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California is projected to run out of its current license plate number format by the end of 2025, prompting a transition to a new sequence that flips the current structure. The new format will consist of three numbers, three letters, and one number and will debut soon. The Drive reports: The current system for non-commercial vehicles, which consists of one number, three letters, and three numbers, was rolled out in 1980, and the DMV expects this sequence to run its course before the year is out. But, runnin
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President Trump is defending his economic policies while urging Americans to "be patient" amid the tumult of markets and overall economy. Read more ›
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"Well, they did sign up for it, actually. And this is what I campaigned on," Trump said of the reciprocal tariffs he imposed. Read more ›
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The last of 12 Rafale jets, made by France's Dassault Aviation, arrived in Croatia to replace its old MiG-21s. European companies see opportunities. Read more ›
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Satya Nadella revealed that AI writes as much as 20% to 30% of the code in Microsoft's repositories and projects. Read more ›
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Signal uses end-to-end encryption to keep texts secure, preventing third parties — including foreign governments — from reading messages. Read more ›
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In a speech celebrating the first 100 days of his presidential term, Donald Trump addressed his polarizing immigration moves, tariffs, and more. Read more ›
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Target made its first-ever donation to a presidential inauguration this year by contributing $1 million to President Trump's 2025 Inaugural Committee. Read more ›
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Flight attendants do more than serve drinks. They can fight fires, conduct evacuations, and give first aid. Read more ›
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Howard Lutnick made it clear he's seen the AI jokes about Americans in factories. Read more ›
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In the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term, his administration has proven exceptionally good at breaking things. The Department of Government Efficiency’s total demolition of USAID, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s depopulation of America’s public health agencies, the total chaos at Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon — there is little doubt that the Trump team has […] Read more ›
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A Tim Cook-style CEO could take Tesla's core EV operations to new heights, similar to Apple's success after Steve Jobs died. Read more ›
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Amid tariff announcements and economic uncertainty, real GDP unexpectedly fell at an annualized rate of 0.3% in the year's first quarter. Read more ›
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An audio filter introduced in Windows XP is still around to protect your PC today from Janet Jackson. Read more ›
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Canadian visitation to the US is down, with Mexico, Europe, and the Caribbean emerging as alternatives. Read more ›
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A passenger's mobile device was lodged in a seat and caused "an electrical smell," prompting an emergency landing to remove it. Read more ›
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The Chinese EV giant is doubling down on Europe by building a major facility in Hungary as it looks to capitalize on Tesla's slumping sales. Read more ›
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Vandalism at Tesla locations has been reported in at least a dozen states, with incidents involving graffiti, arson, and gunfire. Read more ›
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US automakers will get some relief from US President Donald Trump's tariffs, according to a new White House fact sheet. Prior to his new executive order, manufacturers had to pay a 25 percent tariff on any parts used in any US-assembled vehicles. Now, they'll be able to deduct up to an amount equal to 3.75 percent of the price of a new US made car until April 30, 2026, and... Read more ›
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Some patches for Linux 6.15-rc4 (updating the kernel driver for the Bcachefs file system) triggered some "straight-to-the-point wisdom" from Linus Torvalds about case-insensitive filesystems, reports Phoronix. Bcachefs developer Kent Overstreet started the conversation, explaining how some buggy patches for their case-insensitive file and folder support were upstreamed into the Bcachefs kernel driver nearly two years ago: When I was discussing with the developer who did the implementation, I noted that... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon doesn't want to shoulder the blame for the cost of President Donald Trump's trade war. So the e-commerce giant will soon show how much Trump's tariffs are adding to the price of each product, according to a person familiar with the plan. The shopping site will display how much of an item's cost is derived from tariffs -- right next to the product's... Read more ›
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"A new study found that a gene recently recognized as a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease is actually a cause of it," announced the University of California, San Diego, "due to its previously unknown secondary function." "Researchers at the University of California San Diego used artificial intelligence to help both unravel this mystery of Alzheimer's disease and discover a potential treatment that obstructs the gene's moonlighting role." A team led by... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: The acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia sent a letter to the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, accusing the tax-exempt organization of "allowing foreign actors to manipulate information and spread propaganda to the American public." In the letter dated April 24, Ed Martin said he sought to determine whether the Wikimedia Foundation's behavior is in violation of its Section... Read more ›
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The world's coral reefs have been pushed into "uncharted territory" by the worst global bleaching event on record that has now hit more than 80% of the planet's reefs, scientists have warned. From a report: Reefs in at least 82 countries and territories have been exposed to enough heat to turn corals white since the global event started in January 2023, the latest data from the US government's Coral Reef... Read more ›
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The head of the Swiss National Bank said on Friday that cryptocurrencies failed to meet the institution's currency reserve standards, rebuffing calls by crypto advocates that it hold bitcoin as a hedge against growing global economic risks. From a report: Cryptocurrency campaigners are ramping up pressure on the SNB to buy bitcoin, arguing that the economic turmoil triggered by U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs made it more important for the... Read more ›
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Some developers are "crying foul" after Microsoft's C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code stopped working with VS Code derivatives like VS Codium and Cursor, reports The Register. The move has prompted Cursor to transition to open-source alternatives, while some developers are calling for a regulatory investigation into Microsoft's alleged anti-competitive behavior. From the report: In early April, programmers using VS Codium, an open-source fork of Microsoft's MIT-licensed VS Code, and... Read more ›
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"4chan, down for more than a week after hackers got in through an insecure script that handled PDFs, is back online," notes BoingBoing. (They add that Thursday saw 4chan's first blog postin years — just the words "Testing testing 123 123...") But 4chan posted a much longer explanation on Friday," confirming their servers were compromised by a malicious PDF upload from "a hacker using a UK IP address," granting access... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Air in the U.S. has gotten cleaner for decades, adding years to people's lives and preventing millions of asthma attacks, but nearly half of Americans still live with unhealthy air pollution, a new report finds. The report comes as the Trump administration is considering rolling back some key air quality regulations. Air quality across the country has improved dramatically since regulations like... Read more ›
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"The U.S. and Canadian websites for Lenovo offered U.S. $140 and CAD $211 off on the same ThinkPad X1 Carbon model when choosing any one of the Linux-based alternatives," reports It's FOSS News: This was brought to my attention thanks to a Reddit post... Others then chimed in, saying that Lenovo has been doing this since at least 2020 and that the big price difference shows how ridiculous Windows' pricing... Read more ›
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