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Thursday June 19, 2025. 05:44 PM
Time for another episode of 'game minutiae no one has ever thought about before!' Despite all the discussion about the Switch 2 and its price — to say nothing of the $80 games — the system's sole worthwhile exclusive, Mario Kart World, has nonetheless turned out to be...
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In 1853, a Liverpool photographer achieved what seemed impossible at the time. He shrunk a 680-letter memorial plaque to the size of a pencil tip while keeping every character crystal clear under magnification. John Benjamin Dancer was an optical instrument maker in his...
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It's no secret that I love a good animal snout, and there's almost no snout more majestic than that of the regal beast affectionately known as a 'Chaos Worm' or a 'Void Horse' (for supreme examples of such creatures, check out one of my favorite Instagram accounts 'Cleo Long ...
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American highways harbor some of the country's most unusual fast-food landmarks, from a palatial McDonald's mansion to a UFO-themed burger joint in Roswell, New Mexico. These quirky restaurants, as listed on Atlas Obscura, can make a trip to get a burger feel like a novel...
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Most of the pre-launch discussion over the Switch 2 was about one thing and one thing only: its price. Gaming is steadily becoming a more expensive hobby in general, but it's Nintendo in particular that's leading that charge by making the jump to $80 per game and ratcheting...
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Iranian state television has instructed residents to delete WhatsApp from their smartphones, claiming the messaging platform gathers user information to share with Israel. The local media provided no evidence supporting these allegations but additionally encouraged residents ...
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Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.15.3, 6.12.34, and 6.6.94 stable kernels. Each contains a relatively large number of important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
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Thank goodness real science and health experts are working tirelessly to combat the misinformation and disinformation about vaccines and other health issues currently being peddled by the folks — and brain worms — currently in charge of our public 'health' system. —...
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Microsoft’s latest Windows update has created a big confusion. Many users are actively complaining that Microsoft weakened the facial recognition feature, Windows Hello, and now they can’t sign in to their devices in the dark or low light conditions. Windows Hello’s...
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Microsoft’s latest Windows update has created a big confusion. Many users are actively complaining that Microsoft weakened the facial recognition feature, Windows Hello, and now they can’t sign in to their devices in the dark or low light conditions. Windows Hello’s...
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The high-speed car technology ride Test Track at Walt Disney World's (Orlando, Florida) EPCOT theme park has been closed since June 17, 2024, for a retheming. Until now, Disney has been uncharacteristically closed-lipped about how the ride will be updated. But this week,...
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Observatory maps datacenter hubs and power demand worldwide The International Energy Agency (IEA) has unveiled an online platform to closely monitor and analyze the impact of AI across the energy sector worldwide.…
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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gvisor-tap-vsock), Debian (activemq and chromium), Fedora (kea, python-django4.2, python-django5, python-setuptools, and rust-git-interactive-rebase-tool), Oracle (ipa and kernel), Red Hat (buildah, container-tools:rhel8,...
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TL;DR: Channel your inner super spy with the iSpyPen Pro X, now only $159.99 (reg. $209.99). Ever wanted to feel like a super spy? Now you can go full James Bond with the iSpyPen Pro X. This sleek pen is a luxurious writing instrument that also doubles as a camera, capturing...
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93 Escort Wagon writes: More proof that Amazon's leadership views the balance of power between itself and its workforce tilting decisively in its favor: Amazon's employees are being told they must relocate to one of the company's large hubs -- with the company specifying the ...
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ChatGPT-assisted writing dampened brain activity and recall in a controlled MIT study [PDF] of 54 college volunteers divided into AI-only, search-engine, and no-tool groups. Electroencephalography recorded during three essay-writing sessions found the AI group consistently...
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Experts note 'major red flags' in donut giant's security as 161,676 staff and families informed of attack details Krispy Kreme finally revealed the number of people affected by its November cyberattack, and it's easy to see why analyzing the incident took the well-resourced...
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OpenAI has ended its long-standing partnership with Scale AI, the company that powered some of the most complex data-labeling tasks behind frontier models such as GPT-4. The split, confirmed by an OpenAI spokesperson to Bloomberg, comes on the heels of Meta’s $14.3 billion ...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Foreign students will be required to unlock their social media profiles to allow US diplomats to review their online activity before receiving educational and exchange visas, the state department has announced. Those who ...
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Another SpaceX rocket underwent rapid unscheduled disassembly late Wednesday evening, and this time it didn't get off the launch pad. The latest Starship test was a bust. 'On Wednesday, June 18 at approximately 11 p.m. CT, the Starship preparing for the tenth flight test...
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