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"A line idle for decades has been accused of starting the LA area's deadly Eaton Fire," writes Bloomberg, describing California's abandoned power lines as "a fire risk hiding in plain sight."
[Abandoned power lines] fall out of use, either because they've been replaced or because the power plants they once connected to the grid shut down... Sometimes the utilities that own idled lines disconnect them from the power grid, cutting off the flow of electricity through the cables. Other times, they don't, keep
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The Pentagon told employees to "pause any response" to the email, saying it would be the authority to conduct staff reviews. Read more ›
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Elon Musk's management style has once again sparked debate, this time for asking federal workers to provide a list of what they accomplished last week. Read more ›
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"Life is long, but we would love to partner with them," Dara Khosrowshahi said on Friday about Tesla's Cybercabs. Read more ›
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When it comes to application packaging, earlier this month the site Its FOSS complained that Fedora Flatpaks "are often unmaintained or broken, leading to a poor experience for users who aren't usually aware they're using them." And this apparently created friction with OBS Studio, the free/open-source screencasting and streaming app. "We are now considering the Fedora Flatpaks distribution of OBS Studio a hostile fork," OBS Studio lead Joel Bethke posted... Read more ›
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Guy "Dr Disrespect" Beahm has hit out at Twitch, saying he "should've never been banned in the first place" despite admitting to conduct that "leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate" with a minor back in June 2024. Read more Read more ›
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The first beta of iOS 18.4 is now available, and it includes a small but useful change for CarPlay. As we noted in our list of iOS 18.4 features, CarPlay now shows a third row of icons in vehicles, up from two rows previously. However, this change is only visible in vehicles with a larger center display. For example, a MacRumors Forums member noticed the change in a Toyota Tundra,... Read more ›
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Some of Hollywood's biggest stars wore sculptural gowns and colorful suits on the 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards red carpet on Sunday. Read more ›
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Grok, Elon Musk’s ChatGPT competitor, temporarily refused to respond with “sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation,” according to xAI’s head of engineering, Igor Babuschkin. After Grok users noticed that the chatbot had been given instructions to not respond with those results, Babuschkin blamed an unnamed, ex-OpenAI employee at xAI for updating Grok’s system […] Read more ›
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The first episode of "Suits LA" ends with a revelation about Ted Black and his family. Read more ›
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Despite the return of her on-screen brother as played by Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter has confirmed she won't be in Dexter: Resurrection. Read more ›
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iPhone-maker is rare holdout in Silicon Valley against conservative efforts to force rollback on DEI issues Read more ›
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Brace yourself, Assassin's Creed fans - it looks like early copies of the upcoming instalment, Assassin's Creed Shadows, have broken the street date. Read more Read more ›
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I spent five days at a FIRE retreat in Bali, Indonesia. People opened up about much more than money. Read more ›
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Elon Musk tweeted Saturday that federal workers would soon get an email “requesting to understand what they got done last week.” According to the New York Times, the email from the Office of Personnel Management went to agencies across the federal government that afternoon, including the FBI, State Department, and others, with a deadline for […] Read more ›
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AMD compared its upcoming Radeon RX 9070 XT with Radeon RX 7900 GRE in presentation, discovers that the new flagship is massively faster than the previous-generation performance mainstream contender. Read more ›
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Saber Interactive's been conscripted to bring their magic on Warhammer 40K: Space Marine II to make a game out of a major Hasbro brand. Read more ›
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In another version of Brave New World, Sam would've become more directly connected to the looming MCU crisis. Read more ›
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The vote comes at a pivotal time for Europe, which faces an increasingly assertive Trump administration. Read more ›
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The FBI is warning about a Chinese ransomware group called "Ghost." 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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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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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... 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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