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Why you should never point a laser pointer at a security camera
Laser pointers are known to damage security cameras, but do they really? Here's what damage can actually be done.
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Keep your projects organized with Microsoft Project 2024 for $39.97
TL;DR: Get a lifetime license to Microsoft Project Professional 2024 for Windows for $39.97 (reg. $1,129.99), with Gantt charts, scheduling tools, and built-in reports. ...
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U.S. Resumes Intelligence-sharing With Ukraine After Pause, Zelenskyy Says
The United States has resumed providing Ukraine critical intelligence to help it defend against Russian missile strikes.
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Photographer Attacked By Settlers In The West Bank Feels Insulted By Netanyahu
Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine says she's angry that Israel's military seems to protect settlers more than those under threat.
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Larry David Mocks the D.S.A. Some Are Not Amused.
The comedian satirized the Democratic Socialists of America, its platform and its opposition to Israel in an essay that some did not LOL at.
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Trump Defends Plans to Ease Russia Sanctions and Hints at a Hostage Deal
The president on Sunday justified his reversal of almost five years of sanctions against Russia as part of peace negotiations. He did not name any hostage.
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Trump Gives Benjamin Netanyahu The Endorsement He's Been Waiting For
Israelis will go to the polls on Oct. 27, in the first national elections since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
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Neighborhood ‘Karen’ Complains About Dad’s Epic Halloween Display, Then The Whole Community Gets Involved
Nate Taylor spent years building a Halloween wonderland in his front yard, complete with towering animatronics, sound effects, and even a fog system. His labor of love, which began with humble...
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France's Macron Vows To Hold Accountable Those Who 'Sought To Bring Down The Republic'
“Those who looted will have to pay back for the damage, and those who sought to bring down the Republic will be held accountable,” the French president said.
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8 Women Who Became Instant Stars After Cameras Caught Them In The Stands At College Football Games
Football games are known for their nail-biting finishes, passionate fans, and unforgettable moments that keep viewers glued to their screens. But sometimes, the spotlight shifts from the players on the...
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Key Players in the O.J. Simpson Trial
More than 30 years later, the people involved in what became known as the “trial of the century” are still household names.
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Engineer was so sick of office pranks, he 'wiped' his antagonist's disk
Monday mornings are no joke, so The Register always tries to lighten them up with a new installment of "Who, Me?" – our reader-contributed column that shares your stories of workplace japes,...
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The Frenzy Behind Getting an Initiative on the California Ballot
An army of signature gatherers made plenty of cash hitting the streets to qualify various November initiatives.
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump approval falls to record low of 31% as midterms near, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds - Reuters
EXCLUSIVE: Trump approval falls to record low of 31% as midterms near, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds ReutersPoll: Americans are anxious, pessimistic and deeply unhappy with Trump ahead of the midterms NBC...
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Germany's Merz urges AI investment ahead of Nvidia deal - Reuters
Germany's Merz urges AI investment ahead of Nvidia deal ReutersGermany Wants to Lead the World in Industrial AI: How NVIDIA Will Help NVIDIA BlogSiemens targets up to 80% factory automation with...
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Trump signs order creating NIH division, task force for women's health - Reuters
Trump signs order creating NIH division, task force for women's health ReutersSee more headlines & perspectives on Google News
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Oil Futures Pull Back as U.S. Waives Some Russia Sanctions - WSJ
Oil Futures Pull Back as U.S. Waives Some Russia Sanctions WSJTrump’s Overtures to Putin Put Republican Candidates in Hot Seat WSJJohnson says he warned White House of ‘unintended consequences’...
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Apple Starts Moving Up iPhone Duo Delivery Dates - MacRumors
Apple Starts Moving Up iPhone Duo Delivery Dates MacRumorsiPhone Duo vs iPhone 18 Pro: Here’s every key difference 9to5MacApple's iPhone Duo Demand Tracking 'Solidly Out Of The Gate',...
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Dan Patrick: Colts will explore hiring Peyton Manning as G.M. - NBC Sports
Dan Patrick: Colts will explore hiring Peyton Manning as G.M. NBC SportsColts fire GM Chris Ballard after home loss to Titans, cite 'necessary' change ESPNAfter firing GM Chris Ballard, the...
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Over three dozen Congress members’ offices targeted with white powder envelopes - The Guardian
Over three dozen Congress members’ offices targeted with white powder envelopes The GuardianElection Offices in at Least 32 States Have Received Suspicious Letters WIREDFeds intercept ‘suspicious’...
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Judge tees off on DOJ official over Trump golf course - Politico
Judge tees off on DOJ official over Trump golf course PoliticoTrump Golf Course Dispute Sparks Clash Between Judge and DOJ The New York TimesWhat do DC golfers think about Trump’s plan for East...
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DoJ charges 28 green card holders in California over alleged voter fraud - The Guardian
DoJ charges 28 green card holders in California over alleged voter fraud The GuardianMidterm election live updates: The Trump administration’s voter roll fight with California escalates with a slew of...
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All The Best Deals At Walmart This Week
It's another week of fall savings with up to 63% off an electric space heater, a cozy fleece-lined throw blanket, and some fuzzy Halloween slippers.View Entire Post ›
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"Go Immediately After That": People Are Desperate Not To Miss A Second Of "You Can See Everything," So Here's The Exact Best Moment To Pee
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38 Gifts From Amazon Our Readers Are Loving In 2026
It’s the thought that counts, and there are some really GREAT thoughts ready to hop in your cart on this list.View Entire Post ›
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Being A Grown-Up Can Be A Doozy, Here Are 38 Products To Help
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"I've Never Been This Embarrassed In My Life": Sorry, Sorry, Sorry, But There's Simply No Way For Me To Stop Cackling At These 39 Hilarious Fails From Last Week
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"Donald Trump" Crashed "SNL UK," And Things Quickly Went Off The Rails
The president’s pleas didn’t get him very far.View Entire Post ›
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Just 35 Products You’ll Want To Grab For Your Fall Deep Clean
Your home will be sparkling before the leaves finish falling.View Entire Post ›
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Eric Dane's Memoir Reveals 1 Crucial Symptom Of His ALS That He Says He Initially Brushed Off
“Some kind of weird nerve thing, I think. I shake it off,” he wrote in his posthumous memoir.View Entire Post ›
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27 Cute Pant Options If You Want To Be More Than Just A Jeans And Leggings Type Of Person
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If You've Seen "You Can See Everything," These 35 Jokes Are Going To Be Very, Very Funny
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One Day You're Young And Carefree... And The Next You're Ordering The 29 Walmart Products From This List
For the grownup glow-up you didn’t know you needed.View Entire Post ›
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"A Slap In The Face": Kylie Jenner Leading The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Is Divisive For So Many Reasons, Including Her Sister Kendall
Kylie's jealousy over Kendall's modeling career is well documented. Who's jealous now?View Entire Post ›
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Building Lionesses 2.0 - Wiegman's new challenge awaits
England head coach Sarina Wiegman has changed women's football in the country, so what does she face after signing a contract extension?
