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It's not just carbonized scrolls , there is a whole set of wooden items that have been uncovered at Herculaneum, the Roman city which, w...

RFK Jr. backs Rand Paul for Senate GOP Majority Leader .  Of course it will never happen, but interesting. ( via )

Where do chimpanzees go to grab a beer?  The monkey bars.

Lots of folks are posting about the Google AI fiasco, and how it shows that you can't trust Google's search results.  Um, we've ...

This sounds pretty bad : Abstract:   In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have become increasingly capable and can now interact wit...

We've seen Sophie here before .  He took a shine to her she to him.  She had a couple sleepovers when her people were gone on trips, and...

This operation is pretty impressive : Notorious ransomware gang LockBit's website has been taken over by law enforcement authorities, wh...

This is bad.  Really bad :  A single packet can exhaust the processing capacity of a vulnerable DNS server, effectively disabling the machi...

It's not a real President's birthday (Lincoln's was the 12th, Washington's is the 22nd), but everyone wants a day off, so so...

 Cumbersome and hilarious.

SGT Chuck Mawhinney - the greatest Marine Corps sniper ever - has reported to the final muster.  As always, Dwight has the writeup (highly ...

Not for me, but for Big Country's lovely wife Gretchen.  She's been diagnosed with cancer and any change you can toss her way for me...

... when it is under the ocean ? A prehistoric stone wall more than half a mile long has been discovered on the floor of the Baltic Sea in ...

Assuming that you use it, of course.  It is a persistently bad idea : Cybercriminals are targeting iOS users with malware that steals Face I...

What did the guy with a broken leg say to his valentine? "I have a crutch on you."

Holy cow. Yanow, Peter O'Toule was robbed of the Oscar that year.

This is just plain interesting.  The first photographs date to the 1820s and 1830s, but there were some very old people alive then, who live...

I've said for some time that Sir Christopher Lee was the real "Most Interesting Man In The World" .  What I hadn't known w...

Huh : The world's largest hacking conference, held since 1993 and lately drawing in as many as 30,000 attendees, has been held in venues...

Tuna emails this trifecta of Dad Jokes.  Thanks, Tuna A toothless termite walks into a bar. He says “Is the bar tender here?” A dung be...