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mardi 2 septembre 2025, 22:30
Your smartphone is a snitch, and it's been ratting you out for years. Every app you use, every ride you take, every post you like — it's all part of an invisible social credit system that's been shaping your life without your knowledge. — Read the rest The post The...
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Chris Columbus, who directed two Harry Potter films, says there will be no cast reunion because JK Rowling is a transphobe. Rowling unsurprisingly launched into a transphobic rant on Xitter. 'It's never going to happen with all that political stuff. Everyone in the cast has ...
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This is a bizarre story: North Carolina Republican election official James Yokeley Jr. was caught on video putting drugs, cocaine, and MDMA, in both his teenage granddaughter's ice cream and her friend's. Yokeley had the kids wait in the car while he went in to buy them...
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Johannes Vermeer painted 'The Guitar Player' in 1672, a year so calamitous for the Dutch that they dubbed it the 'Disaster Year.' War and economic turmoil had nearly obliterated the art market. Yet this masterpiece, which remained in Vermeer's family long after his death,...
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Who would have thought that outsourcing your thinking to an unreliable electric box could make you stupid? According to a recent study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, folks who use AI regularly to help them write essays, books, and the like are getting...
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Y'all know that I love a good J.D. Vance meme, and I sharing them with friends (I see you, Bretton!) is my love language. Well, imagine my delight when I found out recently that there's a whole dang mural highlighting one of the original bald baby Vance images that launched...
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Deep in the ocean's twilight zone dwells the nightmarish telescopefish. This sea creature looks more like a demon from a horror film than anything else I've seen in nature. It has a Labubu-esque mouth and telescopic eyes that hunt in the darkness, and resemble pearls devoid...
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A YouTube channel archiving statements from Trump administration officials was censored by one of them: Vinay Prasad. Now a top official at the Food and Drug Administration, Prasad demanded the removal of videos showing him criticizing the vaccines he now regulates. — Read...
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Genoese dockworkers have vowed to completely shut down trade in the Mediterranean if contact is lost with those on the Sumud Flotilla, bound for Gaza, for even twenty minutes. 'We will block all of Europe. Together with our USB union, together with all dockworkers, together...
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Amorphus globosus is a mysterious and unusual phenomenon most often seen in cattle, occurring when one twin in the womb fails to develop properly. The name, which is Latin for 'formless sphere,' describes a veterinary oddity that is actually more common than many people...
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I don't know about you, but every time I hear or see the words 'BREAKING NEWS' lately, I brace myself, because it seems like each breaking story is somehow worse than the last. And, as our democracy crumbles around us, pretty much every news story is awful and depressing. —...
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New Vegas is one of the few bastions of what you might call civilization in Fallout's post-apocalyptic setting, which is probably why the Fallout TV show protagonists are about to completely wreck it in the upcoming second season. Before they do, however, it's probably...
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I think my new favorite animal is the Asian small-clawed otter, a creature that happens to be the smallest of all of the over a dozen otter species. And, more specifically, I am totally in love with one particular Asian small-clawed otter named 'Mr. — Read the rest The post...
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Digitimes tells us Apple is intensively pushing supply partners to invest deeply in automated manufacturing in their factories. This isn’t new, but what has changed is the degree to which the company is insisting on it. The report tells us that if you want Apple to place ...
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Google has announced developer verification as a new layer of security for installing Android apps, though US developers will not face the new requirement until 2027 or later. Announced August 25, the policy is intended to better protect users from repeat bad actors...
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Ashampoo has released Photo Organizer Pro 26, an updated version of its photo management software. The program handles large image collections across local storage and cloud services and new features in this release include support for WebDAV, a classic folder tree view,...
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Ever seen someone water ski down a drainage ditch? This daredevil does just that — racing at breakneck speed through twists and turns. The narrow path requires expert balance. The ride ends as they shoot into a large body of water, a thrilling finale to a risky stunt. —...
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In Of Floating Isles (September 2, 2025), Kawika Guillermo masterfully his lifelong relationship with video games with reflections on identity, loss, and belonging. Through vignettes spanning childhood to adulthood, Guillermo explores how games served as both escape and...
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For an operating system that was once incredibly popular and expected to become a standard for a long time to come, it’s remarkable how little experience most people have with CP/M. In fact, many conventions and historical limitations you might be aware of – like the 8.3 file...
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As a rule, if a package is shipped with a Debian release, users can count on it being available, and updated, for the entire life of the release. If package foo is included in the stable release—currently Debian 13 ('trixie')—a user can reasonably expect that it will...
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