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Tuesday October 14, 2025. 07:10 PM
President Trump's whiplash reversal on China tariffs may have less to do with geopolitics and more to do with his cryptocurrency portfolio, says economist Paul Krugman. On Friday, Trump threatened China with 100 percent tariffs, calling their rare earth export controls a...
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To the slop trough, kiddos! Not content to shove Copilot into every corner of the enterprise it can think of, Microsoft has announced plans to force feed AI to students across its home state of Washington. …
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The 6.18 merge window has come to an end, bringing with it a total of 11,974 non-merge commits, 3,499 of which came in after LWN's first-half summary. The total is a little higher than the 6.17 merge window, which saw 11,404 non-merge commits. There are once again a good...
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Noted violent slaver, spreader of disease, and forced conversions to Christianity, Christopher Columbus's flagship, the Santa Maria, was reproduced as a replica in 1987. It sank off the coast of Puerto Vallarta last Friday. In other Columbus Day News:  A replica of...
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The US vaccination rate for the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine has dropped steadily for the past five years, resulting in the worst year for measles since the disease was declared 'eliminated.' There are measles cases in the US every year, often introduced via...
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Cody Allen Balmer, 38, will spend 25 to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to attempting to murder Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro in an April arson attack. Newly released surveillance footage shows Balmer scaling the fence of the Harrisburg governor's mansion, breaking ...
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Crims turned trusted mapping software into a hideout - no traditional malware required A Chinese state-backed cybergang known as Flax Typhoon spent more than a year burrowing inside an ArcGIS server, quietly turning the trusted mapping software into a covert backdoor.…
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Zorin OS distribution has a new update and a new look. Zorin OS 18 features new themes, new layouts, OneDrive integration, and includes a Web Apps tool to integrate web-based software into the desktop....
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Researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Maryland have found that roughly half of geostationary satellite signals transmit sensitive data without encryption. The team spent three years using an $800 satellite receiver on a university rooftop in San Diego to...
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Trump took to Truth Social to blast Time magazine's latest cover photo, calling it 'may be the Worst of All Time.' The complaint came as he returned from the Middle East, where he brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that freed Israeli hostages. — Read the rest The...
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It looks like fabric, feels like metal, and is as light as rubber. Meet the Ming Polymesh—the 3D-printed bracelet breaking new ground in horology.
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An anonymous reader shares a report: China's expansion of its rare earth export controls appeared to mark another escalation in the US-China trade war last week. But the announcements were also significant in another way: unusually, the documents could not be opened using...
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OpenAI has announced “AI sovereignty' partnerships with governments around the world, but can proprietary models compete with Beijing’s open source offerings?
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These are the cutest, wildest construction workers I've ever seen. I'm talking about opossums, of course, one of my all time favorite animals, and the only marsupial native to North America. The Opossum Society of the United States explains that both male and female...
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson claims to be an upstanding Christian 'warrior' of the faith, but his actions suggest otherwise. Here MAGA Mike stands by as DHS agents shoot priests in the head with pepperballs, yet he is working hard to get Donald Trump his coveted Nobel...
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Michael J. Fox recalls his first night filming Back to the Future, stumbling through a scene in a rubber radiation suit, barely able to see through his fogged-up visor. 'All I could think about: Is this really my acting debut in this movie? — Read the rest The post Michael...
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The protests in Portland featuring Frog and all of their inflatable pals are giving me life! In that same vein, I've also been loving the hilarious trolling that musical comedian, artist, and film producer Roy Potylo, aka Robby Roadsteamer, has been bringing to ICE protests...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: After acquiring GitHub in 2018, Microsoft mostly let the developer platform run autonomously. But in recent months, that's changed. With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke leaving the company this August, and GitHub being folded more deeply into...
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ICE agents are not known to be truth tellers, so it seems unlikely these four US citizens were actually doing wrong when ICE detained and abused them in Forest Park, Illinois. ICE was arresting someone and seemed to have incidentally also nabbed some citizens just doing...
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The protests in Portland continue. Costumes are available for folks who'd like to try them on, and the only aggressors are ICE and some MAGA jerks trying to instigate. Mostly, Portland looks like fun! First thing you need to know is Portland is not burning, and the...
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