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    Cops arrest 17-year-old suspected of hundreds of swattings nationwide

    Call it what it is - domestic terrorism.
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    HP CEO: Blocking third-party ink from printers fights viruses

    Worry about virus in the cartridge? How about stop putting embedded logic devices in them that someone CAN load a virus onto? Will never buy another HP product again.
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    Cable firms to FTC: We shouldn’t have to let users cancel service with a click

    Personally, I could care less about "one click" cancel. I care a LOT more about the fiasco of calling to cancel, then the stuff still showing up on the bill. It literally took 4 months to get frontier to cancel my tv service. How about fine of $10,000 for them (and fitness clubs) when they do...
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    Vectrex reborn: How a chance encounter gave new life to a dead console

    I had one back in the day - it was awesome. Would love to have one today - just have to figure out where and how (and not spend $400 usd....). awesome article.
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    It’s “shakeout” time as losses of Netflix rivals top $5 billion

    "There are a lot of . . . excess players in the market" As a lot of others have said - duh. Everyone wanted to jump on the "pay us for our limited niche content!" the "me too!" be a streamer. The sad part - is the workers get fired - not enough of the leaders.
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    Is the NFL making progress in tackling its concussion crisis?

    As someone who played football in school - a lot of this makes a lot of sense - especially the pressure to NOT report... The end game for me - I can tell you this - my kid - he won't be playing football.
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    41 states sue Meta for allegedly addicting kids to Facebook and Instagram

    As an actual parent, with actual kids - 1 - Whatever - parents - maybe you need to be more engaged in what your kids are doing. I review every video game and show my kids watch. Yes, more parental (or better quality tools) would be good - but this feels like a waste of time.... I would...
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    Disney starts crackdown on “significant” amount of password sharing

    Got plenty for me and the kids to watch on curiosity stream and youtube.
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    Musk’s unpaid bills: Dozens of lawsuits try to force Twitter (aka X) to pay up

    Please - someone who is not a douchebag buy tesla and spacex from him.... then let him rot.
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    AI-generated child sex imagery has every US attorney general calling for action

    Sooo...... fascinating topic. I can see the "this will just feed it!" idea - but just because I love halo does not mean I want to grab a what ever and charge some hills in battle. That and ...well...hate to say this - if they are looking at fake AI images for free - isn't that going to kill...
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    <em>Starfield</em> impressions: Putting the “vast” in “vast cosmos”

    Looking forward to it, and meets or exceeds expecations from all the reviews I have seen thus far. As someone who both uses and makes mods for skyrim and f4 - to me the 1000 "dead rocks" are a boon - they are room for TONS of modded content - a large canvas of areas for us to play with - and...
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    Petition to deny Fox TV license over false election info gains steam at FCC

    When part of your defense is "no reasonable person would believe us..." Then goodbye.
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    <em>Dark Forces: Remaster</em> is yet another all-timer FPS coming back around

    ok, might have to get that on the xbox for the kiddo - "son, back in my day...."
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    Lots of Earth-mass rogue planets could be found by NASA’s Roman telescope

    Yes - or a percentage of it - but they all add up. For decades (wrote my first paper on black holes and dark matter a long time ago) I have been saying - dark matter is not a huge mystical or magical thing. (yes, most astronomers know this - but keep looking for exotic answers). Between...
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    GOP voters had higher excess deaths rates after COVID vaccine rollout

    While I can have compassion for family members who have lost loved ones .... Nothing else to say....
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    US allocates $42B in broadband funding—find out how much your state will get

    Hmmm..... This should be tied to net neutrality. That and I would rather see the ISP's extend the infrastructure - THEN get paid for it. Otherwise - I suspect this will just get pocketed by the ISP - then later "we could not do it for reasons...."
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    Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds say

    Warning - yes, nice. Actually engaging the brake? No. Not until it is perfect, and we all have autonomous cars - oh, and pedestrians who wander into the street get auto-tazerd.
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    SpaceX launches tenth crewed mission, third fully commercial flight

    Wait a sec - I think I am missing something here - this almost makes it sound like anyone can just go up to the iss and stay for a while. I am admitting my own ignorance here - and maybe this is more common knowledge than I think - but I would think that nasa (or whoever the entity that manages...
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    Cadillac will build an electric version of the Escalade SUV

    Tell me you are trying to keep up with the jones without saying.... How many small ev's could that power? Us and our silly pursuit of prestige products.