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Plex Will Start Cracking Down on Free Remote Streaming Access This Week

November 27, 2025November 27, 2025 · Gadgets

Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee. Previously, people outside of a server…

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Boeing’s Next Starliner Flight Will Only Be Allowed to Carry Cargo

November 26, 2025November 26, 2025 · Gadgets

The US space agency ended months of speculation about the next flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, confirming that the vehicle will carry only cargo to the International Space…

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A Collision with Space Debris Leaves 3 Chinese Astronauts Stranded in Orbit

November 17, 2025November 17, 2025 · Gadgets

Wrapping up 204 days in orbit, three Chinese astronauts flew back to Earth aboard a Shenzhou spacecraft Friday, leaving three crewmates behind on the Tiangong space station with…

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Man Jailed Over Trump Meme After Charlie Kirk’s Shooting Has Finally Been Released

November 1, 2025November 1, 2025 · Gadgets

The Intercept and Nashville’s CBS affiliate, NewsChannel 5, secured bodycam footage from the Lexington cop that undermined Weems’ narrative. The footage clearly showed the cop did not understand…

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Meta Claims Downloaded Porn at Center of AI Lawsuit Was for ‘Personal Use’

October 31, 2025October 31, 2025 · Gadgets

Further, that alleged activity can’t even reliably be linked to any Meta employee, Meta claims. Strike 3 “does not identify any of the individuals who supposedly used these…

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NASA’s Boss Just Shook Up the Agency’s Plans to Land on the Moon

October 22, 2025October 22, 2025 · Gadgets

Duffy also cites “maybe others” getting involved. This refers to a third option. In recent weeks, officials from traditional space companies have been telling Duffy and the chief of…

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Mystery Object From ‘Space’ Strikes United Airlines Flight Over Utah

October 20, 2025October 20, 2025 · Gadgets

The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed Sunday that it is investigating an airliner that was struck by an object in its windscreen, mid-flight, over Utah. “NTSB gathering radar,…

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Why the F5 Hack Created an ‘Imminent Threat’ for Thousands of Networks

October 16, 2025October 16, 2025 · Gadgets

Thousands of networks—many of them operated by the US government and Fortune 500 companies—face an “imminent threat” of being breached by a nation-state hacking group following the breach…

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SpaceX’s Second-Gen Starship Signs Off With a Near-Perfect Test Flight

October 15, 2025October 15, 2025 · Gadgets

In the closing moments of Monday’s flight, Starship flexed its flaps to perform a “dynamic banking maneuver” over the Indian Ocean, then flipped upright and fired its engines…

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A New Attack Lets Hackers Steal 2-Factor Authentication Codes From Android Phones

October 14, 2025October 14, 2025 · Gadgets

Android devices are vulnerable to a new attack that can covertly steal two-factor authentication codes, location timelines, and other private data in less than 30 seconds. The new attack,…

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Taking These 50 Objects Out of Orbit Would Cut Danger From Space Junk in Half

October 6, 2025October 6, 2025 · Gadgets

“In their rush to move quickly, they are adding to the long-term collision hazard,” McKnight said. The deputy head of China’s national space agency, Bian Zhigang, addressed the…

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SpaceX Targets an Orbital Starship Flight with a Next-Gen Vehicle in 2026

September 10, 2025September 10, 2025 · Gadgets

“The metal tiles … didn’t work so well,” he said. “They oxidized extremely nice in the high oxygen environment. So, that nice orange color, kind of like a…

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Reddit, Yahoo, Medium and more are adopting a new licensing standard to get compensated for AI scraping

September 10, 2025September 11, 2025 · Gadgets

With web publishers in crisis, a new open standard lets them set the ground rules for AI scrapers. (Or, at least it will try.) The new Really Simple…

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Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules

September 7, 2025September 7, 2025 · Gadgets

If you were trying to learn how to get other people to do what you want, you might use some of the techniques found in a book like…

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Falcon 9 Milestones Vindicate SpaceX’s ‘Dumb’ Approach to Reuse

August 30, 2025August 30, 2025 · Gadgets

As SpaceX’s Starship vehicle gathered all of the attention this week, the company’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket continued to hit some impressive milestones. Both occurred during relatively anonymous…

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Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky

August 28, 2025August 28, 2025 · Gadgets

Per Shiffman and Wester, an “overwhelming majority” of respondents said that Bluesky has a “vibrant and healthy online science community,” while Twitter no longer does. And many Bluesky…

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San Francisco Will Pay 2 Million for Its Train System to Ditch Floppy Disks

San Francisco Will Pay $212 Million for Its Train System to Ditch Floppy Disks

October 25, 2024October 25, 2024 · Gadgets

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) board has agreed to spend $212 million to get its Muni Metro light rail off floppy disks. The Muni Metro’s Automatic…

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Apple Engineers Show How Flimsy AI ‘Reasoning’ Can Be

Apple Engineers Show How Flimsy AI ‘Reasoning’ Can Be

October 15, 2024October 15, 2024 · Gadgets

For a while now, companies like OpenAI and Google have been touting advanced “reasoning” capabilities as the next big step in their latest artificial intelligence models. Now, though,…

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Stealthy Malware Has Infected Thousands of Linux Systems for Years

Stealthy Malware Has Infected Thousands of Linux Systems for Years

October 5, 2024October 5, 2024 · Gadgets

Other discussions include: Reddit, Stack Overflow (Spanish), forobeta (Spanish), brainycp (Russian), natnetwork (Indonesian), Proxmox (Deutsch), Camel2243 (Chinese), svrforum (Korean), exabytes, virtualmin, serverfault and many others. After exploiting a…

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I Own a Chevy Bolt, and Superchargers Are a Total Game Changer

I Own a Chevy Bolt, and Superchargers Are a Total Game Changer

October 4, 2024October 4, 2024 · Gadgets

It should not be so exciting to eat a breakfast quesadilla in your car. But this quesadilla was from Wawa, this Wawa hosted a Tesla Supercharger, and this…

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