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Thursday September 18, 2025. 10:18 PM
Experts say the FCC commissioner's conduct—testing how far the agency can go to limit speech without ever quite formally censoring it—is flatly unconstitutional. That won't make it stop.
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The memes and online footprint of Charlie Kirk shooting suspect Tyler Robinson don't place him neatly in a box, though many are still trying.
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The Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general from seven states filed an 84-page lawsuit Thursday in federal court in California against Live Nation Entertainment and its Ticketmaster subsidiary. The suit alleges the companies knowingly allow ticket brokers to use...
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Today on Uncanny Valley, we talk about why the AI industry is investing in the development of humanoid robots, and what that means for us non-robots.
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Nvidia is investing $5 billion in Intel. The news comes after the US government took a roughly 10 percent equity stake in the struggling chipmaker.
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An anonymous reader shares a report: A software update rolling out to Samsung's Family Hub refrigerators in the US is putting ads on the fridges for the first time. The 'promotions and curated advertisements' are coming despite Samsung insisting to The Verge in April that it ...
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Intel will collaborate with Nvidia to design CPUs with Nvidia’s NVLink high-speed chip interconnect, it said Thursday — just months after committing to co-develop a competing interconnect, UALink, with AMD, Broadcom, and other tech companies. The two have also agreed to...
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FactCheck.org reviewed the viral quotes attributed to conspiracy theorist and white supremacist Charlie Kirk, finding that most are accurate and only a few are taken out of context. Suppose you were unfamiliar with the work of Charlie Kirk before he was murdered. — Read the...
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Sixth such Chrome flaw this year spotted by the Chocolate Factory, already in play Google pushed an emergency patch for a high-severity Chrome flaw, already under active exploitation. So it's time to make sure you're running the most recent version of the web browser.…
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Cambridge researcher Luke Kemp's new book, Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse, presents the case that past instances of societal collapse often benefited the 99%. After five years studying historical civilizational failures, Kemp makes a crucial...
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Chinese AI developer DeepSeek said it spent $294,000 on training its R1 model, much lower than figures reported for U.S. rivals, in a paper that is likely to reignite debate over Beijing's place in the race to develop artificial intelligence. Reuters: The rare update from...
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Tails 7.0 has just arrived, offering a refreshed version of the privacy-focused operating system built on Debian 13 “Trixie” and GNOME 48 “Bengaluru.” The OS is faster, core applications have been updated, and hardware support expanded, giving users who depend on...
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More than half of American women in their prime childbearing years have not had children, according to a new study from the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. The research shows that 52 percent of women aged 20-39 have not given birth as of...
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In another demonstration of fascism, the Orange Menace is designating 'antifa' and its non-existent 'funders' to be enemies of the state. Antifa (/ænˈtiːfə, ˈæntifə/) is a left-wing anti-fascist and anti-racist political movement in the United States. It...
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Aussie CEO promises AI everywhere, and clearer views of what your devs are up to Atlassian has continued its AI spending spree with a $1 billion takeover of developer analysis biz DX, a move it promised would give devs 'less friction and more flow.'…
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Inject this synthetic phage into E. coli and it kills better than the real thing A group of Stanford bioengineers claim that they've created synthetic bacteriophages using AI-generated designs that not only work in the real world, but are far more infectious than their...
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Amazon violated consumer protection law by gathering Prime subscribers' billing information before disclosing the service's terms, a judge ruled on Wednesday, handing the U.S. Federal Trade Commission a partial win. From a report: The ruling by U.S. District Judge John Chun...
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Google weaving Gemini further into the popular Chrome browser is an inflection point for AI in our software, although some users will still be looking for the “off” switch.
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Many animals have been known to consume fermented fruit, sometimes intentionally, and experience the psychoactive effects of alcohol. It turns out that chimpanzees, our closest living relative, consume the equivalent of almost one and a half alcoholic beverages a day via...
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Martin Goodman was the publisher of Marvel Comics from before it even was called Marvel Comics, in the1940s, until 1972. Stan Lee, Goodman's Editor-In-Chief, main writer, and co-creator of the Marvel Universe (and cousin of his wife), portrayed him in interviews as a...
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