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Thursday December 18, 2025. 09:54 PM
Customers in 10 of the company’s 23 regions had “operations fail or take an extended amount of time to complete.” Snowflake pushed an update this week that caused a “major outage” worldwide, leaving many users unable to query data, experiencing failures when...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Deadline: YouTube has terminated two prominent channels that used artificial intelligence to create fake movie trailers, Deadline can reveal. The Google-owned video giant has switched off Screen Culture and KH Studio, which together...
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Evita Duffy-Alfonso, daughter of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, called the TSA 'unconstitutional' Thursday after airport security made her wait 15 minutes for a pat-down, and she nearly missed her flight. According to The Hill, Duffy-Alfonso, who is pregnant, requested ...
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Twenty-six House Republicans are demanding that Trump abandon his plan to reclassify marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III, which would put it in the same category as certain types of Tylenol and anabolic steroids. According to Fox News, Rep. — Read the rest The post...
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Federal prosecutors have coined a new term: fraud tourism. Two Philadelphia men allegedly traveled to Minneapolis after a friend told them Minnesota's social programs were easy money. They had no connection to the state or its Somali-American community, which previous...
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Study finds built-in browsers across gadgets often ship years out of date Web browsers for desktop and mobile devices tend to receive regular security updates, but that often isn't the case for those that reside within game consoles, televisions, e-readers, cars, and other...
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ICE signed a $636,500 contract with AI Solutions 87, a company registered to a residential address in West Bend, Wisconsin, to provide AI-powered skip tracing for the agency's deportation operations. According to 404 Media, the company's website says its AI agents 'deliver...
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Shortly after retaking office, Donald Trump fired every single member of the Kennedy Center's governing board and replaced them with cronies, administration staffers, and family-adjacent influencers. Then they made him chairman. Now they've voted to rename the building after ...
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Hackers breached approximately 120,000 IP cameras across South Korea and allegedly sold footage captured from private homes, gynecology offices, breastfeeding rooms and massage parlors to an overseas pornography website, prompting an interagency government task force to...
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Touted as an extremely fast Python type checker and language server, ty has moved to beta. Developers can install ty with uv tool install ty@latest, or via a Visual Studio Code extension. A stable release is eyed for 2026, according to ty steward Astral. Written in Rust,...
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If your favorite reader is the one left on your Christmas list, good news: Several Kindles and Kindle accessories are on sale right now for your last-minute shopping.
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Dan Bongino is out as the FBI's Deputy Director, a prestigious job the conspiracy theorist was always ill-suited for and plainly incapable of. He is going back to his show. In a post on X, he thanked President Donald Trump, as well as the director of the FBI and the US...
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This $100 Hallmark 'Christmas tree ornament' is absolutely ridiculous. I hate it and want it at the same time. The 'Star Wars: A New Hope™ 'Let the Wookiee™ Win' Ornament With Video, Light and Sound' meticulously detailed diorama depicts a classic scene from Episode IV...
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A plush AI toy marketed for children as young as three years old delivers detailed instructions on sharpening knives and lighting matches, and when asked about Chinese President Xi Jinping's resemblance to Winnie the Pooh -- a comparison censored in China -- responds that...
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Chinese scientists have shown that people with severe paralysis can now control machines using only their thoughts.  The breakthrough was announced this week by the Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) at...
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The agency plans to renew a sweeping cybersecurity contract that includes expanded employee monitoring as the government escalates leak investigations and casts internal dissent as a threat.
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New audio recordings obtained by the New York Times confirm what Trump has insisted for years did not happen: he directly pressured top Republican officials in Georgia to toss out the 2020 election results and hand him the win. In the tapes, Trump repeatedly tells the late...
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'Within 10 minutes of gaining initial access, crypto miners were operational' Your AWS account could be quietly running someone else's cryptominer. Cryptocurrency thieves are using stolen Amazon account credentials to mine for coins at the expense of AWS customers, abusing...
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Anthropic let its Claude AI run a vending machine in the Wall Street Journal newsroom for three weeks as part of an internal stress test called Project Vend, and the experiment ended in financial ruin after journalists systematically manipulated the bot into giving away its...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: OpenAI has held preliminary talks with some investors about raising funds at a valuation of around $750 billion, the Information reported on Wednesday. The ChatGPT maker could raise as much as $100 billion, the report said, citing people...
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