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Friday July 11, 2025. 11:07 PM
The latest update to Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s mostly-open-source code editor, brings several new capabilities to GitHub Copilot Chat and puts the finishing touches on support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Alongside the VS Code update, Microsoft has...
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An announcement so weird it could only come from the Trump administration video Flanked by a pair of buzzing drones that threatened to drown out his voice, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reached up to grab a memorandum hung from a third drone hovering above his...
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This video of comedian Jerry Wayne Longmire reading his electric bill as if it's a William Faulkner novel is one of the best things I've ever seen on the internet.  Houston Life recently featured a short piece on Longmire, explaining that the Houston-based comedian owned a...
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Today is Capybara Appreciation Day, so I sure hope you're spending sufficient time appreciating the world's largest and most wonderful rodent. For me, pretty much every day is capybara appreciation day, so I've just spent a little more time than usual today celebrating the...
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If you post a video to TikTok and it gets big, it risks being replicated to the word by AI copies. By deepfaking a new head and voice, the AI spambots avoid automated enforcement. Those being cloned say TikTok doesn't respond to complaints. — Read the rest The post TikTok...
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Amazon Prime Day has expanded to four days. From automatic litter boxes to at-home DNA test kits, these are the best pet-related deals we’ve found.
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The U.S. government has canceled a proposed $900 million project to study in unprecedented detail the afterglow of the Big Bang, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. Science magazine: Known as CMB-S4, the project envisioned new arrays of ultrasensitive microwave...
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Just like it has done with EVs, China’s investment in smartphones is leaving big brands playing catch-up. Forget iterative updates: China is already working on what’s next.
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The devil himself mowed a perfect crop circle in 1678. During the public's heightened fascination in crop circles that took place in the 1980s and '90s, researchers found a fascinating old pamphlet  titled 'The Mowing-Devil: Or, Strange News out of Hartford-shire'. — Read...
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Trump aide Stephen Miller went off on a tiresome tirade about how much greater Los Angeles will be when remade to his standard. Stephen Miller: 'What would LA look like without illegal aliens? You would be able to see a doctor in the ER right away, no wait time, no...
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Data poisoning, meet data detox ai-pocalypse Computer scientists say they've devised a way to remove image-based protection mechanisms developed to protect artists from unwanted use of their work for AI training.…
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Feeling anti-Amazon? These small businesses have sales you can shop right now before the week of sales ends.
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In the wake of failing systems, social media users are bypassing expert guidance in favor of extreme 'hacks'— like maintaining a bank balance above $800 to avoid 'death' or cutting off family members to profit from occasional conversations. As reported in Dazed,...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: This week has seen the shortest days of the year so far. According to data from the U.S. Naval Observatory and the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, Tuesday's rotation was about 1.34 milliseconds less than 24...
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It’s become almost impossible to avoid the “AI” evangelists spreading the gospel of how “AI” tools are helping them work faster and get more stuff done in less time, but do any of those claims have any basis in reality? Should we really be firing countless people and replace...
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Before they were put in charge of the FBI, MAGA influencers like Kash 'K$H' Patel and Dan Bongino often claimed that billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's death was suspicious and that his 'client list' featured a lengthy roster of elite figures. — Read the rest The post M...
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James Heppell, representing Open Web Advocacy, published an article detailing his experience attending DMA compliance workshop in Brussels, in which members of the public can ask questions of companies who have products designated as gatekeepers under the DMA. After...
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When doctors warn patients about pain, those words can pack more punch than promises of relief, new research reveals. The study investigated two opposing effects: the well-known placebo effect, where positive expectations improve symptoms, and its darker counterpart, the...
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Welcome to 2025, where self-driving Waymo cars plot against their sleeping neighbors and cause mischief throughout the night in this San Francisco neighborhood. In this video, people living near a lot of Waymo cars share what the experience is like. Spoiler: it's driving...
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Microsoft has released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27898 to the Canary Channel. This update introduces features aimed at improving usability and recovery, including taskbar icon scaling, quick machine recovery, and enhancements to accessibility tools like voice access...
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