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ICE Agent’s Cellphone Video of Renee Good’s Killing Leaks to Right-Wing Outlet

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Matt Novak @ Gizmodo 1 place · today 14:42 EDT

Shots were fired just 40 seconds after the ICE agent left his vehicle. Read more ›

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Intel Is 'Going Big Time Into 14A,' Says CEO Lip-Bu Tan

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BeauHD @ Slashdot 1 place · today 20:25 EDT

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says the company is "going big time" into its 14A (1.4nm-class) process, signaling confidence in yields and hinting at at least one external foundry customer. Tom's Hardware reports: Intel's 14A is expected to be production-ready in 2027, with early versions of process design kit (PDK) coming to external customers early this year. To that end, it is good to hear Intel's upbeat comments about 14A. Also,... Read more ›

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Microsoft May Soon Allow IT Admins To Uninstall Copilot

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BeauHD @ Slashdot 2 place · today 19:45 EDT

Microsoft is testing a new Windows policy that lets IT administrators uninstall Microsoft Copilot from managed devices. The change rolls out via Windows Insider builds and works through standard management tools like Intune and SCCM. BleepingComputer reports: The new policy will apply to devices where the Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot are both installed, the Microsoft Copilot app was not installed by the user, and the Microsoft Copilot app... Read more ›

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It's time for Apple to reinstate ICEBlock

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Will Shanklin @ Engadget 1 place · today 17:08 EDT

In October, Apple caved to pressure from the Trump administration and removed ICEBlock — and similar apps which crowdsourced the location of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement activity — from its App Store. Apple's stated rationale? The apps could "be used to harm law enforcement officers." But armed-to-the-teeth ICE officers don’t need protection from civilians. Apple had that exactly backward.That became impossible to ignore on Wednesday, when ICE agent Jonathon Ross... Read more ›

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Betterment’s financial app sends customers a $10,000 crypto scam message

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Jay Peters @ The Verge 1 place · today 20:14 EDT

Betterment, a financial app, sent a sketchy-looking notification on Friday asking users to send $10,000 to Bitcoin and Ethereum crypto wallets and promising to "triple your crypto," according to a thread on Reddit. The Betterment account says in an X thread that this was an "unauthorized message" that was sent via a "third-party system." Here's […] Read more ›

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Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

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Elizabeth Lopatto @ The Verge 2 place · today 16:24 EDT

Since X's users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been waiting for what I assumed would be inevitable: X getting booted from Apple's and Google's app stores. The fact that it hasn't happened yet tells me something serious about Silicon Valley's leadership: Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are […] Read more ›

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Why Are Federal Agents Using GoPros, Smart Glasses, and Phones to Record Us?

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Matt Novak @ Gizmodo 2 place · today 13:00 EDT

"What happened to the police body cameras?" one Uber driver in Minnesota asked a Border Patrol agent. Read more ›

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X accuses music publishers of ‘weaponizing’ DMCA takedowns

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Emma Roth @ The Verge 3 place · today 17:59 EDT

X is suing music publishers and their trade group, the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA), accusing them of attempted coercion in their ongoing battle over licensing, as reported earlier by The Hollywood Reporter. The Elon Musk-owned platform accuses music publishers of colluding with the NMPA to "coerce X into taking licenses to musical works from […] Read more ›

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How Elon Musk’s Grok spread sexual deepfakes and child exploitation images

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Financial Times 1 place · today 16:00 EDT

Billionaire’s xAI start-up lacks adequate safeguards, say experts, but many AI models are trained on troubling material Read more ›

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Why Trump is suing The New York Times — and giving them 2-hour interviews

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Peter Kafka @ Business Insider 1 place · today 13:50 EDT

The president uses digital media to get his message across — but he really loves old media like newspapers and cable TV. Read more ›

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Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Sarees

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Kat Tenbarge @ Wired 1 place · today 19:23 EDT

A substantial number of AI images generated or edited with Grok are targeting women in religious and cultural clothing. Read more ›

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World’s Richest Man Says Don’t Bother Saving for Retirement

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AJ Dellinger @ Gizmodo 3 place · today 14:55 EDT

"We're in the singularity. We're at the top of the roller coaster, and it's about to go down." Read more ›

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Reality still matters

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Sarah Jeong @ The Verge · today 08:00 EDT

The first video I saw of the Minneapolis shooting was bad enough. Shortly after I saw it, I had the terrible realization that there were multiple people in the clip holding their phones up - another angle was bound to surface. Within minutes, a second video was all over social media, and it was even […] Read more ›

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Jan. 10, #474

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Gael Cooper @ CNET 1 place · today 19:52 EDT

Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for Jan. 10, No. 474. Read more ›

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OpenAI Is Asking Contractors to Upload Work From Past Jobs to Evaluate the Performance of AI Agents

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Will Knight, Maxwell Zeff, Zoë Schiffer @ Wired 2 place · today 20:11 EDT

To prepare AI agents for office work, the company is asking contractors to upload projects from past jobs, leaving it to them to strip out confidential and personally identifiable information. Read more ›

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Versions of ‘Golden’ Will Continue Until Morale Improves

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Cheryl Eddy @ Gizmodo · today 15:20 EDT

'KPop Demon Hunters' will make fans wait for merch and a sequel, but its breakout bop now has even more alternate versions available. Read more ›

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CES Worst In Show Awards Call Out the Tech Making Things Worse

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BeauHD @ Slashdot 3 place · today 18:20 EDT

Longtime Slashdot reader chicksdaddy writes: CES, the Consumer Electronics Show, isn't just about shiny new gadgets. As AP reports, this year brought back the fifth annual Worst in Show anti-awards, calling out the most harmful, wasteful, invasive, and unfixable tech at the Las Vegas show. The coalition behind the awards -- including Repair.org, iFixit, EFF, PIRG, Secure Repairs, and others -- put the spotlight on products that miss the point... Read more ›

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Dr. Oz claims there’s no data to support reducing alcohol consumption. That’s not true.