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Palace manager Sage facing fight to keep his job
Crystal Palace boss Pierre Sage faces a fight to keep his job, but will be given more time.
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Ronaldo handed 30-day suspension by Portuguese FA
Cristiano Ronaldo is given a 30-day suspension by the Portuguese Football Federation after leaving his country's international camp last month.
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Ukrainians dying because US restricting intelligence sharing, Zelensky adviser tells BBC
Serhii Beskrestnov says there has not been enough time to warn people about incoming missile attacks. The White House said there had been no changes to intelligence sharing.
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US bans DeepSeek AI from government use as tech tension with China continues
DeepSeek is a powerful, popular and relatively inexpensive artificial intelligence model out of China.
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Uefa gives Infantino two-week deadline to release key documents
Uefa's letter contained 42 questions, covering Fifa's failed private investment proposals, its Peace Prize and the fallout from Folarin Balogun's World Cup red card.
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Leicester to visit Oxford City in FA Cup first round - see full draw
Leicester City will travel to National League North side Oxford City in the 2026-27 FA Cup first round - five years after winning the competition.
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Boland exposes South Africa's frailties to give Robinson blueprint
Australia expose South Africa's batting frailties again as Scott Boland takes four wickets to leave hosts in trouble in second Test.
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CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour to leave network after 43 years
The network's chief international anchor has covered wars including Rwanda, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Iran.
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Warning signs over threats to Australian politicians were rising before MP hit by car
The apparent attack on MP Helen Haines suggests the worst fears of politicians and public figures appear to have been realised.
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Araujo the stopgap solution fixing Liverpool's problems
Ronald Araujo has impressed since arriving at Liverpool from Barcelona. Could he prove a longer-term solution?
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Ex-OpenAI worker accused of planting device had Saudi support says court filing
The Saudi government did not immediately respond to BBC requests for comment.
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Houthi missile strike on Yemen camp kills 50 security recruits, local authorities say
Three missiles hit a camp in government-controlled Shabwa province that officials say was being used as a training centre for new recruits.
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Obama blasts federal probe of congresswoman Ilhan Omar as 'so appalling'
Obama says federal agents' search of the Democrat's home was an effort to intimidate a Trump critic.
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Joe Manchin to Campaign With Susan Collins in Maine Ahead of Midterm Elections
Former Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia said he told Senator Susan Collins, who is locked in a tough re-election fight, “Whenever you run again, I’m going to come.”
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Mahmoud Khalil Appeals to Supreme Court to Halt Deportation
Mr. Khalil had recently graduated from Columbia when he was arrested by ICE agents and became the face of the Trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
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Trump Rallies Red States Amid Fears About G.O.P. Voter Enthusiasm as Midterms Near
The president’s swing is taking him to states including South Carolina and Kansas that were not seen as competitive just a few months ago.
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DOJ Charges 28 California Residents With Voting-Related Crimes Amid Trump’s Voter Fraud Push
The effort by the Trump administration comes as it wages a broader fight with California officials over voter rolls.
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U.S. Citizen Hospitalized After Being Detained by ICE, His Family Says
The police in Long Beach, Calif., said they were called by ICE for backup and found a man who was bleeding and handcuffed.
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Visitor Killed by Roof Debris at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West
A 55-year-old rector from a university in Brazil was killed while on a walking tour of the famed architect’s winter home in Scottsdale, Ariz.
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Supreme Court Will Not Revive Plea Deal for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and 9/11 Defendants
The justices rejected a request from Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and two others accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks, clearing the way for a potential death penalty trial.
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Republicans Barely Mention Trump in Political Ads Ahead of the Midterms
Only a small fraction of recent G.O.P. broadcast and streaming ads mention the president, according to a Times analysis of ad data.
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Republicans Attack El-Sayed’s Faith. The Candidate’s New Ad Highlights It.
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign in Michigan released a new ad highlighting his faith, which Republicans have used to attack him in a tight Senate race.
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Supreme Court to Hear New Case on Race and School Admissions
The court’s decision to review an admissions policy for selective middle school programs in Maryland follows its rejection of affirmative action in higher education.
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Trump Says Work on Disputed Golf Course Will Begin Immediately
A federal judge has ordered tree cutting halted at the city course as she considers a lawsuit over the legality of the administration’s plans.
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Best Power Bank Deals: Laptops, MagSafe, and More
You can never have too many portable chargers, especially when they’re this discounted.
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OpenAI Engineer Accused of Spying on Executives Ordered to Remain in Custody
A judge ordered Abdulrahman Alfozan to remain in custody, likening the Saudi government’s offer to secure the former OpenAI engineer’s release to a “blank check.”
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The Best Mixbook Sale for Holiday Cards (2026)
Mixbook is the best card service I’ve tried, and the brand has multiple sales on holiday cards happening now.
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Election Offices in at Least 32 States Have Received Suspicious Letters
WIRED contacted officials in all 50 states and Washington, DC, to uncover the extent of a harassment campaign ahead of the midterms.
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Japan’s MMX Mission Wants to Bring Martian Moon Samples Back to Earth
JAXA is leading an international mission to reach Mars’ Phobos moon and bring soil back to Earth. If successful, it could unlock new clues about the history of the solar system.
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All-Clad Factory Seconds Sale: Cookware Deals for Fall Cooking
Upgrade your cold-weather cooking setup with discounted cookware for soups, stews, and roasts.
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WhatsApp Help Pages Leaked Hidden Instructions for a Meta Chatbot
Around 80 pages on WhatsApp’s website exposed instructions that were designed for its chatbot, including “WHAT NOT TO SAY.” Meta says a bug caused the issue.
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Nathan Fielder’s Surprise Call From Elizabeth Holmes: ‘I Trust You’
The codirector of “You Can See Everything” talks exclusively to WIRED about truth, lies, and Theranos.
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How the Xbox’s Disc-to-Digital Program Works
Microsoft is letting players digitize their game discs for free, but don't sell your physical collection just yet.
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Maricopa County, Arizona, Is Again Ground Zero of Election Conspiracy Theories
In 2020, Maricopa County became the epicenter for Trump’s claims the election was stolen. Six years, later the president and his allies are dusting off their “rigged” playbook ahead of the midterms.
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The Story of Billy Evans and ‘Theranos 2.0’
Elizabeth Holmes’ husband is a major figure in Nathan Fielder’s new documentary. But who is Billy Evans—and is he really working on a second blood-testing company?
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How Elizabeth Holmes Tricked WIRED—and Everyone Else
WIRED was the first magazine to cover Theranos and its enticing billionaire founder. There were warning signs even then.
