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Physical media is very popular these days. Nostalgia, fandom, and streaming burnout have caused certain segments of American society to switch off their Amazon Prime accounts and fire up their Blu-ray players. One of the many advertised benefits of physical media is that it offers a more permanent, definitive form of…Read more...
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The 13-inch OLED iPad Pro with the screen removed. | Screenshot: iFixit Apple’s newest iPad Pro is remarkably rigid for how thin it is, and apparently also a step forward when it comes to repairability. iFixit shows during its teardown of the tablet that the iPad Pro’s 38.99Wh battery, which will inevitably wear down and need replacement, is actually easy to get to. It’s a change iFixit’s Shahram Mokhtari says... Read more ›
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A YouTuber installs a Windows XP VM without using any basic security measures to see how many viruses the OS will get. Within minutes, the OS has several viruses infecting the VM. Read more ›
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Stardew Valley creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone says he's "not too concerned with the pressure" of releasing Haunted Chocolatier, saying, "it's better to have a delayed game that's actually good than a bad game that's on time".In an interview about his plans for Stardew Valley's following its recent 1.6 update, Barone said that he doesn't feel pressured to create a follow-up game, stating: "It's a game that I'm deciding to make.... Read more ›
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A retro computing enthusiast has managed to get Windows XP running on an Intel 486 PC system. As Vaseline clouds the lens of history, you might be forgiven for thinking there was some crossover between these eras, but no, they launched over a decade apart. Read more ›
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NASA's Juno mission has imaged Jupiter's intriguing moon Europa, a top target of habitability research due to its liquid water ocean beneath a thick icy crust. Read more ›
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Two tanks reportedly fired at a building in the Jabalia refugee camp after spotting a gun barrel they believed belonged to enemy forces. Read more ›
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"There will be changes" to Xbox Game Pass once Microsoft adds its newly acquired flagship Call of Duty franchise to its subscription services.That's according to industry insider shinobi602, who recently suggested that changes were coming in a thread on Resetera. Read more Read more ›
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The GE Profile is a smart indoor smoker — designed to keep smoke inside the oven, not in your kitchen. Wi-Fi connectivity means it works the Smart HQ app for remote control, but there’s no magic sauce here to make you BBQ whizz. The GE Profile Smart Indoor Smoker delivers on its promise of bringing smoking indoors, but sadly its smarts didn’t make me a better pitmaster. Continue reading… Read more ›
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Former President Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has a net worth of $7.5 billion, according to a May 2024 Forbes estimate. Read more ›
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Security professional Bruce Schneier argues that large language models have the same vulnerability as phones in the 1970s exploited by John Draper. "Data and control used the same channel," Schneier writes in Communications of the ACM. "That is, the commands that told the phone switch what to do were sent along the same path as voices." Other forms of prompt injection involve the LLM receiving malicious instructions in its training... Read more ›
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I spent a whole month testing various styles and models of e-bikes to see if I could meet all of my needs with just two wheels. Here's everything I learned. Read more ›
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Ukraine's military is short of combat gear. This is what it would take to fully equip its troops to launch a decisive victory. Read more ›
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The preponderance of "professional hosts" in spots from Hawaii to Florida could make stays cheaper for travelers but amp up competition for new hosts. Read more ›
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Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Tesla are worth $14 trillion — and their CEOs are paid handsomely. Read more ›
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Americans are the most pessimistic they've been in years about their chances of finding a new job if they lost their current one, a survey suggests. Read more ›
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The refreshed artillery is now helping to blunt Russian advances around Kharkiv, Ukraine's second city, a report said. Read more ›
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Russian President Vladimir Putin's war machine looks different today than it did at the start of the conflict. Read more ›
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Delta, an emulator that can play Nintendo games, had to change its logo after Adobe threatened legal action. You'd think it would face trouble from Nintendo, seeing as it has been going after emulators these days, but no. It's Adobe who's going after the developer, which told TechCrunch that it first received an email from the company's lawyer on May 7. Adobe warned Delta that their logos are too similar,... Read more ›
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Middle-income Americans aren't middle-class; that's reserved for the rich now. Read more ›
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OpenAI’s Superalignment team, charged with controlling the existential danger of a superhuman AI system, has reportedly been disbanded, according to Wired on Friday. The news comes just days after the team’s founders, Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, simultaneously quit the company.Read more... Read more ›
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Sales of raw milk in the U.S. have risen 21% since bird flu was first confirmed in dairy cattle in late March, according to a report from PBS Newshour, citing new data from research firm NielsenIQ. Why on Earth would people drink raw milk at a time when pasteurization has been shown to kill the virus? Because some…Read more... Read more ›
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Maguire. Garfield. Holland. And now, Cage. Read more... Read more ›
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Roger Corman, producer and writer of indie and B-movies like Death Race 2000and Sharktopus, passed away on May 9, per Variety. He was 98 years old, and said to have passed surrounded by his family.Read more... Read more ›
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Conspiracy theorists on social media have been busy at work peddling their latest conclusion: The magnificent auroras seen over swaths of four different continents over the weekend were caused by a University of Alaska program that studies the ionosphere. Which, of course, is pure nonsense. Read more... Read more ›
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An unknown number of orcas sunk a sailing yacht in Moroccan waters in the Strait of Gibraltar on Sunday, according to Spain’s maritime rescue service. While orcas are typically peaceful, this is the latest in a string of attacks that have hit the region in the past four years.Read more... Read more ›
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Apple and other streaming companies are interested in shaking up the entertainment industry’s compensation model. According to Bloomberg, under the newly proposed system (which is really only an idea, at this point), talent—like actors and other production staff—would be paid based, partially, on how well the movie…Read more... Read more ›
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A 24/7 livestream “Portal” that connects New York City and the Irish capital of Dublin was temporarily deactivated on Tuesday as technicians sought to solve a critical flaw in the project’s fun premise: How to stop so many people from sharing inappropriate material—like dick pics, videos of 9/11, or boobs.Read more... Read more ›
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Ahmed Best—the man who brought Jar Jar Binks to life and then faced decades of horrifying harassment for it—shouldn’t have needed a Star Wars redemption arc, but he arguably has had one of a sort in the last few years, beyond a renaissance of prequels re-examination, in the form of Kelleran Beq: the Jedi gameshow host…Read more... Read more ›
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Chuck E. Cheese is pulling the plug on Munch’s Make Believe Band, the animatronic robots that terrified children and their begrudging parents with musical performances for decades. The New York Times reports that the arcade-pizzeria franchise will soon power down the bands at all but two of the chain’s more than 400…Read more... Read more ›
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