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alternative_right shares a report from The Guardian: It has been estimated that during the height of the coronavirus pandemic 129bn disposable face masks, mostly made from polypropylene and other plastics, were being used every month around the world. With no recycling stream, most ended up either in landfill or littered in streets, parks, beaches, waterways and rural areas, where they have now begun to degrade. Recent research has reported a significant presence of disposable face masks in both terrestrial
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The Galaxy S26 series could launch earlier than previously anticipated, but the Ultra could be expensive. Read more ›
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In a post on Truth Social on Sunday, Trump said the payments would be for all but "high income people." Read more ›
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The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China’s marginalized LGBTQ+ community. Read more ›
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JerryRigEverything peeled the REDMAGIC 11 Pro to reveal what might be the coolest liquid cooling system we've ever seen. Read more ›
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Bank of America is facing a proposed class and collective action lawsuit that accuses the company of failing to pay hundreds of hourly workers for time spent booting their computers. Read more ›
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From a third-party API to more natural usage, here's what Apple has in the pipeline for non-terrestrial networks. Read more ›
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said 18 of Atlanta's 22 air traffic controllers did not turn up for work on Saturday. Read more ›
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Trump Mobile announced the T1 Phone this summer with a fall release date, but paying customers still haven't gotten their hands on the device. Read more ›
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The Central Bank of Ireland has fined Coinbase Europe €21.4M for major anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing monitoring failures between 2021 and 2025. The Central Bank of Ireland has fined Coinbase Europe €21,464,734 (€21.4M) for violating its anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CFT) obligations related to transaction monitoring. This breach occurred between April 23, ... Read more Read more ›
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Formula 1 fans can now get their hands on the Realme GT 8 Pro Aston Martin Limited edition variant in China. The phone gets a turquoise rear panel with an Aston Martin Aramco F1 team badge and elements. The GT 8 Pro Aston Martin Edition will be available with two camera deco designs in the box, both featuring a carbon-fiber finish. The phone also features neon yellow accents throughout, including... Read more ›
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Former President Trump's comments on tariffs spurred interest in speculative assets, boosting meme coin sentiment. Read more ›
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The games we enjoy today would be unimaginably different without the improvements ushered in by DirectX 8 and its programmable shaders. Shader Model 1.0 introduced per-pixel programmable lighting, letting developers write custom code to control how light interacted with objects, rather than relying solely on the GPU’s built-in fixed-function logic. Read more ›
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The literary magazine of the Phi Beta Kappa society argues "the replacement of human readers by AI has lately become a real possibility. "In fact, there are good reasons to think that we will soon inhabit a world in which humans still write, but do so mostly for AI." "I write about artificial intelligence a lot, and lately I have begun to think of myself as writing for Al as... Read more ›
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A former Intel software engineer who spent over a decade with the company allegedly stole several thousand documents, including confidential ones, after he was laid off. Read more ›
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Trump says he will use tariff revenue to send $2,000 checks to Americans. While most would welcome the infusion, it could cost them in the long run. Read more ›
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Fast-food chains like McDonald's and Wendy's are tweaking some bills in the absence of pennies, rounding them up or down to the nearest nickel. Read more ›
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A senior researcher from DeepSeek warned about the potentially negative impact of artificial intelligence on human work and society, in one of the company’s few public appearances since its breakout success, according to Reuters. Chen Deli, the DeepSeek researcher, took the stage at the ... Read more ›
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After a high-stakes meeting, Tesla investors voted to approve Musk's $1 trillion proposed compensation plan that is contingent on lofty goals. Read more ›
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The FBI has subpoenaed popular Canadian domain registrar Tucows, demanding information about the owner of archive[dot]today, a popular archiving site used to bypass paywalls and avoid sending traffic to original publishers. The subpoena states it relates to a federal criminal investigation but provides no details about the alleged crime. Archive.today posted the document on X the same day. The site, also known as archive.is and archive.ph, started in the early... Read more ›
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A curious engineer discovered that his iLife A11 smart vacuum was remotely "killed" after he blocked it from sending data to the manufacturer's servers. By reverse-engineering it with custom hardware and Python scripts, he managed to revive the device to run fully offline. Tom's Hardware reports: An engineer got curious about how his iLife A11 smart vacuum worked and monitored the network traffic coming from the device. That's when he... Read more ›
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A former Business Analyst reportedly filed a class action lawsuit claiming that for years, hundreds of remote employees at Bank of America first had to boot up complex computer systems before their paid work began, reports Human Resources Director magazine: Tava Martin, who worked both remotely and at the company's Jacksonville facility, says the financial institution required her and fellow hourly workers to log into multiple security systems, download spreadsheets,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com, is asking Automatic.CSS -- a company that provides a CSS framework for WordPress page builders -- to change its name amid public spats between Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg and Automatic.CSS creator Kevin Geary. Automattic has two T's as a nod to Matt. "As you know, our client owns and operates a wide range of software brands and services,... Read more ›
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Palantir launched a fellowship that recruited high school graduates directly into full-time work, bypassing college entirely. The company received more than 500 applications and selected 22 for the inaugural class. The four-month program began with seminars on Western civilization, U.S. history, and leaders including Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill. Fellows then embedded in client teams working on live projects for hospitals, insurance companies, defense contractors, and government agencies. CEO Ale Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: U.S. prosecutors have charged two rogue employees of a cybersecurity company that specializes in negotiating ransom payments to hackers on behalf of their victims with carrying out ransomware attacks of their own. Last month, the Department of Justice indicted Kevin Tyler Martin and another unnamed employee, who both worked as ransomware negotiators at DigitalMint, with three counts of computer hacking and extortion... Read more ›
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In a recent article published in the New York Times, author Casey Michael Henry argues that today's tech industry keeps borrowing dystopian sci-fi aesthetics and ideas -- often the parts that were meant as warnings -- and repackages them as exciting products without recognizing that they were originally cautionary tales to avoid. "The tech industry is delivering on some of the futuristic notions of late-20th-century science fiction," writes Henry. "Yet... Read more ›
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AI labs are paying skilled professionals hundreds of dollars per hour to train their models in specialized fields. Companies like Mercor, Surge AI, Scale AI and Turing recruit bankers, lawyers, engineers and doctors to improve the accuracy of AI systems in professional settings. Mercor advertises roles for medical secretaries, movie directors and private detectives at rates ranging from $20 to $185 per hour for contract work and up to $200,000... Read more ›
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Apple is paying Google to create a custom Gemini-based model that will run on the company's private cloud servers and power the next version of Siri, according to Bloomberg. The decision marks a departure from Apple's tradition of building core technologies in-house. The arrangement follows a competition Apple held this year between Anthropic and Google, the report said. Anthropic offered a superior model, but Google made more financial sense because... Read more ›
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alternative_right shares a report from The Conversation: Countries around the world have been discussing the need to rein in climate change for three decades, yet global greenhouse gas emissions -- and global temperatures with them -- keep rising. When it seems like we're getting nowhere, it's useful to step back and examine the progress that has been made. Let's take a look at the United States, historically the world's largest... Read more ›
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