Published on: 2025-06-07 00:46:03
Republicans Admit They Have Zero Respect for Musk, Were Just Using Him for Money and Clout "He's a complete joke... We couldn't wait to get rid of him." Soup D'oor Though some want him back, many Republicans are breathing a massive sigh of relief now that billionaire Elon Musk has broken up with president Donald Trump in dramatic fashion. As Axios reports, lawmakers are releasing plenty of steam and pent-up frustration. "He's a complete joke," one House Republican vented to Axios. "He had n
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-07 01:50:13
Apple’s relationship with India’s Tata Group just got even more critical. As reported by Reuters, Apple has officially brought Tata on board to handle iPhone and MacBook repairs in the country. Here’s why this is big news. Tata Group has been playing an increasingly important role in Apple’s supply chain, assembling iPhones for both domestic and international markets. It currently has three facilities in southern India, one of which also produces iPhone components. With today’s news, Tata take
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-07 03:54:48
The Nintendo Switch 2 comes with a one-year limited warranty that covers the cost of repairing unexpected defects, but any damage that falls outside that coverage will cost you. Avoiding that could be key, because based on Nintendo's customer repair portal, paying to fix a Switch 2 is noticeably more expensive than repairing an older Switch. Now, prices could vary depending on how your Switch 2 or its accessories are damaged. Just looking at repairing water damage specifically, though, here's h
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Palantir, facing mounting public scrutiny for its work with the Trump administration, took an increasingly defensive stance toward journalists and perceived critics this week, both at a defense conference in Washington, DC, and on social media. On Tuesday, a Palantir employee threatened to call the police on a WIRED journalist who was watching software demonstrations at its booth at AI+ Expo. The conference, which is hosted by the Special Competitive Studies Project, a think tank founded by for
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Snapchat is officially coming to your wrist. The first ever Snapchat app for Apple Watch just launched, here are the details. New Snapchat app for watchOS is all about messaging Snapchat has nearly a billion users, but until now it has never offered a native Apple Watch app. That’s finally changed. From Snap’s announcement post: With the Snapchat app on Apple Watch, you can preview an incoming message and reply using the Keyboard, Scribble, Dictation, or send an emoji. Respond to let your f
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is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. What’s Snapchat without the ability to snap and send photos to your friends? It’s the social platform’s new Apple Watch app that instead provides a quick way to preview messages and reply right from your wrist. Joining mobile and web-based versions of Snapchat, the Apple Watch app lets you preview incoming messages on your wrist (functionality t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-07 15:01:21
Is Elon Musk on ketamine? And if he is, is he taking so much of it that it's wreaked havoc on his bladder? According to Musk: no. "I'm not on ketamine ffs," he fumed on his website X, using the shorthand for "for f*ck's sake." But Grok, his "maximum truth-seeking" AI chatbot, once again betrayed its creator. "The claims about Elon Musk's drug use, including ketamine, ecstasy, and psychedelic mushrooms, appear likely true," Grok wrote, when asked to weigh in on the New York Times' reporting t
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Tech billionaire Peter Thiel has spent the last few years gabbing about Jeffrey Epstein—sometimes to fan the flames of conspiracy theory, and, at other points, to tie other well-known tech magnates to the dead pedophile. However, a new report claims that Thiel, himself, had significant financial ties to Epstein prior to the accused sex trafficker’s death in a New York jail cell in 2019. The New York Times reported on Wednesday that in 2015 and 2016, not long before his death, Epstein invested a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 10:47:19
Two commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission are resigning at the end of this week. For at least a little while, the FCC will have just two members: Chairman Brendan Carr, a Republican chosen by Trump to lead the agency, and Anna Gomez, a Democratic commissioner. Democrat Geoffrey Starks announced in March that he would leave in the near future, and today he said that Friday will be his final day. Starks' departure could have given Carr a 2-1 Republican majority, but it turns out
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 15:47:19
Two commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission are resigning at the end of this week. For at least a little while, the FCC will have just two members: Chairman Brendan Carr, a Republican chosen by Trump to lead the agency, and Anna Gomez, a Democratic commissioner. Democrat Geoffrey Starks announced in March that he would leave in the near future, and today he said that Friday will be his final day. Starks' departure could have given Carr a 2-1 Republican majority, but it turns out
