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Monday November 17, 2025. 09:41 PM
An anonymous reader shares a report: Harvard is ramping up its holdings in cryptocurrency. The nation's oldest university reported a $443 million investment in BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust in the third quarter. The school now holds 6.8 million shares of the...
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Attorney General Pam Bondi shattered records for prosecutorial responsiveness Friday, taking just 217 minutes to act on President Trump's demand to investigate Democrats named in Jeffrey Epstein documents. The lightning-fast turnaround — from Trump's Truth Social post to...
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The UK government will seize valuables from asylum seekers to offset processing costs, Home Office minister Alex Norris announced. People arriving with 'a bag full of gold rings' face different treatment than those with sentimental items, he told Sky News. The policy,...
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Abstract of a paper on NBER: This paper documents video consumption among school-aged children in the U.S. and explores its impact on human capital development. Video watching is common across all segments of society, yet surprisingly little is known about its developmental...
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Version 2.52.0 of the Git source-code management system has been released. Changes include a new last-modified command to find the closest ancestor commit that touched one or more paths, a couple of git refs improvements, a new git repo command for obtaining information...
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Claims he reported the attack in January after fraudsters tried to scam him A security researcher says Coinbase knew about a December 2024 security breach during which miscreants bribed its support staff into handing over almost 70,000 customers' details at least four months ...
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Authorities in Iran have sprayed clouds with chemicals to induce rain, in an attempt to combat the country's worst drought in decades. From a report: Known as cloud-seeding, the process was conducted over the Urmia lake basin on Saturday, Iran's official news agency Irna...
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EuroHPC's biggest iron still has more to give with Universal Cluster expansion expected to come online next year SC25 Europe has officially entered exascale orbit. On Monday, EuroHPC's Jupiter supercomputer became the fourth such machine on the Top500 list of publicly known...
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We've known that the next chapter of Amazon's Fallout streaming series would take place in Nevada. But with this new trailer, we've found out that not only are Cooper and Lucy headed to New Vegas, they're gonna blow stuff up once they're there. — Read the rest The post...
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Border Patrol agents flooded immigrant-heavy neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, this weekend, arresting at least 81 people and terrifying entire communities. The operation, dubbed 'Charlotte's Web,' saw agents chasing people through parking lots, smashing car...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: The use of AI in the latest Call of Duty has prompted a US lawmaker to call for regulations to prevent artificial intelligence from taking jobs away from human workers. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who represents a large swathe of Silicon...
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Documenting code can be dull, but explaining the source code of a complex project is hard for AI to get right Google has previewed Code Wiki, an AI project that aims to document code in a repository and keep it up to date by regenerating the content after every code...
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In a rare and scathing judgment, a federal judge accused the Department of Justice of prosecutorial misconduct in the case against James Comey, saying the record reveals 'a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps.' In his ruling, the judge states: 'The...
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Now, to be fair, there are country songs I love from country artists I love, but I also don't think it'd be totally unreasonable to call the genre a bit samey. As our rural areas gradually vanish and the genre struggles to escape the post-9/11 haze of froth-mouthed patriotism...
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This slim bar can slide under any TV, and it has a surprisingly rich feature set for the price.
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Many times accused of sexual assault, MAGA cult leader Donald Trump said he wants Epstein files released. A closer look suggests he may want the public to see only what he picks. In a Truth Social post, Trump told House Republicans to vote for the release so long as it's...
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Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive, which operates publishing labels including GTA-maker Rockstar Games and 2K, said on Monday that although gaming consoles are not going away, the industry is moving toward PCs in the next decade. From a report: 'I think it's...
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With Rockstar Games now apparently a single-project studio (and those projects taking nearly a decade each), the odds of their legacy titles that aren't GTA getting any sort of follow-up seems slimmer by the day. Luckily, we have indie games to pick up the slack. — Read the...
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This clip of economist Paul Krugman explaining that crypto is really a tool for the tools, and not any sort of legitimate currency or investment practice, is wonderful. In an interview with Hasan Minhaj, Krugman lays it all out. View this post on Instagram ...
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An Indiana state senator who didn't fall in line with Trump's redistricting scheme found himself on the receiving end of a swatting stunt. Just hours after the former president publicly called him out, deputies were dispatched to Sen. Greg Goode's home in Terre Haute after...
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