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    NASA chief reviews Orion heat shield, expresses ‘full confidence’ in it for Artemis II

    I legitimately feel better about Artemis II after reading this article. Best of luck to everyone that we see an amazing mission.
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    The 10 best vehicles Ars Technica drove in 2025

    In defense of Nissan, we have a 10 year old Rogue with just short of 160k miles on it. It has had incredibly light maintenance (except for oil changes more often than suggested) its entire life - engine and cabin filters, brake pads, battery once, and the AC blower motor. She's been a...
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    The Chevrolet Equinox EV is high on comfort and convenience

    We wanted to buy the Equinox until we saw we'd be giving up CarPlay. We bought a Ford Escape PHEV a few weeks ago instead. If there's no CarPlay, there's absolutely zero chance we're looking at it.
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    Google claims to have quantum advantage with a potentially useful algorithm

    My level of understanding, even after reading the article twice, is roughly the same as a showing a dog a card trick. Fascinating field, but I don't know that I'll ever have a decent grasp of quantum mechanics.
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    Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi

    I'm glad I saw your comment. I had seen a bit of Kagi before and had been interested, with this article making me even more so, but that revenue sharing agreement for anything Russian is a hard barrier for me. I'll keep managing with my current tools until this changes.
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    Elon Musk blames X outages on “massive cyberattack”

    Attribution for nation-state level attacks are notoriously difficult, but yeah you figured out who did it in just a few hours. Those bread crumbs and debug symbols the attacker left behind ensured you blamed the correct country right away. Hackers of this caliber are notorious for leaving...
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    Dead babies, critically ill kids: Pediatricians make moving plea for vaccines

    It's because a portion of our population doesn't understand just wanting to help others without expecting something in return. If it isn't transactional somehow, or with someone losing in the exchange, it's suspicious to them. Because that's how they treat others.
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    US selling 69K seized bitcoins could mess with Trump plans for crypto reserve

    It's so mystifying to me hurting our soft power like this. These moves (crypto reserve, invasion threats, trade wars, etc) all work against the dollar and hurt it as a reserve currency. I just can't understand intentionally doing these things unless we're now on a literal imperialist warpath...
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    US selling 69K seized bitcoins could mess with Trump plans for crypto reserve

    A month ago, I would've said Trump would never support something that would damage the dollar's place in the world, because his wealth depends on dollars being worth something. But this whole "Canada, Greenland, Panama, and Mexico" threat has probably already started that ball rolling, even if...
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    Dozens of backdoored Chrome extensions discovered on 2.6 million devices

    That used to be part of my workflow and slowly but surely I stopped taking it seriously, with everything creeping back into one browser jammed full of nonsense. I don't want my household to learn a very painful lesson, so I'll have a busy day tomorrow
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    Dozens of backdoored Chrome extensions discovered on 2.6 million devices

    Wake up call for 2025. This is a nice reminder that I'm not compartmentalizing my browsing enough and relying far too hard on code from (waves hands around) literal strangers making browser extensions for no reason at all except maybe goodwill towards other humans. I shouldn't be trusting random...
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    Frogfish reveals how it evolved the “fishing rod” on its head

    I would never normally step into reading an article about this subject matter and I was already entertained before I got to your comment. That video was hilarious while teaching me things I didn't know I wanted to know
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    An ad giant wants to control your next TV’s operating system

    They're not going to stop until "Drink verification can" is real
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    Trump’s likely FCC chair wrote Project 2025 chapter on how he’d run the agency

    It's going to be so much worse than we ever feared. They're already so comfortable telling us what's coming.
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    FDA proposes ditching common decongestant for being completely useless

    It's darkly poetic that none of this is going to matter in two months and manufacturers are going to be allowed to tell us virtually anything again.
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    Review: M4 and M4 Pro Mac minis are probably Apple’s best Mac minis ever

    Great article. This is the one that's going to bring me over to getting a Mac. Those benchmarks are absolutely incredible. Now I have to decide if I want the base model (which looks like a great buy) or go absolutely bonkers. Would love some input from a Mac person!
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    GTA Online is broken on Steam Deck following anti-cheat update

    Asking Tim Fortnite about his opinion involving Linux is basically a fool's errand. From where I sit, I don't think you can get a level opinion about it from him. He's already comes off as a hateful weirdo about many things, but seems to carry an enormous chip on his shoulder when it comes to Linux.
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    Volkswagen halts ID. 4 production and sales due to bad door handles

    Really glad to see this part of the story. My first thought after seeing the title was to think about the workers. Hopefully, this problem gets fixed pretty quickly.
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    “Face with bags under eyes” sets the tone for new Unicode 16.0 emoji update

    Talk about burying the lede here. This is probably a much bigger story than it first appears. I hope someone discovers exactly who put this together and for what reason. Is this a disinformation campaign for political purposes here in the US? Was this one of our troublesome adversaries?