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Friday May 2, 2025. 05:51 PM
National Public Radio and the Public Broadcast System receive public funds and Donald Trump wants that to end. In a late-night executive order—56 years to the day after Fred Rogers famously convinced Congress to fund PBS— Trump directed the Corporation for Public...
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A crypto company part-owned by the Trump family stands to earn millions of dollars from a business deal involving a state-backed investment fund from the UAE. The arrangement amounts to “foreign policy for sale,” critics claim.
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A thought experiment involving a cat trapped in a steel box with a potentially lethal device, first proposed by physicist Erwin Schrodinger in 1935, remains at the center of scientific and philosophical debate as it marks its 90th anniversary. The paradox, initially...
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A court filing submitted by 'Dragon Lawyers PC'—one Jacob A. Perrone, Esq.—was shredded by federal magistrate judge Ray Kent due to the large cartoon dragon watermark on every page. 'Use of this dragon cartoon logo is not only distracting, it is juvenile and...
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Real-time video deepfakes? Not convincing yet RSAC Spam messages predate the web itself, and generative AI has given it a fluency upgrade, churning out slick, localized scams and letting crooks hit regions and dialects they used to ignore.…
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It’s chic, understated, and an excellent alternative to an everyday handbag. No wonder it’s Taylor Swift–approved.
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TL;DR: Get a lifetime license to QuickBooks Desktop Pro Plus 2024 for Windows for just $249.99 (reg. $699). If you've ever wanted to scream into a pile of crumpled receipts while muttering 'there's got to be a better way' — good news: there is. — Read the rest The post...
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I'm looking forward to spending '$20,000' on a Slate Pickup, a bare-bones EV that compromises on range and comforts to come in at a compact price—in a classic compact size. It's designed to be easily customized (with an SUV conversion canopy and utility bars on offer), can ...
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OSle is an incredibly small operating system, coming in at only 510 bytes, so it fits entirely into a boot sector. It runs in real-mode, and is written in assembly. Despite the small size, it has a shell, a read and write file system, process management, and more. It even...
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A Michigan federal magistrate judge has banned a lawyer from using a cartoon dragon watermark on legal filings, calling the practice 'juvenile and impertinent.' Judge Ray Kent of the Western District of Michigan issued the order on April 28 after receiving a complaint...
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Tempe Tavern, a flat-roofed pub in Arizona, was subjected to one of the city's largest-ever (if locally unsurprising) busts of underage drinkers. It subsequently described the raid as 'our 9/11' on social media, perhaps in hopes of virally-outraged eyeballs buying merch. —...
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Authorities in Australia are using magnets to pick up sharp metal debris strewn over nearly 20 miles of road outside Sydney. Hundreds of motorists reported flat tires in the early hours of Friday after improperly secured scrap metal spilled out of a hauler—'a mechanical...
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A European Union privacy watchdog fined TikTok 530 million euros ($600 million) on Friday after a four-year investigation found that the video sharing app’s data transfers to China put users at risk of spying, in breach of strict EU data privacy rules. Ireland’s Data...
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Under its new chairman, the FCC is threatening broadcasters and pushing President Donald Trump’s agenda.
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IT and business leaders from UK mid-market organizations have conflicting views on the role of AI in enabling growth and driving productivity, according to new research. The report from Node4, based on responses from over 600 IT and business leaders across multiple sectors,...
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When conservatives lauch libel claims, they're often vague nuisance lawsuits designed to harass, impoverish and censor critics for having perfectly cromulent opinions. And Robby Starbuck's repution as a far-right activist certainly invites opinions. But his lawsuit against...
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Can't run Windows 11? Microsoft suggests renting it instead Microsoft has announced a price cut for Windows 365 alongside a not-so-subtle suggestion that Windows 10 users might consider taking advantage of the offer to keep security updates flowing.…
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Six-hundred-forty-five in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 and 11 on the Microsoft Store and elsewhere in the past seven days. The optional update for Windows 11 brings the controversial Recall AI...
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New analysis by Comparitech shows that government entities remain a frequent target for ransomware gangs. Of the 39 confirmed attacks -- where the organization publicly acknowledges what's happened -- in April, 21 were on businesses, nine on government entities, six on...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, nodejs, openjdk-17, and thunderbird), Fedora (firefox, golang-github-nvidia-container-toolkit, and thunderbird), Mageia (kernel), Oracle (ghostscript, glibc, kernel, libxslt, php:8.1, and thunderbird), SUSE (cmctl,...
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