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  • Hegseth orders troops to watch his speech decrying a 'woke' military
    During the speech last month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lectured senior military officials on the "warrior ethos," focusing on fitness and grooming standards, and calling out "fat generals."

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  • Video: How cumbia arrived in Monterrey, Mexico
    A look at how cumbia found a second home in Mexico's "Little Colombia."

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  • The federal government is still shut down. Here's what that means across the country
    The federal government is currently shut down. The NPR Network is following the ways the government shutdown is affecting services across the country.

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  • Argentina: La reina de la bailanta
    Uno de los géneros más escuchados en las Américas, los fotógrafos Karla Gachet e Iván Kashinsky documentan la cumbia en Colombia, México, Ecuador, Perú, Argentina y Estados Unidos.

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  • Argentina: The queen of bailanta
    One of the most listened-to genres in the Americas, photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document cumbia in Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina and the United States.

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  • Democratic governors form a public health alliance in a rebuke of Trump
    They're framing it as a way to share data and messages about threats, emergency preparedness and public health policy at a time when the federal government isn't doing its job in public health.

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  • A celebration of the South's rich ? and messy ? heritage, delivered on a plate
    In a new cookbook, culinary historian Michael W. Twitty pays homage to the rich tapestry of cultures that have shaped Southern cuisine ? and keeps a gimlet eye on the region's complicated history.

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  • How Charlie Chaplin used his uncanny resemblance to Hitler to fight fascism
    It's been 85 years since The Great Dictator first dazzled audiences in 1940. It was a big risk for one of the world's most popular performers to take a stand against fascism on film.

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  • Photos: Ceasefire in Gaza brings reunions amid devastation
    As the ceasefire began, Israel released more than 1,900 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for hostages freed by Hamas. Amid the rubble in Gaza, families begin to find their way home.

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  • A veteran state department negotiator unpacks the ceasefire agreement in Gaza
    Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, attributes the Gaza deal in part to Trump's transactional nature and breaking of traditional diplomatic crockery.

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  • Government publishes key witness statements in collapsed China spy case
    Deputy national security adviser concluded China was "highly capable and conduct large-scale espionage operations against the UK".

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  • Funeral director admits fraud charges after inquiry into human remains at his premises in Hull
    Robert Bush denied 30 counts of preventing lawful burials but admitted fraud charges.

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  • 'Worse than starting from scratch': how big is the task of rebuilding Gaza?
    BBC Verify investigates the damage done by two years of war, which could take $70bn and decades to repair.

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  • Reeves says she is looking at tax rises ahead of Budget
    The chancellor also said she was considering further measures on public spending, in a bid to put the UK's finances on a firmer footing.

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  • Celia Imrie's fart steals the show on Celebrity Traitors
    The veteran actress blamed nerves for her releasing wind at a tense moment during the game.

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  • Baroness Mone-linked PPE firm misses deadline to pay £122m
    PPE Medpro was ordered to repay damages by 16:00 BST on Wednesday after breaching a Covid-19 contract.

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  • Cracked windscreen forces US defence secretary's plane to land in UK
    The Pentagon says Hegseth and other military leaders on board, who were travelling back from a Nato meeting, are safe.

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  • Dozens in court over alleged support of Palestine Action
    About 2,000 people are likely to be charged, meaning 400 trials could need to be held.

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  • Man who murdered girlfriend in hot tub is jailed for life
    Aren Pearson will spend at least 25 years in jail for stabbing Claire Leveque to death in Shetland in 2023.

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  • Ukraine imposes blackouts in most regions after Russian power grid attacks
    This will be the fourth consecutive winter of outages since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

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rss: the register

  • OpenAI's ChatGPT is so popular that almost no one will pay for it

    If you build it, they will come and expect the service to be free

    OpenAI is losing about three times more money than it's earning, and 95 percent of those using ChatGPT, which generates roughly 70 percent of the company's recurring revenue, aren't paying a dime to help stem the losses.?



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  • Apple goes all in on AI acceleration with M5 MacBook, iPad, and Vision Pros

    Oh and the CPU is up to 15% faster for those that could care less about articifically intelligent Apple products and more about getting work done

    Apple's fifth-generation of M-series silicon is starting to trickle out with the launch of the M5 MacBook, iPad, and Vision Pros this week.?



