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DHS Buries Its Last Election Security Review Because With Tru...
Tim Cushing
from the breaking-everything-it-touches dept The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) now exists in name only. Not only did Trumps band of Musk-led pillagers dismantle the infras
Techdirt
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East Asian personality may stem from Ice Age Siberia 20000 yr...
David Sun
I have never thought Id be involved in science. I assumed you needed a lab coat and years of certification. My strange and accidental journey into science began on a hike in the Andean mountains of P

Substack.com
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I spoke with Intel and premier laptop brands in my search for...
ben.wilson@windowscentral.com (Ben Wilson)
Previously known as Mobile World Congress before its modern rebrand to MWC, the trade show was a repeated attraction for us when Windows Phone was all the rage. These days, it's evolved into a much

Windows Central
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Vermonts Newest Film Festival Is Already Adding a Second Loca...
Kate Erbland
In just its second year, the Vermont Film & Folklore Festival is already expanding its footprint in a big way: the newest Vermont film festival and the only international film festival in souther

IndieWire
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Watching the Power of Supermassive Black Holes With X-ray Int...
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X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like Hubble and James Webb, don't even touch that bandwidth. And Chandra, the m

Universe Today
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Apple exec slams ugly and embarrassing Siri delays in all-han...
Chance Miller
Were one week removed from Apples decision to indefinitely delay the more personalized version of Siri that was first announced at WWDC 2024, and the blowback hasnt let up. Now, Bloomberg has

9to5Mac
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New York law would ban civilians from weaponizing robots
Mack DeGeurin
Lawmakers in New York have proposed a new bill that would make it illegal to mount weapons to robots or drones. That is of course, unless the people operating those weaponized machines happen to work

Popular Science
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USPS head agrees to let DOGE find 'efficiencies' with limits...
Hansi Lo Wang
The head of the U.S. Postal Service has agreed to allow the DOGE team of President Trump's billionaire adviser Elon Musk to help find "further efficiencies" at the country's mail service, according t

NPR
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Pakistan links train hijacking to Afghan handlers and Indian ...
Abid Hussain
Islamabad, Pakistan Pakistan on Friday claimed that the hijacking of the Jaffar Express train earlier this week was carried out by terrorists who were communicating with handlers in Afghanistan, whil

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Mark Carney Is Sworn in as Canadas New Prime Minister as Coun...
ROB GILLIES / AP
TORONTO Former central banker Mark Carney was sworn in as Canadas new prime minister on Friday, and will now try to steer his country through a trade war brought by U.S. President Donald Trump, annex

Time
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A Simple Twist of Fate: The Surprising Connection Between Bob...
Lana Schwartz
If youve seen A Complete Unknown, the Oscar-nominated film directed by James Mangold about the early folk years of Bob Dylans career, then you know by now that the movie finds Dylan caught at a cross

Mental Floss
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Smoke from wildland-urban interface fires deadlier than remot...
National Center for Atmospheric Research
The smoke from fires that blaze through the wildland-urban interface (WUI) has far greater health impacts than smoke from wildfires in remote areas, new research finds. The study, published in Scien

Phys.Org
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New Balance's Freshest Running Shoe Went Stealth (& Still Loo...
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We're still trying to figure out the preferred name of New Balance's latest and prettiest running Fresh Foam shoe (is it FF800? TRN? Trainer? All the above???). However, there's one thing we can't de

Highsnobiety
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Google Calendar has a new permissions system in the works for...
Dallas Thomas
Summary <ul><li> Google Calendar may introduce its own permission system, separate from Android's centralized calendar access. </li><li> This new system would allow users to control which apps

Android Police
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Next Breakthrough In Anti-Aging Medicine -- Fat?
StudyFinds Staff
Adipocytes. 3d rendered close-up illustration of human fat cells. (Image by Olga Zinkevych on Shutterstock) <ul><li>Brown fat, unlike white fat, burns calories and can boost exercise performance by

Study Finds
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Jesse L. Kearney, Jr. Dies: Playwright And Strong Advocate Fo...
Greg Evans
Jesse L. Kearney, Jr., a playwright, a recipient of the Dramatists Guilds Jonathan Larson Musical Theater Fellowship and the vice president of the advocacy group Black Broadway Men United, died Thur

Deadline
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Illinois Votes on a New State Flag Design and Chooses the Cu...
JOHN O'CONNOR / AP
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. Flags engender such loyalty and pride, they often become very personal emblems with quirky or quaint nicknames: Old Glory, Union Jack, Maple Leaf or SOB. That would be (state) Seal

Time
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Q&A: Number of those burdened by rental affordability hits re...
Christina Pazzanese
Amid a nationwide housing shortage, a new report shows the number of those burdened by rental affordability has hit a record high. As of 2023, 22.6 million renter households spent more than 30% of t

Phys.Org
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Pedersen wins stage six of Paris-Nice after Vingegaard withdraws
BBC Sport
Denmark's Mads Pedersen won stage six of the Paris-Nice as American Matteo Jorgenson capitalised on the withdrawal of Jonas Vingegaard to extend his overall race lead. Pedersen, riding for Lidl-Trek

BBC News
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Best iPhone Camera Settings for Night Photography
Pankil Shah
The iPhone camera has gotten so much better over the years. Today, iPhones take great night photosbut not by default. If your low-light shots look grainy or dull, its time to tweak your settings. 4

MakeUseOf
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USPS Makes Alarming Deal With Elon Musks DOGE
Hafiz Rashid
DeJoy said in a letter Thursday that DOGE was an effort aligned with his own work in shrinking the USPS, noting that since the 2021 fiscal year, he had shrunk the postal services workforce by 30,000.

The New Republic
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I put 5 popular AI chatbots through the ringer, and this assi...
Ben Khalesi
AI chatbots have evolved from novelty to essential tools for millions. OpenAI's ChatGPT reached 100 million users two months after launch. This sparked an industry race as tech giants and startups la

Android Police
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Garrett: Frustration with Browns 'about winning'
Daniel Oyefusi
BEREA, Ohio -- Defensive end Myles Garrett said Friday that signing a record-breaking extension with the Cleveland Browns, just one month after requesting a trade, wasn't about the money but feeling

ESPN
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