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Friday November 21, 2025. 02:00 PM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Some Dell and HP laptop owners have been befuddled by their machines' inability to play HEVC/H.265 content in web browsers, despite their machines' processors having integrated decoding support. Laptops with...
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Leonard Leslie Brooke became one of England's most celebrated children's book illustrators despite a devastating setback: typhoid fever contracted while traveling in Italy left him permanently deaf as a young man. Born in Birkenhead in 1862, Brooke studied at the Royal...
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These cow-replacing machines turn nuts, oats, and other plants into milk quickly, easily, and automatically.
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A Canadian librarian spent five years fighting a lawsuit and burned through his life savings ten times over for doing something millions do every day: clicking the 'share' button on YouTube videos. Ian Linkletter's nightmare began in 2020 when he tweeted links to seven...
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EFF wants to know if citizens had their First Amendment rights violated The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is suing two government departments to understand how they compelled tech companies to remove ICE-tracking apps and websites from their platforms.…
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New research from online protection company Malwarebytes exposes how social media and online marketplaces have become hotbeds for holiday shopping scams. It finds that 51 percent of people encounter scams on social media weekly while an unlucky 27 percent meet scams daily....
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In 1982, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott Fahlman suggested using:-) for humorous comments after his colleagues took a joke about mercury seriously.
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NordPass is swift and packed with features, but the lack of support for TOTP code storage puts it slightly behind the competition.
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The Coast Guard scrambled to reverse a policy change that would have reclassified swastikas and nooses as merely 'potentially divisive' rather than hate symbols — but only after The Washington Post exposed it. According to Time, the Post reported Thursday that updated...
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Nvidia CPUs and GPUs dominate the bi-annual leaderboard, but FP64 performance regressions leave its long term prospectives in doubt SC25 There's a new efficiency champ at the top of the Green500 ranking of the world's most sustainable supercomputers.…
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Apple Shortcuts, which lets users write custom automations, recently earned some new capabilities thanks to Apple Intelligence. Here,s how to make the most of this upgrade.
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Leading the Future said it will spend millions to keep Alex Bores out of Congress. It might be helping him instead.
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Every time you book a flight, hotel, or rental car, a detailed digital dossier is created about you — and it never gets deleted. These Passenger Name Records (PNR) contain far more than your travel dates: they reveal who you're traveling with, what you eat, your medical...
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A new survey of 750 senior cyber security professionals across the US, UK and Australia, carried out by Opinion Matters for ThreatQuotient, finds 97 percent now regard automation, increasingly powered by AI technologies, as essential to business operations. However, despite...
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Decision marks second penalty issued under the UK's Online Safety Act The UK's online regulator has lobbed a £50,000 fine at an AI nudification website for failing to implement mandatory age checks, potentially allowing under-18s to waltz past the virtual velvet rope.…
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At New Zealand's Kawaiicon cybersecurity convention, organizers hacked together a way for attendees to track CO2 levels throughout the venue—even before they arrived.
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Microsoft has released the source code for Zork I, II, and III under the MIT open-source license, making the legendary text adventure games freely available for anyone to study, learn from, and play. 'Our goal is simple: to place historically important code in the hands of...
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I used the public preview of Fitbit’s new AI Health Coach and became both faster and noticeably weirder.
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The network firewall was designed for a world that doesn’t exist anymore. When corporate assets sat behind a data center perimeter, inspecting packets between ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ made sense. But today, with workloads spread across multiple clouds, SaaS...
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Committee hears departments may have to stump up cash before savings materialize A UK tech minister has declined to put a figure on the cost of the government's digital ID plans as MPs question the contributions expected from central departments.…
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