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Monday August 4, 2025. 05:43 PM
Potatoes as we know them today are the product of a hybridization that took place 9 million years ago between two plants, one of which was an ancestor of the tomato.
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The Switch 2 is already the status symbol of the summer thanks to its much-maligned price, but Nintendo evidently isn't quite satisfied yet. Their hardware has already seen one price hike in recent months, but to slightly misappropriate a certain hobbit, what about second...
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I recently saw some terrific homages — like this one from Buckets the Drummer, this one from Drew on the Kit, and this keyboard mashup by Charles Cornell — to the 'Have You Ever Had a Dream' meme, which made me wonder what ever happened to that sweet little boy who...
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Instrument works fine. Now, about those transistors NASA's Europa Clipper probe checked out its radar as the spacecraft hurtled past Mars on the way to Jupiter's moon Europa.…
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When a camera on a spacecraft 370 million miles away malfunctions, NASA can't just send a technician to repair it, so they have to get creative. They recently revealed the details of a repair of the Juno orbiter. NASA's Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter and sending...
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AI startup Perplexity is deploying undeclared web crawlers that masquerade as regular Chrome browsers to access content from websites that have explicitly blocked its official bots, according to a Cloudflare report published Monday. When Perplexity's declared crawlers...
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TL;DR: Sam's Club membership is 50% off while supplies last — one purchase gets you two cards for two shoppers! Why buy one overpriced bottle of hot sauce when you could get a whole gallon for a similar price? That's just one of many luxuries awaiting you at Sam's Club. —...
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Fujifilm has raised prices on cameras and lenses across its lineup, with price hikes reaching into the hundreds of dollars. From a report: Among the hikes is an increase to the price of Fuji's ultra-popular X100VI from $1,599 to $1,799. The capable X-T5 has gone from $1,699...
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Devs told to exercise 'extreme caution' with emails disguised as account update prompts Mozilla is warning of an ongoing phishing campaign targeting developers of Firefox add-ons.…
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A pair of packages containing fortune 'cookies' that were deemed offensive have been removed from the upcoming Debian 13 ('trixie') release. This has, of course, led to a lengthy discussion and debate about what does, or does not, belong in the distribution. It may also lead ...
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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (java-21-openjdk, kernel, libxml2, and lz4), Debian (exempi, ruby-graphql, and sope), Fedora (binutils, chromium, gdk-pixbuf2, libsoup3, poppler, and reposurgeon), Mageia (glib2.0 and wxgtk), Oracle (jackson-annotations,...
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The management consulting industry is facing potential disruption as AI companies enter the advisory business and traditional firms struggle to maintain growth. McKinsey, approaching its 100th anniversary, reduced its workforce by 5,000 employees since late 2023 while its...
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The second golden age of portable gaming is here. These are the top gadgets for taking your video games on the go.
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Spotted by astronomers last month, interstellar object 3I/ATLAS [NASA] is the third object from beyond that we've detected passing through the solar system. Given that its trajectory does not intersect with Earth's orbit, it 'poses no threat to Earth and will remain far...
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'Hyper-masculine' first-person shooter fandoms are prime targets Updated Researchers from Anglia Ruskin University have sounded the alarm on 'gaming-adjacent platforms' including Discord, Twitch, and Steam being used as 'digital playgrounds' to funnel new recruits into...
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A disconnect between cybersecurity confidence and data reality is leaving organizations exposed, according to a new report released today by Axonius. The study, based on a survey of 500 US director-level and above cybersecurity and IT leaders, reveals that while 90 percent...
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If you're tiring of an unwanted pet, consider donating it to the Aalborg Zoo in Denmark. They have beasts to feed; chickens and certainly horses make fine eating for captive predators. 'If you have a healthy animal that has to leave here for various reasons, feel free to...
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With just over two months left, enterprises look to Extended Security Updates as a stay of execution Windows 11 is maintaining its lead over Windows 10, but millions of PCs are still running Microsoft's legacy operating system with less than three months until support...
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New analysis from Forescout of more than 23,000 vulnerabilities and 885 threat actors across 159 countries worldwide during the first half of 2025 finds 47 percent of newly exploited vulnerabilities were originally published before 2025, and zero-day exploitation has...
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Let US and China compete in the AI development arms race, says former Brit PM's non-profit org Britain should not try to compete with America and China in the race to build cutting-edge AI models and focus instead on widespread AI adoption, but even this will require a boost ...
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