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05-Nov-2024 – Hoax bomb threats linked to Russia target polling places in battleground states, FBI says

Brief Summary: “The threats, which were deemed to be non-credible, caused two polling locations in Fulton County, Ge”

05-Nov-2024 – Russia Just Tried to Disrupt Georgia Voting With a Phony Bomb Scare

Brief Summary: ”

The morning of Election Day, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger blamed Russia for cre”

05-Nov-2024 – The FBI Warns of an Election Day Hoax Video Designed to Scare Off Voters

Brief Summary: ”

The FBI issued a warning on Election Day about a hoax video that purports to be a news clip rela”

05-Nov-2024 – Abortion Foes Are Routing Millions of Dollars Through Local Candidates

Brief Summary: ”

This story was produced in partnership with the National Catholic Reporter.

Millions of dolla”

05-Nov-2024 – Here are key LGBTQ+ races to watch on Election Day

Brief Summary: “Besides the presidential race and deciding who’ll control Congress, Tuesday’s election will feature “

05-Nov-2024 – Open-Source Robot Transforms

Brief Summary: “Besides Pokémon, there might have been no greater media franchise for a child of the 90s than the Tr”

05-Nov-2024 – Election Monitors Blocked in Key States: Civil Rights Chair Demands Accountability

Brief Summary: “As voters across the U.S. head to the polls, tensions are high following decisions by officials in T”

05-Nov-2024 – Election Day information in Macon County

Brief Summary: “November 5, 2024 – It’s finally election day, and if you have not already voted, today is your last “

05-Nov-2024 – ‘People do not want to believe it is true’: the photographer capturing the vanishing of glaciers

Brief Summary: “Christian Åslund was shocked at the difference between what he saw in 2002 and what confronted him t”

05-Nov-2024 – On Election Day, Disinformation Worries Security Pros the Most

Brief Summary: “A Dark Reading poll reveals widespread concern over disinformation about election integrity and vote”

05-Nov-2024 – AI Not Needed For Hackaday Projects

Brief Summary: “It was Supercon this weekend, and Hackaday staffers made their way to Pasadena for what was by all a”

04-Nov-2024 – How Fox Intentionally Destroyed Mike Judge’s Idiocracy, And Why its A Travesty

Brief Summary: “From King of the Hill to Office Space, Mike Judge is an expert at creating iconic comedies that find”

04-Nov-2024 – A Lesson in RF Design Thanks to This Homebrew LNA

Brief Summary: “If you’re planning on working satellites or doing any sort of RF work where the signal lives down in”

04-Nov-2024 – What’s the most popular way to prepare Japan’s beloved breakfast dish, Tamago Kake Gohan?

Brief Summary: ”
Survey results shed light on people’s personal preferences for mixing the raw egg into the rice as “

04-Nov-2024 – Second Life Grid Statistics – November 2024

Brief Summary: “Here are the latest Second Life grid statistics as of Sunday 3rd November 2024. These stats are avai”

04-Nov-2024 – Ava Max has released her festive new single ‘1 Wish’

Brief Summary: ”
Ava Max has shared a new holiday single titled ‘1 Wish’.

The track follows her recent collaborat”

03-Nov-2024 – All You Need for Artificial Intelligence is a Commodore 64

Brief Summary: “Artificial intelligence has always been around us, with [Timothy J. O’Malley]’s 1985 book on AI proj”

03-Nov-2024 – Boobs Curry going on sale in Japan just in time for Nice Boobs Day

Brief Summary: ”
“A product that allows you to enjoy dreams, romance, and playfulness.”

Curry rice is one of Japan’”

31-Oct-2024 – Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves

Brief Summary: “During my year-long odyssey into the world of AI-generated slop on Facebook and other Meta platforms”

31-Oct-2024 – Trump Once Again Excited To Do Things Whether The Woman Likes It Or Not

Brief Summary: “At his rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, last night, while wearing a garbage man’s vest, Donald Trump m”

31-Oct-2024 – We try carving a Halloween pumpkin… to eat【SoraKitchen】

Brief Summary: ”
It’s the great pumpkin, P.K. Sanjun!

