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Monday December 8, 2025. 07:00 PM
They had done everything right. Passed the tests. Paid the fees. Been approved. Showed up at Boston's Faneuil Hall on December 4 to take the oath that would make them American citizens. Then officers started asking everyone what country they were from. — Read the rest The po...
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Jon Seager, VP of engineering for Canonical, has announced a plan to develop a universal Public Key Infrastructure tool called upki: Earlier this year, LWN featured an excellent article titled 'Linux's missing CRL infrastructure'. The article highlighted a number of key...
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Native MCP support lands in Insider Dev and Beta builds Microsoft has begun rolling out a public preview of native support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in the latest Windows 11 Insider builds, edging its much-touted “agentic OS” vision closer to reality.…
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Joshua Aaron built ICEBlock to help people know when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were nearby. Now he's suing the Trump administration for forcing Apple to remove it. The New York Times reports that Aaron, an Austin-based developer, filed suit Monday in federal ...
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Unreleased variants that Jobs killed off found – 7.6 on a G4, anyone? As well as the Mac clones, there were PC-style PowerPC machines – and a version of classic MacOS for them has just been rediscovered, enabling previously unimagined combinations.…
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A powerful magnitude 7.6 earthquake has shaken Japan, prompting tsunami warnings and orders for residents to evacuate. From a report: A tsunami as high as 3 metres (10ft) could hit the country's north-eastern coast after the earthquake occurred offshore at 11.15pm local time ...
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Analysts reckon only a handful of manufacturers will push ahead as the rest hit the brakes Only five percent of carmakers will sustain heavy AI investments by the end of the decade as most fail to meet amibitous goals.…
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Intelligence Center features aim to unify management across on-prem, cloud, and containerized estates IBM has topped an autumn flurry of Db2 updates with new features for its Intelligence Center console, promising to let users manage deployments of the 42-year-old database...
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You might remember that I reviewed the Boox Palma 2 a while back: a tiny Android-powered device with a 6.13-inch e-paper display. The Palma series is the smallest e-reader I've tested. I love that I can read almost anything on it anywhere, thanks to its size and Google...
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When the shelf says $5 and the register says $7.65, who's going to notice? Dollar stores built their brand on one promise: low prices for people who can't afford to shop anywhere else. A Guardian investigation reveals they're not keeping that promise — and their most...
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In 2016, Pete Hegseth had a message for American troops: don't follow unlawful orders from Donald Trump. CNN's KFile unearthed multiple appearances where the then-Fox News contributor warned that service members had a duty to refuse illegal commands. 'The military's not...
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The Trump EPA — staffed with former chemical industry insiders — has proposed nearly doubling the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale. Nice, former lobbyists will determine how much carcinogen you should breathe. ProPublica reports that the agency is...
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Creating problems and then solving them with taxpayer money: a tradition continues. President Trump is set to announce a $12 billion aid package for American farmers on Monday. The reason farmers need $12 billion? Largely, President Trump's trade war. According to the Wall...
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Donald Trump made history Sunday as the first sitting president to host the Kennedy Center Honors, transforming what's traditionally been a dignified evening of presidential box-sitting into a full-on Trump production. As The Hill reports, Trump emceed the event honoring...
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An investigation has revealed how stablecoins -- cryptocurrencies pegged to the US dollar that exist largely beyond traditional financial oversight -- have become a practical tool for criminals and sanctioned individuals to move funds across borders almost instantly and...
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The future of Detroit's presented by 1987's Robocop was hardly inspiring: a blighted landscape where cops and robbers alike are pawns of the giant corporation redeveloping it. But after 38 years its satire of capitalism, consumerism and AI is sharper than ever, and after 15...
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TL;DR: For a limited time, you can upgrade to Windows 11 Pro with built-in security and multitasking tools for just $12.97. Upgrading your tech does not always mean waltzing into a store and buying a brand-new computer. Sometimes, the biggest refresh comes from the operating...
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We got a GTA 6-themed candle before we actually got GTA 6. The wait for Grand Theft Auto 6, which recently got a year longer, has been excruciating. Rockstar Games' latest merch drop almost seems designed to rub salt in the wound — or wax, as it were. — Read the rest The...
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Pixel art is often dismissed as a lesser, low-effort form of graphical expression reserved for budget indie titles and nostalgic throwbacks. One look at the recently announced Replaced should quickly dispel that notion. Yes, the action looks cool, and yes, the hook of playing...
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Never mind that AI lies constantly about everything or wants to replace your family: the true failing of LLMs, the one they'll never be able to overcome, is that they just aren't cool. While structured sketch comedy certainly has its place in my heart, I've been giggling...
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