing: the start of Oscar season....
[FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - The history of our hobby #podcast (podcasts.itmaze.com.au)
The other day I was handed a sheaf of paper. The person handing it to me, an amateur, was insistent that I take custody of this little collection. I asked what it was that they intended for me to do with it and the response was that because I did things with history, I should do this too....
Unity cancels the stupid Runtime Fee (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Intel Core Ultra 200 CPU specs allegedly leaked — Arrow Lake tops out at 24 cores and 5.7 GHz boost clock at 250W (www.tomshardware.com)
Voice actor Peter Renaday, who played Duncan in Dragon Age: Origins, has died age 89 (www.pcgamer.com)
Poland's Intel plant gets EU green light for $1.9 bln in state support (www.reuters.com)
Exclusive: Your First Look at the Samsung Galaxy S25 (www.androidheadlines.com)
Xiomara Castro calls on the Honduran people to stop the right-wing coup (peoplesdispatch.org)
OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities (www.theverge.com)
For OpenAI, o1 represents a step toward its broader goal of human-like artificial intelligence. More practically, it does a better job at writing code and solving multistep problems than previous models. But it’s also more expensive and slower to use than GPT-4o. OpenAI is calling this release of o1 a “preview” to...
Here's your first look at Huawei Watch GT 5 (spillsomebeans.com)
Dutch government eyes emergency laws to curb migration (www.dw.com)
The new far-right government in the Netherlands wants to wind back several policies in order to reduce the number of people seeking asylum. EU authorities have questioned the legality of the move.
Can AI talk us out of conspiracy theory rabbit holes? (theconversation.com)
Duckstation (PSX emulator) change license from GPL to NON-Commercial [Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International] (github.com)
GPL is still a commercial compatible license, something the team behind Duckstation, apparently, don’t like.