Happy birthday to actor, musician, and astronomer Tim Russ, who played Lt. Commander Tuvok on Voyager—and more recently, Picard. He was also Devor on Next Gen, T'Kar on Deep Space Nine, and a lieutenant in Star Trek Generations. He directed the Voyager episode "Living Witness."
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Mark Carney named next UK Prime Minister
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All Monsters Attack (1969)
Rolled lucky number 13 on my gas station dice this morning.
I just want my BlackBerry back!
LONDON – In the wake of Keir Starmer’s resignation as PM, Labour Party officials have announced a plan to select Canada’s Mark Carney as party leader and Prime Minister. “It’s obviously a huge honour ...
If AI is sentient, then so is Age of Empires 2.
A Microsoft AI researcher built a basic neural network within the video game using digital goats to prove his point. Point is to show "sometimes the claims we make with regards to LLM capabilities are too strong."
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On this day in 1952, Graham Greene was born on the Six Nations Reserve.
One of Canada's most acclaimed actors, he received an Academy Award nomination, and won a Grammy, two Gemini Awards, and received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award.
He died in 2025.
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“The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily."
Alt: gif from the Kids in the Hall skit where Bruce McCuloch won't stop using the word ascertain. It's from the end of the skit where he learns the new word Delineate which floats around his head while he says it.
BREAKING: The pricing for Valve's Steam Machine has finally been revealed, with the 512GB starting at $1049 without a controller.
For the full pricing breakdown: https://bit.ly/3SB9eXr
#IGNSummerOfGaming
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A security firm published a working exploit on June 18 that permanently breaks the security foundation of a large range of previous gen Apple iPhones, iPads, and Watches. It cannot be fixed with a software update, ever. The code is publicly available. Here’s what I surmise so far about the risk.
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This write-up details a novel iPhone BootROM vulnerability discovered and exploited by our team. It covers the underlying bug, the associated exploitation techniques, and the post-exploitation steps r...
