Monday, September 22
Daily News Stuff 22 September 2025
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- 40,000 year old symbols found in caves worldwide may be the earliest written language, according to a bunch of idiots. (Open Culture)
And what’s more, it may be possible, suggests paleoanthropologist Genevieve von Petzinger, that those prehistoric forms of writing, which include the earliest known hashtag marks, consisted of symbols nearly as universal as emoji.
#coughbullshitcough
Yes, they're directly conflating art with actual writing. They're obviously directly conflating art with actual writing, and it's all being reported seriously.
Welcome to my TED Talk. Check under your seats as you leave the venue.
Tech News
- An online store listed the 24GB Intel Arc B60 Pro for $600. (WCCFTech)
This is basically a B580 with twice the RAM. The B580 costs $249 - nominally - so in theory you could buy two of those and a have something nice for dinner.
- Microsoft put me on a list. (Slugcat)
If you are porting a game to a new version of Windows and you're getting bizarre results, check to see if Microsoft has enabled optimisations specific to the name of your executable.
Because in this case, they had.
- The best time to fix software security was fifty years ago. The second best time was May 26, 2009 before Node.js launched. (CACM)
After that there was no hope.
- That's no moon. (CNN)
Astronomers have found another quasi-moon. Of Earth. We have several.
This one is about 60 feet wide and technically orbits the Sun but in such a way that it sticks close to us.
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