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Insta360 Luna Ultra and Luna Pro Review (2026): Steady Does It
Insta360’s Luna Pro and Luna Ultra are the ideal cameras for solo filmmakers, content creators, and independent journalists.
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The Verge
Sony’s best noise-canceling earbuds are nearly $100 off today only
Sony’s WF-1000XM6 are on sale in black today only. | Image: Sony For a very limited time, Sony’s latest high-end noise-canceling earbuds are actually cheaper than their last-gen counterpart,...
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Apple teases MacBook Pro event next week
Apple has sent invites to a second product launch this month, and it's scheduled for October 28th at 1PM ET in Los Angeles. At the event, Apple is set to announce new Macs and a refreshed iPad...
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Amazon is funding a new nuclear plant in Indiana
It’ll be several years before the facility is complete, but this digital rendering gives us some idea of what it’ll look like. | Image: Amazon Amazon has signed an agreement with X-energy and...
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Apple’s last-gen Mac Mini with the M4 is $150 off
The front view of the Mac Mini. | Image: The Verge Best Buy has a great deal for the rest of the day on the M4 Mac Mini base model that has 16GB RAM and a 256GB SSD. Normally, it doesn’t make a...
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JB Pritzker thinks AI could help us live to 100 — or threaten us like nukes
Today, I’m talking with Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, who has a lot of thoughts about AI, tech, and privacy. If you’ve been listening to the show, you know that one of my running theories is...
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Major European mobile carriers are teaming up for a ‘direct’ satellite program without Starlink
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone signed a letter of intent saying they're considering a joint bid for spectrum that would support European direct-to-device satellite...
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Elon Musk promises to give one SpaceX share to every child in the US
Elon Musk says he plans to give one of his SpaceX shares to every child in the US starting next year. With around 72 million children in the US as of July 2025, Musk would be giving away about $10.5...
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It’s hard to imagine wireless headphones ever getting lighter than these
If you're on the hunt for lightweight wireless headphones but wearing earbuds or clip-ons never feels comfortable or secure, a relatively obscure Japanese headphone maker could have the...
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A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agents
A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own, according to findings from the AI security firm Norforge. Though Norforge doesn't name...
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Wyze moved the screen on its new smart scale to the handle so it’s easier to read at eye level
The scale features a conductive indium tin oxide (ITO) coated glass surface so it can take BIA measurements no matter where your feet are positioned. | Image: Wyze Wyze announced a new version of...
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Vibe coding is turning the music gear world upside down
They’re far more powerful and fun than their bargain price suggests. | Photo: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge If you spend any time on r/synthesizers or watch a lot of synth videos on YouTube,...
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Democrats think cracking down on AI could give them an edge
Democrats could win back control of Congress this November, and if they do, they'll need to decide how to approach one of the country's newest and thorniest political issues: AI. Polls...
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Apple reveals iPhone Duo battery size, screen hardness details
With the iPhone Duo launch imminent (and the device backordered until January), we're now getting concrete information from Apple regarding some specifications that were previously unconfirmed.Apple...
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Meta: Were sorry for banning No Kings Instagram account
Meta has issued a formal apology to the No Kings Coalition — the social justice movement behind historic protests — for shuttering its Instagram account during another nationwide demonstration this...
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Amazons 2026 Holiday Beauty Event is live, and here are the 20 best deals
The best deals from Amazon's Holiday Beauty Event: Best...
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People are using AI to make their smart TVs smarter
These days, turning on the TV means getting past everything it wants you to watch first. A sponsored banner here, a row of recommendations there, and an app you never asked for that keeps showing up when...
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Elizabeth Holmes prison sentence: When she might be released, latest case developments
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's new documentary, You Can See Everything, about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has hit theaters and it seemingly has everyone talking. Those who have seen it...
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How does the iPhone Duo’s battery compare to every iPhone since the iPhone 13?
Apple’s iPhone Duo ships Friday, Oct. 23, and it has one of the biggest batteries the company has ever put in an iPhone.The Duo packs a 4,883 mAh battery, according to data from GSMarena. That’s more...
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Google says Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without human help
Google claims its newest AI model, Gemini 4 Argon, just beat Minecraft — no human help required.In a research paper posted Oct. 15, Google DeepMind researchers said a team of four Gemini 4 Argon agents...
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The latest MacBook Pro OLED rumors: What we know about Apples upcoming touchscreen MacBooks
Apple recently invited journalists to a "Pro and Tell" event in Los Angeles, where we expect the company to officially unveil the first-ever touchscreen MacBook Pro OLED laptop (and a new iPad...
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Apple sets October Pro and Tell special event in Los Angeles: What we know so far
Rumors have been swirling for weeks about a late-October Apple hardware launch event, and on Monday, the company made it official. Apple will be hosting a "Pro and Tell" event on Thursday, Oct....
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Elon Musk says he’ll give every kid in America a SpaceX share in 2027
Will your child become a SpaceX shareholder? They will if Elon Musk lives up to his promise — something he doesn't have a very good track record of doing.Early Monday morning, in a post on his...
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Where to watch Nathan Fielders other shows, relevant to his Elizabeth Holmes documentary
Nathan Fielder is the name on everyone's lips right now.Alongside Primetimehelmer Lance Oppenheim, Fielder co-directed the buzzy documentary You Can See Everything, in which he moves in with Theranos...
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Amazon is taking its biggest shot at Nvidia yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool
Amazon wants to break Nvidia’s hold on PyTorch, the free toolkit used to build most AI apps, so that more developers run their apps on alternative chips like its own.
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Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts
OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that's become a popular alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. But hackers got into part of its online platform and stole some users’ API keys, and the AI...
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Tolan snags $30M for its AI companion that helps users navigate life
AI companion app Tolan has raised another $30 million after attracting more than 250,000 active users.
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Replika’s founder built the AI assistant she pitched at Disrupt 12 years ago
Eugenia Kuyda's newest startup Wabi is positioned to take advantage of an idea she had more than a decade ago. Wabi offers a personal AI assistant with a twist, free and downloadable to anyone today.
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Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips
After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent.
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AI assistant startup Town nabs unicorn valuation four months after launch
AI assistant startup Town nabbed a unicorn valuation on Monday, announcing a $108 million Series B round co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures.
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Rivian’s CEO says autonomy will enable ‘dramatically different’ vehicle designs
His vision will culminate with the R4 vehicle.
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Amazon to fund 12 small nuclear reactors at former Indiana coal plant
Amazon and X-energy have inked another deal to deploy nuclear power to the grid. This one will generate nearly 1 gigawatt of electricity.
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People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again
Fed up with ads, tracking and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take back control of their TVs.
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Nvidia launches new open models to run agents in the enterprise and on PCs
Nvidia is leaning hard into the trend of enterprise companies wanting to run their own open models in their own data centers and also trying to make on-device, private AI agents a thing.