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Why I Wrote the BEAM Book Post-mortems, coffee, and a decade of stubborn curiosity Why I wrote the Beam Book Posted: 2025-06-03 After ten years of keeping Klarna’s core system upright I know this: a 15 millisecond pause in the BEAM can stall millions of peak-shopping payments, trigger a 3 a.m. Christmas-Eve post-mortem, and earn you a very awake call from the CEO. I wrote The BEAM Book so the next engineer fixes that pause before the coffee cools. Origins I opened the project on 12 October
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Generative AI developers should take steps to ensure the use of their tools doesn't harm young people who use them, the American Psychological Association warned in a health advisory Tuesday. The report, compiled by an advisory panel of psychology experts, called for tech companies to ensure there are boundaries with simulated relationships, to create age-appropriate privacy settings and to encourage healthy uses of AI, among other recommendations. The APA has issued similar advisories about t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 11:00:29
Thanks in part to your support, the right to repair is now law in Washington. Gov. Bob Ferguson signed two bills guaranteeing Washingtonians' right to access tools, parts, and information so they can fix personal electronics, appliances, and wheelchairs. This is the epitome of common-sense legislation. When you own something, you should have the final say about who fixes, adapts, or modifies it—and how. When you own something, you should have the final say about who fixes, adapts, or modifies
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A hacker targets other hackers, gamers, and researchers with exploits, bots, and game cheats in source code hosted on GitHub that contain hidden backdoors to give the threat actor remote access to infected devices. This campaign was discovered by Sophos researchers, whom a client contacted to estimate the danger of a remote access trojan called Sakura RAT, which is freely available on GitHub. The researchers found that the Sakura RAT code was essentially nonfunctional but had a PreBuildEvent i
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Robust passwords remain the cornerstone of online security, even as malicious actors sharpen their attacks. Consider the threat from AS-REP roasting – and the defenses organizations must deploy to protect their Active Directory. AS-REP (Authentication Server Response) Roasting targets user objects in Active Directory that don’t require Kerberos pre-authentication. Kerberos – an authentication protocol – usually requires an operator to transmit an Authentication Server Request (known as an AS-RE
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Why I Wrote the BEAM Book Post-mortems, coffee, and a decade of stubborn curiosity Why I wrote the Beam Book Posted: 2025-06-03 After ten years of keeping Klarna’s core system upright I know this: a 15 millisecond pause in the BEAM can stall millions of peak-shopping payments, trigger a 3 a.m. Christmas-Eve post-mortem, and earn you a very awake call from the CEO. I wrote The BEAM Book so the next engineer fixes that pause before the coffee cools. Origins I opened the project on 12 October
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is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. The Washington Post could soon allow non-professional writers to submit opinion columns using an AI writing coach known as Ember, according to a report from The New York Times. The move is reportedly part of a broader initiative to open the paper to outside opinion pieces, including from other publications, Substack writers, and amateur columnists.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 19:00:00
Shards Protocol, a reputation protocol that rewards users for their Web3 milestones, has raised $2 million across multiple funding rounds. Participating in the round were Animoca Brands, Kyber Ventures, and more. Earlier this year, the company announced its expansion from Shards.Tech to Shards Protocol, taking user acquisition and rewards to the next level. Web3 gaming guilds such as Yield Guild Games also made a strategic investment into Shards Protocol. Shards initially started as a softwar
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 07:36:49
Why I Wrote the BEAM Book Post-mortems, coffee, and a decade of stubborn curiosity Why I wrote the Beam Book Posted: 2025-06-03 After ten years of keeping Klarna’s core system upright I know this: a 15 millisecond pause in the BEAM can stall millions of peak-shopping payments, trigger a 3 a.m. Christmas-Eve post-mortem, and earn you a very awake call from the CEO. I wrote The BEAM Book so the next engineer fixes that pause before the coffee cools. Origins I opened the project on 12 October
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In the spring of 2018, thousands of Google employees pressured the company into dropping a major artificial intelligence contract with the Pentagon. The tech giant even pledged to not use its AI for weapons or certain surveillance systems in the future. The victory, which came amid a wave of unprecedented employee-led protests, helped inspire a new generation of tech activists in Silicon Valley. But seven years later, the legacy of that moment is more complicated. Google recently revised its AI
