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Monday November 24, 2025. 10:21 PM
An anonymous reader shares a report: The average American now holds onto their smartphone for 29 months, according to a recent survey by Reviews.org, and that cycle is getting longer. The average was around 22 months in 2016. Research released by the Federal Reserve last...
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By removing the stigma of reward hacking, AI models are less likely to generalize toward evil Sometimes bots, like kids, just wanna break the rules. Researchers at Anthropic have found they can make AI models less likely to behave badly by giving them permission to do so.…
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A new feature on X revealed that many influential MAGA accounts are not actually based in the US. President Donald Trump has continued sharing their posts anyway.
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An anonymous reader shares a report: As part of the settlement with Universal, Udio has amended its terms of service, and users can no longer download their outputs. This has AI music makers furious, and with good reason. Unfortunately, they have little recourse, as the...
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. AlmaLinux OS, which is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, has a new version, AlmaLinux OS 10.1. The new release introduces the ability to install the distribution on a Btrfs storage volume. 'AlmaLinux 10.1 also ...
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Jaiden Riordan has announced the release of Ultramarine Linux 43, a new version of the project's Fedora-based desktop distribution with a choice of KDE Plasma, Budgie, GNOME and Xfce desktops: 'Ultramarine 43...
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The Powers-That-Be didn't feel that there was quite enough chaos in the world, so they've taken it upon themselves to poke at our plot with a stick. It seems that Morgan Geyser, the woman who admitted to killing her classmate as a sacrifice to Slender Man in 2014, has...
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Don't believe everything you read Afraid of connecting to public Wi-Fi? Terrified to turn your Bluetooth on? You may be falling for 'hacklore,' tall tales about cybersecurity that distract you from real dangers. Dozens of chief security officers and ex-CISA officials have...
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Drug maker Novo Nordisk says semaglutide, the active ingredient for the weight loss jab Wegovy, does not slow Alzheimer's -- despite initial hopes that it might help against dementia. From a report: Researchers began two large trials involving more than 3,800 people after...
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If you remember type-in computer programs, Doctype magazine is for you. But it's not an exercise in pure nostalgia—the apps you can punch in are just as simple as BASIC was, but use HTML. They run in the web browser, with no internet connection or server required: '10...
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Loraine Hutchins has left the building. The groundbreaking author, activist, and bisexual lightning rod behind Bi Any Other Name passed away this November, leaving behind a generation of writers, educators, and fierce queers who know their history because she wrote it. —...
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Google's long-rumored plan to merge ChromeOS and Android into a single desktop operating system now has a name: Aluminium OS, AndroidAuthority reports, citing a job listing. The job listing explicitly tasks applicants with 'working on a new Aluminium, Android-based,...
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AlmaLinux 10.1 has been released. In addition to providing binary compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.1, the most notable feature in AlmaLinux 10.1 is the addition of support for Btrfs, which is not available in RHEL: Btrfs support encompasses both kernel...
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Start-up claims to have booked orders for 144 miniaturized reactors totaling 11GW across US and UK Amazon-backed nuclear energy startup X-energy says it has booked orders for 144 small modular reactors (SMRs) which will eventually deliver over 11 gigawatts of power, assuming ...
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Many people in prison did something that landed them there. Many people in prison have been wrongly incarcerated, arrested for the sake of their skin color, the limited options available to them due to their economic fortunes, or being in the wrong place at the wrong time. —...
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Tardigrades shocked scientists in 2008 by surviving 10 days in low Earth orbit. A simple plant has outdone the hardy water bears. Moss attached to the outside of the ISS survived in space for nine months, and may be capable of much longer periods. — Read the rest The post...
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WIRED’s pick for the best travel T-shirt is on sale for Black Friday. Expand your merino wardrobe with these deals.
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I've been using OnePlus' handsets since the OnePlus 6R came out. OnePlus used to be known for making inexpensive phones that could punch well above their weight. Now, they're known for making outstanding flagship hardware designed to make you think, really hard, before...
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Left 4 Dead 2 was pretty much the perfect horde shooter, and that came out nearly twenty years ago. Not that that's topped countless contenders, of course, some of which have been really good! Not only is The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu a co-op horde shooter, though, it's also a...
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a bipartisan group of senators on Saturday that Trump's Ukraine/Russia 28-point peace plan that Trump is pushing Ukraine to accept by Thursday was not drafted by the Trump administration, but is a 'wish list' written by Russia. — Read the...
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