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Apple updates guidelines to ban nudify apps masquerading as regular apps to pass review
Apple said that it will ban AI apps that don't moderate offensive content.
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Verizon Sets New iPhone Handoff Feature at $10, Double T-Mobile’s Price (and Still No AT&T In
Just in time for the iPhone Duo, Verizon joins T-Mobile in supporting Apple’s clever feature for quickly switching between two phones.
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Your Phone Can Now Spot Smart Glasses Faster Than
Amid broad privacy concerns, new apps such as Zuckoff help detect smart glasses in the wild.
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Japan Is Launching a Mission to Mars Moons and Plans to Bring Sampl
NASA contributed to this first-of-its-kind mission that may help us understand how our solar system formed.
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Apple Sends Invites Out for ‘Pro and Tell’ Special Event on
We could see new Macs and iPads at the event.
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NBA Arenas Get a Massive AT&T Network Upgrade to Boost Fan Expe
Exclusive: Basketball venues are facing increasing broadcaster and fan demands, so the NBA, WNBA and AT&T are upgrading arenas with all-new communications equipment.
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Scientists Find a ‘Ghostly Green’ Star, and That’s Not the Only Craz
White dwarf stars, it turns out, come in a variety of hues. Says one astronomer: “Some of them genuinely surprised me.”
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Voicemod’s New Phone Gadget Changes Your ‘Sonic Identity’ for Mobile Games and St
Clip it to the back of your phone, and it’ll convert your voice on the fly for fun, privacy and accessibility.
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Texas Says It’s Fixed a Glitch That Delayed Nearly 600,000 Voter Regist
Programming issues and software updates have been blamed for delays in getting hundreds of thousands of people registered to vote.
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Disneyland and Disney World: New Lands, Rides and Areas in 2026 and
Monstropolis, Villains Land, Piston Peak, Avengers rides, Indiana Jones and more. Here are all the details.
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Yes, You’re Probably Paying More for Phone Service. Here’s Where Your Money I
T-Mobile just raised a mandatory fee again, but it’s not the only carrier taking small bites out of your wallet.
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You can get a word processor, a spreadsheet program and more for free with LibreOffice.
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Porch security is the best, easiest safety project for anyone new to smart homes.
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Here's how we would build out the perfect modular electric Slate truck
A Bronco for the modern age.
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We might finally know what's written on that mysterious plaque in Super Mario 64
The plaque's message has haunted the internet for 30 years.
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Is paid antivirus actually a waste of money for your PC in 2026?
Subscribing to an antivirus suite kept you safe a long time ago, but they're much less useful for most people today.
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Homeland Security bans DeepSeek use in federal civilian agencies
The decision comes a couple of days after the release of Deepseek's latest AI model.
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At what distance does a video doorbell stop detecting motion?
Your video doorbell might see a visitor without sending an alert. Detection depends on more than distance, and some surprising factors can affect its reach.
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Fiber vs. cable internet: What's the difference between them?
Fiber internet is more modern than cable, but the older technology still works well for today's connection needs.
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Apple is set to hold another product event on October 28
Apple's "Pro and Tell" event is taking place in Los Angeles and will likely feature the first touchscreen Mac.
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Why your USB device keeps disconnecting (and how to fix it)
If your USB peripheral is on the fritz, it's worth doing some troubleshooting with the port itself. Give these steps a try.
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TP-Link moves to assemble routers in the US following an import ban
Routers could start rolling off a Missouri production line as soon as early 2027.
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Don't throw away your old USB charging cables — Repurpose them instead
The charger from your three-generations-ago phone can still be useful. Here are several ways to use old cables, both indoors and out.
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One of the rarest GameCube consoles sells for thousands of dollars today
While the GameCube came in several colors, a few of the most elusive variations command thousands from game collectors.
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What the orange light on your PlayStation 5 is actually telling you
The PS5 shows a variety of light colors to indicate its status, and orange thankfully isn't the alert you might expect from that color.
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Don't throw away your old graphics card — here's what you can do with it
An old GPU has lots of potential for a second life, from adding more horsepower to your current machine to crafting a purpose-built second one.
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6 unexpected uses for your old PlayStation 3
The PlayStation 3 arrived in 2006 and shouldn't have any right finding a place in a modern media center. Here's a number of reasons why it should make a return.
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Grocery giant Ahold Delhaize confirms cyberattack forced US and European systems offline
Dutch grocery giant Ahold Delhaize, which operates US supermarket chains Food Lion, Giant Food, and Stop & Shop, said it proactively took IT systems offline following a cyberattack, affecting most of...
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Amazon makes vague commitment to unproven nuclear tech to power Indiana datacenters
To feed its Indiana datacenters with plenty of juice, Amazon is funding the development of a new nuclear facility that will provide nearly 1 gigawatt of power. However, we'll have to see if this...
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Maxwell gives sub-optimal code a runtime glow-up
It may not be enough to just use LLMs to write your code when you can also use them to adjust it while your program runs. DoubleAI, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based startup founded in 2023, on Monday introduced...
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Security patches need patches now that attackers have AI
Updating your software only gets you so far. A scary scenario - security fixes themselves being bypassed - is becoming more common, according to AI penetration-testing startup Terra Security, which found...
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Write bot-resistant code with KillSwitch, a programming language designed to confuse LLMs
If you want to keep bots from making sense of the code you worked so hard on and using it to write programs of their own, there's a new programming language out there designed to confuse LLMs. What...
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Europe’s cloud sovereignty rules could do more harm than good
Europe’s drive for cloud sovereignty is leading to member states favoring providers from their own nation instead of building a Europe-wide cloud services market, according to a report critical of the...
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Red Hat helps teach about tech writing
In Brno in Czechia, Red Hat’s large local office has been helping the city’s Masaryk University to teach future technical writers. Whenever someone tries to teach, though, they learn as well. At the...
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Uber dodges £340M cabbie lawsuit after drivers miss legal deadline
Uber has dodged a £340 million lawsuit brought by thousands of London black cab drivers after a High Court judge ruled that they'd left it too late to sue. Monday's ruling kills off two claims...
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SAP's Signavio hit with function injunction in Germany
A German court has issued an injunction banning SAP from providing certain features of its Signavio product, following a legal challenge from process mining biz Celonis. The ruling only applies to...
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Admin: 'I spent all weekend on my servers' after Microsoft breaks Exchange Server with October updates
Microsoft has acknowledged that the October 2026 Windows Server updates may be destabilizing Exchange Server. The problems are related to this list of Windows Server updates (see here) and Microsoft makes...
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Microsoft abandons UK AI supercomputer as grid struggles to keep up
Microsoft has reportedly pulled out of plans for Britain's largest AI supercomputer, because the government-backed project is facing the rather inconvenient problem of having no electricity to run...
