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Monday April 14, 2025. 09:22 PM
Donald Trump didn't seem to realize he was on camera when he told the president of El Salvador to make more prisons, this time for Americans. 'Home-growns are next,' Trump told Nayib Bukele, who visited him in the Oval Office today. — Read the rest The post Americans "are...
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To argue that Objective-C resembles a metaphysically divine language, or even a good language, is like saying Shakespeare is best appreciated in pig latin. Objective-C is, at best, polarizing. Ridiculed for its unrelenting verbosity and peculiar square brackets, it is used...
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What's the goal here, Homeland Insecurity or something? As drastic cuts to the US govt's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency loom, Rep Eric Swalwell (D-CA), the ranking member of the House's cybersecurity subcommittee, has demanded that CISA brief the...
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VMware has resumed offering a free hypervisor. News of the offering emerged in a throwaway line in the Release Notes for version 8.0 Update 3e of the Broadcom business unit's ESXi hypervisor. From a report: Just below the 'What's New' section of that document is the...
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Q1 sector growth unlikely to survive current trade policy Profiteering resellers stateside filled up on smartphone inventory in calendar Q1 before the scheduled imposition of US tariffs, which have rocked global stock prices and US Treasury bonds since April 2.…
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Sebastien de Castell's 'The Malevolent Seven' takes the 'ragtag bunch of ne're do-wells doing good' theme of a legendary Western and applies it to a wonderfully built fantasy world. Mercenaries are jerks, but the Gods are bigger ones. Spellcaster Cade Ombra is a...
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The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage [non-paywalled source], a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China. Financial Times: Commissioners and senior officials travelling to the IMF and ...
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OpenAI has just thrown a serious wrench into the AI landscape with the release of three new models: GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano. They’re dramatic improvements over GPT-4o, raising the bar for what AI can actually do. If Elon Musk wasn’t already nervous about...
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Even less secure than the Russian-compromised Signal app, Mike Waltz and his team are reportedly using personal Gmail accounts to share various sensitive and potentially exploitable information. It seems that Team Trump prioritizes circumventing rules regarding document...
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GPT 4.1, GPT 4.1 Mini, and GPT 4.1 Nano are all available now—and will help OpenAI compete with Google and Anthropic.
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Two spring breakers are behind bars — locked up for 23 hours a day in Copenhagen — after what sounds like a misunderstanding with an Uber driver. The two young men — one who is a student at Miami University in Ohio — got into an Uber before realizing they had given...
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Remember when the creepiest thing about ride-sharing was being forced to listen to your driver's five-point plan for fixing America? Those were simpler times, folks. As reported by CBC, a Toronto woman named Anvi Ahuja got a creepy text message containing a transcript of the ...
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Sales backstop deal? More like... Sales? Back, stop! Deal! Arizona electronics supplier Avnet has accused California semiconductor design firm Ampere Computing of going against its word and backing out of a server purchasing deal.…
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OpenAI unveiled its GPT-4.1 model family on Monday, prioritizing coding capabilities and instruction following while expanding context windows to 1 million tokens -- approximately 750,000 words. The lineup includes standard GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano variants,...
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As the Trump administration ignores the Supreme Court's order, Trump stooge Stephen Miller claims a man declared wrongly deported is a criminal. As the Trump administration ignores the Supreme Court, it becomes apparent that there are no longer any checks and balances in...
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Watchdog wants to know whether EU posts were used without consent under GDPR Elon Musk's social media outfit X is again under the regulatory microscope in Europe – this time for allegedly using EU users' public posts to train its Grok AI chatbot, possibly without the...
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Apple is readying a substantial overhaul for iPadOS 19 that will transform the tablet experience to function more like macOS, according to Bloomberg. The update will focus on productivity features, multitasking capabilities, and app window management - areas where iPad power ...
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Nvidia is moving a large portion of its AI supercomputer manufacturing to the United States, marking a pivotal change in how the company builds its high-end Blackwell processors and related infrastructure. The shift comes as American economic policy under President Donald...
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Attention seekers have discovered an exciting new way to broadcast their financial security: raw-dogging their $1200 smartphones. These brave tech bros are boldly declaring that phone cases are for the poors. 'I have expensive pants too, should I wear an extra pair of pants...
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