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An anonymous reader shares a report: Before the potential of the internet was appreciated around the world, nations that understood its importance managed to scoop outsized allocations of IPv4 addresses, actions that today mean many users in the rest of the world are more likely to find their connections throttled or blocked.
So says Cloudflare, which last week published research that recalls how once the world started to run out of IPv4 addresses, engineers devised network address translation (NAT) so th
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President Donald Trump said he will withhold November food stamps. This comes a day after the administration said it will pay partial benefits. Read more ›
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Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages Norway's $2 trillion wealth fund, said it had voted against the Tesla CEO's proposed pay deal. Read more ›
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In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes. Read more ›
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A Turning Point USA official inaccurately claimed a high school's math department wore Halloween costumes that mocked Charlie Kirk. Those teachers are now facing a flood of online attacks and death threats. Read more ›
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watchOS 26.2 tweaks the Sleep Score feature that's available for the Apple Watch, changing the labeling for point ranges to better match how people might be feeling after a restless night of sleep. The new scores are as follows: Very Low - 0-40 (previously 0-29) Low - 41-60 (previously 30-49) OK - 61-80 (previously 50-69) High - 81-95 (previously 70-89) Very High - 96-100 (previously 90-100) The "Very High" rank... Read more ›
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A new report claims Paramount has officially moved along from the Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto-led cast. Read more ›
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Bankrupt First Brands sued its founder, Patrick James. The lawsuit claims he improperly enriched himself at the expense of the auto parts supplier. Read more ›
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Microsoft has announced its latest batch of games coming to Xbox Game Pass in November. Monthly subscribers have a lot to look forward to, including Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 on day one of its release. Kicking off the release slate is Dead Static Drive on November 5. This indie survival-horror game takes players on a 1980s-style road trip across the country. Dead Static Drive will share its date... Read more ›
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Apple today seeded the first betas of upcoming iOS 26.2 and iPadOS 26.2 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming a day after Apple released iOS 26.1 and iPadOS 26.1. Registered developers can download the betas from the Settings app on the iPhone or iPad by going to the General section and selecting Software Update. We don't yet know what's included in the new beta software, but... Read more ›
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s final political act was also his most admirable. Warning that then-candidate Donald Trump “can never be trusted with power again,” Cheney, a Republican, urged 2024 voters to elect Trump’s Democratic opponent, then-Vice President Kamala Harris, as president — a rare example of a prominent political leader placing principle over party. […] Read more ›
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Apple is planning an Apple Watch Activity Challenge for Veterans Day, which takes place next Tuesday in the United States. Apple Watch owners are tasked with doing any workout for 11 minutes or more on November 11. Apple Watch owners who complete the challenge will win an Apple Watch activity award in the Fitness app. Earn this award on November 11 by doing any workout for 11 minutes or more.... Read more ›
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Apple is testing three new color options for iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max models, according to a known leaker, but they have since clarified that the company plans to move forward with only one of the three new finishes. The color options that Apple is considering include burgundy, brown, and purple, according to Instant Digital, a user on Chinese social media platform Weibo. Instant Digital has accurately... Read more ›
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The upcoming iOS 26.2 update for iPhone makes the Live Translation feature on select AirPods available in the EU, according to Apple. The news was also reported by various publications, including the German blog Macerkopf. Live Translation allows you to understand someone who is speaking a different language than you. For example, if you speak English, and someone is speaking to you in French, Siri can tell you what they... Read more ›
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Tucker Carlson’s friendly interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes has led to a major reckoning in the Republican party. Read more ›
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Robert E. Williams stepped down from an assistant VP role at AT&T to work for startups. He says taking calculated risks helped him know it was time. Read more ›
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Amazon has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity AI demanding that the AI search startup stop allowing its AI browser agent, Comet, to make purchases online for users. From a report: The e-commerce giant is accusing Perplexity of committing computer fraud by failing to disclose when its AI agent is shopping on a user's behalf, in violation of Amazon's terms of service, according to people familiar with the letter sent... Read more ›
