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Friday November 21, 2025. 03:59 PM
If America's trains are often the butt of jokes, Amtrak is laughing today: the national rail company is enjoying record ridership and revenue, according to the latest quarterly numbers. Amtrak closed fiscal year (FY) 2025 (October 2024 – September 2025) with record...
Two 87-year-olds on Nevada's side of Lake Tahoe had a scary encounter with a black bear. First, the bear got into their garage and scratched a gentleman. The bear then followed the man into the house and also scratched the home's co-owner. — Read the rest The post Perhaps...
Redesigned booster ruptures during early checks, delaying latest Starship iteration SpaceX has responded to Blue Origin's announcement of a heftier version of its New Glenn rocket in the only way it knows how – by accidentally destroying a Starship booster.…
Nathan Gill, the former leader of the Reform party in Wales, was today sentenced to 10 years and 6 months imprisonment after accepting bribes from Russia. Gill, 52, was paid thousands of pounds to make Putin-friendly speeches in the European Parliament, where he served from...
Put a known science-denying anti-vaxxer in charge of the CDC, and surprise, you get a CDC that talks like an anti-vaxxer. The agency just rewrote its vaccine guidance to suggest long-debunked autism links are still on the table. Why? Because RFK Jr really wants it to be...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (delve and golang), Debian (webkit2gtk), Oracle (expat and thunderbird), Red Hat (kernel), Slackware (openvpn), SUSE (chromium, grub2, and kernel), and Ubuntu (cups-filters, imagemagick, and libcupsfilters).
File sharing between smartphones has long been restricted by platform. The surprising news is that Google has figured out how to use AirDrop to exchange files both ways between its own Pixel Android devices, iPhones, and other Apple devices. “Sharing moments shouldn’t ...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told colleagues last month that Google's recent progress in AI could 'create some temporary economic headwinds for our company,' though he added that OpenAI would emerge ahead, The Information reports [non-paywalled source]. From the report: After...
We’re testing the gadgets that keep showing up in our feeds. Here's what deserves the hype—and would make awesome presents.
Fascist cosplay enthusiast Gregory Bovino rolled into Chicago with a federal badge, a tear gas stash, and apparently zero concern for reality. A judge just handed him a 233‑page roast calling him evasive, violent, and wildly dishonest, nearly incapable of telling the...
Mar-a-lago face is the face that Donald Trump likes, and getting the surgery is popular with MAGA women wanting to signal submission to him and conformity to the movement. Surgeons are 'wrestling' with these requests, a polite way of saying they don't want to turn people...
The Posha and the Thermomix TM7 are the closest things to a home robot chef that mere mortals can afford. The catch is that you’re the prep cook.
This statement by Karoline 'The Mouth of Moron' Leavitt once again demonstrates that she is clearly a horrible human being. Misogyny and boorishness probably do play a large part in Trump's re-election, but wow. Leavitt is the White House's chief interface with the press,...
An anonymous reader shares a report: 'In the 2024-2025 school year, homeschooling continued to grow across the United States, increasing at an average rate of 5.4%,' Angela Watson of the Johns Hopkins University School of Education's Homeschool Hub wrote earlier this month....
Prosecutors say front companies, falsified paperwork, and overseas drop points used to dodge US export rules Four people have been charged in the US with plotting to funnel restricted Nvidia AI chips into China, allegedly relying on shell firms, fake invoices, and covert...
Redmond dusts off Infocom's classic text adventures and puts the originals into public hands Microsoft developer boss Scott Hanselman saved the company's Ignite shindig this week by unveiling the source code for Zork I-III, all available under the MIT license.…
Storing credentials safely and securely is the real trick It's important to have your login in hand, literally. Zi Teng Wang, a magician who implanted an RFID chip in his appendage, has admitted losing access to it because he forgot the password.…
UK cops trace street-level crime to sanctions-busting networks tied to Moscow's war economy On Christmas Day 2024, a Russian-linked laundering network bought itself a very special present: a controlling stake in a Kyrgyzstan bank, later used to wash cybercrime profits and...
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...
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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