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 06:34:00
I've been writing about the right-to-repair movement and finding more sustainable ways to buy tech for years, but it wasn't until earlier this year on a routine Tube journey across London that I heard of Back Market, a refurbished tech marketplace originating in France. While avoiding any possible eye contact with strangers, as is good Tube etiquette, my gaze drifted up to a Back Market advert above the window pane. "Sorry, cats. Tech now has multiple lives too," it said. It was amusing and imm
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is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Would you call the Nintendo Switch easy to repair, what with its infamously drifting joysticks, glued-in battery, tiny and easy-to-damage ribbon cables, and lack of official repair instructions and replacement parts? iFixit doesn’t think so anymore. After giving Nintendo’s handheld a rosy welcome at its 2017 debut, the online repair site s
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Lanh Nguyen / Android Authority TL;DR The Galaxy Ring 2 may not launch this year. A new report suggests Samsung has just started developing the smart ring. If development is still in its early stages, it could be several months before the product is ready for market. It’s been nearly a year since Samsung launched the Galaxy Ring, so it’s reasonable to expect a successor soon, perhaps within the next month or so. However, it appears the wait for Samsung’s second-generation smart ring could be
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is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. Texas moved closer to becoming the next state with a right to repair law on the books, as the state Senate unanimously voted 31 - 0 to finalize HB 2963 this weekend. It would require manufacturers to make spare parts, manuals, and necessary tools available for equipment sold or used in the country’s second most populated state. As more st
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-13 00:18:44
Amazon Fire Sticks are enabling “billions of dollars'” worth of streaming piracy, according to a report today from Enders Analysis, a media, entertainment, and telecommunications research firm. Technologies from other media conglomerates, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook, are also enabling what the report’s authors deem an “industrial scale of theft." The report, "Video piracy: Big tech is clearly unwilling to address the problem," focuses on the European market but highlights the global growth
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 00:54:06
Apple last week announced that iPads have joined the Self Service Repair program, enabling owners and independent repair shops alike to get access to manuals, tools, and parts. The company said it was excited to expand the program to iPads, but a closer look at the details reveals both good news and bad … Apple’s Self Service Repair program first launched for iPhone back in 2021, expanded to MacBooks in 2023, and is now available for iPad too. The company said it offers support for iPad Air (M
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-15 18:08:00
Why it matters: It's somewhat ironic that arguably the biggest piracy enabler today is a device that comes from Amazon, a $2 trillion tech giant with a streaming service. According to a new report, jailbroken Amazon Fire Sticks are used to watch billions of dollars worth of pirated streams, and Google, Meta and Microsoft are exacerbating the situation. A report from Enders Analysis, titled "Video piracy: Big tech is clearly unwilling to address the problem," looks at the issue of illegal stream
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-15 12:43:00
Introduction We present RenderFormer, a neural rendering pipeline that directly renders an image from a triangle-based representation of a scene with full global illumination effects and that does not require per-scene training or fine-tuning. Mesh to Image, End to End Instead of taking a physics-centric approach to rendering, we formulate rendering as a sequence-to-sequence transformation where a sequence of tokens representing triangles with reflectance properties is converted to a sequence
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Introduction We present RenderFormer, a neural rendering pipeline that directly renders an image from a triangle-based representation of a scene with full global illumination effects and that does not require per-scene training or fine-tuning. Mesh to Image, End to End Instead of taking a physics-centric approach to rendering, we formulate rendering as a sequence-to-sequence transformation where a sequence of tokens representing triangles with reflectance properties is converted to a sequence
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Using ed(1) as My Static Site Generator I have a long story with bipolar spikes making me re-evaluate my tech choices. You can observe it with multiple of my website setups: I started with Tripod, my Gemtext-oriented OOP Lisp engine. Then I used the DSLs Common Lisp provides to generate HTML from s-expressions. And, finally, I switched to C Preprocessor. And here's a new flare-up, I guess? This time I'm testing the limits of what ed-family editors can do. Including parsing Lisp. And using ed a
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