It’s Halloween once again in Japan, which means… Well, it’s s”

31-Oct-2024 – In Two Days, Washington Post Subscriber Base Actually Decimated In The Grammar Nazi Sense Of The Word

Brief Summary: “Image via Speaking GriefThe staff of the Washington Post — those who didn’t resign in protest — are “

31-Oct-2024 – Microsoft isn’t secretly installing Recall on your Windows PC

Brief Summary: “There’s been more controversy regarding Microsoft’s Recall feature for Windows, with people supposed”

31-Oct-2024 – Voyager 1 Fault Forces Switch to S-Band

Brief Summary: “We hate to admit it, but whenever we see an article about either Voyager spacecraft, our thoughts im”

31-Oct-2024 – The joy of accidentally weird-looking websites

Brief Summary: “In the past couple of weeks, my browsing experience has felt a little different than usual. I notice”

30-Oct-2024 – George Clooney Says Boys Can Keep Voting Secrets Too

Brief Summary: “Yesterday, we talked about two great ads encouraging votes for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, directed “

30-Oct-2024 – Second Life Has 500,000 Monthly Active Users

Brief Summary: “According to NWN in the latest blog post called Philip Rosedale Returns Full-Time to Second Life as “

30-Oct-2024 – New Raspberry Pi OS switches everyone over to Wayland

Brief Summary: “The slow rise of Wayland hasn’t really been slow anymore for years now, and today another major part”

30-Oct-2024 – The 2024 Election: No, It’s Not a Joke!

Brief Summary: ”

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30-Oct-2024 – Homebrew Sferics Receiver Lets You Tune Into Earth Music

Brief Summary: “It probably comes as little surprise that our planet is practically buzzing with radio waves. Most o”

29-Oct-2024 – Grimes has remixed Magdalena Bay’s ‘Image’

Brief Summary: ”
Magdalena Bay have unveiled ‘Image (Grimes Special)’.

The reworked track arrives ahead of the ba”

29-Oct-2024 – CHVRCHES’ Lauren Mayberry has announced her debut solo album, ‘Vicious Creature’

Brief Summary: ”
Lauren Mayberry has announced her debut solo album ‘Vicious Creature’ alongside the release of a ne”

29-Oct-2024 – GitHub Copilot in Windows Terminal

Brief Summary: “GitHub Copilot users can now use the power of GitHub Copilot to get command suggestions and explanat”

29-Oct-2024 – Introducing new artificial intelligence and machine learning projects for Code Clubs

Brief Summary: “We’re pleased to share a new collection of Code Club projects designed to introduce creators to the “

26-Oct-2024 – Transphobia rots your brain

Brief Summary: “CSICon is currently taking place in Las Vegas, with a great speaker lineup: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bri”

27-Oct-2024 – Second Life Starter Guide: How to Add a Body (BOM) for Female Avatars

Brief Summary: “Adding a body in Second Life can be a big investment since bodies are among the more expensive items”

27-Oct-2024 – Dell Command Update – pulling back the curtains

Brief Summary: “TLDR: You need to learn SKU’s (SystemSKUNumber) for Dell systems if you want to be successful in aut”

27-Oct-2024 – Trump’s Cult and the Death and Destruction of Decency

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22-Oct-2024 – “Click to Cancel” Coming Soon

Brief Summary: “If you’ve ever had to suffer through a call tree and a 9,000 hour wait on hold to cancel a subscript”

18-Oct-2024 – Teaching Owlgebra: developing math on Duolingo

Brief Summary: “You’ve heard of Spanish or vanish, but what about divide or hide? Last year, Duolingo launched a new”

18-Oct-2024 – Google’s ad-blocking crackdown underway

Brief Summary: ”
Google has gotten a bad reputation as of late for being a bit overzealous when it comes to fighting”

18-Oct-2024 – Experimenting with audio input and output for the OpenAI Chat Completion API

Brief Summary: “OpenAI promised this at DevDay a few weeks ago and now it’s here: their Chat Completion API can now “

