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A DOGE Bro Allegedly Walked Out Of Social Security With 500 Million Americans Records On A Thumb Drive And Expected A Pardon If Caught
Mike Masnick
from the seems-bads dept From the very beginning of the DOGE saga, many of us raised alarms about what would happen when a bunch of inexperienced twenty-somethings were handed unfettered access to t ...[Continue Reading]
Techdirt
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Windows 11 HDR looks bad for browsing and gaming, so I fixed it with these tweaks
Dave Meikleham
High Dynamic Range: the pinnacle of pristine display formatting. Unless youre using a PC, of course. Whether youre on a low-end Windows laptop or own an RTX 5090-powered desktop, HDR continues to dis ...[Continue Reading]
MakeUseOf
1 day ago
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States sue the Trump administration to challenge policy requiring colleges to collect race data
MICHAEL CASEY
BOSTON (AP) A coalition of 17 Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging a Trump administration policy that requires higher education institutions to collect data showin ...[Continue Reading]
Yahoo Entertainment
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From the DF Archive: And Oranges
John Gruber
1. Most people, I suspect, can tell the difference between a $500 bicycle and a $1000 bicyclemost dont think the differences are worth the extra money, but they can perceive the differences (ligh ...[Continue Reading]
Daringfireball.net
1 day ago
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7 Women Who Changed Medicine Forever
Nitya Rao
Medicine hasnt always been a level playing fieldfor patients or doctors. For centuries, women faced barriers just for studying, practicing, or researching medicine. Yet a handful of trailblazers brok ...[Continue Reading]
Mental Floss
1 day ago
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PETA and Edmund McMillen are trolling each other again, as the activist group hand Mewgenics a "Hero to Animals Award"
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
Many moons ago, Mewgenics developer Edmund McMillen successfully lured the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals into developing a vegan parody version of Super Meat Boy, Team Meat's gut-slathe ...[Continue Reading]
Rock Paper Shotgun
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