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  • Japan tells OpenAI to stop spiriting away its copyrighted anime

    Tokyo cries foul over Sora slop abusing 'irreplaceable treasures' of anime, manga - oh, and copyright law

    OpenAI?s Sora 2 video generator has gone viral, particularly among users churning out anime that looks suspiciously like Studio Ghibli and other copyrighted works. Alarmed by the threat to one of its prized cultural exports, Japan has reportedly lodged a formal request that the American firm knock it off.?



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  • Microsoft, Nvidia, and others inject $40B into AI bubble with massive datacenter deal

    Big Tech and big money unite to back world?s biggest bit-barn buyout

    The AI bubble just keeps getting bigger. A consortium featuring BlackRock, Microsoft, Nvidia, xAI, and MGX is buying Aligned Data Centers in a deal valuing the operator at around $40 billion, in what is reportedly the biggest datacenter acquisition to date.?



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  • Cisco: Most companies don't know what they're doing with AI

    Only 13% are AI-ready; the rest are bolting it on and hoping for ROI

    Contrary to popular belief, you can't succeed in business (or AI) without really trying. Many orgs are jumping on the AI bandwagon without the infrastructure they need to make it work or track results, Cisco says. Most haven't even defined what they want their AI agents to do.?



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  • 'Highly sophisticated' government goons hacked F5, stole source code and undisclosed bug details

    And they swiped a limited amount of customers' config data

    Security shop F5 today said "highly sophisticated nation-state" hackers broke into its network and stole BIG-IP source code, undisclosed vulnerability details, and customer configuration data belonging to a "small percentage" of its users.?



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  • Devs are writing VS Code extensions that blab secrets by the bucketload

    Vibe coding may have played a role in what took researchers months to fix

    Developers of VS Code extensions are leaking sensitive secrets left, right and center, according to researchers who worked with Microsoft to combat an issue that could have led to some nasty supply chain attacks.?



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  • Microsoft veteran explains Windows quirk that made videos play in Paint

    Raymond Chen says the OS used green-screen overlays to fake video playback ? with curious side effects

    Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has answered a lingering Windows question ? why did video screenshots keep playing in Paint??



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  • ASML shrugs off China slump with faith in AI-fueled chip demand

    Beijing's self-reliance push and US export limits hit orders

    Europe's tech darling ASML has warned Chinese demand for its chipmaking kit will plummet next year, as Beijing doubles down on home-grown alternatives in response to Uncle Sam's export restrictions and trade war shenanigans.?



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  • Raspberry Pi OS, LMDE, Peppermint OS join the Debian 13 club

    Downstream Linux projects line up behind the latest release

    A month after Debian 13.1's release, some of the more visible downstream forks, including Raspberry Pi OS, have decided it's time to incorporate the latest version of the main OS into their builds.?



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rss: ars technica

  • Rice weevil on a grain of rice wins 2025 Nikon Small World contest
    Nikon Small World photomicrography contest is an annual reminder that science can be beautiful as well as informative.

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  • Once unthinkable, NASA and Lockheed now consider launching Orion on other rockets
    "We're trying to crawl, then walk, then run into our reuse strategy."

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  • Thousands of customers imperiled after nation-state ransacks F5?s network
    Risks to BIG-IP users include supply-chain attacks, credential loss, and vulnerability exploits.

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  • CDC tormented: HR workers summoned from furlough to lay off themselves, others
    Traumatized CDC has lost 33% of its workforce this year, union says.

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  • Anthropic?s Claude Haiku 4.5 matches May?s frontier model at fraction of cost
    Tiny, fast model hits coding scores similar to GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.

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  • ISPs angry about California law that lets renters opt out of forced payments
    Gov. Newsom signs broadband billing law hated by the cable industry.

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  • US demand grows for Chinese cars despite privacy and security fears
    But they're still unlikely to go on sale in the US.

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  • Google?s AI videos get a big upgrade with Veo 3.1
    Veo 3.1 is coming to the Gemini app and the Flow filmmaking tool.

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  • ChatGPT erotica coming soon with age verification, CEO says
    Sam Altman claims new tools can detect mental distress while relaxing limits for adults.

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  • Apple unveils M5 update for the 11- and 13-inch iPad Pros
    Leaks of the new tablet from a couple weeks ago appear to have been genuine.

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