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Broadcom Wi-Fi bug turns sweet 16, still lets strangers hijack your router
A 16-year-old security flaw in Broadcom's Wi-Fi software could let attackers hijack millions of routers without knowing the network password, even though the chipmaker reportedly knew about the...
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Dr Garry Hunt talks to us about the astonishing Voyager probes
It's been nearly half a century since the Voyager probes launched from Earth on a mission to explore the outer solar system, and they're still running. You can listen to the latest episode of...
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U.N. Food Agency Cuts Aid To 500,000 Palestinians In Gaza, Citing Funding Shortages
The WFP said it was reducing the number of recipients of its monthly assistance to 1.1 million people from 1.6 million.
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Australian Lawmaker Critically Injured In Car Attack, Police Say
The driver was arrested at the scene by a passerby. He will be interviewed in relation to the incident, police said.
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France Reels From Weekend Violence As Mayors Rebuke Government For Security Failings
The French president turned down his interior minister’s offer to resign, telling him instead to find a way “to put an end to the barricades and looting,” the Elysee said.
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U.S. Resumes Intelligence-sharing With Ukraine After Pause, Zelenskyy Says
The United States has resumed providing Ukraine critical intelligence to help it defend against Russian missile strikes.
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Photographer Attacked By Settlers In The West Bank Feels Insulted By Netanyahu
Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine says she's angry that Israel's military seems to protect settlers more than those under threat.
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Trump Gives Benjamin Netanyahu The Endorsement He's Been Waiting For
Israelis will go to the polls on Oct. 27, in the first national elections since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
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France's Macron Vows To Hold Accountable Those Who 'Sought To Bring Down The Republic'
“Those who looted will have to pay back for the damage, and those who sought to bring down the Republic will be held accountable,” the French president said.
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Canada's Defense Minister Says There Are Fatalities And Injuries Following An Incident At A Military Base In Alberta
Canada's defense minister says there are fatalities and injuries following an incident at a military base in Alberta.
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Clashes, Fires And Looting Break Out As Protesters Rally Across France, Joining Students
Violent clashes, fires, and looting have marred demonstrations across France as hundreds of thousands protest rising living costs and poor school conditions.
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Hurricane Trudy Approaches Mexico Coast As Typhoon Champi Threatens Guam
A hurricane warning was in effect from Manzanillo in Colima state to Cabo Corrientes in Jalisco.
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Zelenskyy Urges Support For New U.S. Sanctions On Russia After Trump Puts Them On Hold
Russian attacks overnight killed at least four people, including an ambulance driver, and wounded dozens, officials said.
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Modal says Nvidia’s Vera CPU doubles throughput for its AI sandboxes
Modal plans to run its Sandboxes product on Nvidia’s Arm-based Vera CPU, its first step away from x86 chips. In Modal’s own tests, Vera handled up to twice as many tasks as an Intel server when packed...
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Vingroup’s Green SM brings 500 VinFast EV taxis to Los Angeles
Green SM, a ride-hailing firm owned by Vietnam’s Vingroup, has launched an all-electric taxi service in Los Angeles. It starts with 500 VinFast VF 8 SUVs and full-time drivers. The US is its ninth...
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Monday.com launches Harmony, a voice AI platform for sales calls
Monday.com has launched Harmony, a voice AI platform that calls, qualifies and follows up on sales leads, then hands them to human reps. It uses small, task-specific AI models and claims replies in about...
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Four European carriers to explore a joint bid for satellite spectrum
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone have signed a letter of intent to explore a joint bid for satellite spectrum in Europe. The four companies announced it on Monday in a joint release. The...
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Apple sets 28 October event, expected to bring its first touchscreen Mac
Apple has confirmed a “Pro and tell” event in Los Angeles on 28 October. Bloomberg reports it will show its first touchscreen MacBook Pro with an OLED screen, an entry-level M6 MacBook Pro, a new iMac...
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Amazon’s TorchNeuron lets PyTorch code run on AWS Trainium chips
Amazon has launched TorchNeuron, an open-source backend that lets PyTorch code run on its Trainium AI chips with a one-line change. It goes into public beta on 20 October under the Apache 2.0 licence and...
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A successful AI pilot doesn’t mean your AI strategy is working
Launching an AI pilot is relatively straightforward. But integrating it reliably and at scale into business operations is a far greater challenge. McKinsey’s global 2026 survey found that only 37% of...
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“Now they kiss my ass”: Trump says he called Google about the Gulf
Donald Trump described his call to Google to a crowd at Northern Kentucky University on Saturday. “I called Google, Google Maps. See, Google wouldn’t have taken my call in the first. Now they kiss my...
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SandboxAQ launches tools to test AI agents and track what they cost
SandboxAQ has added two products to its Switch AI platform. Switch Trust finds a company’s AI agents, tests them for attacks such as prompt injection, and blocks unsafe behaviour. Switch ROI tracks each...
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Nvidia reportedly wants all its HBM suppliers to use TSMC’s 3nm process
Samsung Electronics will make a core part of Nvidia’s custom memory chips on TSMC’s 3-nanometre process. The Seoul Economic Daily reported the move on Sunday, citing industry sources. It would be the...
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US orders civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek from their systems
The Department of Homeland Security has ordered US civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek products from their IT systems and stop buying them, under a 2018 supply chain security law. The order...
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Power To The Players Act would make the games you buy yours to own
Ritchie Torres, a Democratic congressman from New York, plans to bring a video game ownership bill to Congress. He announced the Power To The Players Act on 15 October. The bill would direct the Federal...
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More premium games hit the App Store this year than last, Apple says
Indie games make up many of the new premium games on the App Store, says Carson Oliver, Apple’s head of App Store Worldwide. More console and PC franchises are also coming to mobile, he said. In all,...
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Church Breaks Silence After Crucifix Falls On Priest During Live Mass As His Haunting Final Words Are Revealed
The church where Father Patricio Sánchez was struck by a falling crucifix has held a memorial service beneath the empty space it left on the wall. Sánchez lost his life during a livestreamed Mass in...
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Woman Breaks Silence After Sparking Viral Debate With Earring Trick To Stop A Man Invading Her Space On A Flight
Kadia Tubman, a news correspondent from Brooklyn, New York, went viral on October 16 after using her earring to keep a fellow passenger, identified as Otto, out of her personal space on a Delta...
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Crazy New Details Emerge About Sorority Scandal At America’s Top Party College
Last month, members of UC Santa Barbara’s Alpha Phi chapter accused a recruitment adviser of excluding women of color from the sorority’s fall intake. The adviser was removed after members confronted...
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Shopkeeper Goes Viral After Defending Store During The France Riots As Everyone Makes The Same Observation
Around 550,000 people took to the streets across France on October 17 over the rising cost of living and public school conditions, with demonstrations turning violent in several cities. As unrest...
