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Saturday December 27, 2025. 02:40 AM
If Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 serves as a shining example of anything besides the brazen laziness of 'too big to fail' developers, it's the steadily declining writing quality of big-budget games. Actually, those two are the same thing. Think about how many tutorials desperatel...
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If you worked as a typist for Merriam-Webster in the pre-internet era, one of your tasks would have been typing out every word spelled backwards. While this sounds absurd, there's an excellent reason that only makes sense if you're old enough to remember looking things up...
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Chinese robotics startup EngineAI released a video of its latest bipedal robot that was so impressive many assumed it was CGI, despite the 'No AGCG No CGI' tag. The robot kicks through saloon-style doors and spars with a human counterpart, mirroring their movements. — Read...
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If you care about your privacy, you might want to start taking the bus. An anonymous source recently told Reuters that Uber doesn't feel it's making enough money from ride-hailing alone. So naturally, they're planning what many other app-based companies do: exploit their...
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Comic books entertain kids and adults who refuse to abandon the visual stories that captivated them as children. Modern comics are emotionally complex and gritty, tackling the same issues we face daily. That complexity makes characters with god-like powers relatable—they...
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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 Bug:...
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The global push to put autonomous taxis on public roads is accelerating as ride-hailing companies and technology firms advance from pilot programs toward limited commercial rollouts in cities across China, the United States, Europe and the Middle East. WeRide and Uber...
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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, who was confirmed by the Senate just last week after a turbulent nomination process that stretched across most of 2025, said Friday that the United States will return to the moon within President Donald Trump's second term. Isaacman made...
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Social media platforms with infinite scrolling, auto-play and algorithmic feeds will be required to display warning labels about their potential harm to young users' mental health under a new law, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Friday. From a report: 'Keeping...
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Friday December 26, 2025. 11:47 PM
Mere days after the EU fined Elon for running Twitter as a Nazi bar, his bro Donald wants Europe to stop cleaning up its platforms and start tolerating Nazis, in the name of 'free speech.' In a nice little show of 'regulations for thee, but not for me,' the administration...
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TL;DR: You can get Microsoft Office Professional 2021 and Windows 11 Pro for a one-time $39.97 (reg. $418.99), which is less than most people pay for a few months of software subscriptions. If your computer life currently depends on expired trials, browser tabs pretending to...
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. PorteuX is a Linux distribution based on Slackware Linux. The project has published a new version, PorteuX 2.5, which introduces Flatpak support and updates the available desktop editions. 'This release brings...
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Document database vendor MongoDB has advised customers to update immediately following the discovery of a flaw that could allow unauthenticated users to read uninitialized heap memory. Designated CVE-2025-14847, the bug, mismatched length fields in zlib compressed protocol...
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GitHub has disabled Rockchip's Media Process Platform repository after an FFmpeg developer filed a DMCA takedown notice, nearly two years after the open-source project first publicly accused the Chinese chipmaker of license violations. The notice, filed December 18, claims...
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The most popular desktop browser is festooned with Google AI, but you can make at least some of it go away Most of today’s desktop web browsers come with a ton of built-in AI features, but the good news is that, in most cases, no one is forcing you to use them, and you can ...
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Two years after generative AI was supposed to render India's $250 billion IT services industry obsolete, the sector is finding that enterprises still need someone to handle the unglamorous plumbing work that large-scale AI deployment demands. Less than 15% of organizations...
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While stock investors have pushed AI-related shares to repeated highs this year, debt markets are telling a more cautious story as newer AI infrastructure companies find themselves paying significantly elevated interest rates to borrow money. Applied Digital, a data center...
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Practice makes perfect It's the most wonderful time of the year … for corporate security bosses to run tabletop exercises, simulating a hypothetical cyberattack or other emergency, running through incident processes, and practicing responses to ensure preparedness if when...
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While America's largest corporations are riding a wave of surging profits and AI-fueled stock market enthusiasm to record highs, small businesses across the country are cutting staff and scaling back operations as years of high inflation, cautious consumers and tariff...
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TL;DR: Get lifetime access to 1ForAll AI (Advance Plan) for $89.99 (reg. $792) while turning text, spreadsheets, PDFs, and prompts into professional voiceovers, images, and videos. Creating voiceovers, images, and short videos often means bouncing between tools and pricing...
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