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Monday August 11, 2025. 11:09 PM
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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A few weeks earlier 'zeroplayer' advertised an $80K WinRAR 0-day exploit Russia-linked attackers found and exploited a high-severity WinRAR vulnerability before the maintainers of the Windows file archiver issued a fix.…
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Starbucks patrons in South Korea are setting up de facto offices at the coffee chain, bringing along their desktop computers and printers. The company implemented a new policy banning bulky items from store locations. In South Korea,...
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It seems Microsoft is absorbing GitHub deeper into Microsoft. GitHub’s CEO Thomas Dohmke is stepping down, and GitHub will be integrated into a new department within Microsoft. Which department will become the new stewards of GitHub, and the massive pile of open source...
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A pair of two-time Trump voters just discovered that authoritarian overreach isn't quite as fun when you're on the receiving end. As reported by NBC7, George and Esmeralda Doilez got an unexpected civics lesson while heading to the dentist in Southern California. — Read the...
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On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss the week’s news, from bitcoin miners trying to beat Trump’s tariffs to OpenAI's new deal with the US government.
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Code hosting biz takes a back seat within Microsoft's CoreAI division GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke plans to leave the company and corporate parent Microsoft will not appoint a successor.…
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Kim Davis, who served time for refusing to do her job and issue marriage certificates to people she didn't want to have one, is asking the Supreme Court to consider her bigotry as an exercise in religious freedom. Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who was jailed...
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Companies are canceling clean hydrogen projects across the United States after Congress shortened the qualification window for a Biden-era tax credit by five years, requiring projects to be under construction by the end of 2027. Energy consulting firm Wood Mackenzie...
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While announcing his federal takeover of Washington D.C., Donald Trump said this was just the beginning. 'We have other cities that are very bad,' he said at a press conference, telling reporters that New York City, Baltimore, and Oakland were next. — Read the rest The post...
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The High Republic-era television show, The Acolyte, introduced us to some new fan-favorite characters, and killed them. This new novel helps fill out Jecki and Yord's backstory. Padawan Jecki Lon was one of my favorite characters in The Acolyte, and her interactions with...
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