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Thursday May 15, 2025. 06:00 PM
Silicon Valley’s coveted work visas are under heavy scrutiny from the Trump administration, and immigration lawyers say requests for documentation are increasing.
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These robotic limbs and fingers, inspired by traditional Japanese puppetry, feel like they're straight out of the future. Wired Editor Amit Katwala tested them in Tokyo, asking himself, 'Will wearing these make me superhuman?' According to Dr. Masahiko Inami, these advanced...
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Sometimes, less information is more In its latest gambit to reduce the noise of unnecessary security alerts, Socket has acquired Coana, a startup founded in 2022 by researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark that tells users which vulnerabilities they can safely ignore.…
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The Federal Trade Commission has postponed enforcement of its consumer-friendly 'click to cancel' rule from May 14 to July 14, giving businesses two additional months to comply. The regulation requires companies to make subscription cancellations as straightforward as the...
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These WIRED-tested and audiologist-approved devices will help you hear sounds more clearly. Never miss out on a dinner conversation again.
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TL;DR: Get a durable Chromebook on sale for just $54.99 (reg. $328.99). Fancy yourself a clumsy person? If you're somewhat of a butterfingers, buying electronics can be an extra stressful task. After all, you don't want to shell out a small fortune for a laptop that could...
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If a teacher known to his students as 'Mr. Pedophile' were arrested and charged with a crime, and one were challenged to guess the nature of the offense, you might suspect a trap and say 'Aha! DUI!' Alas, no. Douglas County Sheriff's Office: On May 12, 2025, Douglas County...
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He may have famously been passed up as Superman, but Nic Cage shouldn't be counted out of the superhero game just yet. In a surprising move, to put it lightly, a spinoff of Into the Spider-Verse focusing on Cage's Spider-Man Noir character is now in production. — Read the...
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Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase said Thursday it is offering a $20 million reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of criminals who attempted to extort the company for the same amount after stealing customer data. The criminals bribed customer support...
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Watch what happens when the world's tallest dog meets a tiny chihuahua. The video starts off introducing us to  Reginald, a great dane, who lives in Idaho Falls, USA. Reginald is 3 feet, 3 inches tall. Next, we meet Pearl, a little chihuahua from Orlando, USA. — Read the...
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If you never saw Saul Goodman as an action hero, join the club. 2021's grimy, stylish action flick Nobody surprised everyone, Bob Odenkirk included, who credits his training for the movie with saving his life when he suffered a heart attack on the set of Better Call Saul. —...
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Devs told to swap raw results for LLM-generated summaries as August shutdown looms Microsoft is retiring Bing Search APIs on August 11, directing customers toward AI products as an alternative.…
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Leon Romanovsky began his session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF) by explaining that the improved DMA-mapping API that he has been working on is a group effort. He, Chaitanya Kulkarni, Christoph Hellwig, Jason Gunthorpe,...
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International bad actors -- like fraudsters from Russia and China -- are driving one in eight fraud attempts in the US, seeking everything from access to government services to loans, according to a new report. During the pandemic, government agencies were flooded with...
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Controllers that use buttons for directions as well are making their way to the mainstream. Razer has a pretty one at a truly eyewatering price, Mayflash has an ugly one at a more reasonable price, and now comes 8bitdo (previously) with a teaser for what all assume will be...
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The Tor project has announced the oniux utility which provides Tor network isolation, using Linux namespaces, for third-party applications. Namespaces are a powerful feature that gives us the ability to isolate Tor network access of an arbitrary application. We put each...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (open-vm-tools), Fedora (dnsdist), Gentoo (Node.js and Tracker miners), Red Hat (kernel and xdg-utils), SUSE (audiofile, go1.22-openssl, go1.24, grub2, kernel-devel, openssl-1_1, openssl-3, and python311-Django), and Ubuntu...
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Storied British automaker Jaguar recently rebranded itself with a new logo featuring the letters of its name in a rounded and mixed-case typeface, a lurid color scheme, and gibberish vibe slogans such as 'create exuberant.' More suggestive of fashion or sexual wellness...
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Shark's inventive new bladeless tower fan offers airflow from all angles, if you don’t mind some noise.
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Wake up, Helldiver, Democracy* needs you! Helldivers 2 – a bombastic, over-the-top co-op shooter that I can confirm is very fun – hit the ground running and never stopped, with the notable exception of its now-infamous PSN blunder. Still, there's been a constant stream of...
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