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Monday December 8, 2025. 05:25 PM
The Trump EPA — staffed with former chemical industry insiders — has proposed nearly doubling the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale. Nice, former lobbyists will determine how much carcinogen you should breathe. ProPublica reports that the agency is...
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Creating problems and then solving them with taxpayer money: a tradition continues. President Trump is set to announce a $12 billion aid package for American farmers on Monday. The reason farmers need $12 billion? Largely, President Trump's trade war. According to the Wall...
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Donald Trump made history Sunday as the first sitting president to host the Kennedy Center Honors, transforming what's traditionally been a dignified evening of presidential box-sitting into a full-on Trump production. As The Hill reports, Trump emceed the event honoring...
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The future of Detroit's presented by 1987's Robocop was hardly inspiring: a blighted landscape where cops and robbers alike are pawns of the giant corporation redeveloping it. But after 38 years its satire of capitalism, consumerism and AI is sharper than ever, and after 15...
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TL;DR: For a limited time, you can upgrade to Windows 11 Pro with built-in security and multitasking tools for just $12.97. Upgrading your tech does not always mean waltzing into a store and buying a brand-new computer. Sometimes, the biggest refresh comes from the operating...
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We got a GTA 6-themed candle before we actually got GTA 6. The wait for Grand Theft Auto 6, which recently got a year longer, has been excruciating. Rockstar Games' latest merch drop almost seems designed to rub salt in the wound — or wax, as it were. — Read the rest The...
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Pixel art is often dismissed as a lesser, low-effort form of graphical expression reserved for budget indie titles and nostalgic throwbacks. One look at the recently announced Replaced should quickly dispel that notion. Yes, the action looks cool, and yes, the hook of playing...
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Never mind that AI lies constantly about everything or wants to replace your family: the true failing of LLMs, the one they'll never be able to overcome, is that they just aren't cool. While structured sketch comedy certainly has its place in my heart, I've been giggling...
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Paramount today launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, hoping to buy it directly from stockholders after it lost a months-long bidding war with Netflix that ended with an announced $74.4bn sale. Paramount's new offer is $30 a share, amounting to $108bn...
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Pre-shredded cheese is one of the greatest first-world pleasures to emerge from the 20th century. Having a bag in your fridge means instant cheddar gratification is only an unzipping away. No cutting slices, no taking the end of your thumb off with a mandoline, and perhaps...
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FIFA announced a 'Peace Price' to fluff Donald Trump with after the Nobel committee refused to award him the real one. The international footballing body's antics make sense as the U.S. is readying to host the football World Cup despite becoming a dangerous place to visit...
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The holiday season is seen by many companies as being as good a reason as any to highlight the benefits of their products and services, and Google is no different in this regard. Using the perceived stress of preparing for everything that this time of year involves for many...
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Elon Musk describes Tesla's Optimus robot as a revolutionary AI-powered autonomous worker, able to perform a wide range of everyday tasks in and outside of the home. It's a 'huge step forward.' It will go to Mars next year. — Read the rest The post Tesla robot repeats human ...
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President Donald Trump says he plans to sign an executive order this week that would create a single, nationwide framework for regulating AI, effectively curbing state-level rules that have proliferated in the absence of federal legislation. The move signals the...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (ffmpeg, krita, lasso, and libpng1.6), Fedora (abrt, cef, chromium, tinygltf, webkitgtk, and xkbcomp), Oracle (buildah, delve and golang, expat, python-kdcproxy, qt6-qtquick3d, qt6-qtsvg, sssd, thunderbird, and valkey), Red Hat...
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An arm wrestling match is underway in surgical robotics. Medical device tech company Medtronic has just secured FDA clearance for its robotics-assisted surgery system, Hugo, for use in urological procedures.  The approval places Medtronic in direct competition with industry...
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The holiday season may well not be a jolly one, if AI has its way. AI continues to push deeper into the retail sector, raising questions about how many human workers — particularly temporary holiday hires — will still be needed in the years ahead. As retailers face...
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A new report on browser privacy places OpenAI's new ChatGPT Atlas squarely at the bottom of its rankings, citing weak protection against tracking, poor link security, and almost no effective data blocking. The study, conducted by software provider Digitain, reviewed 13...
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NordVPN has added a new tool to its security suite for macOS and Windows, introducing email protection for users facing growing phishing and malware threats. The feature checks links inside emails as you open them in a browser and displays visual alerts when it identifies...
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The doctor will see you now. Alas, it’s not a real one. And the outcome is decidedly unhealthy. TikTok and other major social media platforms are hosting a wave of AI-generated deepfake videos in which the images and voices of real doctors are manipulated to promote...
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