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18 Darkly Funny Cartoons By Joe Mohr That Make You Laugh First And Wince Second
Joe Mohr’s cartoons often land in two stages: first comes the laugh, then the uneasy realization of what you just laughed at. The St. Louis-based cartoonist, illustrator and writer uses sarcasm and dark...
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8 Women Who Became Instant Stars After Cameras Caught Them In The Stands At College Football Games
Football games are known for their nail-biting finishes, passionate fans, and unforgettable moments that keep viewers glued to their screens. But sometimes, the spotlight shifts from the players on the...
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This Stained-Glass Expert Has Spent Decades Preserving Artworks That Are Centuries Old
Stained glass can transform ordinary sunlight into something extraordinary. But behind the vibrant colors and intricate designs lies incredible craftsmanship, patience, and dedication. Few people...
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Taylor Swift Branded Latest Victim Of “Mar-A-Lago Face” Over Surprise Transformation: “MAGA Face Combo Is Nasty”
Taylor Swift has become the latest celebrity to be linked to the internet’s controversial “MAGA face” trend. The 36-year-old singer looked like a fairytale princess on the red carpet at the sixth...
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Former Atheist Claims We Are In End Times And That The Devil Spoke To Him When He Was A Teen
Everybody knows that life-changing moments can’t be planned; they come about when you least expect them and then turn everything upside down. Such experiences can reinvent how folks see themselves and...
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Man Gets A Few Bites Of Chicken And Some Odd Sides For Lunch, His Wife’s Meal Plan Raises Eyebrows
Everyone has days when making lunch feels like just another task on a packed schedule. Sometimes, a quick sandwich or some leftovers are enough. Still, there’s a line between keeping it easy and serving...
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A 210-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur From Zimbabwe Reveals A Lost World Hidden In Southern Africa
Africa has always been a place where wildlife thrives, and its fossil beds hold the proof. They show how ancient animals evolved, spread across the continent and learned to live in very different...
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Put Your Global Knowledge To The Test With 24 Questions About The World’s Capital Cities
Do you really know your world capitals?
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Nach Hackerangriff: AfD-Daten im Netz – was die Partei jetzt einräumt | Berlin
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Steffi Grafs ikonische Antwort auf einen Heiratsantrag
Ich habe das Video gewählt, weil ich ein Foto langweilig fand. Der Grund, warum ich sie poste: Steffi Graf gelang 1988 im Alter von 19 Jahren das bis heute einmalige Kunststück, alle vier...
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Ihr finanziert einen Rechtsextremen und nennt es 'Technikvorsprung'
Jedes Mal, wenn ich jemanden frage, warum er sich 2026 noch einen Tesla kauft, kommt dieselbe Antwort: 'Musk ist halt schwierig, aber die Autos sind technisch einfach überlegen.' Nein. Sind sie...
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Ab welchem Alter würdet ihr als Jungfrau eine Prostituierte aufsuchen (wenn überhaupt)?
Ich fasse mich kurz, bin heute 27 geworden und nach wie vor Jungfrau. Hab jetzt 2 Jahre aktiv gedated und auch wenn ich einige Fortschritte gemacht habe, hat sich ultimativ nichts geändert. Beim Dating...
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„Wer nicht klar benennt, dass sich hier Linksextremisten und ein migrantisches Milieu zum gemeinsamen Kampf gegen das demokratische System auf der Straße treffen, hat die Situation nicht verstanden“ - Alexander Dobrindt über die Proteste in Frankreich
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Kinderlose Boomer im Umlagesystem: Null investiert, aber Vollkasko verlangen!
Ich kann das Dauer-Gejammer „Wir haben doch ein Leben lang eingezahlt!“ nicht mehr hören. Ja, herzlichen Glückwunsch, genau so funktioniert das Umlageverfahren. Was ihr aber komplett tottschweigt:...
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The lost oceans of Venus, many crashes, a new space telescope
Chinese food in orbit, hard-working robots, and lightning strikes a rising rocket. As the Earth's northern hemisphere moves through autumn, let's check in on humanity's exploration of...
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This Week in MetaFilter Operations
The candidacy period for the 2026 Board Elections runs through next Monday, a week from today. Please check out the candidates, and don't forget to register to vote! (Election day is Monday, November...
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The New Science of Stuttering
Experts are reaching consensus on what the condition is. Now they're debating how best to treat it. [NYT gift link]
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Police pursuit of emu just part of life of a country cop
Police pursuit of emu just part of life of a country cop. A video of a flightless bird being chased by a police officer down a road on the New South Wales Central Tablelands goes viral, with the local...
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A good day to remember
Shot and Chaser is an emotional webcomic about a photographer and a storm chaser during the covid19 pandemic (first 5 pages mildly nsfw). From E.K. Weaver, creator of the also-excellent TJ and Amal...
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"The last few years have seen an increasing interest in an analysis of the horrors that surround us, for a Marxism that can speak to the bleak, haunted nature of our present moment." Just in...
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Blundering Into Simulating The 'Clean Wehrmacht'
In a post on his blog, military historian Bret Devereaux discusses Hearts of Iron IV, Parodox's choices regarding Axis brutality and genocide, and how they wind up whitewashing the reality of such....
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Matrilines
From 2015 to 2017, the writer, critic and historian Kari Spelling wrote a column, Matrilines, for Strange Horizons, about women writers of fantasy. She started with Katherine Kurtz, writing "we are...
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Liberte, Egalite, Uh-Oh
France rocked by nationwide protests over cost of living. Over 2400 people arrested. Wikipedia: Since 18 September 2026, a series of demonstrations and blockades by lycée students has been taking place...
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It's my lunch hour, so I go / for a walk
I had taught them what Frank O'Hara had first taught me: poetry is not, as some may think, an arduous exercise in word choice and simile. Instead, it's a way of looking, of noticing details we...
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Give us this day our weekly free thread
"What is bread?", Haddaway did not sing. Is it expensive? Do you make your own, or purchase? What's your preferred sandwich filling? What makes for a good supermarket loaf of bread? Do you...
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Germany's Isar rocket launches from arctic Norway and reaches orbit
Germany's Isar rocket launches from arctic Norway and reaches orbit. Germany's Isar Aerospace launches a rocket into orbit from Norway as Europe races to boost its ability to send satellites...
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A tiny 19th-century ivory skeleton tries to lift a boulder
This walnut-sized ivory carving of a skeleton attempting to lift a boulder was created by Gyokushun sometime in the 19th century. The British Museum holds it, and Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks donated it...
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In 1986, a magazine asked readers to find the most boring headline ever printed
In 1986, the New Republic held a reader competition to submit the most boring headline ever. The idea for the contest was inspired by a New York Times column from April of that year, headlined,...
