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Friday August 1, 2025. 06:51 PM
In this hilarious video, a woman's cat only comes running over when she sings The Hampster Dance Song. The cat's actual name? Doesn't work. Only the chorus to The Hampster Dance will get the kitty's attention. This video is just another reason added to the long list of...
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This peculiar palm tree in Peru, shared by Atlas Obscura, grows like a serpent across the ground, and locals trim one of its 'heads' to ward off disaster. In Cachiche, near the city of Ica, the 'Palmera de Siete Cabezas' (Seven-headed Palm Tree) has become both a tourist...
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The Warrens were never boring: the married team of a demonologist and psychic arguably did more to bring belief in the demonic back into the public eye than anyone else in the 20th century. They did it by making themselves accessible academically, to the media, and most...
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Microsoft researchers have identified 40 occupations [PDF] with the highest exposure to AI, ranking jobs by how closely their tasks align with AI's current capabilities. The study analyzed 200,000 real-world conversations from Copilot users and compared AI performance...
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The mom of the year award goes to this Opossum. At first glance it looks like she has unusal looking, lumpy fur. If you look closer you'll see 7 babies clinging onto her back. Not only is this cute opossum able to carry all her babies at once, but she's also an acrobat. —...
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It's definitely hot in Phoenix right now, so I'm blasting the A/C and have all of my fans set to high, which is helping. I'm also taking inspiration from the adorable waterfowl who live in New York at the Cheese and Quackers Homestead, and indulging in as many cool and icy...
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No, the weird mobile games don't count. It's been fourteen years since we saw the last mainline Katamari Damacy game for Sony's ill-fated PlayStation Vita, but you can't keep the clump spirit down forever. In a recent Nintendo Direct, it was revealed that the series would...
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Governor Ron 'Pudding Fingers' DeSantis has lowered the flags to half-mast in honor of 'true Floridian' and self-proclaimed racist Hulk Hogan. 'His larger-than-life personality will be missed, as the 'Hulkster' was an icon for many who grew up in the 80s and 90s as well as...
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I move around a lot. It lends me to a weakness for portable electronics. I love wee music players, word processors, and tiny e-readers. I adore handheld gaming hardware: there's something nice about not using your work laptop to play games at the end of the day. — Read the re...
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This is the final part of our three-part series on protecting yourself at U.S. borders, based on our interview with ACLU attorney Nathan Freed Wessler, deputy director of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. In Part One, we covered your rights when CBP agents...
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Facing pressure from payment processors, the indie game platform delisted many adult titles this week. Itch.io began offering free NSFW content again on Thursday as it looks for new payment options.
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The Venice Canals neighborhood in Los Angeles has seen seven dogs die, and eleven more have suffered a sudden onset of lethargy, nausea, and seizures. Regardless of breed, age or level of activity, dogs in the neighborhood have been indiscriminately affected by the elusive ...
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If you own Microsoft stock, you’ve got to be happy. Microsoft’s latest financial results for the quarter ending June 30, 2025 were robust: Revenue reached $76.4 billion (up 18% year-over-year), with net income at $27.2 billion (up 24%). The primary driver was robust...
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Budget educational computing is now Google's game to lose Microsoft is discontinuing support for its Windows 11 SE variant meant to compete with ChromeOS in the education space, leaving schools that chose Microsoft over Google in the lurch just four years after the...
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Financial Times: The UK's highest court has partially overturned a landmark motor finance judgment that threatened to leave banks on the hook for tens of billions of pounds in compensation for allegedly deceiving consumers with hidden commissions on car loans. The Supreme...
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One deployment after another, Apple continues to exploit the huge opportunity it has been given as enterprises consider the cost consequences of upgrading legacy equipment to Windows 11. It seems clear the forced need to upgrade Windows is motivating many business users...
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The market is tumbling as analysts learn they can not trust the Government's jobs and unemployment numbers. In sharing July's awful jobs report, the Trump Administration also 'recalculated' prior months to show less growth, throwing the reliability of the entire process...
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Long before ChatGPT, a group of AI luminaries gathered on an island to discuss the future of artificial intelligence. Their funder ultimately cast a shadow on all who attended.
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Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Bill Long said the agency will end its Direct File program after a limited pilot and one full filing season. From a report: President Donald Trump's massive spending and policy bill includes funding to research and 'replace any direct...
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Linuxiac reports that another malicious package has been uploaded to the Arch User Repository (AUR). This time around the package was google-chrome-stable, which installed a remote-access trojan along with Google Chrome. The good news—if you can call it that—is that the ...
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