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When the inflation bomb Trump planted with his tariffs finally explodes later this year, expect him to unleash the full authoritarian playbook — straight from his BFF Viktor Orbán's greatest hits. As reported in The Wall Street Journal, Walmart, Target, and the entire...
ArsTechnica: Today's video game consoles are hundreds of dollars more expensive than you'd expect based on historic pricing trends. That's according to an Ars Technica analysis of decades of pricing data and price-cut timing across dozens of major US console releases. The...
Passengers flying from Brisbane to Bali were told to aim into a bottle after the toilets broke down on a Virgin Australia flight. Naturally, it raised quite a stink. The Boeing 737 MAX 8 was already down one bathroom when passengers first boarded Flight VA50 yesterday...
Trump's tariffs have forced LEGO to pause its popular 'Pick a Brick' program, as sending packages from Denmark is currently too difficult. LEGO's 'Pick a Brick' program is well-loved by individuals who build or create their own LEGO constructions, rather than relying on a...
But the cure may ruin the web.... Opinion With AI's rise, AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language Model (LLM) mills. How much traffic do they account for? According to Cloudflare, a major...
Masked and unidentifiable jackbooted thugs, without legal authority, are terrorizing the United States. People have died fleeing ICE. Children are being torn from their parents' arms. Families are split and left unable to find their loved ones. Stranded pets are flooding...
French President Emmanuel Macron vowed a strong response [non-paywalled source] if any country takes measures that undermine Europe's digital sovereignty. From a report: Earlier this week, US President Donald Trump threatened to impose fresh tariffs and export restrictions...
Silent Hill 2 is widely considered one of the best horror games of all time (and one of the best video games in general, I'd argue). With Konami trying its best to revitalize the long-dormant series, a remake of Silent Hill 2 was the obvious first move (and a trick they're...
Look who's visiting the watering hole these days Amazon today said it disrupted an intel-gathering attempt by Russia's APT29 to trick Microsoft users into unwittingly granting the Kremlin-backed cyberspies access to their accounts and data.…
Vibrio vulnificus is having a hot bacteria summer, sadly. Two more people have died after becoming sick from eating Louisiana oysters that, unfortunately, carried the 'flesh-eating' bacteria. The deaths were announced this week at a Louisiana Oyster Task Force meeting held ...
Have you ever wanted to sit a corporate executive down and ask them what the fuck is wrong with them? Jesse Plemons does just that in the latest film from 'The Lobster' director Yorgos Lanthimos, although his concerns seem more rooted in lizard-people conspiracies than...
Forget all that hokey manmade ASMR. Next time you're feeling bored or stressed, you need to get back to your roots. Pun absolutely intended. Seriously, though, tree.fm is one of the coolest little Internet projects I've come across in a while… and I've come across a lot. —...
Linus Torvalds has quietly changed the maintainer status of bcachefs to 'externally maintained', indicating that further changes are unlikely to enter the mainline anytime soon. This change also suggests, though, that the immediate removal of bcachefs from the mainline...
You labored hard for your cash—save some of it with these Labor Day deals on WIRED-approved fire pits, laptops, pizza ovens, and more.
Two months ago, the CDC's FoodNet, a partnership between the CDC, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the FDA, and several states that has monitored foodborne infections since 1995, quietly stopped tracking six of eight pathogens that cause foodborne illnesses. As of July 1, ...
Platform's staffer complains security review was 'rushed' Microsoft-owned collaborative coding platform GitHub is deepening its ties with Elon Musk's xAI, bringing early access to the company's Grok Code Fast 1 large language model (LLM) into GitHub Copilot. However, a...
One of Australia's largest banks has apologized to staff who found out they had been fired through an automated email asking them to hand back their laptops. From a report: ANZ's retail banking executive Bruce Rush said it was 'not our intention to share such sensitive news...
'It blows my mind,' says SecDef The Pentagon has formally kiboshed Microsoft's use of China-based employees to support Azure cloud services deployed by US government agencies, and it's demanding Microsoft do more of its own digging to determine whether any sensitive data was ...
A newly published Investigatory Powers Tribunal filing indicates the UK government's Technical Capability Notice to Apple went beyond the company's Advanced Data Protection encryption to include standard iCloud services used by millions [non-paywalled source]. The document...
The $5.7B check has cleared, CFO says Intel's agreement with the US government incudes a clause that would allow the feds to take an additional five percent stake in the chipmaker if it ceases to have a controlling share in its foundry business.…
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