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Monday July 21, 2025. 11:00 PM
Another day, another question no one has ever asked being solved. Granted, however, in a city as real-feeling as Cyberpunk 2077's Night City, it should be expected that someone would start wondering where the water came from at some point. — Read the rest The post The weirdl...
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Microsoft is rolling out updates to the Xbox PC app and consoles that sync your cloud gaming history and progress across devices, making it easier to resume cloud-playable titles on PCs, handhelds, and other Xbox hardware. The Verge reports: Cloud-playable games are now...
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In a move which will surely make JK Rowling's transphobic head explode, Humble Bundle is offering a Harry Potter bundle that supports the Trevor Project. JK Rowling is an overt and aggressive transphobe. This has understandably caused fans to abandon her work in droves. —...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: One password is believed to have been all it took for a ransomware gang to destroy a 158-year-old company and put 700 people out of work. KNP -- a Northamptonshire transport company -- is just one of tens of thousands of UK...
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2021's Mortal Kombat movie wasn't bad, per se, but it was painfully generic and didn't come close to the (likely unintentional, but still present) campy goodness of the original. 'YOUR SOUL IS MINE!' still lives rent-free in my head. Luckily, Warner Bros. — Read the rest ...
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Move along, nothing to see here comment Here we go again. Another major Microsoft attack, with this one seeing someone — most likely government-backed hackers — exploiting a zero-day bug in SharePoint Server that Redmond failed to fix.…
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This video shares the history of how cut and paste's shortcut keys ended up where they are, and why moving between operating systems is a PITA. Apple's command key has been in my way for ages. Moving back and forth between operating systems is made extra annoying by...
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Wow, 'V' the mini-series was a phenomenon, and then it just wasn't and kinda stunk. This video explains why: OG V struck at just around the right time in both Science Fiction and the Reagan era for folks to really be a colossal hit. — Read the rest The post Why 'V'...
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I tried to map Deathtrap Dungeon when I was a boy and I'm pretty sure I got everything wrong, not least because every turn I took seemed to result in a quick death. Reddit user Qatlas, though, makes it look easy. — Read the rest The post Gorgeous maps of classic Fighting...
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I've just found the most relaxing animal ASMR ever! If you're having a stressful day, crank up the volume and relax to the dulcet sounds of a koala snoring. This particular koala is named Harvey and he lives at Ballarat Wildlife Park in Victoria, Australia. — Read the rest...
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An anonymous reader shares a blog post: The International Mathematical Olympiad is the world's most prestigious competition for young mathematicians, and has been held annually since 1959. Each country taking part is represented by six elite, pre-university mathematicians...
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The prime beneficiary of the AI boom has global ambitions Updated Nvidia is officially bringing its CUDA software stack to RISC-V CPUs.…
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A subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, which is run by the sons of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, is letting clients essentially bet that President Donald Trump’s tariffs will be struck down in court.
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Children who lived near the creek polluted with atomic waste from WWII were far more likely to contract cancer than those who lived farther away, according to a study of St. Louis' Coldwater Creek. 'We actually saw something quite dramatic, not only elevated risk of cancer, ...
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'Remember the year: 2025 was when it all changed,' writes Mark Pesce in The Register. 'When socials transformed from self-expression to entrapment. From now on, every word you write and every photo and video and podcast you post will be analyzed, weighed, and judged for...
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OpenAI is currently working on GPT-5, the successor to the GPT-4 large language model (LLM) used in the popular chatbot ChatGPT. The first references to GPT-5 were discovered in code from OpenAI, according to Bleeping Computer. The company’s apparent plan is to combine the ...
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California's Republican-curious Governor and obvious Presidential hopeful, Gavin Newsom's social media team trolled Trump's ghoul Stephen Miller with a popular pop-culture comparison. Miller is likely too busy enjoying the suffering induced by his forced deportation...
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The Information is Beautiful Awards celebrate 'beauty in data visualization, infographics, interactives &  information art.' The 2024 winners were announced last month. All the winners are interesting, but there is one entry I haven't been able to stop thinking about....
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As US lawmakers wrangle over NASA’s stake in ExoMars, at least the chutes work video The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted a successful parachute test for the ExoMars Mars landing rover earlier this month, even as uncertainty looms over US involvement in the project.…
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Companies need to stop ignoring data security as AI agents take over internal data movement in IT environments, analysts and IT execs said. “Regulation of AI use cases — such as in healthcare and financial services, [which] are already subject to extensive regulatory...
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