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This 65-gram umbrella from Japan fits in my front pocket
I'm on the constant lookout for the tiniest umbrella available. On my recent trip to Japan, I found the smallest one yet at the fantastic Hands store in Fukuoka. It weighs just 65 grams and measures...
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"Wreckage" of Amelia Earhart plane probably just trees
The remote Pacific island of Nikumaroro, Kiribati, has been a candidate for the aviator's final resting place since she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared en route to Howland Island, 400...
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Resident Evil fan film is just as spooky as the games
Granted, I'm not the world's biggest Resident Evil fan. The only one I've played in full was Resident Evil 7, a grimy Texas Chainsaw Massacre-inspired ordeal that's about as close to...
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Atomic Shrimp, the godfather of scambaiting, is back
The one upside to the recent explosion of online scams (another symptom of the AI boom — thanks, Altman) has been the scambaiting movement growing to match it. There is nothing more cathartic than...
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Husk IRL's AI therapist test is a warning
YouTuber Husk IRL is in kind of a weird spot. Not everyone can say they've more or less invented a wildly popular subgenre of online content — in this case, messing with AI agents to expose their...
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The very best sunsets in gaming
No, I don't mean the kind of 'sunset' games like Concord or Highguard get. Rather, the big glowy thing in the sky. Who among us hasn't stopped every once in a while to take in the...
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Top AIs tasked with getting a refund. How did they go about it?
Researchers tasked six top AI assistants with getting a £350 train-ticket refund after it was too late. The LLMs operated as normal, but were sandboxed so that all outgoing comms were intercepted and...
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Tiny Brutalism is a relaxing sandbox game about enormous concrete forms
Tiny Brutalism is a $5 game for Windows, MacOS and Linux that brings utilitarian mass to the relaxing sandbox genre. Whether you're designing your next sandcastle or a Marcel Breuer deathmatch arena,...
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Modernize your car with this wireless phone adapter, only $35 right now
TL;DR: Turn your car's wired CarPlay or Android Auto into a wireless connection with this mini adapter, now $34.99 (reg. $59). Plenty of newer cars come with CarPlay or Android Auto, but many of them...
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Under $20: Windows 11 Pro and Microsoft Office with no subscription
TL;DR: Get Microsoft Office Pro 2019 and Windows 11 Pro together for a one-time $18.97 (reg. $428). Microsoft sells Windows 11 Pro on its own for $199.99, and that's before you pay for a single...
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Trump DHS Officials Asked CISA To Secretly Aquire and Hack a Voting Machine
Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from ProPublica: A few months into President Donald Trump's second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wanted...
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A Hacker Broke Into John Deere, SharkNinja With an Army of AI Agents
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own, according to findings from the AI security firm...
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Apple Announces October 28 'Pro and Tell' Event
Following its October 13 HomeView launch, Apple is gearing up for its second hardware event of the month. The event is scheduled for October 28 in Los Angeles and carries the tagline "Pro and...
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Florida DMV Hacked After Police Dept Insecurely Stored Login Info
Florida's DMV says a September 4 breach exposed driver's license and motor vehicle records after attackers obtained credentials that a local law-enforcement employee had "improperly stored...
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Elon Musk Vows To Give a SpaceX Share To 'Every Kid In America'
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Elon Musk has said he will give every child in America a stake in SpaceX, his $2 trillion aerospace and artificial intelligence company, as tech firms face...
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Wine Ported to OpenBSD
Wine has been successfully ported to OpenBSD, with developers reporting that dozens of 64-bit Windows applications now run on the operating system. "Even the Remaster of The Witcher 3 which released...
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Elizabeth Holmes Doc 'You Can See Everything' Shocks With Massive Opening
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's Elizabeth Holmes documentary "You Can See Everything" earned more than $15 million in its limited opening weekend, making it one of the biggest...
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America Tries Reviving Shuttered Nuclear Plants - Partly to Help Power Data Centers
America is "making an unprecedented attempt to revive three shuttered nuclear plants to meet rising energy demand," reports the Los Angeles Times, "Two of the plants have contracts with...
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Mozilla is Calling Out Microsoft for Forcing Edge on Users
"Mozilla reps tell me they've met with Microsoft about their concerns," reports PC Magazine, "but that the company wasn't responsive." "They'll do the minimum the...
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Anthropic Announces 'Public Benefit Fund', Committing 5% of Its Shares
"Anthropic says it's committing 5% of its shares to a 'public benefit fund'," reports TechCrunch, "structured as a wholly-owned entity within the company — with the option...
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For Today Only, Save $580 Off the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 RTX 5090 Laptop at Best Buy
For today only, Best Buy is offering a big discount on one of the most powerful gaming laptops you can get. The slim, stylish, and lightweight Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 laptop equipped with the RTX 5090...
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Today’s Top Deals: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, 512GB Switch 2 Memory Card, Sony Noise Canceling Earbuds
Black Friday has come early: a bunch of Square Enix games are discounted at Amazon and Best Buy, including Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales. You can also still...
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Japanese Tekken Players are Likening Tekken 6’s Rollback Netcode Mod to Serious Crimes and the Fighting Game Community is Split
Two weeks ago, a Tekken player created a mod that allowed users to play the game online with rollback netcode, sparking a community-wide debate between Western players and competitors based in Japan and...
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Save $110 for Your First Year With McAfee+ Scam Detector, Including a VPN, Antivirus and Online Protection in the Age of AI
It's more important than ever to protect yourself and your family online in the age of AI. Nowadays, it's not enough to just avoid downloads from unverified websites or clicking suspicious...
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Save 20% Off the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless Gaming Headset With Infinite Battery Life
Pick up one of the best gaming headsets at a big discount ahead of Black Friday. Steelseries direct is offering the Steelseries Arctis Nova Pro wireless gaming headset for PS5 and PC for just $239.99 with...
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PSA Responds After More Than $100,000 Worth of Graded Trading Cards Stolen from FedEx Truck
Hundreds of PSA-graded trading cards worth more than $100,000 were reportedly stolen from a FedEx truck over the weekend, leaving collectors distraught — and the damage is still being calculated.On...
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LEGO and Netflix Team Up for 37,000-Piece Kpop Demon Hunters Build
LEGO designer Björn Ramant has revealed a giant Derpy Tiger build based on the animated Netflix hit Kpop Demon Hunters. Ramant shared the full build, which was commissioned by Netflix and LEGO, on his...
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Save 50% (Nearly $200 Off) the Daran 288Wh 600W LiFePO4 Power Station With Solar Panel Kit
If you're in need of a super portable power station that can power your mobile electronics for days instead of hours - and then charge itself - then check out this deal. For a limited time, Amazon is...
