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Tuesday August 12, 2025. 01:00 AM
TL;DR: Microsoft Visio 2021 Professional is down to just $14.97 (was $249.99) for life on one Windows PC. Get powerful templates, real-time data linking, and professional diagramming tools without the subscription BS. Trying to make a process diagram in a spreadsheet is like...
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Prosus has secured conditional approval from the European Union for its $4.8âbillion (4.1 billion euros) acquisition of Just Eat Takeaway, after agreeing to sell down its 27.4% stake in Delivery Hero. Reuters reports: Amsterdam-headquartered Prosus, which is majority owned...
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Monday August 11, 2025. 11:50 PM
In an unusual arrangement to secure export licenses, Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give the U.S. government 15% of revenue from certain chip sales to China. The Associated Press reports: The Trump administration halted the sale of advanced computer chips to China in April...
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You click a link in your chat app, your browser with a hundred tabs comes to the front and opens that page. How hard can it be? Well, you probably know by now that Wayland, unlike X, doesn’t let one application force its idiot wishes on everyone else. In order for an...
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Kubuntu Focus has introduced the Zr GEN 1, a high-performance Linux laptop aimed at users who want maximum mobile power. The 18.0-inch workstation replaces the previous 17.3-inch M2 GEN 5 and brings faster components, more storage capacity, and a brighter display, with...
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TL;DR: Snag this refurb and unlocked Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max 256GB in Blue Titanium for $769.99 (reg. $1,099) and get flagship speed, style, and durability—without paying full price. You could spend over a thousand dollars on a phone, or you could keep that extra $300 for...
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If you've been paying attention to the news today (or this decade, for that matter), you're likely feeling a cornucopia of emotions and bodily sensations. Many of them might not be great. It's normal to feel massive amounts of anxiety in massively abnormal times. — Read the...
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After perfectly parodying every political meeting scene in Star Wars, tragically underrated sketch comedians Like a Fox Studios must have figured it was time for the bad guys to get their spotlight next. I can't argue with that reasoning when the end result is so perfect. —...
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One of the things I’m working on at Red Hat is HDR support. HDR is inherently linked to luminance (brightness, but ignoring human perception) which makes it an important parameter for us that we would like to be in control of. ↫ Sebastian Wick A really interesting look...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Detroit Free Press: Ford is announcing the creation of a new electric vehicle production system and a new EV platform that will allow the automaker to more efficiently bring several lower-cost EVs to market, the first of which...
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It's hard to run a content-oriented business online these days. Google has rendered traditional advertising methods useless. The rules of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) change so quickly that most sites can't keep up. One of the ways that websites, including this one, try...
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If you haven't been living under a rock, you likely remember the best thing to ever come out of Reddit: r/place, the virtual canvas collaboratively filled in one pixel at a time. It's come back for a couple of encore performances, but only now has it been truly elevated to...
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GitHub was purchased by Microsoft back in 2018. At the time, there was a lot of mumbling and footshuffling about the development platform maintaining some semblance of autonomy. Surprisingly, things have been ok for the past few years. Unfortunately, with GitHub's current...
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Biden-era program has reduced FedRAMP processing times to just five weeks from previous year or more The US Government's process for certifying cloud services safe for official use has long been slow, but that's no longer the case. Approvals so far this fiscal year are more...
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And shave 15% of the top no doubt. Nerfed versions of Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs could soon join its H20 on the list of AI accelerators approved for sale in China.…
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Biochar produced from solid human excrement could supply up to 7% of global phosphorus fertilizer needs annually, according to a Cornell University study published in PNAS. When combined with nutrients extracted from urine, the process could provide 15% of phosphorus, 17% of ...
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Reports are in from Washington, D.C., that around two dozen Federal agents responded to a moped vs an auto traffic incident. Trump's takeover has begun. National Public Radio reported Monday, 'at least two dozen agents running, some wearing masks and one carrying a rifle,'...
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New submitter darwinmac writes: Kapitano, a user-friendly GTK4 frontend for the ClamAV scanner on Linux, has been killed by its developer 'zynequ' following a wave of harsh, personal attacks from a user. The tool was meant to simplify virus scanning but quickly became a...
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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a recall of 45,000 pairs of socks that double as miniature foot furnaces. For the bargain price of $80-130, customers got to participate in an impromptu science experiment testing the interaction between heat, friction,...
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GPT-5 was touted as a major upgrade to ChatGPT. Not all users think that’s the case, posting threads like “Kill 4o isn’t innovation, it’s erasure” on Reddit.
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