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Thursday May 15, 2025. 05:00 PM
TL;DR: Get a durable Chromebook on sale for just $54.99 (reg. $328.99). Fancy yourself a clumsy person? If you're somewhat of a butterfingers, buying electronics can be an extra stressful task. After all, you don't want to shell out a small fortune for a laptop that could...
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If a teacher known to his students as 'Mr. Pedophile' were arrested and charged with a crime, and one were challenged to guess the nature of the offense, you might suspect a trap and say 'Aha! DUI!' Alas, no. Douglas County Sheriff's Office: On May 12, 2025, Douglas County...
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He may have famously been passed up as Superman, but Nic Cage shouldn't be counted out of the superhero game just yet. In a surprising move, to put it lightly, a spinoff of Into the Spider-Verse focusing on Cage's Spider-Man Noir character is now in production. — Read the...
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Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase said Thursday it is offering a $20 million reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of criminals who attempted to extort the company for the same amount after stealing customer data. The criminals bribed customer support...
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Watch what happens when the world's tallest dog meets a tiny chihuahua. The video starts off introducing us to  Reginald, a great dane, who lives in Idaho Falls, USA. Reginald is 3 feet, 3 inches tall. Next, we meet Pearl, a little chihuahua from Orlando, USA. — Read the...
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If you never saw Saul Goodman as an action hero, join the club. 2021's grimy, stylish action flick Nobody surprised everyone, Bob Odenkirk included, who credits his training for the movie with saving his life when he suffered a heart attack on the set of Better Call Saul. —...
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Devs told to swap raw results for LLM-generated summaries as August shutdown looms Microsoft is retiring Bing Search APIs on August 11, directing customers toward AI products as an alternative.…
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Leon Romanovsky began his session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF) by explaining that the improved DMA-mapping API that he has been working on is a group effort. He, Chaitanya Kulkarni, Christoph Hellwig, Jason Gunthorpe,...
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International bad actors -- like fraudsters from Russia and China -- are driving one in eight fraud attempts in the US, seeking everything from access to government services to loans, according to a new report. During the pandemic, government agencies were flooded with...
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Controllers that use buttons for directions as well are making their way to the mainstream. Razer has a pretty one at a truly eyewatering price, Mayflash has an ugly one at a more reasonable price, and now comes 8bitdo (previously) with a teaser for what all assume will be...
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The Tor project has announced the oniux utility which provides Tor network isolation, using Linux namespaces, for third-party applications. Namespaces are a powerful feature that gives us the ability to isolate Tor network access of an arbitrary application. We put each...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (open-vm-tools), Fedora (dnsdist), Gentoo (Node.js and Tracker miners), Red Hat (kernel and xdg-utils), SUSE (audiofile, go1.22-openssl, go1.24, grub2, kernel-devel, openssl-1_1, openssl-3, and python311-Django), and Ubuntu...
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Storied British automaker Jaguar recently rebranded itself with a new logo featuring the letters of its name in a rounded and mixed-case typeface, a lurid color scheme, and gibberish vibe slogans such as 'create exuberant.' More suggestive of fashion or sexual wellness...
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Shark's inventive new bladeless tower fan offers airflow from all angles, if you don’t mind some noise.
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Wake up, Helldiver, Democracy* needs you! Helldivers 2 – a bombastic, over-the-top co-op shooter that I can confirm is very fun – hit the ground running and never stopped, with the notable exception of its now-infamous PSN blunder. Still, there's been a constant stream of...
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A new study from Comparitech, based on data collected from 2,600 attacks between 2018 and 2023, shows the average time for a US company to report a data breach following a ransomware attack is 4.1 months. From 2018 to 2023, the average time to report a ransomware breach has...
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Lessons learned from last year's security snafu interview Being the chief information security officer at Snowflake is never an easy job, but last spring it was especially challenging.…
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Naturally, a Season 2 of the Fallout TV adaptation was always going to happen, and we've known as much since last year. I quite liked the first run, even if its shortened, streaming-friendly season and inevitable cliffhanger undercut its storytelling potential significantly...
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New research shows that one in 10 prompt injection atempts against GenAI systems manage to bypass basic guardrails. Their non-deterministic nature also means failed attempts can suddenly succeed, even with identical content. AI security company Pangea ran a Prompt Injection...
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GLAAD has published the 2025 edition of its Social Media Safety Index, and it shows that the six biggest social media platforms are doing nowhere near enough to keep LGBTQIA+ users safe. The report looks at the policies and protections of TikTok, Facebook, Instagram,...
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