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Friday December 19, 2025. 11:58 PM
New York's Elise Stefanik has announced she's suspending her run for New York governor, will not seek reelection to Congress, and appears to be exiting the political stage entirely. This hopefully concludes a career arc that now reads less like strategic repositioning and...
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What could be more cosy this holiday season than a roaring yule log, crackling away in an emulated PlayStation 1. It's the work of RetroGameRevival. What is the greatest Christmas movie ever? Die Hard! So I made a Home Alone scene for the PS1, Merry Xmas ya filty...
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Trump Media, which operates his Twitter clone Truth Social, is to merge with TAE, a company developing nuclear fusion technology. The all-stock deal values the pair at $6bn and, for obvious reasons, requires some explanation. CBS News, now under Trump-friendly management,...
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Science has confirmed what anyone who has ever sworn at a stuck jar lid already knows: yelling a well-timed expletive can make you stronger. According to researchers, swearing helps people push harder during physically demanding tasks by lowering inhibitions, boosting...
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TL;DR: For $29.97 (reg. $229), Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows hands you the full suite of classic, offline, no-subscription apps—aka the grown-up version of 'having your life together,' but in software form. If your PC has been quietly judging you for...
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Taylor Swift’s voice has always been unmistakably hers. In the age of AI, that distinction is no longer guaranteed. As synthetic performances creep into film, music, and art, stars like Swift, Jenna Ortega, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and many other A-listers warn that the...
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Between 1978 and 1996, a water park in northern New Jersey operated under a simple philosophy: let the guests control the action, and accept that some of them would get hurt. Action Park in Vernon Township delivered on both promises with remarkable consistency. — Read the...
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It’s been four months since the Kodi Foundation released the first build of Kodi 22 “Piers,” the long-awaited next generation of its widely used home theater software. Following close on the heels of Kodi 21.3 “Omega,” which was released a few days ago, a new build ...
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The AARP runs ads claiming that any request to pay by gift card is always a scam. Patrick McKenzie, writing at Bits About Money, points out this is technically false — gift cards are a legitimate payment method used by billions of dollars worth of businesses serving...
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When New York State banned phones in public schools bell-to-bell this September, Governor Hochul pitched it as a way to improve classroom focus. What nobody expected was the lunchroom renaissance. According to New York Magazine, teachers across the city are watching scenes...
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Get ready for empty theaters. Melania Trump has released a trailer for a new documentary about herself, a film that appears to consist primarily of dramatic lighting, slow-motion walking, and the firm belief that the public is at all curious about her inner life. — Read the...
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Humanoid robots are stepping into the app era. Chinese robotics company Unitree has unveiled what it calls the world’s first “Robot App Store,” allowing users to download, share, and develop software for its humanoid robots, bringing the smartphone app model to...
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Google.ai is a new front-end for Google's AI services. Currently, it's free, ad-free, and delivers uncluttered answers to questions. It won't work this well for long, though. It's destined for enshittification, but how soon? I asked Google.ai to give me its own...
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Journalist Gil Duran's podcast 'The Nerd Reich' does what tech journalism largely failed to do for two decades: treat Silicon Valley's libertarian ideology as a powerful and well-funded political movement rather than a quirky personality trait of genius founders. — Read the...
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Threats of prosecution loom as Democratic lawmakers rattle sabers and the Trump DOJ ignores the deadline set by Congress to release the Epstein files. With images of Trump condoms now released as part of the photo dump, Trump's well-understood close friendship with Epstein...
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The FreeBSD Foundation has a blog post about the progress it has made in 2025 on the Laptop Support & Usability Project for FreeBSD. The foundation committed $750,000 to the project in 2025 and has made progress on graphics drivers, Wi-Fi 4 and 5 support, audio improvements,...
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Cloudflare has published its fifth annual Impact Report, outlining how its network and security services have been used to support elections, independent media, and nonprofit organizations while also addressing environmental commitments. The report explains why these efforts ...
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An impressive 3D-printed LEGO-inspired Christmas tree, measuring almost 6 feet tall, now holds the Guinness World Record for 'Tallest 3D-printed interlocking plastic brick Christmas tree (supported).' This highly specific award implies the existence of a taller, unsupported...
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The Trump administration is breaking the law it just signed, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Friday that the Justice Department won't release all Jeffrey Epstein files by the deadline set in the Epstein Files...
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Samuel Saxon, a 47-year-old ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations supervisor based in Cincinnati, now faces federal charges on top of state felony counts for allegedly strangling a woman he lives with. Police responded to a Corryville apartment on December 5 after witnesses ...
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