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Thursday November 13, 2025. 05:05 PM
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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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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The goal of 'oxidizing' the Linux distro hits another bump Two vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 25.10's new 'sudo-rs' command have been found, disclosed, and fixed in short order.…
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JD Vance has decided that ibuprofen is a cultural crossroads, declaring common pain relief beneath him. Much like experts, science, and books, the Vice President finds Advil 'useless.' In a peculiar demonstration of stoicism, Vance says he will not take it for a sore back,...
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The Smart Light Database tracks the options and makes it easy to sort products by wattage, color rendering index, temperature, brightness and other factors of aesthetic, thereapeutic or professional relevance. It was recently updated to include lightbulbs. Also reviewed are...
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I'm thoroughly enjoying this story of the unusual but heartwarming relationship a man has developed with a tiny jumping spider named Earl. Lucky for us, the human in this unlikely pair, Ben Newell, who runs Worcester Terrariums, has documented it all and posted it online...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: France has lifted its travel ban on Telegram founder Pavel Durov, who is under investigation over illegal content on his messaging app, judicial sources close to the case said Thursday. The entrepreneur, 41, was detained in Paris in 2024...
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Only a few months ago, Google announced it was going to require that all Android applications – even those installed outside of the Play Store – had to be verified. This led to a massive backlash, and it seems our protests and complaints have had effect: the company...
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Ever ran into issues using sysupgrade on OpenBSD because /usr ran out of space? OpenBSD developers are trying to address this issue. Firstly, Stuart Henderson (sthen@) modified the installer to increase free space prior to installing. […] Theo de Raadt...
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Valve announced a few new devices yesterday. There’s a new Steam console, which is essentially just a tiny PC with SteamOS installed – think of it as a Steam Deck without a display. Second, Valve finally released a new Steam Controller to go with the Steam console, which has...
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Ancient buildings and old bones aren’t getting in the way of the transition.
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Third-party framework builds alternative backend using its own renderer and WebAssembly Microsoft's MAUI (Multi-platform App UI), the official.NET solution for cross-platform desktop and mobile apps, will get Linux and browser support via Avalonia, a third-party framework.…
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New research from the Zimperium zLabs team reveals a sharp rise in mobile threats tied to the holiday shopping season. The report shows that mishing (mobile phishing) remains the most widespread and effective mobile attack vector. Smishing messages and fake delivery alerts...
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Lack of executive backing, unrealistic plans, and muddled goals remain recipe for failure In Barcelona this week, consultancy Gartner once again tried to answer one of the perennial questions in IT: what is it about ERP projects that makes them so likely to fail?…
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In 1865, a blue whale washed ashore in Askin Bay near Göteborg, Sweden. The whale wasn't rescued—instead, August Wilhelm Malm, a taxidermist and curator at the Gothenburg Museum, purchased it for preservation and display. Today, this remains the world's only taxidermied...
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Many distributions provide support out of the proverbial box for Flatpak packages, but Fedora is unusual in that it also provides, and defaults, to its own repository of Fedora-built Flatpaks. This has been a source of confusion for Fedora users, who expect to get the...
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Bezos booster blasted by solar emissions A blast from the Sun kept Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket on the pad as the Northern Lights forced NASA to halt the launch.…
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The Senate has criminalized an industry that it legalized seven years ago. Buried in last week's government funding bill was language that will shut down America's $2.8 billion hemp market and eliminate over 300,000 jobs. A quirk in the 2018 Farm Bill allowed manufacturers...
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It doesn't look or feel quite like a OnePlus phone, but with battery life like this, who cares?
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