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The Trump administration will soon launch a $12 billion critical minerals stockpile designed to insulate U.S. manufacturing from supply disruptions tied to China’s dominance of mining and refining.
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The Department of Justice has released more than 3 million documents and photos related to Jeffrey Epstein. Here’s who shows up from Big Tech the most often—and what the files reveal. Read more ›
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While the Trump administration continues its immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota, anti-ICE protests continued in Minneapolis and around the country — from Los Angeles to rural Maine — over the weekend. In the Twin Cities area, meanwhile, this activism is well-organized; but it’s not a traditional, anti-government protest movement of the likes we saw during […] Read more ›
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Google goes official with a toggle for the Phone app's confounding landscape mode. Read more ›
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Utah’s Republican governor, Spencer Cox, signed legislation over the weekend that will add two seats to his state’s supreme court — seats that Cox plans to fill shortly. The law is widely viewed as an effort to move Utah’s highest court to the right after it handed down several decisions that Republicans disliked. In September, […] Read more ›
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Microsoft is reevaluating its AI strategy on Windows 11 and plans to scale back or remove Copilot integrations across built-in apps after months of sustained user backlash, according to a Windows Central report citing people familiar with the company's plans. Copilot features in apps like Notepad and Paint are under review and could be pulled entirely or stripped of their Copilot branding in favor of a more streamlined experience. The... Read more ›
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President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he will be shutting down the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for two years starting in the summer. Trump claims the shutdown, which comes after a series of high-profile boycotts and cancellations, will allow him to perform “Construction, Revitalization, and Complete Rebuilding” that will make the Kennedy Center […] Read more ›
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Unlike many of the companies stuffing AI into their browsers, Mozilla will soon give you a way to turn all of these features off. An update coming on February 24th will add a new "AI control" option to Firefox's settings menu, allowing you to disable or enable the browser's individual AI features, including access to […] Read more ›
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In a newly filed FCC application, Musk’s SpaceX outlines plans to launch a data center constellation of up to 1 million satellites. Read more ›
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Panther Lake chips with Arc B370 and Arc B390 iGPUs will require RAM running at 7,467 MT/s or higher since integrated graphics rely on shared system memory. If the RAM config is any slower, those impressive iGPUs will be relabeled to generic "Intel Graphics" in Task Manager in an effort to prevent vendors from under-equipping machines. Read more ›
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Apple's long-standing dominance over its electronics supply chain is eroding as AI companies outbid the iPhone maker for critical components like chips, memory and specialized glass fiber, giving suppliers the leverage to demand that Apple pay more. CEO Tim Cook acknowledged the pressure during a Thursday earnings call, noting constraints in chip supplies and significant increases in memory prices. Nvidia has overtaken Apple as TSMC's largest customer, CEO Jensen Huang... Read more ›
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WIRED's favorite pet vacuum, and our favorite purifier-heater, are on steep discount right now. Read more ›
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Many Americans are facing severe economic hardship. But not the incoming president and first lady of the United States. In fact, the incumbent first lady has just accepted a media deal that will pay her at least seven times the income of the average American household. The year? 1932. The first lady? Eleanor Roosevelt, who […] Read more ›
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Binning data from 13 Ryzen 7 9850X3D samples was published online, showing the average required voltage the 9850X3D needs to achieve its peak single-core clock speed. Read more ›
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ASUS ROG just announced the Kithara gaming headset, which is a device intended to bring "audiophile-grade sound" to gaming. It was developed in conjunction with manufacturer HiFiMan, a company that specializes in high-end audio devices. The Kithara is the company's first open-back planar magnetic gaming headset. ROG says it was designed to please gamers who "demand absolute clarity, precision and realism." The headphones feature 100mm planar magnetic drivers that have... Read more ›
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The two billionaires have clashed online, exchanging accusations over Musk's past emails with Epstein and Hoffman's past visit to Epstein's island. Read more ›
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Google's new Desktop Camera app on the Play Store gives us a glimpse of what the camera experience may be like on the upcoming Android PCs. Read more ›
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When you picture a virtual reality headset user, you're probably not picturing someone like Sherry Dickson. At 69, the snowy-haired, retired elementary school teacher hops into her Meta Quest headset five days a week, for roughly 60 to 90 minutes at a time. She's not attending live concerts or watching immersive films. Dickson, a fitness […] Read more ›
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Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron are teaming up to block memory hoarding. Read more ›
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Following the debut of its $10 Kallsup Bluetooth speakers at CES 2026, Ikea is introducing another wireless speaker with a playful design and an affordable price tag. The Grejsimojs Portable Bluetooth speaker probably isn't going to wow audiophiles, but it's designed to look like a little purple mouse with a tail that can be used […] Read more ›
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Complaints about Windows 11 bugs and glitches from the Windows community have apparently reached a tipping point. Microsoft is reportedly using all of 2026 to fix Windows 11's core issues. Read more ›
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An RTX 4090 has been caught melting on camera, with streamer "jessick" being lucky enough to record the incident for the internet. The GPU caught fire while playing and streaming Marvel Rivals on Twitch, and the video shows a wire melting with visible smoke. For some reason, jessick didn't immediately turn off her PC after seeing something on fire inside. Read more ›
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Today, in 1982, Intel introduced its “showstopping” 80286 processor. This 16-bit fully x86 software compatible CPU delivered some major performance and architectural advancements over the 8086 and 8088, and would continue to be produced and feature in PC systems well into the 1990s. Read more ›
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PicoIDE is touted as 'an open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for vintage computers.' Read more ›
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Google's Project Genie can generate games using the company's Genie 3 model, which is trained on prompts from Gemini. It's an experimental tool that doesn't even create fully playable games, but it was still enough to shiver the timbers of video game shareholders. Unity saw a 20% drop in its stock price following the reveal of Project Genie, along with several other firms. Read more ›
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A software engineer has developed a fully functional Linux scheduler that takes its cues from the popular pseudoscience of astrology. Read more ›
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ASML announced that it's cutting around 1,700 positions — mostly at the leadership level — to streamline its operations. Its Technology and IT & Data organizations will be hardest hit by the planned layoffs. Read more ›
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A new rumor suggests that AMD will be upgrading Zen 6 to 48MB of L3 cache to compensate for the four additional cores that will be introduced to Zen 6's CCD. Read more ›
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Tired of slow, laggy internet throughout your house and don't want to deal with cables dangling outside? The solution could be simpler than you think, repurposing existing cables inside your walls to achieve fast internet everywhere in the home. That's what an Englishman has just done, and it's better than powerline adapters. Read more ›
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