18-Oct-2024 – Correct and Incorrect Conclusions About Democrats and Unions

Brief Summary: “We need more union members. We need more union members. (Photo: Getty)Joe Biden has been an uncommon”

17-Oct-2024 – Illinois Joins CoSN’s Trusted Learning Environment (TLE) State Partnership Program for Student Data Privacy

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17-Oct-2024 – Qualcomm Has Canceled its Snapdragon Dev Kit, Will Refund All Preorders

Brief Summary: “Qualcomm has canceled the Snapdragon Dev Kit, its mini PC powered by a Snapdragon X Elite chip, and “

17-Oct-2024 – Internet Archive Slowly Revives After DDoS Barrage

Brief Summary: “Days after facing a major breach, the site is still struggling to get fully back on its feet.”

17-Oct-2024 – MAGA is a virus and the press should be the vaccine

Brief Summary: “America is in the midst of a political pandemic.
Perilously close to half of its population has fall”

17-Oct-2024 – What Would It Take to Recreate Bell Labs?

Brief Summary: “It’s been said that the best way to stifle creativity by researchers is to demand that they produce “

17-Oct-2024 – Second Life Book Club to End.

Brief Summary: ”  After some years, the Second Life Book Club, hosted by Draxtor Despres, will be coming to a close.”

17-Oct-2024 – WTF happened to our music?

Brief Summary: “Accusations that some big name musical acts have been miming their vocals raises some tricky questio”

16-Oct-2024 – Winamp Taken Down: Too Good For This Open Source World

Brief Summary: “If you picked today in your hackerspace’s sweepstake on when Winamp would pull their code repository”

16-Oct-2024 – Orla Gartland has confirmed a European and UK tour for spring 2025

Brief Summary: ”
Orla Gartland has announced her largest UK and European tour to date.

The run is set to take pla”

16-Oct-2024 – 🧰 My Self-Care Toolbox

Brief Summary: “Self-care is generally defined as the practice of taking care of your physical, mental, and emotiona”

16-Oct-2024 – Arduboy Cassette Award Explores New Features

Brief Summary: “When [Press Play on Tape] entered their game Prince of Arabia into the Arduboy FX Game Jam, we bet t”

15-Oct-2024 – Rogue Legacy 1 source code released

Brief Summary: “Rogue Legacy, a rogue-lite from Cellar Door Games, that originally released in 2013 has now had the “

15-Oct-2024 – 24 phrases for your next Spanish conversation

Brief Summary: “We all need a bit of help sometimes—learners included! When it comes to language, speakers use lots “

15-Oct-2024 – What Is the Trump 2024 Blueprint for Stealing the White House?

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14-Oct-2024 – Solving a Retrocomputing Mystery with an Album Cover: Greengate DS:3

Brief Summary: “[Bea Thurman] had a retro music conundrum. She loved the classic Greengate DS:3 sampler, but couldn’”

09-Oct-2024 – The Internet Archive Is Under DDoS Attack

Brief Summary: “Jason Scott:

Someone is DDOSing the internet archive, so we’ve been down for hours. According to”

09-Oct-2024 – Internet Archive Suffers ‘Catastrophic’ Breach Impacting 31 Million Users

Brief Summary: “BleepingComputer’s Lawrence Abrams: Internet Archive’s “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data bre”

09-Oct-2024 – Green Day are going to re-release ‘Dookie’ on a bunch of weird formats, including a toothbrush and a doorbell

Brief Summary: ”
Green Day are set to celebrate the 30th anniversary of ‘Dookie’ with a pretty unusual re-release pr”

09-Oct-2024 – Thousands of Internal AI Training Datasets, Tools Exposed to Anyone on the Internet

Brief Summary: ”

Thousands of machine learning tools, including some belonging to large tech companies, are exposed”

09-Oct-2024 – Paramore: “The creativity is about to get cranked up”

Brief Summary: ”
Newly independent and fresh off Taylor Swift’s world-dominating Eras tour, Paramore’s future feels “