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Monday January 5, 2026. 07:55 PM
CBS News is responding to Pete Hegseth freezing out the press by ensuring he still gets his message out. This is journalism at its finest. Defense Secretary 'Whiskey' Pete Hegseth blocked reporters from doing their jobs, so CBS News rewarded him with a microphone. — Read the...
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Microsoft has started testing a 'significant' visual overhaul for Edge in its Canary and Dev Channel preview builds, and the redesigned interface borrows heavily from the design language that first appeared in the company's standalone Copilot app rather than the Fluent...
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In an attempt to catch up in the Space Race, the United States devised a plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon. Project A119 epitomizes Cold War logic. Also known by the harmless-sounding 'A Study of Lunar Research Flights,' A119 was a 1958 Air Force plan to drop a...
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Technology has always been used to make heavy work feel lighter. Inventions like the wheel, the first washing machine, and the steam engine were designed to save us from backbreaking labor. The time saved during already long days left room for, well, more work. — Read the...
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I recently found a video that I am officially declaring the best animal video of 2025. I know that's a bold statement, but once you've seen the video in question, you'll be on board, I promise. Allow me to introduce you to Levi, a gorgeous goat who lives on 'No Regrets...
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'I want more Silent Hill,' I said, and somewhere a monkey's finger curled. As previously reported, the last two Silent Hill games sold extremely well, proving that there is still an audience for high-quality psychological horror. As is so often the case with big-budget...
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In a blog post, Adafruit's Phillip Torrone reports that the Raspberry Pi has been banned from Zohran Mamdani's inauguration as mayor of New York City. The city has banned the popular single-board computer, along with the Flipper Zero hacking multi-tool. — Read the rest The p...
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According to a dataset gathered by eCarsTrade, Tesla ranks first and second on the list of unreliable EVs, outperforming competitors only in how often issues occur. The spreadsheet aggregates reliability indicators across multiple models, painting a familiar picture: flashy...
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An amateur ecclesiastical architecture enthusiast on Bluesky made a fun catch in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Poet and preacher Jay Hulme noticed that a scene in the third entry in the Knives Out series was filmed in the same location as the music video/meme...
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Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot, Atlas, has taken a significant step beyond flashy lab demos. For the first time, the AI-powered robot is being tested in a real factory, learning how to do actual industrial work. CBS’s 60 Minutes was invited to Hyundai Motor Group’s...
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The calendar has flipped over to 2026; a new year has begun. That means the moment we all dread has arrived: it is time for LWN to put out a set of lame predictions for what may happen in the coming year. Needless to say, we do not know any more than anybody else, but that...
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If you've ever tried to apartment hunt in Japan from abroad, you've experienced the vertigo: real estate sites crammed with text, filters for things you didn't know you needed to filter, and navigation that seems designed by committee during an earthquake. — Read the rest ...
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The Mouth of Moron, Karoline Leavitt, is mocking women for borrowing designer clothes while enthusiastically showing off her own, which is mighty bold for someone standing inside a glass house furnished entirely with borrowed authority and expensive tailoring. Leavitt's...
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Scientists at Melbourne's Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity are working on a Crispr-based treatment -- delivered as a nasal spray or injection -- that could stop influenza infections by targeting the virus's RNA and disrupting its ability to replicate inside ...
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. VailuxOS, a German desktop Linux distribution with a customised KDE Plasma desktop, has been upgraded to version 1.6. While the previous releases were based on Ubuntu's latest long-term support branch, VailuxOS ...
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CEO Nikesh Arora's trip to Tel Aviv last month sparked rumors. Palo Alto Networks is on shopping spree. The company is reportedly considering a $400 million purchase of Israeli cybersecurity start up Koi, which raised $48 million in funding last year. …
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It has been almost six and a half years since the launch of the Apple Card, a credit card developed by Apple in collaboration with Goldman Sachs and Mastercard. Now, 9to5Mac reports that Goldman Sachs is considering pulling out of the partnership with Apple, even though the...
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A 26-year-old man was arrested early Monday after breaking windows at Vice President JD Vance's Cincinnati residence. William DeFoor was detained by Secret Service personnel after also striking a Secret Service vehicle and vandalizing other property at the home. The Vance...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Monday that the Pentagon is demoting Senator Mark Kelly from his retired Navy rank of captain and cutting his military retirement pay. The reason: a video Kelly posted in November telling service members they can refuse illegal...
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In November, Google launched Nano Banana Pro, an upgraded version of its popular tool for creating AI-generated images. Now it is clear that Google is working on Nano Banana 2 Flash, a slightly less powerful model that can generate realistic images at lightning speed. While...
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