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Sunday December 7, 2025. 11:07 PM
UPDATE (12/7): The New York Times clarifies today that the damage at Chernobyl hasn't led to a rise in radiation levels: 'If there was to be some event inside the shelter that would release radioactive materials into the space inside the New Safe Confinement, because this...
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A hardware security response from ChatGPT ended with 'Shop for home and groceries. Connect Target.' But 'There are no live tests for ads' on ChatGPT, insists Nick Turley, OpenAI's head of ChatGPT. Posting on X.com, he said 'any screenshots you've seen are either not real or...
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Some of you may be aware of rePalm, a project by Dmitry Grinberg to port the PalmOS to various devices it was never supposed to run on. We covered rePalm back in 2019 and again in 2023. His latest project involved porting PalmOS to a set of digital toys that were never...
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As we reported in September, 'Reading Rainbow' has a wonderful new host, Mychal Threets, a former Solano County librarian and bookworm who grew up watching the beloved children's show with LeVar Burton as host. The show premiered again with Threets on October 4, 2025, after...
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The Game Awards hits us in less than a week, but apparently that's enough time for viral marketing. It started, as so many stories do nowadays, with a tweet: Geoff Keighley, TGA's master of ceremonies, posted a cryptic picture with an equally cryptic phrase. — Read the rest ...
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I want to give a big shout-out to Riley and Tipper, the furriest, longest-snouted, most slobbery staff any airport has ever been lucky enough to employ. Well, they're not technically employed since they're strictly volunteers, but they're incredibly helpful and have an...
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It runs locally, a free/open source home automation platform connecting all your devices together, regardless of brand. And GitHub's senior developer calls it 'one of the most active, culturally important, and technically demanding open source ecosystems on the planet,' with ...
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Move over, Bethesda. Nintendo has never been known as a DLC-happy company (at least until recently), but that reputation scarcely matches reality. Take the humble amiibo — plastic NFC-enabled figures that unlock new content in Nintendo games. Because they're physical...
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Pantone has announced its color of the year for 2026, and it is white. According to the description of the color in the announcement: PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer [is] a lofty white that serves as a symbol of calming influence in a society rediscovering the value of quiet...
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Grand Theft Auto Online's final major update looms on the horizon. It feels odd counting down the days for this absolute behemoth, which generated literal billions and put Rockstar's single-player plans a decade behind schedule. At least it'll go out with a bang before its...
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I genuinely can't think of an adaptation that's elevated its source material as much as The Boys. Garth Ennis' original comic was essentially edgy, shock-value schlock stemming from its writer's mean-spirited dislike for the superhero genre, daring to ask such bold,...
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I love fresh bread. Many Americans would be puzzled by this assertion, but I think bread is best when it's fresh out of the oven, and it loses much of its amazing taste and texture mere minutes and hours after it's cooled. — Read the rest The post Can you really "one weird...
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The CuerdOS team has released version 2.0 of its Debian-based operating system, upgrading its base to Debian 13 'Trixie' in the process. The new version includes the 6.12 Linux kernel and switches the default...
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This video of Mzimu the okapi, who lives at London Zoo, is bound to bring you joy today! More specifically, it's a video of Mzimu's long prehensile tongue, from the point of view of the kibble that's being grasped by that very same tongue. — Read the rest The post Watch as...
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Do you remember Iron Lung? No, not the horrific medical devices—Iron Lung, the 2022 indie horror game where you're stuck in a decaying submarine under an ocean of human blood. Cozy, right? Despite its shoestring budget and low-poly look (or maybe because of them), Iron...
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It's always refreshing when a creator you like takes a big swing and nails it. SNL alum and I Think You Should Leave creator Tim Robinson has lived and flourished in 4-minute sketches for years, which made some worry when he announced a longer-form project. — Read the rest ...
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'People in their teens and early 20s are increasingly turning to old school tech,' reports the BBC, 'in a bid to unplug from the online world.' Amazon UK told BBC Scotland News that retro-themed products surged in popularity during its Black Friday event, with portable vinyl ...
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The Trump administration really, really wants to indict James Comey again. A federal judge just made that harder. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly on Saturday temporarily blocked the Justice Department from using a crucial trove of evidence in its pursuit of new charges against...
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Why does Netflix want to buy Warner Bros, asks the chief film critic at the long-running motion-picture magazine Variety. 'It is hard, at this moment, to resist the suspicion that the ultimate reason... is to eliminate the competition.' [Warner Bros. is] one of the only...
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