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Monday September 29, 2025. 09:01 PM
The European way of life is being jeopardized by environmental degradation, a report has found, with EU officials warning against weakening green rules. The Guardian: The continent has made 'important progress' in cutting planet-heating pollution, according to the European...
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This video is more reminiscent of Benny Hill than the image of glorious defenders of Americana, ICE Barbie, and bribery-prone Tom Homan portray them as. Humiliating CBP and ICE? That's the Chicago way. Trump's Snack-Ops brigade exists to terrify people. — Read the rest ...
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A review of 62 scientific studies published in Osteoporosis International found that microplastics weaken bones by disrupting bone marrow stem cells and stimulating osteoclasts, cells that degrade bone tissue. Laboratory experiments found the particles reduce cell viability, ...
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In March 2025, Chuck Schumer caved, claiming fear of a government shutdown could further empower Donald Trump. Rather than sit on his hands and force the Republicans to find a way to get nine Democrats to support the bill, Schumer gave up all leverage and enabled executive...
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Bubble, you say? OpenAI will borrow billions to pay Big Red, who will borrow billions on the hope OpenAI pays it As part of its $300 billion cloud compute contract with OpenAI, Oracle may need to borrow roughly $100 billion over the next four years to build the datacenters...
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Thanks to the European Commission, websites worldwide have cookie consent pop-ups. The annoying unskippable windows warn and allow customization of cookies, the tiny bits of data that can keep users logged in between sessions, or track their activity across the internet.  —...
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When I was 14, I worked under the table at a car wash owned by my great uncle. The pay sucked, but hey, it was tax-free. Most days, excluding Sundays (holy shit, the queue of sedans owned by the after church crowd), there'd be long lulls between cars. — Read the rest The...
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Good luck with that! OpenAI says it is introducing parental controls to ChatGPT that will help improve the safety of teenagers using its AI chatbot. The only catch? Teens will have to allow their parents to connect to their accounts before the controls can take effect.…
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The Lenovo Legion 7i Gen 10 laptop comes with a gorgeous HDR-ready OLED display, making it great for more than gaming.
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Tabletop game designer Joseph McCullough is forever on a roll. Ten years on, Frostgrave and its sci-fi analog, Stargrave, remain two of the most consistently inventive skirmish miniatures games out there. What amazes me is how McCullough keeps finding new ways of...
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Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 ran autonomously for 30 hours to build a chat application similar to Slack or Teams, generating approximately 11,000 lines of code before stopping upon task completion. The model, announced today, marks a significant leap from the company's Opus ...
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The NixOS moderation team, which is theoretically in charge of ensuring that community participation on the project's repositories and discussion forum remains welcoming and useful, has released a joint resignation statement. This action was motivated by conflict with...
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An anonymous reader writes: Landlords are using a service that logs into a potential renter's employer systems and scrapes their paystubs and other information en masse, potentially in violation of U.S. hacking laws, according to screenshots of the tool shared with 404...
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Accenture’s AI training courses: Business optimization or age discrimination in disguise?HJBC / Shutterstock Accenture has announced plans to cut employees who are unable to train in artificial intelligence (AI). This is part of a wider restructuring strategy that will see ...
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Mike Lindell, the MyPillow entrepreneur who threw it all way for Trump, had another bad day in court after losing a $2.3m defamation case against an election worker. He also defamed Smartmatic, maker of election tech, a judge ruled Friday. — Read the rest The post Judge...
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As with a mobile phone, a portable gaming device like the Steam Deck can contain lots of personal information that the owner would like to keep secret—especially given that such devices can do far more than gaming. Alberto Garcia worked with his colleagues at Igalia and...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: You've probably heard of vibe coding -- novices writing apps by creating a simple AI prompt -- but now Microsoft wants to introduce a similar thing for its Office apps. The software maker is launching a new Agent Mode in Excel and Word...
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The UK-based Telegraph has a long piece that describes former Marine Thomas Jacob Sanford, the man shot and killed by police after attacking a church, as a known Trump supporter. The US media doesn't seem to want to tell that part of the story. — Read the rest The post US...
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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (avahi, cups, firefox, gnutls, golang, httpd, kernel, libtpms, mysql, opentelemetry-collector, php:8.2, podman, postgresql:13, postgresql:15, python3, python3.11, python3.12, python3.9, thunderbird, and udisks2), Debian...
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Electronic Arts, one of the world's largest game publishers, is to be sold to Saudi Arabia in a $55bn deal said to be the largest such buy-out in history. Joining Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund in the consortium are Affinity Parnters (run by Jared Kushner, son-in-law...
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