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Dylan Scott @ Vox 1 place · today 13:05 EDT

How much alcohol should you drink? The US government now vaguely, in effect, says just don’t drink too much. And what qualifies as too much? Well, that’s up to you. As part of the new federal dietary guidelines released this week, the Trump administration eliminated the previous specific recommended limits on alcohol consumption — two […] Read more ›

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OpenAI, SoftBank Invest $1 Billion in Data Center Developer

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Miles Kruppa @ The Information 1 place · today 18:13 EDT

OpenAI and SoftBank will each invest $500 million in SB Energy, a SoftBank-backed data center developer that’s building a site for the Stargate project. As part of the investment, the companies have agreed to work together on data centers using designs developed by OpenAI, according to a Friday ... Read more ›

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Trump’s Greenland push, briefly explained

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Cameron Peters @ Vox 2 place · today 18:25 EDT

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Hi readers, this has been a breakneck news week. Here’s one big story that shouldn’t get lost in the shuffle: After Venezuela, President Donald Trump […] Read more ›

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Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 01/04/2026 09:53 EDT

If you're a Windows 11 hater, sit back and enjoy your biases being validated in the most satisfying way possible. A new speed test shows Microsoft's latest OS performing terribly against the five previous Windows versions, placing last in most tests across the board. Read more ›

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For the first time in 5 years, Nvidia will not announce any new GPUs at CES — company quashes RTX 50 Super rumors as AI expected to take center stage

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Tom's Hardware · 01/05/2026 14:13 EDT

Nvidia has just announced on X that its CES 2026 keynote will not include "any new GPUs," breaking a five-year long streak of unveiling new hardware at every Las Vegas show. Instead, the company will likely focus on AI developments. Read more ›

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Blu-ray hits 20 — optical disc format was introduced to the public at CES 2006

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 01/04/2026 08:59 EDT

20 years ago today, the CES in Las Vegas was buzzing with talk of Blu-ray technology, players, and media, and the format isn't dead yet. Read more ›

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AMD Ryzen chief teases return of older Zen 3 chips to fight soaring RAM prices — 'That's something we're actively working on right now'

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Tom's Hardware · 01/06/2026 15:12 EDT

AMD interview suggests it might restart production of DDR4-based AM4 Ryzen desktop processors Read more ›

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Corsair cancels $240 48GB DDR5 memory kit orders due to pricing error — company’s blunder ignites shopper uproar over botched RAM deal

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Tom's Hardware · 01/03/2026 10:40 EDT

Over the past few days, many customers purchased an incorrectly-priced kit of premium DDR5 memory from Corsair's webstore for just $240. Today, the company has cancelled all those orders, saying the memory is out of stock and that the pricing was a mistake. It's safe to say this decision has been met with fierce scrutiny. Read more ›

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Newegg bundles $1,460 128GB DDR5 RAM kit with $50 Starbucks gift card — 'Drink Coffee while you game!!' retailer says as memory hits RTX 5080 pricing

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Tom's Hardware · 01/05/2026 14:31 EDT

Newegg has listed two 128GB G.Skill DDR5 RAM kits with a free $50 Starbucks gift card. Both kits are more expensive than a brand-new RTX 5080, as the DRAM pricing crisis hits DIY PC builders hard. Read more ›

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says robots are 'AI immigrants' that can address labor shortages — can 'do the type of work that maybe we decided not to do anymore'

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Tom's Hardware · 01/06/2026 17:14 EDT

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, said that a wave of robots will serve as "AI immigrants" to drive the economy and do the jobs others don't want to do. Read more ›

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Microsoft silently kills Windows and Office phone activation and forces online activation with a Microsoft account — Windows users are now herded into an online-only portal for activation

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Tom's Hardware · 01/03/2026 13:22 EDT

Microsoft has somehow put the cap on yet another way to circumvent its internet-powered setup process, and this time it's on a build that they haven't even supported for a while! Production activation via call is still listed in Microsoft's support docs, but a new YouTube video running Windows 7 shows it now redirects you to the online portal. Read more ›

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Major Japanese electronics store begs customers for their old PCs as hardware drought continues — ‘we pretty much buy any PC’ pleads the Akihabara outlet

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Tom's Hardware · 01/08/2026 09:34 EDT

A major Japanese PC and electronics store is pleading with customers to sell it their old PC gear. Read more ›

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Nvidia CEO confirms Vera Rubin NVL72 is now in production — Jensen Huang uses CES keynote to announce the milestone

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Tom's Hardware · 01/06/2026 05:23 EDT

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced during his keynote speech at CES that Vera Rubin NVL72 is now officially in production. The new datacenter AI platform offers up to 5x the performance of Blackwell counterparts. Read more ›

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