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US soldier arrested after allegedly posting hacked Trump and Harris call logs

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The United States has arrested a US Army soldier and charged him with being part of...
The United States has arrested a US Army soldier and charged him with being part of a hacking scheme to sell and distribute stolen phone records. An indictment alleges that 20-year-old Cameron John Wagenius knowingly sold “confidential phone records” over online forums and other communications platforms last Novembe...
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One dead, seven injured as Cybertruck explodes outside Trump’s hotel in Las Vegas

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A Tesla Cybertruck exploded just outside of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada on...
A Tesla Cybertruck exploded just outside of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada on Wednesday morning, law enforcement authorities have just confirmed. One person is dead inside the Cybertruck, and seven minor injuries have been reported, according to Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill. The FBI is also o...
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US sanctions Russian group over AI-generated election disinformation

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The US has issued sanctions on organizations in Russia and Iran for attempting to interfere with...
The US has issued sanctions on organizations in Russia and Iran for attempting to interfere with the 2024 presidential election. The Treasury Department said on Tuesday that the groups tried to “stoke socio-political tensions” and influence voters.One group, the Moscow-based Center for Geopolitical Expertise, has ti...
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Popeye and Tintin are now in the public domain

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It’s a new year, and that means more works are headed to the public domain. This...
It’s a new year, and that means more works are headed to the public domain. This year, thousands of copyrighted works created in 1929, including the earliest versions of Popeye and the Belgian comic book character Tintin, are now free to reuse and repurpose in the US.Duke Law School’s Center for the Study of Public ...
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Is Sleep’s Dopesmoker still the heaviest album of all time?

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Sleep’s Dopesmoker is legendarily heavy. On any halfway decent sound system, it’ll rattle your ribcage. It’s...
Sleep’s Dopesmoker is legendarily heavy. On any halfway decent sound system, it’ll rattle your ribcage. It’s sort of like being slowly assaulted by a massage chair. In 2015, Guitar World named it the heaviest album ever recorded. “You will definitely not find anything heavier,” wrote Ethan Varian.On November 6th, fo...
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The Apple Watch Series 10 has returned to its Black Friday sale price

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Whether or not you subscribe to them, New Year’s resolutions are a capital-T Thing for many...
Whether or not you subscribe to them, New Year’s resolutions are a capital-T Thing for many people in the US. Thankfully, if your goals for 2025 revolve around health and fitness, the 42mm Apple Watch Series 10 is on sale at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy starting at $329 ($70 off), matching its Black Friday low. You...
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2024: a year in art on The Verge

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The Verge art team was busy this year, creating illustrations, photographs, and interactive designs to match...
The Verge art team was busy this year, creating illustrations, photographs, and interactive designs to match stories about underwater sea cables, competitive Excel, parental anxiety, AI companions, and so much more. Here’s a look back at 20 of our favorite projects from 2024, with comments from those of us who worke...
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LG’s lightweight Gram laptops get new Intel chips and offline AI features

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LG has announced additions to its ultra-light Gram and Gram Pro laptop lineup, adding cloud-based and...
LG has announced additions to its ultra-light Gram and Gram Pro laptop lineup, adding cloud-based and on-device AI-powered features that go beyond its current Gram laptops.The 16-inch Gram Pro will also be the first Copilot Plus PC in the LG Gram lineup and is further distinguished as the only model using the Intel ...
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New York state is defying Trump’s plans to roll back climate action

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New York governor Kathy Hochul signed landmark climate legislation into law last week, showing how states...
New York governor Kathy Hochul signed landmark climate legislation into law last week, showing how states can keep holding polluters accountable even when President-elect Donald Trump rolls back environmental protections.New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act will require the biggest multinational oil and gas compa...
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Volkswagen leak exposed location data for 800,000 electric cars

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Apple promised next-gen CarPlay in 2024, so where is it?

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We still haven’t seen the “next generation of CarPlay” that Apple first announced in 2022 and...
We still haven’t seen the “next generation of CarPlay” that Apple first announced in 2022 and continues to say on its CarPlay webpage is arriving in 2024, as MacRumors points out. And barring some spectacular surprise, it’s not coming today or tomorrow. What gives? So far, we’ve only seen changes like CarPlay mappin...
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A two-pack of refurbished Blink Outdoor 4 cameras is more than half off right now

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As we head into 2025, there aren’t many things preventing homeowners from building out a basic...
As we head into 2025, there aren’t many things preventing homeowners from building out a basic home security system. You can start small and cheap with the battery-powered Blink Outdoor 4. If you don’t mind that they’re refurbished (with the same one-year warranty as the new models), you can get two of them with a S...
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Apple TV Plus is free to stream this weekend

