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Wednesday November 26, 2025. 05:49 PM
KDE's Plasma team has announced that KDE Plasma will drop X11 session support with Plasma 6.8: The Plasma X11 session will be supported by KDE into early 2027. We cannot provide a specific date, as we're exploring the possibility of shipping some extra bug-fix releases for P...
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The reference desk at your public library is an amazing tool. It never hallucinates weird answers, and the folks working there are a pleasure to meet. View this post on Instagram This quick explainer tells us the actual origin and...
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It feels deeply fitting that a game about time travel should make a surprise return 20 years after its last release. TimeSplitters was hands down the coolest shooter of the PS2 era, with its epoch-hopping levels and equally frenetic online multiplayer. — Read the rest The po...
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Cheap portable speakers can sound good enough. Pricey hardware can make you feel cheated. The trick, in my opinion, is to find something that's at the top of the range, with middle-of-the-road or better pricing. The Bose SoundLink Plus has absolutely nailed this. — Read the...
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Myanmar’s military has been blowing up parts of the KK Park scam compound. Experts say the actions are likely for show.
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It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of Puppy Songs — I just love the sweet, catchy, funny songs written, performed, and recorded by musician Matt Hobbs, who began creating them during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when he found himself spending a lot of time at...
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Most licensed horror games, I've noticed, fall into the asynchronous multiplayer trap. Surely, you've noticed it too: the Texas Chainsaw Massacre game, the Evil Dead game, the Friday the 13th game, the classic-horror-themed Fortnite that Dead by Daylight is rapidly becoming? ...
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Celebrate Black Friday early with a massive discount on the Apple Airpods Max.
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Apple will retake its crown as the world's largest smartphone maker for the first time in more than a decade, lifted by the successful debut of a new iPhone series and a rush of consumers upgrading devices, according to Counterpoint Research. From a report: The iPhone 17...
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There is a very old practical joke where the prankster tells a joke with a nonsensical punchline, 'no soap – radio,' no matter the setup, to one or more people in on the joke. A lone uninformed victim will often laugh along, despite not getting the joke. — Read the rest ...
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Engineer bends layout tool into vector renderer, then pushes frames through a MacBook's headphone jack There's a certain delight to be had in doing something just to see if you can. Case in point: rendering Doom using PCB design software, or wading through the shores of Hell ...
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TL;DR: Grab this 2017 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar and four Thunderbolt 3 ports, now 67% off. Was the Touch Bar the most intuitive design choice? No. Removing the function keys was certainly a choice, to say the least. — Read the rest The post Give yourself a touch of the past...
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Mumble Grumble is a typeface with a very specific use: filler text. Sometimes you just want something that suggests text without being text. After all, greeking or lorem ipsum read as legible placeholder text and may inadvertantly carry undesirable meaning; in finished work...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: AI is not a core part of operations at most of the world's central banks and digital assets are off the table, according to a survey released on Wednesday by the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum. The working group of 10...
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The roughly 500 fiber-optic cables lying on the ocean floor carry more than 95% of all internet data -- not satellites, as many might assume -- and they face growing threats from natural disasters, terrorists and nation-states capable of disrupting global communications by...
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Experts from NordVPN are warning about a rise in ‘invisible’ attacks that can steal payment details on legitimate eCommerce sites. Known as e-skimming this involves malicious JavaScript code being injected into legitimate eCommerce sites to steal customers’ payment...
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Regions across US affected, and one tore up its contract for the product Towns and cities across the US are without access to their CodeRED emergency alert system following a cyberattack on vendor Crisis24.…
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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, binutils, delve and golang, expat, firefox, haproxy, kernel, libsoup3, libssh, libtiff, openssh, openssl, pam, podman, python-kdcproxy, shadow-utils, squid, thunderbird, vim, xorg-x11-server-Xwayland, and zziplib), Debian ...
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A teddy bear toy named Kumma, available in Singapore, reportedly discussed sexual fetishes and provided instructions on obtaining knives. These subjects being inappropriate for the children the toy is intended for, the AI provider cut off the manufacturer's access to its...
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Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this world! And be the first on your block to get each week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic! JOIN THE INNER HIVE! — Read the rest The post Tom the Dancing...
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