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Thursday November 13, 2025. 07:43 PM
The SUSE Security Team has published an in-depth article on its findings after reviewing a D-Bus service contained in LightDM Greeter by KDE (the lightdm-kde-greeter package) for addition to openSUSE Tumbleweed. The team found a privilege escalation from the lightdm service...
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LAPD just got told to stop stapling scare notes to its complaint forms like an ACAB-themed greeting card. California's highest court said the warning did nothing but spook people who already risk enough by reporting bad policing. According to CalMatters, the court found...
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Version 145 of the Thunderbird email client has been released. Notable changes in this release include enabling DNS over HTTPS, support for Microsoft Exchange via Exchange Web Services, and quite a few bug fixes. As of 145, the project is no longer shipping 32-bit binaries...
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Lawmakers warn of ‘information gap’ lets immigration agents sidestep states’ data safeguards Democratic lawmakers say some states that don't want to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may be unintentionally allowing the agency access to residents' driver...
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Mozilla announced on Thursday that it is building an AI Window for Firefox, a new opt-in browsing mode that will let users interact with an AI assistant and chatbot. The feature will become one of three browsing experiences in Firefox alongside the existing classic and...
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Militia leader Stewart Rhodes, who was convicted for his role in the January 6 attack, is asking potential new members and supporters to send money. Former allies are unconvinced.
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BrianFagioli writes: Popular privacy firm Proton is floating a plan on Reddit that should unsettle anyone who values privacy, writes Nerds.xyz. The company is considering recycling abandoned email addresses that were originally created by bots a decade ago. These addresses...
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As I discussed in my review of Elden Ring: Nightreign, this game breaks many From Software traditions, and not always to its benefit. The combination of a strict time limit, roguelite structure, and an emphasis on first-time perfection over trial and error sets it apart...
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Verizon is planning to cut roughly 15,000 jobs, looking to reduce costs as it contends with increased competition for wireless service and home internet, according to WSJ, which cites people familiar with the matter. From the report: The cuts, the largest ever for the...
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Israel says settler gangs need to quit setting villages on fire, which is strange as the gangs take their cues from the folks now pretending to clutch pearls. Even the president popped up to say the chaos crosses a red line, which must be somewhere behind all the torched...
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Under a third of PoCs make it past testing, but those that do often boost productivity It is the best of AI times; it is the worst of AI times, depending on whom you ask. Nearly a third of firms are seeing almost total failure of their AI proof-of-concept (PoC) projects,...
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Two weeks after launch, ARC Raiders, one of the best new video games of 2025, has released a major update including new content, XP balancing, and refunding credits to players for overpriced cosmetic items. ARC Raiders is as much a social experiment as it is an extraction...
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At Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas, most female inmates carefully ration their two weekly rolls of toilet paper, sometimes spending $2.25 each for extra Scott rolls from the commissary. But not Ghislaine Maxwell. The convicted sex trafficker gets unlimited toilet paper...
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We always knew the siege of Sarajevo was hell. We did not know there might have been rich a**hats flying in for the weekend to treat it like a hunting trip. Italian investigators are now digging into claims that gun tourists paid tens of thousands to sit in the hills and...
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Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian said he had serious doubts a decade ago about sharing the platform's data with Sam Altman. Ohanian recounted on the 'Brew Markets' podcast that between 2015 and 2016, Altman asked Reddit to let him 'aggressively scrape' the site's content....
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TL;DR: This deal is so good you'll want to ring the bell at City Hall. Get Microsoft Office 2024 Home & Business for Mac or PC for just $169.97 (reg. $249.99).  In a timeline where Zohran Mamdani can become mayor of New York City, anything is possible — and plenty of...
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Part PC, part console, all… cube. Apparently, we never left the GameCube era — at least according to Valve, which has announced new hardware in the wake of the immensely successful Steam Deck. There are three new offerings: the Steam Controller, because that old Xbox 360...
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Trump spent years swearing he barely knew Epstein, only for a fresh email dump to place him right in the living room with a victim, so much for the dog that did not bark. Turns out he was stroking it on the couch at his buddy Jeff's place. — Read the rest The post Years of...
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Coffee tastes better when brewed from freshly-ground beans, but coffee grinders tend to be bulky or expensive. Aeropress users should be thrilled by the company's own manual grinder, designed to fit inside the press itself when not in use, though it certainly tickles the...
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Springfield is now a playable map in Fortnite, Simpsons style, and shockingly, the Ned Flanders NPC is racking up an impressive body count. Fortnite's Simpsons update has taken a bizarre turn as Ned Flanders becomes the game's most unlikely killing machine. — Read the...
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