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Apple TV Plus will be free to stream this weekend from January 4th through the 5th,...
Apple TV Plus will be free to stream this weekend from January 4th through the 5th, similar to HBO’s old free weekends on cable. The company posted the news on social media alongside a short trailer featuring some of its top shows, with the tagline “see for yourself.” A press release from Apple indicates the free we...
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Apple could bring its ‘Pro’ OLED displays to the entire iPhone 17 line

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One of the big benefits of buying a “Pro” iPhone is currently that you get a...
One of the big benefits of buying a “Pro” iPhone is currently that you get a fancy high-refresh rate OLED display, but that may become standard across the iPhone 17 lineup, according to a Weibo leak from Digital Chat Station spotted by MacRumors. The outlet notes that Digital Chat Station leaked accurate details abo...
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The best PS5 games in 2024

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It’s been a bit of a rough year for PlayStation exclusives and the studios that make...
It’s been a bit of a rough year for PlayStation exclusives and the studios that make them. While The Final Shape was generally lauded as an excellent concluding chapter to Destiny 2’s current story arc, Bungie was faced with all kinds of setbacks including canceled projects and layoffs. Elsewhere, Sony’s Firewalk St...
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The Steam Deck has finally been surpassed — by a fork of Valve’s own experience

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The first time I installed Bazzite on a Windows gaming handheld, I laughed. It looked like...
The first time I installed Bazzite on a Windows gaming handheld, I laughed. It looked like such a blatant clone of Valve’s Steam Deck interface. Its many bugs kept me at bay.Now, an Asus ROG Ally X running Bazzite has all but replaced the Steam Deck in my life. For the moment, it may be the best handheld your time a...
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DJI now makes a very powerful car charger for its big ass batteries

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DJI has quietly introduced a powerful new car charger for its giant portable batteries. The $299...
DJI has quietly introduced a powerful new car charger for its giant portable batteries. The $299 / €269 Power 1kW Super Fast Car Charger can charge the company’s expanding lineup of power stations at up to 1000W from your car’s alternator when the engine is running.This new class of (nearly) do-it-yourself alternato...
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Spotify showed porn videos in search results for some popular artists

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A Reddit user posted a screenshot overnight of a Spotify search that brought a surprise: a...
A Reddit user posted a screenshot overnight of a Spotify search that brought a surprise: a pornographic video tucked into suggested results for the rapper M.I.A. Here’s a NSFW link to the thread. The video shown in their screenshot didn’t appear for us, but we found others after scrolling through dozens of results i...
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Is your iPhone sharing photos data with Apple by default?

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Apple occasionally makes choices that tarnish its strong privacy-forward reputation, like when it was secretly collecting...
Apple occasionally makes choices that tarnish its strong privacy-forward reputation, like when it was secretly collecting users’ Siri interactions. Yesterday, a blog post from developer Jeff Johnson highlighted what feels like such a choice: an “Enhanced Visual Search” toggle for the Apple Photos app that is seeming...
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The Brutalist was built to capture an immigrant’s ambitions

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The expectations for The Brutalist are high. Actor-turned-director Brady Corbet already took home the Silver Lion...
The expectations for The Brutalist are high. Actor-turned-director Brady Corbet already took home the Silver Lion at the Venice International Film Festival in September. And now he enters Hollywood’s big award season with seven Golden Globe nominations, including Director of a Motion Picture, Screenplay of a Motion ...
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2024 was a big year for Windows on Arm

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I still can’t quite believe that I’m using an Arm-powered Windows laptop every day. After more...
I still can’t quite believe that I’m using an Arm-powered Windows laptop every day. After more than a decade of trying to make Windows on Arm a reality, Microsoft and Qualcomm finally nailed it this year with Copilot Plus PCs. These new laptops have excellent battery life and great performance — and the app compatib...
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Meta’s ‘software update issue’ has been breaking Quest headsets for weeks

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The US proposes rules to make healthcare data more secure

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The SwitchBot S10, one of our favorite robovac / mop hybrids, is $500 off

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If you’re somebody who likes to clean and declutter in preparation for a new year, one...
If you’re somebody who likes to clean and declutter in preparation for a new year, one way to speed it up is by investing in a good robot vacuum. The SwitchBot S10 is one of our favorite vacuums that also happens to be a terrific mop, too, and is currently down to its all-time low price of $699.99 ($500 off) when yo...
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