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Last year's Pentagon report reviewing UFO reports "left out the truth behind some of the foundational myths about UFOs," reports the Wall Street Journal.
"The Pentagon itself sometimes deliberately fanned the flames, in what amounted to the U.S. government targeting its own citizens with disinformation."
The congressionally ordered probe took investigators back to the 1980s, when an Air Force colonel visited a bar near Area 51, a top-secret site in the Nevada desert. He gave the owner photos of what might
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'The amount of inference compute needed is already 100x more': How Europe's AI companies can meet demands Read more ›
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Apple's upcoming iPhone 17 Pro will cost $50 more than the iPhone 16 Pro but will come with a minimum 256GB of storage, doubling the base capacity compared to last year's model. The information comes from Chinese leaker Instant Digital, posting on Weibo. The account, which has 1.5 million followers, has now made the claim three separate times in recent weeks. Currently, the iPhone 16 Pro starts at 128GB storage... Read more ›
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Vasyl Malyuk, head of Ukraine's internal security service, said his team relied on corrupt customs officials to smuggle the drones into Russia. Read more ›
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Cristiano Ronaldo popped the question to his longtime girlfriend with a massive ring, which jewelry specialists estimate is over 30 carats. Read more ›
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McDonald's Pokémon Happy Meals in Japan were sold out on the first day. Here are 3 other times the chain has aced the collaboration game. Read more ›
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This story is a collaboration between Vox and Grist and builds on Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis, a project by Vox, Grist, and The19th that examines how climate change impacts reproductive health — from menstruation to conception to birth. Explore the full series here. Climate change poses unique threats to some of the most foundational human experiences: giving birth and […] Read more ›
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AI guru Michael Chorey's departure from Wendy's signals a shift in the fast-food industry's approach to automated drive-thru technology. Read more ›
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Su says money is "not necessarily the most important thing when you're attracting talent." Read more ›
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E.J. Antoni, President Trump's pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, said it should suspend the monthly jobs report over accuracy concerns. Read more ›
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A boomer made a spreadsheet tracking 3,700 of his job applications. He thinks ageism has deterred employers and set him back in the job market. Read more ›
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The suburbs around big cities are slowing down real estate development. Forming regional entities would make it easier and cheaper to buy a home. Read more ›
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Today we're rolling out a new Eurogamer. This isn't a new website design, but a rethink of how we work and what we want to achieve with our video games coverage - albeit one that still very much reflects the Eurogamer you've known for the past 25 years. Read more Read more ›
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Amsterdam’s Marktlink Capital has raised €520 million from private investors for two new funds, with the capital to be invested across a mix of private equity and venture capital funds. The €440 million private equity vehicle will target eleven funds including Hg, Adams Street Partners, Egeria and Mill Point Capital, while the €80 million venture ... Read more ›
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After the backlash to replacing its 4o model with GPT-5, OpenAI will no longer get rid of old models without a heads up. "In retrospect, not continuing to offer 4o, at least in the interim, was a miss," Nick Turley, OpenAI's head of ChatGPT, said on Tuesday. In an interview with The Verge, he said […] Read more ›
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And apply age-appropriate experiences as well as limit videos if it thinks you're under 18. Read more ›
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How to get free books on Stuff Your Kindle Day. Download free historical fiction and contemporary books on the latest Stuff Your Kindle Day. Read more ›
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Maintainers are discussing whether or not to remove IA-64 support from the GCC compiler once again. If their plans go through, IA-64 support could be dropped for GCC 16. Read more ›
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The new 'Alien' show, from creator Noah Hawley and producer Ridley Scott, is now on FX and Hulu. Read more ›
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"Linus Torvalds has used his authority to reject the RISC-V architecture changes for the Linux 6.17 kernel," reports Phoronix: Only on Friday were the RISC-V code updates submitted for the Linux 6.17 merge window. The Linux 6.17 merge window is expected to wrap up on Sunday with the Linux 6.17-rc1 release... [T]his pull request has been rejected by Linus Torvalds for Linux 6.17 on the basis of being late in... Read more ›
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alternative_right quotes a report from The Register: Space fans looking to camp out in style have a chance to pick up an Airstream trailer that once served as the Convoy Command Vehicle for NASA's Space Shuttle operations at Edwards Air Force Base -- if they have a couple hundred thousand to spare, that is. "This is the NASA 025 Command Vehicle," current owner Jonathan Kitzen says of the once-silver, now... Read more ›
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xA California man sued Microsoft Thursday over its plan to stop supporting Windows 10 on October 14th, reports Courthouse News Though Windows 11 was launched nearly four years ago, many of its billion or so worldwide users are clinging to the decade-old Windows 10... According to StatCounter, nearly 43% of Windows users still use the old version on their desktop computers.... "With only three months until support ends for Windows... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Library of Congress today said a coding error resulted in the deletion of parts of the US Constitution from Congress' website and promised a fix after many Internet users pointed out the missing sections this morning. The missing portions of the Constitution were restored to one part of the website a few hours after the Library of Congress statement and... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In recent months, the AI industry has started moving toward so-called simulated reasoning models that use a "chain of thought" process to work through tricky problems in multiple logical steps. At the same time, recent research has cast doubt on whether those models have even a basic understanding of general logical concepts or an accurate grasp of their own "thought process."... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from SecurityWeek: Two different firms have tested the newly released GPT-5, and both find its security sadly lacking. After Grok-4 fell to a jailbreak in two days, GPT-5 fell in 24 hours to the same researchers. Separately, but almost simultaneously, red teamers from SPLX (formerly known as SplxAI) declare, "GPT-5's raw model is nearly unusable for enterprise out of the box. Even OpenAI's internal... Read more ›
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AOL (now a Yahoo subsidiary) just announced its dial-up internet service will be discontinued at the end of September. "The change also means the retirement of the AOL Dialer software and the AOL Shield browser, both designed for older operating systems and slow connections that relied on the familiar screech of a modem handshake," remembers Slashdot reader BrianFagioli (noting that dial-up Internet "was once the gateway to the web for... Read more ›
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In 2023 a 13-year-old girl "made an offensive joke while chatting online with her classmates," reports the Associated Press. But when the school's surveillance software spotted that joke, "Before the morning was even over, the Tennessee eighth grader was under arrest. She was interrogated, strip-searched and spent the night in a jail cell, her mother says." Her parents filed a lawsuit against the school system, according to the article (which... Read more ›
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Bruce66423 shares a report from the BBC: The body running courts in England and Wales has been accused of a cover-up, after a leaked report found it took several years to react to an IT bug that caused evidence to go missing, be overwritten or appear lost. Sources within HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) say that as a result, judges in civil, family and tribunal courts will have made... Read more ›
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"General Motors claimed a new world record for EV driving on a single charge," reports the Verge, "after a Chevy Silverado EV traveled 1,059.2 miles without recharging its battery." The potentially record-breaking run took place over seven days on public roads near GM's Milford Proving Ground and Detroit's Belle Isle "using smart driving techniques" that included limiting the speed to 20-25 mph. The truck was a 2026 Chevy Silverado EV... Read more ›
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