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Wednesday September 17, 2025. 06:41 PM
I despise A.I. as much as the next guy, but it can't be ignored forever. And I have to report that, after the trillions of dollars spent on it, and the hectares of forests felled and tonnes of glaciers melted, I've finally found something produced by it that I like. — Read...
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These texts read less like a twenty-something's messages and more like manufactured evidence. The texts I receive from my college-age daughter are mostly single-letter replacements for entire words, punctuated with 'bro' as if she were a SoCal Gen Xer, utilizing the...
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Grand Theft Auto 6 is likely to be the best-looking game ever made when it launches in the middle of next year. There's just something special about how the PS2 entries feel, though, and I say this as someone who started gaming with the PS3. — Read the rest The post The...
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Apple announced new anti-spyware security features for its iPhone 17, just as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) prepares to deploy powerful new spyware to spy on people. ICE has reactivated a $2 million contract with Israeli company Paragon Solutions for it...
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American businesses join Win 10 upgrade train, consumers happy to sit on the platform World War Fee The US PC industry is suffering from inventory indigestion caused by resellers over-ordering hardware to avoid Donald Trump's expected import taxes on China-made kit.…
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Frank is a charming, cute armadillo who loves to play. Watching him is a joy! I had a friend named Frank once who was a total downer. I would much rather travel Europe with Frank the Armadillo; he seems cool and not a jerk. — Read the rest The post Meet Frank the...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: After years of dismissing the idea of putting a touchscreen on a MacBook, it seems Apple may have finally caved. Its MacBook Pro overhaul in 2026 is now expected to be the first-ever MacBook to feature a touchscreen display, according to...
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Rather than attacking pleasure boats or eating seals, Old Thom spends his days swimming with Atlantic white sided dolphins. No one quite knows why. Orcinus orca, or killer whales, are more likely to eat their smaller whale buddies, rather than join their pod and swim...
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Convicted felon and liable for sexual assault, Donald Trump loves bullying with lawsuits, but this one is sheer lunacy. 'This is a stunningly pathological lawsuit even by Trumpian standards' former prosecutor Ken White joked on Bluesky. 'It reads as if he was holding a...
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Version 49 of the GNOME desktop environment has been released. Changes include new default video (Showtime) and PDF-viewing (Papers) applications, a number of calendar improvements, and updates to the Web, Maps, and Software applications.
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Fascism enthusiast Jesse Watters threatens anyone who calls a fascist a fascist with arrest or ostracism. After a few days of telling us how their murdered white supremacist stood for free speech and everything 'American.' MAGA morons are now working extra hard to limit...
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Ian Jackson has published a blog post summarizing the tag2upload service's first month of handling uploads for the upcoming Debian 14 ('forky') release: We announced tag2upload's open beta in mid-July. That was in the middle of the the freeze for trixie, so usage was fairly...
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And we're paying for it piecemeal through the software, services, and devices we buy Tech analysts expect worldwide spending on AI to hit nearly $1.5 trillion in 2025, including $268 billion on optimized servers. These investments will also soon appear in even more consumer...
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While the rest of us are worrying about artificial intelligence stealing our jobs, our intellectual property, or hallucinating bullshit that makes our lie-ridden world just a tiny bit worse, Albania has put a Large Language Model to work in a public office: 'Diella, the...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Business Insider has told journalists they can use AI to create first drafts of stories and suggested it won't notify readers that AI was used, according to Status, a newsletter covering the media industry. The policy makes the outlet one ...
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Version 2.15.0 of libxml2 has been released. Notable changes include the disabling of Python bindings by default, using Doxygen to generate API documentation, as well as bringing HTML serialization and handling of character encodings more in line with the HTML5...
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In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk's killing, Donald Trump's advisors were sure who was to blame. That law enforcement says they were wrong didn't, and doesn't, much seem to matter.
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Ever since Fellowship of the Ring's release, perhaps the biggest Lord of the Rings talking point (aside from Viggo Mortensen really breaking his toe on that helmet) has been the question of why they didn't just take the eagles to Mordor. — Read the rest The post Lord of the...
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TL;DR: Still paying monthly for Word or Excel? Get a lifetime license to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows plus official Microsoft training for less than $50. If you're still paying a monthly fee to open Word documents and build budget spreadsheets, we...
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But will the International Space Station still be there to host its node? Axiom Space and Spacebilt have announced plans to add optically interconnected Orbital Data Center (ODC) infrastructure to the International Space Station (ISS).…
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