Today is 02/02/2020 -- the First Global Palindrome Day in 909 Years

An anonymous reader quotes CNN: Today is a very special occasion -- the date is a palindrome, meaning it is the same when read forwards and ...

PETA Suggests Celebrating Groundhog Day With a Weather-Predicting AI-Enabled Robot

There's a North American tradition that says there'll be six more weeks of winter if a groundhog can see his shadow (due to clear sk...

The 7 best turntables

John Cusack in High Fidelity, appreciating some vinyl. | Photo: Courtesy of Touchstone Pictures The world of record players and vinyl ca...

Alleged leaked video shows off Samsung’s folding Galaxy Z Flip

Ben Geskin / Twitter Samsung’s next folding phone is likely to be announced this month, and what appears to be the first hands-on video wi...

Eric Raymond Stumped By Documentation's 'Reproduction' Problem

Eric Raymond has been working on a tool called reposurgeon for editing version-control repository histories -- those "risky operations ...

OpenBSD Mail Server Bug Allowed Remotely Executing Shell Commands As Root

This week a remotely-exploitable vulnerability (granting root privileges) was discovered in OpenSMTPD (OpenBSD's implementation of serve...

Cringely Predicts IBM 'Disappears Into Red Hat'

Tech pundit Robert X. Cringely has been sharing technology predictions every January for over two decades -- and he made another big one on ...