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Google is bringing live lane guidance to Google Maps in cars with the company’s built-in infotainment system, starting with the Polestar 4. Using the vehicle's front-facing camera, Google Maps will be able to "see" the road just as the driver does. It will then create more detailed depictions of which lane a driver should be in and guide them using visual and audio cues. Google says the new feature uses... Read more ›
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Just weeks after Japan rejected Nintendo's initial efforts to patent a variety of Pokémon-style monster capture and throwing mechanics - a patent that might prove critical in the company's ongoing patent infringement lawsuit against Palworld - the US has taken the "rare" step of re-examining a previously granted Pokémon patent, believing it could be invalid. Read more Read more ›
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Now that spooky season’s over, it’s time to swap the pumpkins and skeletons for something a little more cheery ahead of the holidays. Govee’s Christmas Lights 2 are customizable string lights that will add some smart home magic to your tree, with plenty of slack left over to adorn your space. Right now, they’re discounted […] Read more ›
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The Python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5 million U.S. government grant because it required them to renounce all diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. "The non-profit would've used the funding to help prevent supply chain attacks; create a new automated, proactive review process for new PyPI packages; and make the project's work easily transferable to other open-source package managers," reports The Register. From the report: The programming non-profit's deputy executive director... Read more ›
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"An engineer got curious about how his iLife A11 smart vacuum worked and monitored the network traffic coming from the device," writes Tom's Hardware. "That's when he noticed it was constantly sending logs and telemetry data to the manufacturer — something he hadn't consented to." The user, Harishankar, decided to block the telemetry servers' IP addresses on his network, while keeping the firmware and OTA servers open. While his smart... 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 shares a report: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does not let people decline to be scanned by its new facial recognition app, which the agency uses to verify a person's identity and their immigration status, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document obtained by 404 Media. The document also says any face photos taken by the app, called Mobile Fortify, will be stored for... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: Two senators said they are announcing bipartisan legislation on Tuesday to crack down on tech companies that make artificial intelligence chatbot companions available to minors, after complaints from parents who blamed the products for pushing their children into sexual conversations and even suicide. The legislation from Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo, and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., follows a congressional hearing last month at... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Australian scientists have developed roof coatings that can passively cool surfaces up to 6C below ambient temperature, as well as extract water from the atmosphere, which they say could reduce indoor temperatures during extreme heat events. One coating made from a porous film, which can be painted on to existing roofs, works by reflecting 96% of incoming solar radiation, rather than... Read more ›
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"People are creating 'dumb homes,'" the VP of research at the Global Wellness Institute, tells the web site Axios. Some are swapping NASA-style setups for old-fashioned buttons, switches and knobs. Others are designing digital detox corners — all part of a bigger "analog wellness" movement... The return to analog hobbies and spacesis about more than nostalgia for pre-internet times, researchers say. A home where "technology is always in the background,... Read more ›
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Microsoft shipped its first Xbox handheld nearly two weeks ago. The $600 white Xbox Ally cannot reliably sleep, wake, or hold a charge while asleep. Neither Microsoft nor Asus would admit there's a problem or offer a timeline to fix it after repeated requests by The Verge. Asus said it needs more time to test. Installing Bazzite, a Linux-based operating system, solves the problems, the publication reports. The same hardware... Read more ›
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At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana said society will ultimately accept a fatal robotaxi crash as part of the broader tradeoff for safer roads overall. TechCrunch reports: The topic of a fatal robotaxi crash came up during Mawakana's interview with Kristen Korosec, TechCrunch's transportation editor, during the first day of the outlet's annual Disrupt conference in San Francisco. Korosec asked Mawakana about Waymo's ambitions and got answer after... Read more ›
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schwit1 shares a report from Behind the Black: SpaceX is going to land this spaceship manned on the Moon, whether or not NASA's SLS and Orion are ready. And even if those expensive, cumbersome, and poorly designed boondoggles are ready for those first two Artemis landings, SpaceX is likely to quickly outmatch them with numerous other private missions to the Moon, outside of NASA. It has the funds to do... Read more ›
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