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    Latest Avengers: Doomsday teaser highlights X-Men

    Editor: Patrick Stewart's name is misspelled in the caption at the top of the story. Never mind - someone already caught it!
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    iPadOS 26 preview: The rare software update that makes (most) old hardware feel new

    I think I would argue the second statement renders the first one inaccurate. I've actually been eagerly awaiting screenshots and/or reviews of stage manager on an iPad Mini because that's the only iPad I've been willing to own for years now (I'm on my third model), and I disagree that having...
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    Glen Powell plays a dangerous game in The Running Man trailer

    When I look at the wad of bills being flashed around 26 seconds in, I know it's probably supposed to be Josh Brolin's character, but I swear I keep seeing a young Arnold Schwarzenegger instead...what an awesome Easter egg that would be!
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    Peer pressure, revenge, horniness: Teens explain why they make fake nudes

    As a parent of a teenage girl, this article and the underlying study provide a lot of data that is extremely helpful in preparing for the likely inevitability of this happening to someone we know. It is definitely motivating me to work with our school district on coming up with a plan now...
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    Alien: Earth teaser gives us xenomorph’s POV

    This was the original premise for Alien 3 before it pivoted. (See https://www.neogaf.com/threads/alien-3-workprint-edition.50174/page-2#post-1464011) There was a teaser in the movie theaters with an open shot of space and a voice that said "In space, noone can hear you scream" (then slowly...
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    Basecamp-maker 37Signals says its “cloud exit” will save it $10M over 5 years

    I would treat this as a very biased data point. They mention "Running apps the size of Basecamp ... requires a substantial and dedicated crew" -- very true. But nowhere do they identify the costs of that. If they were trying to make a serious point about how on-prem is cheaper than cloud, they...
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    ByteDance intern fired for planting malicious code in AI models

    "ByteDance had lost tens of millions after an intern sabotaged" Tens of millions of what? Dollars? Yuan? Users? Records? I know this is clarified a few paragraphs down, but it's a confusing way to start the article.
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    Sophisticated $25M ethereum heist took about 12 seconds, DOJ says

    I find it oddly amusing that such a brilliant technical heist was (mostly) thwarted by the dumb act of failing to properly conceal their Internet searches.
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    Palm OS and the devices that ran it: An Ars retrospective

    This story brought back wonderful memories of traveling the world for a year with my then-girlfriend-now-wife. I carried a Palm Vx every day (with a folding keyboard!), and it was our main way of taking notes about what we saw and experienced. I got pickpocketed and lost it in Quito; ordered...
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    Can a $3,500 headset replace your TV? We tried Vision Pro to find out

    I think the only reason they can get away with a 2.5 hour battery life is that you can't download copyrighted content to view offline...like, say, on a six-hour flight across the country. (For many years, that was how I determined whether a laptop or tablet was the right purchase for me.) While...
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    George Carlin’s heirs sue comedy podcast over “AI-generated” impression

    This will lose. If this was an AI (which I'm inclined not to believe from the prior article on this topic), the material was not "copied", but rather used for training. While they might have a case there -- the courts are still deciding what copyright means in this sense -- they are arguing the...
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    Full trailer for 3 Body Problem captures epic scope of Liu Cixin’s novel

    Really enjoyed the books, although the second and third were significantly different in scope and style from the first. If adapting the first book is a challenge, doing it for the second, and especially the third, will be even more so. Hopefully they left intact much of the cultural revolution...
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    The Tesla Cybertruck finally goes on sale, starting at $60,990

    I can't even begin to imagine how much it will cost to repair this thing. Ten years ago, I rolled into someone at a red light in my Model S. No notable damage on either car, I was going under 10 mph. But something hidden behind the panel was later found to be cracked, and it wound up costing...
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    Combined Hulu and Disney+ app launches in March; beta debuts in December

    I'm just terrified at what this will mean for Hulu Live TV customers. I'm sure this is an afterthought on top of an afterthought in this app merger. (Damn, I finally cut the cord in favor of this option, and now....)
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    Twitter Payments chief is out as layoffs cut 10% of Twitter staff, report says

    Yes, sorry - I meant the decision to lay off the department that is responsible for providing that feature -- I was assuming, based on the reporting, that without this team, accessibility would not be taken into account and just become a nice-to-have-but-dont-care feature for Elon, but that...
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    Twitter Payments chief is out as layoffs cut 10% of Twitter staff, report says

    The decision to lay off the entire accessibility team and remove functionality critical to enabling access may actually violate Section 503 of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If true, no US government agency would be permitted to post to Twitter without violating the law. I kind of wonder...
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    Eight-car Thanksgiving pileup blamed on Tesla “Full Self-Driving” software

    The description of what happened matches what happens if you are using the self-driving feature and not responding to the warnings to move the wheel slightly with your hands : after several warnings, it starts to move the car to the right shoulder and eventually brings it to a stop. So it is...
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    Hands-on: Gmail’s new sidebar feels like a big banner ad for Google Chat

    I don't have it yet in my account, but the minute I do, I'll be writing a Stylus script to remove it, which I figure will take about two minutes, and then that will be that. Frankly, this I can live with. I'm still bitter about having to find a new home for my private domain's email.
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    Google relents: Legacy G Suite users will be able to migrate to free accounts

    I still haven't gotten a notification about my legacy account going away, and I didn't see the survey link when I signed onto my portal either. So I tried going to the survey directly. I can't fill it out because I never bothered to enable Google Docs for my domain. So what kind of product...
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    FOSS developer who nuked his apps embraced QAnon theory involving Aaron Swartz

    > “Take this as an opportunity to send me a six-figure yearly contract...” he wrote. What company in their right mind would agree to hire him after taking these actions? The risk of him just nuking and paving all his contributions from the company's source control if he were ever terminated...