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Monday October 13, 2025. 08:13 PM
BrianFagioli writes: TP-Link has officially achieved the first successful Wi-Fi 8 connection using a prototype device built through an industry collaboration. The company confirmed that both the beacon and data throughput worked, marking a real-world validation of...
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Then shalt thee change the setting three times, no more! Microsoft's OneDrive is increasing the creepiness quotient by using AI to spot faces in photos and group images accordingly. Don't worry, it can be turned off – three times a year.…
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Ah, birds, those most elegant creatures, who have captured human imagination for time untold. Who among us hasn't been awoken by birdsong or imagined what it might be like to soar with one? Unfortunately, their mystique breaks the second they turn their heads. — Read the...
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Chinese companies now produce most of the world's freely available AI models. DeepSeek leads Hugging Face in popularity. Chinese firms like Alibaba receive higher ratings than OpenAI and Meta on LMArena. The site uses blind tests to measure user preferences. Chinese...
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Cloud support to be ditched on older hardware, customers left with pricey paperweights Audio equipment biz Bose is discontinuing cloud support for its SoundTouch product line, effectively reducing the premium devices to basic speakers with limited functionality.…
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A long-running joke among the Breaking Bad fandom is that Hank is the worst detective in the world, continually (perhaps willfully) ignoring clues to Heisenberg's true identity for five seasons straight. What if everyone in the show was at his level, though? — Read the rest ...
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Debian packagers have a great deal of latitude when it comes to the configuration of the software they package; they may opt, for example, to disable default features in software that they feel are a security hazard. However, packagers are expected to ensure that their...
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Outage knocks out phones, broadband – even telco's own status page Vodafone fell over in the UK this afternoon, with Register readers reporting that many services including mobile coverage, internet services, and even the company's own status page went down.…
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California Governor Gavin Newsom signed three bills on Monday that establish the nation's most comprehensive framework for regulating how technology companies interact with minors. AB 56 requires social media platforms to display health warnings to users under 18. A child...
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Every time I see Eddie on Wheels, my heart hurts a little. Not from sadness, but because I'm so touched by, first, how absolutely adorable the little fella was, and secondly, how wonderfully loved, adored, and taken care of he was. — Read the rest The post Eddie on Wheels,...
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Every human deserves their own accelerator, says ChatGPT creator Broadcom has cuddled up with OpenAI as the ChatGPT outfit looks for ever more help building out the vast infrastructure it needs to deliver on its dreams of advanced intelligence – and possibly even a profit...
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'We will never stop,' say crooks, despite retiring twice in the space of a month The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLSH) cybercrime collective - compriseed primarily of teenagers and twenty-somethings - announced it will go dark until 2026 following the FBI's seizure of its...
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Philadelphia culture has become inescapable in certain corners of the internet. People who spend substantial time online report developing knowledge of the city's cultural touchstones and forming opinions about its regional debates despite minimal or no physical presence...
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In case you're late to the, ahem, 'action,' the OnlyFans account created in May by the Quick Response Fund for Nature to raise money for engendered species is still up and running. The account, called 'OnlyEndangereds,' has posted 23 photos and 10 videos so far, at least...
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Maxine, the corgi (AKA Mad Max Fluffy Road), rides around NYC in a backpack because she has short legs, and it's adorable. OK, it's probably more because of the rule that you can bring dogs on the subway 'in a bag or other container and carried in a way that doesn't annoy...
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Climate change has pushed warm-water coral reefs past a point of no return, marking the first time a major climate tipping point has been crossed, according to a report released on Sunday by an international team in advance of the United Nations Climate Change Conference...
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All-in-one toolkit or over-ambitious feature creep? You decide Version 1.3 of the Bun JavaScript runtime and toolkit has landed, pushing forward the project's goal to consolidate fragmented JavaScript toolchains into a single solution. Yet the rapid expansion has some...
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The Sweetbriar Nature Center in Smithtown, Long Island, receives hundreds of calls daily, with many seeking advice on injured wildlife, such as squirrels, birds, or turtles. Last week, they received a call for help with a butterfly with a broken wing. — Read the rest The...
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Abrams ComicArts has just released a huge new prestige book celebrating the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. The Essential Peanuts is 336 pages, and filled with comics, but also packed with commentary from author Mark Evanier; essays, introductions, and quotes from...
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TL;DR: If your digital storage is one accidental download away from total chaos, FileJump's Lifetime 2TB Cloud Storage for $69.97 (85% off) might just be the deep breath your hard drive's been waiting for. You know that feeling when your phone says 'Storage Almost Full'...
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