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Thursday October 2, 2025. 07:04 PM
Software maker Kodex said its domain registrar fell for a fraudulent legal order A software platform used by law enforcement agencies and major tech companies to manage subpoenas and data requests went dark this week after attackers socially engineered AWS into freezing its...
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If you want cold brew, which I do not, here is the foremost coffee expert on YouTube's 'everything you need to know.' Hoffman discusses the taste of cold brew and how he hopes to fix the many issues with it. — Read the rest The post James Hoffman's guide to Cold Brew...
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The marketing campaign for the recently-announced twelfth edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary is a little… scary. While a dictionary technically can be considered a 'large language model', albeit not a very interactive one, it's fair to say no one had...
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Most people have an inkjet printer at home, and most of those people hate them. Manufacturers of inkjets (*cough* HP *cough*) have a habit of blocking the use of less expensive, third-party ink cartridges, even going so far as to require an internet connection to enforce the ...
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This week, New York Review Comics has re-published a long out-of-print book on cartooning by Mort Walker, The Lexicon of Comicana. Posted with the permission of New York Review Comics Mort Walker (1923-1918) was the creator of the daily newspaper comic strips 'Beetle Bailey' ...
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Close your eyes and have someone near you click play on this video. Keep your eyes shut. Listen carefully and tell me what you hear. Ok, you can open your eyes. You heard a spray bottle, like the kind you'd use to spray cleaning solution in your bathroom or kitchen, right? —...
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Americans' confidence in the mass media has edged down to a new low, with just 28% expressing a 'great deal' or 'fair amount' of trust in newspapers, television and radio to report the news fully, accurately and fairly, according to Gallup. From the report: This is down from ...
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Smithsonian warns that dismantling orbiter for relocation is history in the wrecking How would you move Space Shuttle Discovery from Virginia to Texas? The White House Office of Management and Budget asked NASA and the Smithsonian Institution and the response was to...
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Oakland's housing crunch has spawned the 'vigilante eviction.' Meet ASAP Squatter Removal, the sword-toting outfit utilizing the 'castle doctrine' and rapid move-ins to forcibly remove people desperate for housing. 'The average squatter,' says James Jacobs, 'has no melee...
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Convicted felon and liable for sexual assault, Donald Trump and his merry band of cronies didn't refuse to negotiate with Democrats over an insistence on providing undocumented people emergency health services; they did it to advance their plan to remake the United States of ...
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A hacking group claims to have pulled data from a GitLab instance connected to Red Hat's consulting business, scooping up 570 GB of compressed data from 28,000 customers. From a report: The hack was first reported by BleepingComputer and has been confirmed by Red Hat itself. ...
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The Global Sumud Flotilla, a fleet of forty-five vessels carrying much-needed food and humanitarian supplies to Gaza, was stopped by Israeli armed forces. No aid made it through, and all the peaceful activists on board the ships have been taken hostage. — Read the rest The p...
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Replies are slow and it's prone to gibberish – just like any other AI Never mind Doom running on a potato, or whatever – the next generation of ridiculous computing belongs to Minecraft YouTuber Sammyuri, who built a working chatbot in the perennially popular voxel...
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Tech companies are struggling to fill AI-specialized roles despite a surplus of available tech talent. U.S. colleges more than doubled the number of computer science degrees awarded between 2013 and 2022. Major layoffs at Google, Meta, and Amazon flooded the job market. The...
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A Ukrainian infantry brigade on the front lines at Kharkiv adopted a friendly stray ginger cat and named him Prapor, which means 'flag.' The soldiers of the renowned all-volunteer 13th Khartia Brigade enjoyed the cat's company for months, and he was considered part of the...
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In an interview on CNBC's 'Squawk on the Street' promoting his new reality show 'On Brand,' Jimmy Fallon said that his plan on 'The Tonight Show' is to 'keep my head down and make sure the jokes are funny.' He said that his show 'has never really been that political.' — Read...
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Duo pledge memory for Stargate to the tune of 900k DRAM wafer starts a month OpenAI has persuaded two of South Korea's chip titans to fuel its bid to build the biggest AI engine yet.…
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Yesterday, September 29, was National Coffee Day, a day to celebrate that exquisite, delicious, dark brown elixir. To mark the occasion, two awesome New Orleans companies have come together to create a scrumptious treat that infuses the yummy flavors of New Orleans-style...
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TL;DR: This Mini 4G Dual SIM Smartphone can consolidate your work and personal numbers into a compact Android-based device for just $59.97 (reg. $119.99), making it perfect for travel or a starter phone for kids. Sometimes, you need two phones for work, personal use, or to...
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The Chinese government unveiled a program to woo foreign talent just as the US cracked down on H-1Bs with a $100,000 fee. The move immediately provoked xenophobic backlash.
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