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The IRS's IT division has reportedly lost 40% of its staff and nearly 80% of its tech leadership amid a federal "efficiency" overhaul, the agency's CIO revealed yesterday. The Register reports: Kaschit Pandya detailed the extent of the tech reorganization during a panel at the Association of Government Accountants yesterday, describing it as the biggest in two decades. ... The IRS lost a quarter of its workforce overall in 2025.... Read more ›
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The US military is in the midst of its largest build-up of forces in the Middle East in decades, in preparation for some sort of military action in Iran. Military officials say strikes could come as early as this weekend and some US personnel are being evacuated from the region. Diplomacy isn’t officially over yet. […] Read more ›
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A bare-bones Chinese app called "Are You Dead?" -- whose entire premise is that solo-living users tap daily to confirm they're still alive, triggering an alert to an emergency contact after two missed check-ins -- has rocketed to the top of China's app store charts and gone viral globally without spending a dime on advertising. The app wasn't built for the elderly, as many assumed; its creators are Gen-Z developers... Read more ›
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West Virginia's attorney general alleges that iCloud's end-to-end encryption is being used to store and distribute child sexual abuse material. Read more ›
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The Executive Branch has a reported membership list that includes Trumpworld elites like David Sacks. A WIRED review of corporate filings reveals an under-the-radar player: a notorious former DC police officer. Read more ›
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Apple has inked a deal with EverPass Media to bring Apple TV sports content to EverPass customers in the United States. EverPass is a company that bundles premium sports content for restaurants, hotels, casinos, sports bars, and other businesses that want to air sporting events. EverPass will now be able to offer Formula 1, Major League Soccer, and Major League Baseball content to its customers at no additional cost through... Read more ›
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"If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir’s work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote to employees about the massive purchasing agreement. Read more ›
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Microsoft Research has published a paper in Nature detailing Project Silica, a working demonstration that uses femtosecond lasers to etch data into small slabs of glass at a density of over a Gigabit per cubic millimeter and a maximum capacity of 4.84 terabytes per slab. The slabs themselves are 12 cm by 12 cm and just 2 mm thick, and Microsoft's accelerated aging experiments suggest the data etched into them... Read more ›
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Asus and Acer bring German websites down, leaving users without support or downloads due to the companies' recent spat with Nokia over the HEVC codec. Read more ›
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On TikTok, Chinese manufacturers are advertising signal-blocking weapons with the breezy cadence of consumer lifestyle advertising. Read more ›
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Statins are one of modern medicine’s miracles. For every 10,000 people who take these cholesterol-lowering drugs, 1,000 will avoid major cardiovascular events. When you consider that cardiovascular disease is America’s top killer, and 92 million Americans are currently taking a statin, thousands of lives every year are being saved. There are essentially no other prescription […] Read more ›
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AMD's chips will be used as debt collateral in a $300 million loan to cloud startup Crusoe with financing from Goldman Sachs. Read more ›
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AI security firm Irregular has found that passwords generated by major large language models -- Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini -- appear complex but follow predictable patterns that make them crackable in hours, even on decades-old hardware. When researchers prompted Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 fifty times in separate conversations, only 30 of the returned passwords were unique, and 18 of the duplicates were the exact same string. The estimated entropy of... Read more ›
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Cassian, Jyn, Saw, Chirrut, Baze, and even Darth Vader himself will star in a series of new one-shots. Read more ›
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Razer has a new flagship gaming keyboard, the Huntsman Signature Edition, that embraces a fully CNC aluminum construction and PVD mirror finish on the back. The $500 keyboard is basically a spruced-up Huntsman V3 Pro aimed at gamers that wanted a more aesthetically pleasing keyboard. Read more ›
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Amidst endless complaints over the instability and bloating nature of Windows 11, Microsoft's latest insider builds add new emojis and a taskbar feature for its beta testers. Now, you can check your internet speed by right-clicking the network icon or opening network quick settings, where you'll be taken to a simplified Ookla Speedtest inside Bing. Read more ›
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The recent request goes against decades of precedent, and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions. Read more ›
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In hacker spaces and at their homes, creative protesters are laser-cutting and 3D-printing tools to resist an occupation. Read more ›
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We spoke with registered dietitians and tested popular formulas to break down the research behind functional fungi. Read more ›
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Beyond mistakes or nonsense, deliberately bad information being injected into AI search summaries is leading people down potentially harmful paths. Read more ›
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With specs nearly identical to last year’s Pixel 9a, the new Pixel 10a doesn’t pack as much of a punch as prior A-series smartphones. Read more ›
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As patients and employers look for alternatives to pricey GLP-1 drugs, Silicon Valley startup Twin Health is using AI and wearable sensors to help people make healthier choices. Read more ›
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Refresh your space with a sofa that arrives right at your doorstep. We’ve spent years in search of the best couches—read about all the styles we’ve tested here. Read more ›
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“We would [all] love to have an AI boss who wouldn't yell at you or gaslight you. Claude as a boss is the nicest guy ever.” Read more ›
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A new report finds that of 154 specific claims about how AI will benefit the climate, just a quarter cited academic research. A third included no evidence at all. Read more ›
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Snowpack levels across a wide swath of Western US states are among the lowest seen in decades, even as regulators struggle to negotiate water rights in the region. Read more ›
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