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Thursday August 28, 2025. 05:02 PM
If you've ever seen Frank Cho's work, you know he's one of those comic artists who seems almost unfairly good at what he does. Whether it's his Marvel runs on Wolverine, The Hulk, and Shanna the She-Devil, or his cult-favorite Liberty Meadows, Cho's pages are a mix of...
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In a his new book Breakneck, Dan Wang argues that if the US really wants to compete with China, it needs to focus more on engineering and less on litigating.
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TL;DR: Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 is on sale this Labor Day for $14.97 (MSRP $499). Speed usually sacrifices quality, but not in this case. Coding can be quicker and more accurate with the smart features from Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022, on sale f...
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Regulator points to lack of 'basic access controls' between internet-facing systems, internal network South Korea's privacy watchdog has slapped SK Telecom with a record ₩134.5 billion ($97 million) fine after finding that the mobile giant left its network wide open to...
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Company cleared to launch again after April failure Firefly Aerospace has been given the green light to resume launches after its April failure.…
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The Sixteen Thirty Fund, a liberal dark money organization, is paying Democratic influencers up to $8,000 monthly through its Chorus Creator Incubator Program, Wired reports. Contracts prohibit participants from disclosing their payments or identifying funders, the...
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Susan Monarez, installed as CDC director just weeks ago by President Trump, was expected to be his rubber stamp at the nation's top disease-control agency. But her refusal to sign off on something resulted in her ouster last night and the immediate resignation of various...
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There's the 1-px side subpixel font named Millitext and a 3px-wide subpixel font that passes as type, but sticking with full pixels makes legibility tough at tiny sizes. Jason Kottke's Silkscreen is exemplary at 4×5. Making a gruesome 3×3 font is a kind of ritual for pixel...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Apple has removed the iPhone torrenting client, iTorrent, from AltStore PAL's alternative iOS marketplace in the EU, showing that it can still exert control over apps that aren't listed on the official App Store. iTorrent developer Daniil ...
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Credit agency offers own services as compensation Credit scoring and monitoring biz TransUnion says that it recently suffered a breach affecting nearly 4.5 million individuals.…
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I discovered arcades when I was about 7 or 8 years old and got to enjoy the late '80s renaissance, such as it was, driven by spectacular new hardware and more thoughtful game design. My local haunts were in Worthing, England—the New Amusements on the pier (latest and...
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Shadowserver counts more than 13,000 appliances still wide open – including thousands in US, Germany, and UK Thousands of Citrix NetScaler appliances remain exposed to a trio of security flaws that the vendor patched this week, one of which is already being actively...
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This matte-screen QD-OLED is the prettiest TV I have seen in 2025.
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Last month Bitdefender revealed that 70 percent of UK CISO have faced pressure to conceal security incidents, cyberattacks and breaches. But compliance training specialist Skillcast is warning that this could risk regulatory penalties and erode trust. The concern is...
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alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: When's the last time you settled down with a good book, just because you enjoyed it? A new survey shows reading as a pastime is becoming dramatically less popular in the U.S., which correlates with an increased consumption ...
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Miljödata meltdown leaves 200 local authorities scrambling over 1.5 BTC Sweden's municipal governments have been knocked offline after ransomware crooks hit IT supplier Miljödata, reportedly demanding the bargain-basement sum of $168,000.…
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Microsoft blames incoming UK Online Safety Act, says you have until 2026 Microsoft has begun emailing users of its Xbox gaming platform with likely unwelcome news: users will need to verify their age if they want to keep access to the company's various social services, and...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: German banks blocked PayPal payments totalling more than 10 billion euros ($11.7 billion) over fraud concerns, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported on Wednesday, without specifying its sources. The payments were halted on Monday...
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US payments platform back in action, says it's informing affected customers Shoppers and merchants in Germany found themselves dealing with billions of euros in frozen transactions this week, thanks to an apparent failure in PayPal's fraud-detection systems.…
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Amazon’s color Kindle now comes in a version made for kids, giving you colorful books for all ages and a full year of Amazon Kids+ content.
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