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Remember that battery plant fire last month in Moss Landing, California? Tuesday night local firefighters "determined that a group of lithium batteries in an area that had previously burned during the January 16 fire had smoldered and reignited," reports SFGate.
Fire Chief Joel Mendoza said the flames burned at varying intensities throughout Tuesday night before the fire burned itself out at about 8 a.m. on Wednesday.
Additional flare-ups at the site are expected due to weather exposure and damage to th
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Nike is joining up on a new brand with Kim Kardashian in a bet her star power can have the same impact Michael Jordan did 40 years ago, but for women Read more ›
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Employees throughout the federal government have until 11:59pm ET Monday to detail five things they accomplished in the last week. Read more ›
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Across the US government, workers failed to get clear guidance on whether or how to respond to an email asking what they did this week, despite Elon Musk’s claim that their jobs are at risk. Read more ›
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Actor Alec Baldwin and yoga instructor Hilaria Baldwin have seven children. Here's what to know about them ahead of their TLC show "The Baldwins." Read more ›
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Federal workers across agencies told Business Insider they were frustrated and upset by the DOGE productivity email sent Saturday. Read more ›
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A YouTuber from Spain obtained a fully operational Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge smartphone and made a hands-on video, comparing it to the Galaxy Z Fold6. We've all read the rumors in the past few weeks, suggesting the device's thickness is 5.84mm. And it looks like it's true. The YouTuber holds the S25 Edge right next to the Galaxy Z Fold6, and the former seems ever so slightly thicker than the... Read more ›
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A member of Costco's board for more than a quarter century, the late Charlie Munger said it should keep doing what it's always been doing. Read more ›
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The update upgrades a few apps that everyone can access now, as well as some Apple Intelligence features. Read more ›
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The small Colorado company Entabeni Systems is quietly working to upend the ski industry with a business model built on handshake deals made in ski resort parking lots. Read more ›
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Trump praised Musk's efforts to reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy and then called on him to do even more. Read more ›
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In a simulation China made public, a powerful Type 055 destroyer succeeded in temporarily blinding incoming US anti-ship missiles. Read more ›
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Starting in the late 1940s, Buicks sported holes in their sides known as ventiports. In fact, some Buicks still do. What's the reason for them? Read more ›
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Ben Gran lived in Japan for a year teaching English. More than 20 years later, he still vividly remembers the experience and what it taught him. Read more ›
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The White House DOGE office on Saturday ordered all federal workers be sent an email asking them to list the work tasks they'd completed over the week. Read more ›
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AI agents are slowly joining the workforce — but founders and researchers say they're not ready to replace humans just yet. Read more ›
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Trump's bum-rush first month in office has left businesses scrambling to win over the president, avoid his ire, or simply figure out what's going on. Read more ›
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Tim Clark helped found Emirates and has been president for more than two decades. The Dubai-based airline has changed the face of longhaul aviation. Read more ›
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If Grant Sabatier lost everything and had to start over in 2025, "I would definitely learn how to build different AI agents." Read more ›
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The Big Two will collide in comics for the first time in over 20 years in the pages of Marvel/DC and DC/Marvel. Read more ›
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Tony Dalton's mustachioed Jack will come back for swordsman seconds and (probably) spend some time hanging with Daredevil. Read more ›
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France has upped the ante in the quest for fusion power by maintaining a plasma reaction for over 22 minutes -- a new record. From a report: The milestone was reached on February 12 at the Commissariat a lenergie atomique et aux energies alternatives (CEA) WEST Tokamak reactor. Achieving the dream of commercial fusion power is the Holy Grail of engineering and has been for 80 years. With a single... Read more ›
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Using apps and websites in dark mode can actually use more energy than standard mode, according to researchers, as it causes people to crank up the brightness. From a report: This counterintuitive finding is claimed by BBC Research & Development (R&D), which says that despite the popular energy saving recommendation to cut electricity consumption by switching to dark mode, doing so might actually make things worse. "Dark mode is a... Read more ›
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HP has ended its controversial practice of imposing mandatory 15-minute wait times for customer support calls in several European countries, following internal pushback and customer complaints. The company confirmed the reversal and said it will "continue to prioritize timely access to live phone support." Read more of this story at Slashdot. Read more ›
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Junior software developers' overreliance on AI coding assistants is creating knowledge gaps in fundamental programming concepts, developer Namanyay Goel argued in a post. While tools like GitHub Copilot and Claude enable faster code shipping, developers struggle to explain their code's underlying logic or handle edge cases, Goel wrote. Goel cites the decline of Stack Overflow, a technical forum where programmers historically found detailed explanations from experienced developers, as particularly concerning Read more ›
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For over a decade Karol Herbst has been a developer on the open-source Nouveau driver, a reverse-engineered NVIDIA graphics driver for Linux. "He went on to become employed by Red Hat," notes Phoronix. "While he's known more these days for his work on the Mesa 3D Graphics Library and the Rusticl OpenCL driver for it, he's still remained a maintainer of the Nouveau kernel driver." But Saturday Herbst stepped down... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Altice, parent company of Internet provider Optimum, must disclose the personal details of a hundred alleged music pirates. The request comes from a group of prominent record labels and is part of an ongoing copyright infringement liability lawsuit (PDF). Altice, meanwhile, will receive anti-piracy information, including that related to a letter the RIAA previously sent to BitTorrent Inc., the owner of popular... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: HP will acquire assets from Humane, the maker of a wearable Ai Pin introduced in late 2023, for $116 million. The deal will include the majority of Humane's employees in addition to its software platform and intellectual property, the company said Tuesday. It will not include Humane's Ai pin device business, which will be wound down, an HP spokesperson said. Humane's team,... Read more ›
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The General Services Administration (GSA) is shutting down its nationwide electric vehicle (EV) chargers, deeming them "not mission critical." The U.S. government agency also plans to offload newly purchased EVs, reversing initiatives from the Biden administration aimed at transitioning the federal vehicle fleet to electric. The Verge reports: The GSA currently operates several hundred EV chargers across the country, with approximately 8,000 plugs that are available for government-owned EVs as... Read more ›
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The Register's Lindsay Clark reports: Fifteen years of big data hype, and guess what? Less than one in four of those in charge of analytics projects actually measure the value of the activity to the organization they work for. The result from Gartner -- a staggering one considering the attention heaped on big data and its various hype-oriented successors -- found that in a survey of chief data and analytics... Read more ›
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Apple has told Britain's competition regulator that some of the remedy options proposed by the watchdog to address concerns in the mobile browser market would impact the iPhone maker's incentive to innovate. From a report: The responses from Apple and Google to the regulator's investigation in the supply of mobile browsers and browser engines and the distribution of cloud gaming services through app stores on mobile devices in the country... Read more ›
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