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In 2000, midway through the first season of The West Wing, Aaron Sorkin started posting on a discussion forum on the site Television Without Pity as “Benjamin,” his middle name. Specifically, he posted on the forum dedicated to discussing The West Wing. “Benjamin” was met wi...

There's a type of hate that's easy to love. It's the hate a downtrodden fanbase feels for a homegrown star who forced his way out, to a better or at least more glamorous situation. This hate is full and rich and multifaceted. It contains all the frustrations of decades of lo...

Hackers were already probing the bug before defenders were told it existed.

'Black October:' The PHP vulnerabilities and a series of other hacks and bugs have cybersecurity experts freaking out and unsure what happens next.

The people who write the Laws of Armed Conflict want to put guardrails on AI weapons systems. Will the world listen?

PHP maintainers have released fixes for two critical vulnerabilities:

PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 fix two critical vulnerabilities that can allow unauthenticated remote code execution. All PHP users are strongly encouraged to update immediately.

Who is at risk: all PHP installations serving web requests, including PHP-FPM, Apache with mod_php, php-cgi, FrankenPHP and LiteSpeed. We consider the risk highest for mod_php, with a demonstrated exploit where an unauthenticated request can trigger the attack before any application code runs...

The Fellow Aiden Precision Coffee Maker is a smart, high-end machine that offers pour-over quality. You can get it refurbished from the brand for 25 percent off.

Shifting barriers in tech reveal new questions about trust, safety, and sustainability in software.

New Jersey lawmakers are already looking to walk back one of the country’s most controversial e-bike laws, just months after the sweeping new regulations took effect and sparked widespread backlash from riders, bicycle shops, and advocacy groups.

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On Monday, October 12, at approximately 6 a.m., Minnesota Democratic House Rep. Ilhan Omar was the subject of a pre-dawn raid by the Trump Administration's Department of Homeland Security as part of the agency's blatant racism- and hatred-fueled criminal "investigation" int...

VP JD Vance wasted no time at all defending Vivek Ramaswamy's horrific ad against his Democratic opponent Amy Acton, who was raped as a child by her stepfather, Cledith Arthur. Arthur then was arrested and indicted for the rape of his 12-year old stepdaughter by a grand jur...

Marcel Duchamp, Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte]), 1934 #museumarchive #marcelduchamp

The Florida Democrat says she’s no extremist. She’s just running ‘toward the people and what it is that they need.’

The title of this video is The Fastest Downhill Run Ever. I don’t know if that is true, but oh my god does it look dangerous to go this fast on a mountain bike through the streets of Genoa. (It looks slightly less nuts in the non-POV, but not by much.)

In January 2025, men in New Jersey State Prison were notified that the state prison system would be switching our communication system from JPay to Viapath Technologies.  Some of us were excited about the switch. We had heard ViaPath offered more services, including the ability to use our electronic tablets to make phone calls. Others […]

The post In New Jersey Prisons, It’s Gotten Harder to Digitally Access or File Grievances appeared first on Prison Journalism Project.

Kia’s electric sports car beat out the Tesla Model Y Performance and BYD’s Sealion 7 in a recent comparison test by the German magazine Auto Motor und Sport, ranking first overall.

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Humanoid robots aren’t ready to juice up the massive, 240-tonne electric haul trucks Fortescue is putting to work in Australia’s punishing Pilbara. Instead, the company is using specially modified and massively powerful automotive assembly-line robots from KUKA to wrangle the massive cables needed to deliver a mind-bending 6 MW of power to its trucks’ batteries.

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Tesla has lowered its 2026 capital spending forecast. In its Q3 10-Q, the company now says it expects capital expenditures “to be in excess of $20 billion in 2026,” down from the “more than $25 billion” it had guided since April.

The change was in the 10-Q Tesla filed Wednesday, not in the shareholder letter it released the same day. And it lands in a quarter where Tesla reported $1.53 billion of positive free cash flow, a number that depends a lot on timing.

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