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I went from consulting to being the CEO of Pittsburgh's airport. Here's what passengers don't see.

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Kelsey Vlamis @ Business Insider 1 place · today 06:29 EDT

Christina Cassotis went from consulting to the CEO of a major airport. Here's how she got there and what passengers don't see. Read more ›

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New $110 Intel Z790 motherboard with DDR4 support is a Christmas gift to the world amid the memory pricing crisis — an affordable home for Alder Lake, Raptor Lake, and Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs

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Tom's Hardware 1 place · today 07:00 EDT

Chinese manufacturer Onda launches the Z790PRO WiFi B4 motherboard with a sub-$100 price tag. Read more ›

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The Gloves Are Off in the Fight for Your Right to Repair

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Boone Ashworth @ Wired 1 place · today 06:00 EDT

This year, the right-to-repair movement got a boost from—surprisingly—big tech, tariffs, and economic downturn. But the companies controlling who fixes their stuff aren’t giving up that power willingly. Read more ›

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Drones keep shutting down European airports. This hybrid warfare could be a sign of worse to come, one analyst says.

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Pete Syme @ Business Insider 2 place · today 06:11 EDT

Over 10,000 travelers have been disrupted by drone sightings near airports in recent months. Russia's hybrid warfare could be testing the limit. Read more ›

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The end of malaria

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Bryan Walsh @ Vox 1 place · today 06:07 EDT

This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to member-exclusive stories every month, join the Vox Membership program today. I wasn’t always a boring newsroom-bound editor. Back in my days as a Time magazine foreign correspondent, I used to fly to far-flung places, recorder and notebook in hand. That’s how, […] Read more ›

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JD Vance and the future of MAGA

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Ariana Aspuru @ Vox 2 place · today 07:00 EDT

After a successful 2024 election, Vice President JD Vance came into the White House ready to shake things up, support President Donald Trump at all costs, and post whatever he wanted online.  But what does Vance — the former “never Trump” conservative who has maneuvered, at least for now, into the position of MAGA heir […] Read more ›

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How a $200 Fake Fireplace From Home Depot Soothed My Soul

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Lisa Wood Shapiro @ Wired 2 place · today 05:33 EDT

Research shows that watching a simulated fire may have real psychological benefits. Read more ›

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Tim Cook just gave Nike a much-needed holiday boost

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Lara O'Reilly @ Business Insider 3 place · today 05:26 EDT

Apple CEO Tim Cook bought $3 million in Nike shares, nearly doubling his stake in the company. Read more ›

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The SpaceX Mafia is here

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Geoff Weiss,Julia Hornstein @ Business Insider · today 05:00 EDT

SpaceX mafia startups are raising billions in venture capital, with ex-employees launching companies across aerospace, AI, and health. Read more ›

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Nearly 300 stores are set to close across the US in 2026. Here's the list.

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Jordan Hart @ Business Insider · today 05:50 EDT

Macy's, Kroger, and Carter's are leading 2026 US retail store closures, citing long-term strategy and shifting consumer habits. Read more ›

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Most Russians expect the war with Ukraine to end in 2026, as its economy slows

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Huileng Tan @ Business Insider · today 04:04 EDT

A state polls showed that 55% of Russians believe what Moscow calls its "special military operation" in Ukraine will end next year. Read more ›

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Why the latest effort to ban stock trading in Congress is falling flat

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Bryan Metzger @ Business Insider · today 05:57 EDT

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is trying to force a vote on a bill to ban stock trading. But leaders in both parties have other ideas. Read more ›

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Student-loan borrowers in public service risk losing access to a major loan forgiveness program in the new year

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Ayelet Sheffey @ Business Insider · today 04:17 EDT

The Trump administration's final rule on limiting eligibility for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program is set to go into effect in July 2026. Read more ›

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I don’t like wireless charging, but there’s one reason all my phones must have it

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Robert Triggs @ Android Authority 1 place · today 07:00 EDT

USB-C ports fail too often — wireless charging is your backup. Read more ›

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Duolingo gives staff 2 weeks off over the holidays — and the CEO says it pays off

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Thibault Spirlet @ Business Insider · today 05:27 EDT

At a time when many companies are rolling back flexible work arrangements and scrutinizing productivity, Duolingo's approach stands out. Read more ›

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The 41 best Apple TV shows, ranked

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Mashable 1 place · today 05:00 EDT

Not sure exactly what's on Apple's streaming service? We're here to help with our picks of the best TV shows on Apple TV+. Read more ›

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The AI talent wars have come for the interns

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Lakshmi Varanasi @ Business Insider · today 05:31 EDT