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Hideo Kojima Loved Whalefall, but It Ruined Eating Squid for Him
Whalefall, the movie that sees Austin Abrams attempt to fight his way out of the belly of a sperm whale, has a fan in Hideo Kojima. The Metal Gear Solid creator and serious movie buff shared his thoughts...
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This Adorable LEGO Arcade Machine Set Is on Sale (and Retiring Soon)
Most of LEGO’s retro-inspired gaming sets are high-end builds with relatively high piece counts — and so they cost a lot of money. I’m talking sets like LEGO PlayStation, LEGO Arcade Pinball...
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The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past in Scriptwriting Stage Following Cancellation Rumors, Peter Jackson Confirms
Peter Jackson has confirmed The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past is in the scriptwriting stage following cancellation rumors that emerged in the wake of the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger.The...
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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 Casts Hideo Kojima to Reprise Game Role
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 has cast Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima in a role that will see him reprise his part from Cyberpunk 2077.Series game developer CD Projekt Red confirmed the news in a social...
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Formula One Has a Big AI Problem. Should the Next F1 Game Recreate It?
Since it acquired the F1 license in 2009, UK-based studio Codemasters has walked a precarious sim-cade tightrope with its F1 games. It’s never been as rigorous in its physics simulation as iRacing,...
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Save 40% Off the Ecoflow 25,000mAh 170W Laptop Power Bank With This Amazon Lightning Deal
Don't miss this very limited time deal on a high-capacity, high-output power bank. As part of an Amazon Lighting sale, you can pick up an Ecoflow 25,000mAh 170W Laptop Power Bank for just $48.19 with...
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Four AI Agents Have Slain Minecraft’s Ender Dragon
"To our knowledge, this is the first end-to-end autonomous completion of Minecraft by AI agents."
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These Wireless Headphones Have Bass You Can Feel in Your Face
Hearing is so passé. It's all about feeling now.
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‘Star Trek’ Legend Robert Picardo Hopes the Franchise Will Endure
The actor has played the Doctor in various 'Star Trek' projects since the 'Voyager' era.
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Chinese Phone Batteries Are Just Getting Out of Hand
I'll go further: Chinese phones are getting out of hand.
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This Town Was Already in Crisis. Then Rapid Arctic Melting Starting Making Its Tap Water Undrinkable
The world's fastest warming town is facing a drinking water crisis.
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Hot Dogs, Gelato, Bacon, Salmon, Chocolate, and Deli Meat All Recalled in Recent Days
If you like eating something, there's a good chance it's been recalled.
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The Fear of a One-Man-Band Weaponizing AI Agents Is Becoming Reality
Hundreds of websites have been compromised as a lone hacker is reportedly catching up with the times.
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Peter Jackson Just Got an Ultra-Rare Extinct Moa Egg Back to New Zealand With the Help of De-Extinction Startup
The Lord of the Rings filmmaker helped acquire the rare moa egg, one of less than 40 known to exist, after a gallery in Colorado put the ancient specimen up for auction this June.
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‘Power Rangers’ Concept Art Reveals the Show That Almost Was
Some of the new ideas cooked up for 'Power Rangers' included fresh suits and a shakeup to the usual color dynamic.
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Jesse Eisenberg Turned to Directing to Escape ‘Batman v Superman’ Backlash
The erstwhile Lex Luthor says the response to his performance in Zack Snyder's 2016 superhero movie inspired a career pivot.
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Apple’s ‘Pro and Tell’ Event Will Bring Us a MacBook We’ve Never Seen Before
Apple's long-awaited OLED touchscreen MacBook may finally be nigh.
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Europe Doesn’t Want Elon Musk’s SpaceX to Hold Its Phone Networks Hostage
Four major European telecom companies are teaming up to explore direct-to-device mobile services that could compete with Starlink.
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Engineering Audit-Ready Data Pipelines for Regulatory Reporting
There's a particular kind of silence that happens on a call when a regulator asks, "Can you walk me through exactly how this number was calculated?" and the person on the other end has to...
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Why 200 OK Is the Most Dangerous Lie in Enterprise Integration
A customer changes her email address in a mobile app on Friday afternoon. The app displays a green confirmation message:
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5 Identity Patterns Your AI Agents Need Before They Touch Production
Here's a scenario that plays out more often than anyone wants to admit. A team ships an internal agent to production. Neat little thing. It reads tickets, calls a couple of internal APIs, sends a...
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A Reference Architecture for Constrained AI-Assisted Design
Bounded generation: Let AI choose within a space where a deterministic engine guarantees validity. Most attempts to put AI into design tooling adopt a generate-then-fix flow: the model produces an...
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GenAI Security Gateway: An End-to-End Architecture
LLMs are powerful application components, but they should not be exposed directly to untrusted users or unvetted documents. A request can contain an instruction override, a hidden secret, or an attempt to...
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One Database, Two Models: Building AI-Friendly Java Applications With MySQL JSON Duality Views
MySQL can now hand your application a complete JSON document, such as an order with its customer and line items, while the data stays in normal relational tables. You can even send the document back, and...
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Hot-Reloading Kubernetes Secrets and ConfigMaps in Go With mamori (No Pod Restarts)
If you run Go services on Kubernetes, you know the ritual. You update a Secret or a ConfigMap, and then you do one of these: kubectl rollout restart deployment/my-app and eat the disruption. Install...
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GCP Secret Manager, Live-Reloaded in Go With mamori
Google Cloud Secret Manager has a clean, opinionated model: a secret is a container, and inside it live immutable, numbered versions. You never edit a version — you add a new one (1, 2, 3, …) and,...
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Why Kotlin or Java Is the Wrong Question For Enterprises
If you've sat through more than one architecture review, you've probably sat through a protracted Kotlin-versus-Java debate that goes nowhere. The team spends weeks comparing Kotlin's...
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Getting Hands-On With Monitoring AI Agents and Models in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
The deployment of a model or an agent is just the first step. Once it starts processing requests, you need a way to track how often the model is called, how long requests take, how many tokens are used,...
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Post-Quantum TLS for Cloud APIs and Microservices
Why Every TLS Termination Is a Separate Migration Boundary A cloud application rarely has one TLS connection. A single API request can be decrypted and re-encrypted at a CDN, a web application firewall,...
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Complex Event Processing (CEP) With Apache Flink: What It Is and When (Not) to Use It
https://dzone.com/articles/apache-flink-1Most teams working with Apache Flink think about stream processing: filter events, aggregate values, enrich records, join streams. This covers the majority of...
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How to Contain Partial Failures in Distributed Systems
Distributed systems rarely fail as a single unit. More often, one dependency slows down, one shard becomes unavailable, one region loses capacity, or one pool saturates while neighboring components remain...
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Designing AI for Long-Running Tasks: Looking Beyond More Context
Model capability is moving in that direction quickly. In its February – March 2026 Frontier Risk Report, METR estimated how long a software task could take before a frontier model’s chance of...
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