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"New research suggests ash and soot from burning wildlands has caused more than 41,000 excess deaths annually from 2011 to 2020," reports the Los Angeles Times:
By 2050, as global warming makes large swaths of North America hotter and drier, the annual death toll from smoke could reach between 68,000 and 71,000, without stronger preventive and public health measures...
In the span studied, millions of people were exposed to unhealthful levels of air pollution. When inhaled, this microscopic pollution not
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An intern in Shanghai who won an RTX 5060 while attending an Nvidia Roadshow event unexpectedly found himself at a crossroads with his own company. Since it was won on a business trip paid for by the company, the firm demanded the 5060 be handed in. Eventually, the employee resigned after HR subtly told him to find a new job, refusing to give up the GPU in the process. Read more ›
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Amazon has Black Friday savings on its most potent streaming stick. The Fire TV Stick 4K Max is 41 percent off, bringing it close to its record low. You can get it now for $35. The Fire TV Stick 4K Max is one of Engadget's favorite streaming devices. The stick supports a solid mix of advanced technologies for its price: Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos, 4K and HDR10+. As long as... Read more ›
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A look into why matcha is so expensive and how demand in the US is driving prices higher. Read more ›
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Trump says that $2,000 tariff checks are coming mid-2026. His GOP allies on Capitol Hill aren't so sure. Read more ›
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I taste-tested Kraft's apple pie mac and cheese so you don't have to. The odd-sounding combo turned out shockingly delicious. Read more ›
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We rounded up every Miss Universe and figured out which countries have produced the most titleholders since 1952. Read more ›
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AMD has set the full release date for FSR Redstone and also revealed that the full name is now simply 'FSR'. Read more ›
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The U.S. government is looking into Bitmain to see whether its products pose a risk to its national security. Read more ›
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If the world demands more 'Wicked' in their lives after 'For Good,' what would you like to see from it? Read more ›
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Microsoft will not release a diversity and inclusion report for 2025 like it has been doing every year since 2019, Stephen Totilo from Game File has reported. Totilo asked the company if it was skipping this year after it failed to publish a report from October to early November like it had done so the previous years. “We are not doing a traditional report this year as we’ve evolved beyond... Read more ›
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Black Friday isn’t here quite yet, but that hasn’t stopped Sony from kicking off an excellent holiday promo, which runs through December 18th. The ongoing sale spans everything from PlayStation 5 consoles to Sony’s latest accessories — including Sony’s standard DualSense Wireless Controller, which is now matching its all-time low of $54.99 ($20 off) in […] Read more ›
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Leakers are selling engineering samples for Panther Lake weeks before its official launch, with at least two different SKUs floating online. The first is an alleged 10-core Core Ultra 3 SKU from a well-known tipster, while the second sample appears to be an accurate pre-production model, as it lacks LP-E cores, which all Panther Lake silicon is expected to have. Read more ›
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Dbrand and Jsaux Gaming teased custom covers and cases for the upcoming Steam Machine. Read more ›
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Apple M4 Max’s 48W CPU and M5’s efficiency ceiling reveal how GPU and memory now drive professional MacBook performance. Read more ›
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Speculation that the ultrawealthy will flee NYC has luxury house markets in Miami and Greenwich buzzing. Read more ›
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Quick Share is finally compatible with AirDrop, plus an early look at the Galaxy Buds 4 Pro and Samsung’s take on Magic Cue. Read more ›
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Windows 1.01 was released by Microsoft 40 years ago. It didn't start well. Read more ›
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As someone born and raised in Florida, I believe the best underrated places to visit for culture and nature include St. Augustine and Alachua County. Read more ›
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Thousands of older Americans remain in sometimes risky jobs like driving and construction, some out of necessity and others to maintain purpose. Read more ›
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A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage that previously made the case that vaccines don't cause autism now says they might. WSJ: The contents of the webpage came up during Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Senate confirmation process. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R., La.) in February said Kennedy had assured him that, if he was confirmed, the CDC would "not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines... Read more ›
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Britain said on Wednesday it would ban the resale of tickets to concerts, sport and other live events for profit, disrupting ticket touts and the platforms that benefit from their activities. From a report: Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said touts were ripping off fans by using bots to snap up batches of tickets for coveted shows and reselling them at sky-high prices. "Our new proposals will shut down the touts'... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: A Microsoft executive is questioning why more people aren't impressed with AI, a week after the company touted the evolution of Windows into an "agentic OS," which immediately triggered backlash. "Jeez there so many cynics! It cracks me up when I hear people call AI underwhelming," tweeted Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO for Microsoft's AI group. Suleyman added that he grew up playing the old-school... Read more ›
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Linus Torvalds is "fairly positive" about vibe coding as a way for people to get computers to do things they otherwise could not. The Linux kernel maintainer made the comments during an interview at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit in Seoul earlier this month. But he cautioned that vibe coding would be a "horrible, horrible idea from a maintenance standpoint" for production code. Torvalds told Dirk Hohndel, head of... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards and removing penalties for failure. The results are coming into focus. Five years ago, about 30 incoming freshmen at UC San Diego arrived with math skills below high-school level. Now, according to... Read more ›
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The EU's cookie consent policies have been an annoying and unavoidable part of browsing the web in Europe since their introduction in 2018. But the cookie nightmare is about to crumble thanks to some big proposed changes announced by the European Commission today. From a report: Instead of having to click accept or reject on a cookie pop-up for every website you visit in Europe, the EU is preparing to... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader ukoda shares a report from the Associated Press: China is replacing its diesel trucks with electric models faster than expected, potentially reshaping global fuel demand and the future of heavy transport. In 2020, nearly all new trucks in China ran on diesel. By the first half of 2025, battery-powered trucks accounted for 22% of new heavy truck sales, up from 9.2% in the same period in 2024,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: The White House is preparing to issue an executive order as soon as Friday that tells the Department of Justice and other federal agencies to prevent states from regulating artificial intelligence, according to four people familiar with the matter and a leaked draft of the order obtained by POLITICO. The draft document, confirmed as authentic by three people familiar with the matter,... Read more ›
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An Ohio IT contractor pleaded guilty to breaking into his former employer's network after being fired, impersonating another worker and using a PowerShell script to reset 2,500 passwords -- an act that locked out thousands of employees and caused more than $862,000 in damage. He faces up to 10 years in prison. The Register reports: Maxwell Schultz, 35, impersonated another contractor to gain access to the company's network after his... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: The IRS accessed a database of hundreds of millions of travel records, which show when and where a specific person flew and the credit card they used, without obtaining a warrant, according to a letter signed by a bipartisan group of lawmakers and shared with 404 Media. The country's major airlines, including Delta, United Airlines, American Airlines, and Southwest, funnel customer records to a... Read more ›
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