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta are all paying top dollar to attract and develop the best new talent. Read more ›

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2025’s Best Phones Were Also Its Wackiest

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Julian Chokkattu @ Wired 3 place · today 06:00 EDT

If anything, iPhones and Pixels are practically vanilla. The next generation is thinner, more transparent, and folds in half. That’s a good thing. Read more ›

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5 great Netflix movies to watch on Christmas

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Anthony Orlando @ Digital Trends 1 place · today 07:00 EDT

Jingle Bell Heist and Klaus are some of the holiday films on Netflix that audiences should see this Christmas. Read more ›

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Why Hollywood is paying this 17-year-old up to $20,000 to boost film trailers with TikTok edits

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Lauren Edmonds @ Business Insider · today 05:21 EDT

Amid Mohamed, 17, founded a company that helps movie studios generate hype on TikTok in a language that young folks understand: edits. Read more ›

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Pirate archivist group scrapes Spotify's 300TB library, posts free torrents for downloading — investigation underway as music and metadata hit torrent sites

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 12/22/2025 10:03 EDT

In the name of music preservation, pirate group Anna's Archive has scraped 300 TB of data from Spotify's library, representing around 37% of all songs but 99.9% of all listens. It's essentially everything on Spotify packaged into torrents to be distributed illegally, analogous to how the group has made books available for free. Read more ›

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North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 12/18/2025 08:29 EDT

A North Korean imposter was uncovered, working as a sysadmin at Amazon U.S., after their keystroke input lag raised suspicions with security specialists at the online retail giant. Read more ›

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AMD's legacy Ryzen 7 5800X3D chips now sell for up to $800, more than a new 9800X3D — AM4 chip costs twice as much as MSRP, as enthusiasts flock to old DDR4 memory

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Tom's Hardware · 12/18/2025 12:55 EDT

As DDR5 memory prices skyrocket, demand for AMD's two-generation-old Ryzen 7 5800X3D has increased, causing second-hand prices to climb as high as $800 on eBay. Read more ›

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Windows 11 rockets SSD performance to new heights with hacked native NVMe driver — up to 85% higher random workload performance in some tests

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Tom's Hardware · 12/22/2025 12:32 EDT

Windows 11 users rave about lightning-quick SSD performance uplifts from the native NVMe driver from Windows Server 2025. Read more ›

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52 years later, only known copy of Unix v4 recovered from randomly found tape, now up and running on a system — first OS version with kernel and core utilities written in C

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 12/24/2025 06:30 EDT

The only known complete copy of Unix v4 has been recovered from a tape found at the University of Utah. Read more ›

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U.S. FCC bans foreign-made drones from DJI, others — DJI to be heavily affected by the announcement, with many American drone pilots up in arms due to lack of viable alternatives

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Tom's Hardware · 12/23/2025 11:19 EDT

FCC's announcement signals the end of DJI in the U.S. Read more ›

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NIST warns several of its Internet Time Service servers may be inaccurate due to a power outage — Boulder servers 'no longer have an accurate time reference'

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Tom's Hardware · 12/21/2025 12:17 EDT

NIST has warned that several of its Internet Time Service servers could be providing inaccurate time following a failure of the primary atomic time scale at its Boulder, Colorado campus. Read more ›

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Corsair ships customer $35 decorative memory sticks instead of $1,000 worth of 96 GB of DDR5 memory — buyer accidentally receives dummy RAM in unlucky warranty claim

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 12/23/2025 06:28 EDT

In an extremely timely mix-up, someone on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit sent one of the sticks in their 96 GB kit of Corsair's Vengeance DDR5 for an RMA and received non-functional dummy RAM in return. Customer's real memory was worth at least $1000 while the decorative modules are just $35. Read more ›

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Steam app is now 64-bit only on systems that support it, 32-bit support enters final countdown — 32-bit users will stop receiving updates in 2026

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Tom's Hardware · 12/20/2025 11:50 EDT

Valve has begun the final phase of its plan to end Steam support for 32-bit versions of Windows, with a December Steam client update that changes how the platform runs on modern systems. Read more ›

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Moore Threads unveils next-gen gaming GPU with 15x performance and 50x ray tracing improvement — AI GPU with claimed performance between Hopper and Blackwell also in the works

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 12/21/2025 06:00 EDT

Moore Threads has just revealed its next-gen GPU architecture coming in 2026, dubbed "Huagang," which will bring new gaming and AI GPUs. The "Lushan" gaming GPU is promising up to 15x increase in AAA gaming performance, while the "Huashan" AI GPU is gunning for a spot between Nvidia Hopper and Blackwell lineups. Read more ›

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