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Wednesday August 13, 2025. 06:45 PM
Nothing says 'failing upward' quite like deporting your own citizens and getting rewarded with a monster budget increase. Between 2015 and 2020, ICE managed to boot at least 70 actual American citizens out of their own country — and those are just the ones they'll admit...
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How to pick the news sources you want to see more (and less) hands on Even if you have your favorite sites bookmarked or type their URLs in through muscle memory, you probably still spend a lot of time looking for info on Google. Now, you can exert some control over which...
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Users want their customizations and their old models back There has been more furious backpedalling from OpenAI following the company's ill-judged launch of GPT-5 and the removal of previous model selection.…
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Microsoft is betting hard on recruiting AI talent from Meta, Business Insider reports, with an internal list of the developers and researchers at the rival firm who are at the top of Microsoft’s wish list. To succeed, Microsoft has put in place a new process and set aside...
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If you've ever tried to remove your personal information from the internet, data brokers are making that task deliberately harder by hiding their deletion request pages from Google searches, a new investigation reveals. The Markup and CalMatters found 35 data broker...
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Apple’s continued success in the enterprise isn’t just the happy consequence of a series of lucky accidents; it’s happening because — while masked by its consumer-focused marketing machine — the company pays close attention to what business customers need. ...
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Microsoft has made 'Pull Print' for Universal Print generally available, letting users authenticate at any registered printer to release queued jobs and reducing the chance that confidential pages sit unattended. The feature, also called 'Universal Print Anywhere,' supports...
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CVE-2017-11882 in discontinued Equation Editor still attracting keylogger campaigns despite software being killed off in 2018 Very few people are immune to the siren song of nostalgia, a yearning for a 'better time' when this was all fields and kids respected their elders -...
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If you're a prisoner looking for an escape route, just ask to be transported via Sea-Tac International Airport. Last night, a New Mexico man became the second prisoner this year to become a fugitive while being escorted through the Washington airport. — Read the rest The...
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This video showing ivy being removed from a brick wall has an unexpectedly satisfying reveal. Instead of breaking into messy chunks, the entire ivy growth detaches as a single, perfect sheet when pulled by a truck. It's like a giant piece of natural wallpaper. — Read the...
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Version 2.0 of Syncthing, a continuous file synchronization utility, has been released. Notable changes in 2.0 include multiple connections for synchronizing metadata and file data, a new logging format, as well as a switch from LevelDB to SQLite for Syncthing's backend....
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China has established a lead in the field of open-source AI, a development that is reportedly sending jolts through both Washington and Silicon Valley. The nation's progress has become a significant event for American policymakers in the U.S. capital. The advancement has...
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It hasn't been a great few years for Spirit Airlines. No matter how many asses it manages to squeeze into its too-small seats, the ultra-low-cost carrier can't seem to stay afloat. According to AP News, the company's flying banana livery may not be seen at airports for much...
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Screenshot from YouTube The post Bizarre Japanese potato chip commercial features a human-sized walking dog appeared first on Boing Boing.
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That one comedy sketch about AI enshittification really is evergreen, isn't it? As yet another domino in the sweeping wave of Internet censorship crackdowns spurred on by pearl-clutching activist groups worried about imaginary children at the expense of literally everybody...
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The Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, and the Museum of Modern Art: they've been done to death. Folks visiting New York City for their first and certainly for their tenth time, want something new. Something different. Something that helps them to understand the...
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This cute outdoor/indoor cat has his own personal elevator for getting in and out of the apartment he lives in. In this video, the cat's owner films what happens when the cat comes home from a long day out on the streets. — Read the rest The post Clever cat uses homemade...
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Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of the greatest games of all time. I don't feel that's a controversial statement. Like many acclaimed games before it that have been discussed to death, new ways to play Red Dead Redemption 2 have popped up in the years since its release, akin to ...
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Do you need more joy in your life? If so (and honestly, who doesn't?), check out this cool project by Portland, Oregon-based artist Rachael Harms Mahlandt, who is busy curating a worldwide map of what she calls instances of 'Sidewalk Joy.' — Read the rest The post This new...
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It's a tale as old as time: you try to keep people out, but end up inviting them in anyway because your deterrent makes you look too cool and badass. It happened with poison dart frogs, it's probably going to happen with those nuclear site warnings for future civilizations,...
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